I haven’t seen Cats, but it sounds like it’s bad on the same scale as Dune (Lynch version; the Villeneuve version literally remains to be seen and judged) and Tommy, the two worst movies I have seen in my life. There’s mediocre bad and then there is epically bad; so bad that the movie becomes iconic.

Okay, again, not saying you’re not right but there could be other things going on here that we’re not aware of. It’s possible he was being paid royalties as part of the agreement with the publishing company that Lucasfilm contracted with and when Disney purchased Lucasfilm the rights reverted to the publishing…

It doesn’t logically apply to this argument. You can’t apply the value of the IP now to the value of the IP when it was purchased. When the artist was compensated for their work it had no value other than what the artist and the company agreed it was worth, nor was the artist the only person involved in the…

Oh yes, boo hoo, let’s cry for the poor content creators because they didn’t have the ability to look into the future like the corporation who bought the rights to their property anywhere between 70 years ago and now. The psychics on the payrolls of some of these corporations must be making bank!

I’m sorry but it seems to me you’re asking a company (Disney) that you say lives off the creations of others to pay some people (Creator Estates) who live off the creations of others, just others who happen to be their parents.

If there were pinned responses, this would belong at the top. People aren’t going to like it, because Fuck Corporations, amirite, but this is ultimately the correct answer than Rob swings and misses on. 

This argument fails on every level. Buzzwording “immoral, unfair, and greedy” is just an appeal to emotion that refuses to accept the reality of the conditions those characters were created under.

Do explain how its moral to profit off of someone’s work and not provide commensurate compensation for that work? I mean surely you expect to get paid at your job or are you arguing you don’t deserve to be paid a fair wage either?

No good guys here. Large evil corp vs ghoulish families looking to get rich off work their ancestors did for hire. I choose Cthulhu.

Disney buys a failing company in a struggling industry.
And then has to pay for all the work done by anyone who worked for or freelanced at that company for its entire existence.

This is unfair, immoral, and purely greedy; the company has more than enough money to make all of these creators rich without coming close to losing a profit.

The comparison to Cats is deeply unfair as the screening I saw in NYC a few days after Christmas in 2019 was of the most joyfully deranged interactive movie going experiences of my life. It probably helped that the audience was packed with drunk gays and gals having the times of their lives experiencing the…

I believe, in nature, that’s what it means. Though, I would’ve put the official cause of death as “grizzly bear fucked around and found out.”.

If there’s anything I’ve learned from celebrating Fat Bear Week for a few years now, a bear’s weight changes significantly over the course of the summer. They’re all scrawny waifs when they first wake from hibernation, but they’re chunky monkeys come fall.

Emma Stone

Scarlett Johansson

It looks really good, but also like he has food in his mouth.

I’m simultaneously impressed by their attention to detail and CREEPED THE FUCK OUT because it feels like they cut off Tom Holland’s torso and stuffed him like a lion in a big game hunter’s chalet. Jebus CRIPES...

That back though...