@flynnibus Is it okay to ask what the “important “ goals are?
Where did I ever mention Covid?
Something different will happen. Movies will have to adjust just as music has.
Or pretty much any film produced by any major studio in the past couple of years. This whole “Go woke, go broke” narrative (there, I said it!) makes no sense when you consider that Disney’s approach is entirely mainstream by today’s entertainment standards. And as proof of the inadequacy of such an explanation, look no further than the eminently woke blockbuster Barbie.
I wouldn’t put it this way, but I’ve made this point myself multiple times and never received a response to it.
It’s “get” in the first part, not “go”.
Both are fine, and I prefer my version.
You’re an expert on fractious phrases?
I am no white knight - i stick to my own posts
The death of the theatrical window has been a trend long before covid. And the window for PPV/dvd is dead when they can PPV on their own DTC platforms.
I don’t think it is, because songs can be produced by individual artists. Movies cannot, because the costs of creating a movie are exponentially larger. You might have a very small handful of indie filmmakers who can produce a film start to finish, but it’s nowhere near the amount of songs produced in garages by people with a guitar and a dream. So production costs fall in the lap of movie streamers in a way that they do not for music streamers. I honestly don’t see any way for the movie industry to move forward that isn’t basically the “pay per movie” model that Amazon Prime has, where buying one movie is twenty something dollars. That’s the only scenario where the numbers even begin to add up, to my mind.
What is the difference? Pandering to whom?
I’ve been asking everyone here who says Disney’s recent movies aren’t good to explain why, and most responses have little to do with the films themselves.
That's because most of the people you're asking haven't seen the films themselves.
Nobody is saying box office doesn’t count. It’s just not the only (or maybe even the primary) metric for a company pivoting to DTC.
I personally think that they overused a specific formula to the point where I find most of their recent films to be boring. I do love Moana and The Princess and the Frog, but other than these two I didn't particularly care about any Disney film since Treasure Planet. They are all the same to me.
this is a lie. I’ve pointed out both the inherent problem in using TV stars as a substitute for movie stars, as well as the poor, shoddy VFX. That is a problem over and over for the Marvel films.
I thought Lightyear and Strange World were on the poor side among the animated films (while sadly most of the direct to D+ stuff was pretty good). The live action films have largely all be decent but absolutely unremarkable. They’ve really lacked anything truly great (“can’t miss”) since pre-pandemic. I think Elemental is the best Disney made film since the pandemic and even it fell short of peak Disney.
