LittleBuford
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The crab in Moana is also villainous, though he isn’t in the film for very long.
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'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film
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Heppenheimer
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Meh, he's basically doing what any animal would do if you dropped into his lair uninvited. Especially given that Moana and Maui explicitly came to steal something he regarded as his property.
I would like to see Disney work with Jemaine Clement again...
mickEblu
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RobWDW1971
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For more perspective on Strange World's disastrous box office performance, after only 15 days in domestic release (international markets opened before and after), Puss in Boots:The Last Wish has now grossed more globally than twice SW's entire run at approximately $146M (vs SW's $70M) at a reported half the budget of the Disney $180M tentpole.
Audiences continue to resonate with PIBTLW as its Rotten Tomatoes All Audience Score is an exceptional 93%.
What's interesting is that as Strange World has been unceremoniously dumped onto Disney+ so families with the service can now watch for no incremental expense, the audience ratings continue to decrease.
Apparently, the more audiences experience the film, the more they dislike it as the All Audience score has fallen to a dismal 39% (on top of the lowest theater exit scores in Disney animated history).
For perspective, that All Audience score compares to:
Home on the Range 29%
Strange World 39%
Mars Needs Moms 40%
Chicken Little 46%
The Good Dinosaur 64%
Ralph Breaks The Internet 64%
Audiences continue to resonate with PIBTLW as its Rotten Tomatoes All Audience Score is an exceptional 93%.
What's interesting is that as Strange World has been unceremoniously dumped onto Disney+ so families with the service can now watch for no incremental expense, the audience ratings continue to decrease.
Apparently, the more audiences experience the film, the more they dislike it as the All Audience score has fallen to a dismal 39% (on top of the lowest theater exit scores in Disney animated history).
For perspective, that All Audience score compares to:
Home on the Range 29%
Strange World 39%
Mars Needs Moms 40%
Chicken Little 46%
The Good Dinosaur 64%
Ralph Breaks The Internet 64%
LittleBuford
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That it has a lower score than the abysmal Chicken Little tells me that review bombing is a large part of what’s going on. As this thread has proven time and again, some people are so bent out of shape by the very idea of Strange World that they’ll find any opportunity to lash out at it online, despite having never seen it.
It’s a strange world indeed.
RobWDW1971
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"Abysmal" Chicken Little global theatrical gross in today's dollars: $479M
"Resounding success" Strange World: $70M
"Resounding success" Strange World: $70M
LittleBuford
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I’ve never called it a success, resounding or otherwise. On the contrary, I’ve acknowledged its failure at the box office multiple times in this thread.
BuddyThomas
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How much longer are you going to be gloating about this? At this point, it is getting extremely tired.
LittleBuford
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We passed that point when it was still 2022.
TP2000
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Oh, geez, are we still talking about this movie? Okay, I'll bite...
Reminds me of all the Virtue Signaling that happens all over today, not just in Hollywood. Like North Face Sportswear that refused to sell its products to a Texas oil company who wanted logo-bedecked North Face jackets, because North Face Sportswear thinks oil is bad, or something. And then that Texas oil company had to remind them that the entire product line of North Face is made up of polyester and manmade waterproof materials that are made out of oil and oil byproducts extracted, refined, and manufactured in Texas.
www.newsweek.com
Anyone who is sitting on a foam cushioned sofa, or who drives a car whether its gas or electric, or who has a bed mattress, or who has non-stick cookware or who uses trash bags or a toothbrush or an umbrella, uses oil and oil byproducts. Or, and this is the best part, anyone who has ever used the Internet to post rather worthless nonsense on a chat board about Disney amusement parks (and I have over 22,000 of those on just this one website alone!) has used many thousands of gallons of oil and oil byproducts to do that.
Are you reading this while using contact lenses or glasses with frames? You are using oil and gas and their byproducts to do that.
But sure, pretend it's the other guy killing the planet with his contact lenses and his sofa cushions and his non-stick pan and his iPhone and his laptop and his water-repellent jacket and his last night's dinner and his $180 Million movie his company produced that is killing the planet. Or that the planet is actually dying. When it's not. Hypocrites and idiots!
It makes no sense. How would a suburban multiplex even show a movie like Strange World using candles or without fossil fuels? How would the Burbank corporate office function without electricity and petroleum and plastics? It wouldn't. The entire company would collapse if society went back to candle power, or even just solar electricity only available from 8am to 4:30pm on sunny days.
But sure, put that as the closing scene in a movie and Virtue Signal as if that's the ultimate goal we should all have. Except it isn't, and it's not. Nor should it be.
Reminds me of all the Virtue Signaling that happens all over today, not just in Hollywood. Like North Face Sportswear that refused to sell its products to a Texas oil company who wanted logo-bedecked North Face jackets, because North Face Sportswear thinks oil is bad, or something. And then that Texas oil company had to remind them that the entire product line of North Face is made up of polyester and manmade waterproof materials that are made out of oil and oil byproducts extracted, refined, and manufactured in Texas.
The True Face of the North Face
The company depends upon the very fossil fuels it purports to abhor.
www.newsweek.com
Anyone who is sitting on a foam cushioned sofa, or who drives a car whether its gas or electric, or who has a bed mattress, or who has non-stick cookware or who uses trash bags or a toothbrush or an umbrella, uses oil and oil byproducts. Or, and this is the best part, anyone who has ever used the Internet to post rather worthless nonsense on a chat board about Disney amusement parks (and I have over 22,000 of those on just this one website alone!) has used many thousands of gallons of oil and oil byproducts to do that.
Are you reading this while using contact lenses or glasses with frames? You are using oil and gas and their byproducts to do that.
But sure, pretend it's the other guy killing the planet with his contact lenses and his sofa cushions and his non-stick pan and his iPhone and his laptop and his water-repellent jacket and his last night's dinner and his $180 Million movie his company produced that is killing the planet. Or that the planet is actually dying. When it's not. Hypocrites and idiots!
It makes no sense. How would a suburban multiplex even show a movie like Strange World using candles or without fossil fuels? How would the Burbank corporate office function without electricity and petroleum and plastics? It wouldn't. The entire company would collapse if society went back to candle power, or even just solar electricity only available from 8am to 4:30pm on sunny days.
But sure, put that as the closing scene in a movie and Virtue Signal as if that's the ultimate goal we should all have. Except it isn't, and it's not. Nor should it be.
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TP2000
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What I find interesting is that Strange World is still in 1,200 theaters in the United States, two weeks after it got sent to Disney+ "For Free!"
And yet it's still doing really, really badly in those 1,200 theaters. Why is it even there? I'd love to know how theater chains, mostly owned by big companies, divvy up and plan for theater capacity when big studios like Disney say "We've got a big-budget tentpole family film coming out this Thanksgiving! It'll be huge! Give us 4,200 theaters please, and you won't be sorry."
But six weeks after the movie turned into a historical bomb and two weeks after it got sent to Disney+ for free, it's still in 1,200 theaters in a distant 10th place? Why? What's the purpose of that, exactly?
Disney Irish
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I think you answered your own question. Despite it doing "poorly" its still in the top 10.
Showing that the theater chains are desperate for counter programming to the blockbuster movies like Avatar 2. This has been an issue for theater chains for the past 2 years since reopening. You'll have a single movie that is doing well to ok, and then no other alternatives to offer as Studios are still reeling from the pandemic with films backed up for the next several years.
Because remember that theater chains aren't in the movie business, they are in the concession business. So any film right now that will bring at least 1 butt to a seat will having showings, as that is a potential sale for popcorn, soda, and candy. Its the exact reason why theater chains were begging Netflix to keep Glass Onion in theaters longer and why Violent Night is still playing in 2563 theaters for only a handful of people.
Agreed…that the Audience score would go down once it was on streaming and available for anyone to review it without proof of a movie ticket says everything you need to know about it being reviewed bomb
Magenta Panther
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Maybe because theaters can't put Avatar 2 on every screen?
As for the "review bombed" statements regarding Strange World - LOL. Excuses, excuses. Hey, what do you call it when theatergoers refuse to see a movie? "Box-office bombed"? There ya go!
Disstevefan1
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In my opinion, Strange Worlds agenda about getting rid of fossil fuels.Oh, geez, are we still talking about this movie? Okay, I'll bite...
Reminds me of all the Virtue Signaling that happens all over today, not just in Hollywood. Like North Face Sportswear that refused to sell its products to a Texas oil company who wanted logo-bedecked North Face jackets, because North Face Sportswear thinks oil is bad, or something. And then that Texas oil company had to remind them that the entire product line of North Face is made up of polyester and manmade waterproof materials that are made out of oil and oil byproducts extracted, refined, and manufactured in Texas.
The True Face of the North Face
The company depends upon the very fossil fuels it purports to abhor.
Anyone who is sitting on a foam cushioned sofa, or who drives a car whether its gas or electric, or who has a bed mattress, or who has non-stick cookware or who uses trash bags or a toothbrush or an umbrella, uses oil and oil byproducts. Or, and this is the best part, anyone who has ever used the Internet to post rather worthless nonsense on a chat board about Disney amusement parks (and I have over 22,000 of those on just this one website alone!) has used many thousands of gallons of oil and oil byproducts to do that.
Are you reading this while using contact lenses or glasses with frames? You are using oil and gas and their byproducts to do that.
But sure, pretend it's the other guy killing the planet with his contact lenses and his sofa cushions and his non-stick pan and his iPhone and his laptop and his water-repellent jacket and his last night's dinner and his $180 Million movie his company produced that is killing the planet. Or that the planet is actually dying. When it's not. Hypocrites and idiots!
It makes no sense. How would a suburban multiplex even show a movie like Strange World using candles or without fossil fuels? How would the Burbank corporate office function without electricity and petroleum and plastics? It wouldn't. The entire company would collapse if society went back to candle power, or even just solar electricity only available from 8am to 4:30pm on sunny days.
But sure, put that as the closing scene in a movie and Virtue Signal as if that's the ultimate goal we should all have. Except it isn't, and it's not. Nor should it be.
To me it was a blooper to show gas stoves.
At the end of the film, with the dark city with candles is trying to tell us we should be willing to sacrifice to save the planet.
Personally, I love oil, I love plastic, I know life is great today because of oil and plastic.
Without oil and plastic, there would be no internet, no world wide web, no devices to access the web, no forums.wdwmagic.com, no WDW.
In my opinion, we still need oil to make all sorts of materials.
In my opinion, if we want to stop burning fossil fuels for power the answer is nuclear power.
No one said people did not see the movie because of review bombing…perhaps you should reread the thread
LittleBuford
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If you’ve watched both Strange World and Chicken Little, you’ll know there’s no earthly reason that anyone would rate the latter more highly. That isn’t a ringing endorsement of Strange World, to be clear; pretty much all films are better than Chicken Little.
Disstevefan1
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It makes you wonder if TWDC buys tickets to their own movies to keep them propped up.
And my thinking from the start was Strange World did poorly for two reasons; they spent no money advertising the film and everyone knew it was going to be on D+ for “free”.
Why bother going to the theater when you can watch something from the comfort of you home where the snacks are better and cheaper
I am for sure waiting for Avatar 2 to come to streaming.
At 3 hours and 12 minutes, I will for sure fall asleep so I will need to rewind.
Casper Gutman
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Odious people routinely review bomb any film or TV program they consider too woke (acknowledging LGBTQ people exist or depicting minorities outside of a very narrowly defined set of “acceptable” roles). We know that. We’ve seen it again and again. It’s not debateable.
Strange World is a huge box office bomb. It is also being review bombed. Both things are true.
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