'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film

tcool123

tcool123

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In actuality its very subjective and liking film is opinionated - the real people vs the bots of course 😉

Personally I’m looking forward to the film as I fell in love with the movie upon the initial 1950s style trailer.
 
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Sir_Cliff

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Ghost93 said:
I have a hard time picturing this movie being worse than Chicken Little, Home on the Range, Ralph Breaks the Internet or the package films.
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There also aren't any reviews out there that I am aware of. At a certain point, insisting on how terrible a movie is crosses into trolling when you not only haven't seen it but haven't heard anything from anyone who has.
 
BuddyThomas

BuddyThomas

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tcool123 said:
For you? It’s very likely it’ll be down there. In actuality its very subjective and liking film is opinionated - the real people vs the bots of course 😉

Personally I’m looking forward to the film as I fell in love with the movie upon the initial 1950s style trailer.
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Don’t worry about Mean Mickey Mouse Face or the martini shaking dog. They hate everything that they have not seen and have no intention of seeing, which renders their comments useless.
Meanwhile, new clip just released. Looks pretty damned fun to me.

 
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Elijah Abrams

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Chapek’s madness never ends. (Source: Deadline):
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TP2000

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_caleb said:
Did you see any Strange World merch on your Target run?
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Nope. I just got back from the Target up the freeway in Encinitas. Not a single Strange World toy was on the shelves.

I first checked the boys aisles, and found lots of Jurrasic World stuff, lots of WWE wrestling stuff, and a TON of Marvel stuff. Also some Star Wars things, a few Lightyear remnants marked down on clearance, and other typical boys stuff of dinosaurs and monsters and superheros.

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So I checked the girls aisles, where everything was a deep, vibrant shade of PINK. Nothing there for Strange World either.

A few minutes later I checked the kids clothing department, and found nothing for Strange World. I asked a salesgirl, and while she had no idea what Strange World was at first she happily beep-booped on her sales pad for me and said there were t-shirts available online. But only online, nothing in the store. "And they're all on sale!" she chirped.

So, no Strange World merchandise is available now at a large sparklingly clean Target store in an upper-middle class coastal suburb of San Diego County. The movie opens in a week. Don't they usually put the toys up a week or two in advance of the movie?
 
TP2000

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OT but this was so terrifying & hilarious at the same time that I had to share it with the gang here...

The girls aisles had no Strange World merchandise, but all other Disney franchises had carpet bombed the entire toy department. Especially the Princesses and cutesy things in the girls aisles. Frozen, Encanto, Moana, Little Mermaid, and on and on. But then, as I was scanning the shelves for anything Strange World, my heart cried out in terror. They are selling this to children!?!....

It's a play set where your child gets to pretend to run her own Disney Store franchise! She can mark up merchandise and leverage corporate synergy to her heart's content! 🤢

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And look closely... there's even miniature theft-prevention gates at the entrance to this magical kingdom of retail! Bob Chapek's attention to detail is legendary! o_O
 
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TalkingHead

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TP2000 said:
OT but this was so terrifying & hilarious at the same time that I had to share it with the gang here...

The girls aisles had no Strange World merchandise, but all other Disney franchises had carpet bombed the entire toy department. Especially the Princesses and cutesy things in the girls aisles. Frozen, Encanto, Moana, Little Mermaid, and on and on. But then, as I was scanning the shelves for anything Strange World, my heart cried out in terror. They are selling this to children!?!....

It's a play set where your child gets to pretend to run her own Disney Store franchise! She can mark up merchandise and leverage corporate synergy to her heart's content! 🤢

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And look closely... there's even miniature theft-prevention gates at the entrance to this magical kingdom of retail! Bob Chapek's attention to detail is legendary! o_O
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That should go viral. What a sad commentary on this company.
 
BuddyThomas

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TP2000 said:
OT but this was so terrifying & hilarious at the same time that I had to share it with the gang here...

The girls aisles had no Strange World merchandise, but all other Disney franchises had carpet bombed the entire toy department. Especially the Princesses and cutesy things in the girls aisles. Frozen, Encanto, Moana, Little Mermaid, and on and on. But then, as I was scanning the shelves for anything Strange World, my heart cried out in terror. They are selling this to children!?!....

It's a play set where your child gets to pretend to run her own Disney Store franchise! She can mark up merchandise and leverage corporate synergy to her heart's content! 🤢

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And look closely... there's even miniature theft-prevention gates at the entrance to this magical kingdom of retail! Bob Chapek's attention to detail is legendary! o_O
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Why do you care?
 
TP2000

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BuddyThomas said:
Why do you care?
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Oh, I love a good Target run! Don't you?!? o_O

You should see me when I get to that candle aisle. I just go crazy smelling all of them; wrinkling my nose and gagging a bit at the gross ones, and inhaling deeply and profoundly at the yummy ones. It's not a Target run without a stop at the candles. (Which I did this evening after I tried to find Strange World stuff with no success. I came home with something called Cedarwood Musk, with 3 wicks. It's going now! It will help La Jolla transition from beachy to cozy for the next few months until spring arrives.)
 
TP2000

TP2000

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_caleb said:
I thought you were moving to Utah?
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I am! How kind of you to remember. Only two more days here.

But this is the old family beach house, and it's not going anywhere. My sister and her kids/family will all be here for Thanksgiving, and then some of them back again for Christmas. Cedarwood Musk seemed to be perfect for that, without getting into cloying novelty scents called "JingleBerry" or "Snowy Silent Nightz".
 
_caleb

_caleb

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TP2000 said:
I am! How kind of you to remember. Only two more days here.

But this is the old family beach house, and it's not going anywhere. My sister and her kids/family will all be here for Thanksgiving, and then some of them back again for Christmas. Cedarwood Musk seemed to be perfect for that, without getting into cloying novelty scents called "JingleBerry" or "Snowy Silent Nightz".
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I thought it was soon. And you’re going to have to get used to an actual winter, aren’t you? In my experience, moving can be a mixed bag. Fun new things, but missing the familiar. Wishing you the best.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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_caleb said:
I thought it was soon. And you’re going to have to get used to an actual winter, aren’t you? In my experience, moving can be a mixed bag. Fun new things, but missing the familiar. Wishing you the best.
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Thank you, I'm so excited! 😄

Although, it's a 6 and a half hour drive from my new home in Utah to the family beach house in La Jolla (including a quick stop for gas and In-N-Out in north Las Vegas, or 8 hours if you stop for a full swanky lunch on the Las Vegas Strip). And the beach house in La Jolla is 90 minutes south of Disneyland. So the Disney theme park fan community won't be entirely rid of me. ;)

And I lived in New England for quite a few years several decades ago, so I know winter driving (among horrible Boston drivers, no less!). I was an avid skier in my youth too, and I love cold weather. I can't wait!

But the way things are being operated, and the way things physically look, in the American Disney theme parks now.... I'm mostly just looking forward to my return to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea during a Japan trip I have planned for '23.
 
Rich Brownn

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Animaniac93-98 said:
And not just those movies, but Titan AE and The Iron Giant were also financial failures upon their initial release.

The track record for Western animated sci-fi in theaters is pretty bad, regardless of any one film's quality. Lilo and Stitch and Wall-E appear to be the main exceptions, but the former isn't really hard sci-fi after the prologue and Wall-E was released at a time when Pixar had a near flawless track record for critical and commercial success.

Given all that, it's surprising this movie even got green lit in the first place.

However, the lack of substantial promotion 2 months out suggests that Disney may have already regretted that decision.
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The Iron Giant was a victim of a self-admitted terrible ad campaign. It's regarded as one of the best animated films ever made. WB felt so bad at how awful they did one year they ran it for 24 hours straight on Cartoon Network :D
 

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