NY Times: Bob Iger Effectively Back As CEO

[Animaniac93-98]

Ron Miller didn’t have much say in it. Ask Steinberg.

The point was that many of the successes that defined Eisner's early time with Disney were already released/set in motion and likely would have happened with or without him.

Eisner does however get credit for copying Universal's idea to build a studio park in Florida.

 

[marni1971]

The point was that many of the successes that defined Eisner's early time with Disney were already released/set in motion and likely would have happened with or without him.

Eisner does however get credit for copying Universal's idea to build a studio park in Florida.

Well, the Grand Floridian was a plan that was mothballed in 1982.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Well, the Grand Floridian was a plan that was mothballed in 1982.

Things like Splash and The Disney Channel get credited to Eisner.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Well, the Grand Floridian was a plan that was mothballed in 1982.

Which was replaced with the "Gland Floridian"

 

[lazyboy97o]

Something positive about Iger’s Disney, they’re protecting us from seeing Daryl Hannah’s butt.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Something positive about Iger’s Disney, they’re protecting us from seeing Daryl Hannah’s butt.

Was that also edited out of Cats (2019) in post production?

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Ron Miller gave us Splash (1984)

Michael Eisner gave us Splash, Too (1988)

 

[MisterPenguin]

Was that also edited out of Cats (2019) in post production?

Yes. As well as joy.

 

[fgmnt]

On the Einser vs Iger debate, one thing I keep coming back to is a failure to convince myself someone like Bob Iger could have been on the executive team that saved the company back in the middle of the 80s. I think people gloss over Eisner's tenure with the fallout from the end of the Disney decade and the Pixar feud, without recognizing that Walt Disney Productions would have been a back catalog for Fox, instead of the other way around. I also think that if you had an executive team like the one back in the mid 80s, pretty much since the day after the Lucasfilm acquisition went through, you would not have a company that has essentially been left to rot from the inside out.

Executives that fancy themselves as creative authorities can bleed the company dry. The empty suits that have run the company have built up a rot of massive debt built on a bloat of brands and a lack of creative instinct. Of all of the C-suite executives that have served under Iger, it's telling the seemingly most hollow, feckless, out of touch underling was the one he tried to saddle the CEO job with. Imagine the last 5 years with Ouimet or even Staggs.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Imagine the last 5 years with Ouimet or even Staggs.

Staggs was one of the Strategic Planners. Why continue with another person who contributed to those awful late Eisner years?

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

Staggs was one of the Strategic Planners. Why continue with another person who contributed to those awful late Eisner years?

Wasn’t Staggs behind the My Disney Experience (FP+) ??

 

[the.dreamfinder]

Ron Miller didn’t have much say in it. Ask Steinberg.

Ask Roy E Disney.

 

[the.dreamfinder]

Wasn’t Staggs behind the My Disney Experience (FP+) ??

Nick Franklin ran it.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Wasn’t Staggs behind the My Disney Experience (FP+) ??

Yes. Another attempt at not building attractions after the Strategic Planning Group’s idea of building cheap, minimal capacity parks had finally sputtered out.

 

[fgmnt]

Wasn’t Staggs behind the My Disney Experience (FP+) ??

Next Gen and MM+ are one in the same, no? I had a line in the post referencing MM+ that I must have cut out.

The "or even Staggs" is meant to sound as desperate as it is. I do not think he would have been a good steward for the parks at all, but I also do not think he makes the 21st Century Fox deal.

 

[Genie_naughty_whispers]

card walker is hands down the best. Debate over

 

[marni1971]

card walker is hands down the best. Debate over

He was certainly of his time. And he had the balls to push through EPCOT Center despite nearly bringing down the company with it.

 

[Nubs70]

Absolutely. I tried to get out to the theatre to see "1917" repeatedly. I wanted the experience with that film that I can only get at the theatre, but we never made it. Now, I have the rental. It's been sitting on my tv stand for a week, but I don't care if I watch it or not, because it just won't be the same. The kids will come in hollering, or some other distraction will ruin the moment. Then, the 3' wide screen is just not great compared to one as big as a house.

Methinks theatres are safe.

I have a 150" dropdown screen w/ 4k projector, 7.4.2 Atmos. Never going to a theater again.

 

[alphac2005]

I have a 150" dropdown screen w/ 4k projector, 7.4.2 Atmos. Never going to a theater again.

Great specs. Wehad to give up our home theater with 110” and stadium seating when my teenagers needed more space and we moved them down to the basement and converted the theater into a bedroom. Enjoy your setup!

 

[Nubs70]

Great specs. Wehad to give up our home theater with 110” and stadium seating when my teenagers needed more space and we moved them down to the basement and converted the theater into a bedroom. Enjoy your setup!

Most impressive movie yet was Blade Runner. Never cared for the movie in a standard TV.