I don’t think anyone is ANGRY at them. Just befuddled.

True, true.

;) but I suspect someone at Disney has run a cost-benefit analysis regarding Dumbo and Song of the South and decided that hiding the offending scenes in the basement is the best course of action economically.

I’d be interested in Disney opening up their vaults for the sake of a documentary that outlines the…

Sure, but I guess my concern is practical.

How do you release this content in a way that’s thoughtful and reflective? And is the effort of finding an approach that does that worth it?

Oh, same here. Sorry if I sounded confrontational.

I saw Song of the South in probably 3rd or 4th grade during a class screening held at the neighboring high school. We walked there from the elementary school for the special event. What I remember more than the movie itself was how big and scary the high schoolers…

Okay. But your notion that “it might be considered racist today” but was “progressive for the time” still doesn’t hold water.

Is there an argument to be made about the value of Song of the South? Sure. Maybe. But that doesn’t change the historical context.

Right. Of course you didn’t see the racism. Because it didn’t apply to you. And there’s the inherent problem. White America regularly discounts issues of racism that don’t seem like a big deal to them because we explicitly don’t have to deal with it. We can just look at SotS as a pretty, happy dancing animal movie.…

Agreed. But simply releasing the movie on the streaming service without context is a disaster waiting to happen, and releasing it as a historical artifact properly contextualized is something that wouldn’t really benefit Disney.

It’s tricky to find the appropriate means to release it.

The NAACP released a statement of condemnation upon its release. Time Magazine similarly commented on how it would provoke outrage. Theaters were picketed, black newspapers wrote excoriating reviews.

Just because black Americans and the black media was largely ignored in the time doesn’t mean that the criticism is a…

Yeah. This all mostly makes sense. I’d jockey them around just a little bit, but I can recognize that’s more about personal preference than anything.

This is absolutely puzzling to me. The appeal of these games are as much historical and archival as they are predicated on the value of the games themselves (which often don’t hold up all that well when held up to modern competition).

You think they’d do away with selling or renting their movies on digital storefronts and opt instead for a solely streaming model?

Because that seems like it could cut pretty significantly into their bottom line. Although I don’t know what digital movie sales are like these days. and I’m assuming that DVD an Blu-Ray…

I’d suspect significantly longer than that. They want as big of an install base as possible, and they can afford to sit it out.

I mean, they could probably even benefit from taking consistent loss on Disney+ if it keeps funneling consumers to their film and merchandise pipelines.

And I’d say there’s practically zero…

yep. seems on brand.

I saw this trailer with my girlfriend before Us. I leaned in and said “This is gonna be the low key most entertaining movie of the summer, isn’t it?” and she was like “It’s gonna high key be the most entertaining movie of the summer.”

Exactly this.

New Vegas 2?

Yeah. It was just speculative, and I could be absolutely wrong.

My thought (and it may not stand the test of scrutiny) was more that Avengers Project might not be coming to Switch because it’s too powerful for the Switch’s hardware.

I’d guess this is exploratory more than anything. Check the reactions, take the temperature on sales, and then decide how much they want to market game streaming and diskless media instead of positioning themselves as a more conventional console.

Most of my games are digital, but if you really want your customers to…

I’d guess maybe the Square-Enix contract and the exclusivity agreement go hand in hand. PS4 and XBox One get a AAA Avengers game that pushes graphical boundaries, and Switch gets a stylized Ultimate Alliance game.

Yeah. I mean, I think that confrontation between Quill and Ronan or the opening “Come and Get Your Love” sequence would have been ideal choices for this article, because they showed Marvel’s ability to tell stories in genres that are far removed from the real world (like space opera) while still anchoring them to…