And I'm sure the response will vary depending on who you ask, but overall I think it'll end up going down as a flawed but acceptable popcorn flick. And I've always said had it been made by any other studio it would have done so much better at the box office and there would have been zero drama surrounding it.
As 80% of the movies I choose to see tend to be. (Most Marvel included.)
It'll be interesting to see how it ends up remembered. I'll say that I mentioned putting it on to my 12 year old and she gave me an absolutely disgusted look cause she thought it looked terrible (and she used to love Snow White). NOW, one thing I learned in that interaction is she is fed up with the remakes in general (I learned she was angry with the Stitch remake which I was honestly shocked by. They went without me cause I hate remakes, but that was the most excited I've seen her for a movie in a long time), so that could be a part of it on our end not with many others, but It will be interesting to see if people do end up seeing it and saying "Eh, it's not that bad" or if people just won't watch it no matter what.
Shouldn't you be withholding judgement until you see how many boys with an eye patch show up at your door on Halloween?Target Run!
I had to make a Target Run unexpectedly this evening, and I decided to make a night of it with dinner at Blaze Pizza and dessert at Crumbl before I went on Target, like the Monday night hellion that I am. And after a successful romp through the cleaning aisle and 5 minutes of smelling candles for no good reason I found...
Elio practically non-existent in the Toy Department.
The Boys aisles had absolutely no Elio anything. The How To Train Your Dragon section was obliterated, with hardily anything left. The endcaps in the Boys aisles featured Jurassic Park and Superman. Not a single toy for Elio was spotted in the Boys aisles or the Unisex games/Lego aisles. Anything pink and/or Barbie reigned supreme in the Girls aisles, as she should.
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So I gave up, thinking "Seriously Emeryville, what did you spend all that money on???"
Yet as I was walking to the Pet aisle to buy a box of Milkbones to keep all the neighbor's dogs on my good side, I spotted him! There was an Elio presence in Target! In the children's section of the Book department, nestled beside a stack of Rachel Zegler's Snow White books slapped with 20% Off! stickers and just above a stack of books teaching little girls how to be more like Taylor Swift if they want to be happy, sat two (2!) copies of an Elio book for children just learning to read. Elio exists within the vaunted Target/Disney Merchandising Universe!
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So what did I learn on Monday night? Crumbl's peanut butter cup skillet cookie this week is darn good, and Elio doesn't look like it's going anywhere at the box office anytime soon. So a hit and a miss tonight.
Snow White 2025 isn't a great movie, but it's hardly the abomination people make it out to be. I think it got dragged into various culture/policial wars from 2023-2025 and was plagued by controversies with the cast that made it a punching bag for so many. In think 10-15 years from now, when there is a lot more distance behind us on Trump and the Israel/Palestine conflict, people going into the movie will struggle to see what all the fuss was about.
In all honesty I think about 95-99% of all movies get forgotten after a few years, so that isn’t saying much. As for this movie it’s been trending so I think more are checking it out than originally admitted would as distance is starting to set in now that it’s out of theaters and not a lightening rod.
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Has anyone ever thought that maybe, just maybe, that our highly unscientific and inaccurate polling of a few store shelves and a cursory look at the Disney Store website just doesn't yield the reality of potential merch sales about a particular movie? Now maybe Disney dropped the ball for this movie, or maybe they purposely didn't ship to Target's in Utah, or maybe things just aren't as they seem and merch is being directed to the Parks instead or other places they are being targeting for specific merch sales.
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I agree, we shouldn't read a ton into it. But I'm not the one who famously makes Target runs to go look for the latest Disney movie merch and report back on it here.
Wouldn't you love to know how they decide how many toys to design and produce for the marketplace?
The lag time on designing them, getting them past legal and safety standards, some Chinese slave factory getting the order to produce, and then the toys and t-shirts actually showing up in a Target in Utah must be at least six months. A year?
So why didn't they do any toys at all for Elio? And if not, at what point in its production did they realize and say "Oh, darnit, this one won't sell anything." and forget about merchandise sales in the parks and big box stores?
Pixar sold over $10 Billion in boys toys and t-shirts for their movie Cars. It was that huge merchandise sales that convinced Burbank to greenlight $600 Million (in 2008 dollars, over a Billion today!) to build the fabulous Cars Land in DCA. Obviously not every movie can be a Cars for merchandise, but almost no merch at all doesn't make sense for Pixar.
No one can convince me they purposely greenlight a mega-budget movie in Emeryville and decide early on "Yeah, let's give up on merchandise sales for this one, it won't sell anything." So at what point in Elio's production cycle did they realize there was no reason to send out production orders for America's toy aisles????
I agree, we shouldn't read a ton into it. But I'm not the one who famously makes Target runs to go look for the latest Disney movie merch and report back on it here.
They tend to do that a lot to the people here.
And I’m sure the highlight of your day.In my deep defense, I also got a Scrub Daddy (ahem), a refill bottle of that shower glass spray I like so much, and a jumbo box of Purina Milkbones. All while riding out my Crumbl cookie sugar high. It was a rather good Target Run.
