it feels like a roundabout way of plugging Disney plus.  Guess all the io9 articles defending the Star Wars Hotel (excuse me, immersive experience) weren’t subtle enough

…this is the second “why is Disney not overexposing its so-so content??” article in a week.

Marginalizing Daisy Ridley is totally on brand for Disney.

Cable is ridiculously expensive now too, so I doubt many will go that route. I keep Hulu around because it’s still pretty cheap (<9 a month) once it crosses that $10 a month threshold though I’ll probably start cancelling it during periods where there’s nothing I super want to watch. I watch more Youtube than anything…

And, in the meantime, Tubi just keeps getting better and better. They’ve really upped their classic movie offerings in the past few months.

The only streaming I’m paying for right now is Starz, and that’s only because I got a $.99/month offer. I’ll be cancelling when that’s up.

bro, if you haven’t eaten out in 10 years you are going to have a fucking heart attack and die on-sight when you look at what is costs these days. 

You should get some rest. You seem tired. 

Quinto: (angrily) Do you know who I am??

Except the economic motivations of those hiring nepo children isn’t to fill a role that sells a lot of tickets, it’s to create a generational talent with access to the same network of contacts and producers that the parent had. Lily Rose-Depp, Scott Eastwood, Zosia Mamet. These aren’t actors getting jobs because…

Yeah, Jaden Smith immediately comes to mind of a sidelined nepokid, whereas Willow Smith for the most part has a lot of musical talent. Seems odd when they’re from the same family.

Eminem has been shit for way longer than he has been great. He had a stellar run of albums in the late 90s and early 2000s. And now he continues to dump on his legacy with every new release. This has nothing to do with his politics, it’s just obvious that he’s tired and has nothing to say anymore.

“Where are the Pixar movies that wrestle with global warming, American oligarchy, or the corruption of journalism by corporate interests? What Pixar movies attempt to say anything whatsoever, no matter how subtle or metaphorical, about Cheeto/the MAGA movement? How social media and Big Tech and digital gadgets are…

Pixar was hurt by the pandemic much more than The Walt Disney Animation Studios. The WDAS only had one project moved to Disney+, Raya and the Last Dragon. Encanto was released after the pandemic was over. The box office was still recovering, but it got very positive reviews, it got a lot of buzz from just the songs,…

Toy Story 3 was just a perfect trilogy-ender. All of Andy’s toys (and even Andy himself) had wonderfully bittersweet endings, with the chapters of their old lives coming to a close but new beginnings coming. We felt like we got closure but also were happy knowing they all had bright futures.

My dude, may I recommend books for adults instead of high-budget movies primarily for children. The economics just don't line up. Even genuinely revolutionary kids books get almost everything sanded off them when they become movies.

You continue to miss the point that Disney is absolutely not ever going to make the radical, anti-establishment movies you want. Pro and very soft “save the environment/natives/planet” message like in Avatar or Wall-E, sure, but that’s the most it’ll ever get.

That’s funny, because my main problem with TS4 is that it starts to raise those questions of autonomy/purpose would be interesting... in another movie and not a franchise that’s already 3 movies deep. Like personally I thought the whole purpose of a toy was kind of well trodden ground in TS2 when Woody & co. convince…

Toy Story 4 was a cash grab. Lightyear was a cash grab.  Toy Story 5 is beating a dead horse.

Yeah dude, you are not going to get Disney, which is the quintessential American oligarchy, to make content essentially criticizing itself and its fellow corporations.

The cynic in me says that Disney would put the kibosh on anything too overtly anti-corporate.