Another major reason for that is what Disney are doing morally making the stories feel like hypocrisy. Again, them possibly ripping off Illumination may circumvent this; those movies usually aren’t about anything in particular.
People are criticizing Disney for making bland movies that aren’t about anything in particular.
That’s an odd comment considering there have been no moral failings.
Which is why copying Illumination will hurt them; they’ll be even blander movies about even less.
That’s another odd comment because you’re the only one making this assertion up out of whole cloth that they’re supposedly going to rip off anything.
Last time Disney was in major trouble , they did rip off Dreamworks, the biggest studio at the time, and I’d argue Black Cauldron can be considered a Bluth ripoff as well.
I'm right there with you. I'm trying to think of things they've released in the last few years that I've watched a few times. All I can come up with is guardians 3, mando season 1&2 and muppets mayhem. There just hasn't been all that much that I've had to watch over and over again. I never finished a few things as well. There were a lot of things that were just ok, but there was also a lot of bad. Recent Disney has really been lacking in the great department.
Disney is failing at the box office and there are reasons for it. People are discussing the reasons.
Again, you're making stuff up and starting rumours. Why bother?
They have made small attempts to course correct, but it’s too late now and people are so jaded that they’re seeing that stuff when it isn’t there. Which isn’t helped at all by the fact that even the movies that lack the “important” goal are terrible as well, and they fact they scrap anything good that has said “important” goal.
Except that phrase you’re alluding to could be contradicted by Spider-verse, one of the highest grossers of the year.
And then again Iger used to have a prominent positive legacy in the form of the Disney Revival and MCU (plus smaller things like DCA 2.0), but all that is dead; the flaws of both aspects are now in plain view and ripe for mockery, the same conditions that created Shrek, except possibly even worse now. Iger will run his legacy so far into the ground that he’ll make Eisner’s look sterling, and Eisner also ran his legacy into the ground. I’d be more saying less that Iger’s running his legacy into the ground and more that he’s turning it inside out (ba dum -brick’d-).
There’s also The Owl House, and that’s more on Disney than Spiderverse is… and then Disney cancelled that in favor of pandering like Strange World. The more low-quality works like that they put out, the fewer people will be interested in those things actually being done right, thus sending everything hurtling backwards as a result.
Further, see that their non-pandering films are also flops; pandering is only one aspect of this; non-pandering films like Quantumania, that Nutcracker movie, etc. are still hot garbage, proving that now simply removing the pandering isn’t enough to save them.
The phrase you’re referring to doesn’t make that distinction. Which is why it’s not worth even bringing up. This comes down to telling interesting stories in a cinematic way that engages the audience’s imagination.
So you’d blaming bad stories and results on Covid?
Translation: He’s blaming bad movies and results on Covid