Madame Web Reviews left a lot to be desired, but were far from the only time a movie has failed in recent time for the reason of a Hollywood girlboss. This has caused Disney to "retool" in horror as they blame the bigoted fans for not liking the ideas that have been force fed to them. But this goes deeper than just which actor plays a role. It's down to the values and messaging of entertainment, and are we going to use masculine morality, or something else? And while Disney may WANT to retool, may TRY to change direction. But can they do that with the same staff hired that caused the problems in the first place? Do they even KNOW what the audience wants, even begrudgingly? Or are Disney's hiring practices so hard baked into the company that there is no turning back anymore? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
It's like asking the BAD PEOPLE FROM GERMANY to be nice to Jewish people and pamper them. They're not going to change, this is a religion to them. Even if Bob Iger really wants to change, the activists he helped put into the workforce and lower and middle management won't let him. Just like they rebelled against Bob Chapek.
not seem madame web yet but if it's like the rest of the ok chick flicks then most of the haters that talk trash never even seen it and if you asked them anything about it it was clear they only hate cause some YT clown told them too.
@@the_piper001 The majority of those who viewed it were still men. So women did not support their own movie. Just like with The Marvels. In general women don't like capesh1t movies, so maybe Hollywood should stop trying to ram a cube through a round hole and accept that this is a male genre. But you go ahead and play the moral high horse. As if we haters convinced the majority of the audience to give this movie a miss.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 you on crack mate ....what moral high ground .......all i said was the movie was ok ....i like chicks......you alll like dudes ..........now there is nothing wrong with you likeing dudes so stop deflecting
The entertainment industry is FILLED with those people and it's not going to change any time soon. They KNOW they're losing money, but the billionaires keep on funding them to continue spreading 'the message'.
It's not just the people in charge that need to go. The people hired to meet their diversity quotas also need to go. Hiring based on experience and competence needs to be a requirement again.
@@stephenthomas1492 Even if the billionaires stopped funding them, the lower ranks, the activists in the workforce, lower and middle management, will rise and stop the reboot from happening. Like they rebelled against Bob Chapek. The CEO's are no longer in control, they've let the inmates of the asylum come in and now they rule the corporations. Only a full Twitter style purge of 80 to 90% of the workforce can save and change Disney.
The problem isn't "the girl/woman who is the key to everything" aspect, as many series have done it and have been successful (take example of Japanese Anime like the ongoing "Apothecary Diaries" or "Frieren" both focusing on female main characters and both being highly popular). The problem is the forced idea that men are the issues of all problems while woman are all great and the solution to all problems. That it's wrong for a woman to rely on a man and should either rely on themselves or other women only, and like you said "realizes she is awesome" and she is complete and perfect from start (and it's Men who are making them imperfect and dragging them down). The biggest issue is that, in order to put Women on the high pedestal, what they are doing is bringing down the Men, by various means, rather than co-working.
I cancelled by BBC Tax a few years ago and took out a subscription to a Korean film and series site, once i got used to reading sub titles an whole new world of real good entertainment opened up to me. They got the lot. I hope they never get poluted the way Western film makers did.
Yeah, Korean and Japanese shows are killing it - Disparu has mentioned on several occasions he watches a lot of Korean TV - probably explains why Netflix is plowing 2.5 billion dollars into Korea over the next 3 years....
@@vagrant1943 Especially since AI is capable of generating video clips from prompts (and probably with generated audio, score and conversations too in the future). Imagine prompting a good book and generate the chapters into video clips, that you then can cut and edit. Imagine how this could change the entire industry when an author can generate the film adaptation himself instead of relying on Hollywood for that purpose.
@@hawkeye5955She didn't bribe a soul, her masters did it keep her strings from being cut. They love people like Rachel who are nothing without studio backing. You can't push around older talents like that and older talents have fans, genuine fans. Older talents can walk away. Rachel Zegler will remember her place with a tug of the string.
Zegler played the race card to pressure the Acedemy of Arts and Sciences into letting her present an Oscar. She's the worst kind of minority who holds herself up as a role model to minorities.
Disney loves to shoot themselves in the foot and blame everyone else. To me, Bob Iger is trying to lower the price so he can sell Disney to somebody else.
The mistake the studios made was letting activists that advised on certain topics push their way from external freelance advisor into full time decision maker positions. They see the companies as a vehicle to deliver their messages and are entirely uninterested in making sound business decisions.
@RayTX1337 not a mistake though, that was the intention. it allowed them to control the narrative over what is and what isn't a good movie by making it on a Woke scale. all the while got us to get so triggered we did free advertising for them. it's a nasty business that fucks everyone, reduces the quality to 0, but does make them low-risk money.
You are already lost when you hire 'activists' to 'advice on certain topics'. Because what you need are _professionals_ and specialists, not people with an agenda.
Female audience in majority love male leads. Guess why we love Steve Rogers or Thor. Escapism. Not obnoxious girlbosses. But we also love good female leads
Louder for the people in the back! We want men to be men and women to be women, it's not a war between the sexes, they're supposed to complement each other and help with each other's weaknesses.
i agree when they made male Characters like indiana jones, the flash, moon knight, loki, thor Side characters in their own Shows & movies to have annoying Girlbosses take over & demean or Belittle them these films & shows Started Completely falling apart & became lame.
@@Teverell Yep imagine how better written & great these shows like Moon knight, loki & the flash Would of been if they had good writers, That didnt have a agenda & followed the source Material we were robbed.
In Greece, Theater was meant to inspire. The hero made a misjudgment. He suffered the consequences, learnt and improved. Is that so hard to understand?
The idea that I'm a bad person when I don't like it when you piss on me and try to tell me it's raining. That's gaslighting. What is sad is if they are running a large corporation like this just imagine what their personal life is like.
Are you even sure they have persona lives? Since all they do is make bad movies and shows. Act surprise and complain when most or all viewers don't like it, then make more bad shows and movies and repeat the cycle.
To writing down something like that (and believe in that), one must have a very far, off, distance from human society to even remotely aware oneself. With ego that big, they think of themselves as savior, protector, champion rather than a human being, so yes, I don't think they even think they are human anymore, let alone have a personal life.
A failed brain will come up with failed ideas.A weak brain will also double down on those failed ideas,that's exactly what is happening. (TH-cam will probably delete this)
"There's a certain liberation to my plumbing business no longer being popular. I get to starve in peace without all those pesky paying customers expecting me to do my job!" Eh, Natalie?
Yeesh, the number of actors I've admired for a long time whom have become whiney, shilling, out-of-touch ignoramuses. At this point I can't watch most of those actors work anymore. Looking at them pisses me off or digusts me...more than a few have broken my heart and I know I'm not the only one.
I can relate. I try really hard to separate the character on screen and also the performance - sometimes stellar! - from the whack job having regular meltdowns on antisocial media. The result ends up being the same : I'm suddenly paying more attention to my efforts than the movie. It's a real fucking drag, out of which the only exit is watching foreign movies or dead movie stars . . . now I think of it, that's not a bad thing!
They are walking meat puppets to me. I for the most part could care less what they think. Unless they attack me directly as a fan. I mean if you tell me you don't want my money. Well let's just say I'm happy to save.
If you watch really old movies, you'll find most of the big name people worked their way up, and paid their dues. Fast forward to today, and you find movie leads with relatively little background.
Most of the actors and actresses from Hollywood’s golden age were contracted to studios thus why the same faces were always working together and great directors worked with great actors multiple times. Then Hollywood let actors be free agents who could work with any studio and it created a place where the performers who drew the most crowds got all the roles. Modern Hollywood is simply another example of diversity not being a strength.
Jennifer Lawrence comes to mind. She is crude and abrasive. She was discovered while watching a street performer in NYC. She never trained for nor aspired to an acting career.
If wanting films with "regressive gender stereotypes", means wanting women who are actually likable characters who think about something other than themselves, and men who aren't either stupid or evil, then sign me up for the "regressive gender stereotypes!" Honestly! It amazes me how Hollywood can't write good female characters anymore. not just "good", in terms of with flaws and arcs and a personality, but "good", in terms of being morally good, thinking about something other than themselves, and developing actually strong, supporting relationships with other people (especially men. People forget that back in the days of damsels in distress, one key attribute of the better written damsels, such as some of the classic doctor who assistance or princess Leia; not to mention original Snow white, is that they actually had to be decent people who wee, along with the hero would dam well want! To see saved! This doesn't just go for guys either. My wife can't abide books or films where there is nobody to like, women included!
you made good point. What is lacking in some super hero movie is concept of girl next door. or other words the average women who is painfully average. This painfully average women end up becoming a hero. this character is more relatable than girl boss. I think girl boss is like aggressive Mary sue which is feminist ideal self.
@@spark300c I see what you mean, but the point I was making wasn't that we need more average, none-powered women in films (sword fighting Wendy in the stupid Peter pan remake was supposed to be average), but rather in the past when women played damsel type characters, because they were! the damsel character, IE the one whom the hero had the connection to and who would risk danger to save, they had to be likable. Princess Leia stands up to Darth Vader's torture, shows deep concern for her rebels when she asks Obiwan for help in the message, mourns her planet and her father and attempts to deflect the empire, even before Luke Skywalker busts in, we already get that she's a hugely selfless person. In the classic Doctor who story Robot, Sarah Jane shows compassion to the eponymous giant robot, so that when it goes berserk, not only does it spare her, but she's able to distract it. In New who, Rose shows kindness to many aliens she meets, from the ood to the dalek! The same goes for male characters too of course, one of the first things we see Aladdin do in the original disney film is hand off some of the bread he's just risked his life for, to some young orphans, however it's with female characters that we're really seeing the problem here! Not just in lack of damsels, albeit it'd be good to have a heroic man save a woman again, (both women and men enjoy seeing that), but in lack of "good", female characters, good in terms of well written, but good in terms of not being rude, callous, or down right evil! You can have a character be both a powerful warrior, and feminine and compassionate, Katara in the original last Airbender, Major Kira in Ds9 or buffy the vampire slayer are great examples, but it's the likability and selflessness that makes the audience identify with the characters, and that's something so many modern female characters have just plane lost!
@@darktenor4967 I think damsels fits more fantasy. even though I male I grew tired of that story trope. I prefer the female to be side kick to male at least. I think trope is tiring because we are well into the industrial revolution. the industrial revolution was catalysis for change of gender roles because old ones stop working. I guess you can always have spin new on it.
It almost feels like a very subtle form of discrimination or racism, where people are being hired because of their gender or race instead of their talent or experience. It's being done just to fill a checklist, and that feels more discriminatory than anything else today.
@@kira-dk2mx About as subtle as a 50 foot high pink neon sign saying: "Kill all men, and that goes double if they're white!" It's not any wonder that all of the female characters writers like this produce are abrasive, power hungry narcissists! As I said, whether it's Ripley, buffy the vampire slayer, Doctor who's companions like Sarah Jane, Ace or Jo grant, or heck original 1937 Snow white for that matter, the key difference in female characters of old, whether they were damsels being rescued or not, was that they tend to be likable, good hearted people who care about others and aren't just obsessed with power!
How do they keep losing money with nobody telling them to stop? Whose money are they flushing down the drain? When a broken vending machine takes my money, I don't keep putting more into it...
In this era, people can't separate the art from the artist since the politics in USA promotes the works based on the person's politics. If you don't fit the political regime's agenda, then the works and the artist BOTH are suppressed.
well I would say that we're also a generation and a half into a situation in which 'artists' and cultural creators think their 'art' / 'craft' is the politics ... so they are in fact usually deficient at the actual practice of what they should be doing and instead very practiced at performing the politics.
I seperate them when it's possible. Cases like with the VA Monica Real are easy compared to a director who openly hates men. An actor can still do their job well and keep their politcs out of the job with good directing. The trouble is that a lot of the political activists are in producer and director and other executive roles on these projects. Their intent is to mix politics and art so that you can't keep them apart and there aren't enough people above them in authority to tell them its a bad idea. At least that's what I think.
The funny thing is, that's pretty much exactly the same way how entertainment worked in the USSR (except the Soviets made it an official, legal requirement by the Party, instead of relying on lynch mobs to weed out the Undesirables)
@@LeXofLeviafan Ironic, isn't it? USSR and Nazi Germany both. Yes, I made a Nazi reference. In this case, when it comes to a government pushing messages in art, I feel it's valid.
@@RHFay it becomes even more ironic if you remember _what_ excuse the 3rd Reich were giving for their treatment of jews (and compare it to the statements being thrown around nowadays about "straight white men")…
Thanks for pointing out that "SUPPOSEDLY a Disney executive said" on that one article. These days, skepticism is the way to go. (Even if it is what you WANT to hear.)
The news that the most popular TV series are old ones did not surprise me in the least. What has surprised me is how many videos I have seen of late about people seeking a return to physical media like DVD and Blu-ray. Just a few months ago, I, too, began stockpiling DVDs of my favorite titles partly for fear that censorship would eliminate some of my favorites (e.g., Gone with the Wind, Gettysburg) and partly to save money by cancelling streaming services. I have a library with thousands of books, DVDs, and CDs plus games like chess, go, backgammon, scrabble, etc. I have enough entertainment to occupy me easily for the next 30 years, and I am definitely not alone in my sentiments. Hollywood should be worried.
I can't imagine a day and age where D list comic book characters who have a tried and true track record of underperforming and only a minimal built in audience fail to make a Morbillion at the box office. It's almost like declaring a nothing to be a thing doesn't actually make it a thing!
Nope. When he dumped his wife for his co-star, I lost respect for him. Then the co-star dumped him after she had her fling and ruined his marriage. Seriously, he couldn't see "sl*t" from a mile away??? Then he agreed to that travesty Kenobi. Alec Guinness is my Obi Wan.
@@emdee8840 I hate to burst your ignorant, misinformed, stupidity filled bubble, but Mary Elizabeth Winstead didn't dump Ewan McGregor. On the contrary, she married him almost two years ago now, and gave him a son, Laurie. In fact, McGregor spent Christmas with his large blended family, including wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead, his ex-wife Eve Mavrakis, and all of their kids. _People_ magazine has all the pics. The fact is, only an idiot judges a complete stranger based on bullshit, lies, and unsubstantiated rumors they read on the internet. As much as you might like to think you do, you don't know shit about the ins and outs of McGregor's marriage with his ex. So, stop being a self-righteous asswipe who talks about things of which you know _nothing._
Working towards one’s own passion and ideas is a luxury. Most people are subject to the wishes of their clientele and do not get paid for things the clients did not want or ask for.
If legitimate criticism is levied at a piece of media, and the creators' response is 'you're a bigot!' then it was never a piece of media... it was virtue signaling. It was a vehicle for 'THE MESSAGE.'
Yeah...at the minimum, the creators of the failed movie would think, "Guess it wasn't the genre this audience likes...we need to market to the correct audience next time." The tiny narrow fringe! Not the mainstream audience!
I love to point out to these people how virtue signaling is ultimately harmful to the plight of the so-called marginalized groups they claim to support, because it simultaneously presents such groups as both abnormal outsiders AND as too incompetent to achieve anything on their own. You can practically hear the grinding of the gears in their heads screeching to a halt.
I could separate Mark from Bruce in the first Avengers movie. Then he just really became Mark who claims he is Bruce. Like it stopped being a performance and he just was himself; such as that cringe scene of him wearing the Hulk Buster armor is a good performance to point to. All of Professor Hulk and his cameo in She-Hulk. It doesn't feel like Bruce Banner and they killed the Hulk, it was just Mark by the end and it fucking sucked.
The new philosophical question for the 2020's: Instead of "If a tree falls in the forest, etc", the question becomes "If you make a Message Program and no one sees it, are you really convincing anyone?"
If a tree falls in the forest, yet there is nobody there to hear it, then who has to go to HR because they clearly didnt include any underrepresented groups in the forrest?
You can have a great female lead, for example ripley in alien or Sarah Connor in the terminator, those films worked because they didn't push the whole "girl power BS" they were just strong women.
Plus ripley showed her nips through her tanktop and refused to pull up her panties during the shoot. That type of stuff goes a long way toward making a bossbabe likable lmao.
Wait, you're telling me companies plan to make less content overall because of the cost to their bottom line due to the pay increase of the SAGAFTRA negotiations, and now actors are having an even harder time finding work? That's not what the Nanny told me would happen! The Nanny wouldn't lie to me! She was on a TV show I liked 30-years-ago!
The executives want us to tell them how good they are at making movies because of tiles and money, but don't seem to think they actually have to perform well. Idris Alba could still perform his acting badly, even though he has previously won an Oscar. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder not the producer. Hollywood would do well to remember that. All they had to do was retell the stories from the books for the big screen, but you couldn't even do that! 50+ years of prewritten story, proven to be beloved by many. It's truly amazing what has happened.
I think what he was trying to say is they get their audiences because they put out what their viewers want to watch. Whether that required talent...or effort...or brainpower...or should even be legal in some cases... Yea, it can certainly vary.
They used to say of great male stars "Men want to be him, women want to be with him". They have no sifted to female stars that women want to be, but men do NOT want to be with. Why did they think this would work?
I mean he is probably right about them not being fans. Only that they are not fans of the bullshit Disney is trying to call Star Wars. Ewan needs a girl boss to tell him how to Star War.
He spent his young years in the industry making a name for himself by whipping out his lil' Obi Wang. You can't be taken as a "serious" actor when you mature unless you show the goods when you're young and attractive. Thats the hypocrisy of their business.
@@greggeiger7532 are you really supporting personal attacks to an actor, without mentioning racism? is that ok to you? because that was what he was against, you have to be really fucked up to say he's wrong there
I used to really like superhero movies. I have a big brother so I always thought things he liked were cool... fantasy, star wars, super heroes. I loved these things and enjoyed them for what they were. I never thought, "wow... I wish I was represented...." I could go to other things and watch rom-coms and musicals and other things if and when I felt like it, but I liked Superhero movies how they were. I got "fatigued" before the girl boss era, so I'm REALLY lucky in that respect. I think the last Marvel movie I saw in theatres was Captain America Civil War. Went to the theatres to see Star Wars Force Awakens (which happened to be just a few weeks after my father passed away) and when they killed Han Solo we were like, "Nope. Okay. We're done." Also, 2016 we started down the road of watching Korean Dramas and we haven't looked back since. Way more interesting, way more intelligent, and even if some tropes and situations are over played, I don't even care. It's FUN and I'm entertained.
It's unreal to watch people who got their positions either through being outright nepo-babies or getting positions through insiders or general luck get really upset when they see others get adoration, attention, fans and stardom. "Whaaaa, movies just are too niche now a days! People would rather watch youtube personalities rather than pay for the privilege of watching me play pretend!"
@bastiangugu4083 nerdrotic is amazing but clueless about california, no idea that california is 0% commie, 100% corporate establishment. Corporate Media: "California is communism! California is socialism! Repeat this guys!" meanwhile you can't find even 1 economic policy in California that isn't from the corporations, the big establishment businesses. It's the exact same thing in reverse, the corporate media has got all the leftists to label the south cities as full of racist idiots without knowing the southern states are also corporate establishment controlled.
@@darthlaurel you know someone who lives in California and someone who lives in Texas want 99.999999% the same policies? cnn and fox, biden and trump spend all their energy getting us to hate each other. californians are your allies.
Man, I love your delivery and the quick wit in your commentary, [chef's kiss]. Subbed when you were less than 100k and can't wait to see the drive to 1 million! Cheers from Texas!
The ai thing (bear with me) I saw when they did the animated Beowulf some years ago... I thought to myself... give it a few years... no actor strikes, no strops and stomping off stage, no petty demands... hmmm... what producer wouldn't love that...
Script Doctor talked about the script for "Madame Web" recently on Jeff's WorldClassBullshitters TH-cam channel and truly believes that it was pretty much done with ChatGPT. He evens proves it with some examples he did that came out pretty close to how the movie went. So, if A.I. writing for films and TV is that bad, there's no saving the industry if they decide to use it all the time. As much as I love Disparu's commentaries on the given topics, I do wish he wouldn't rapid fire his way through them. It's okay to slow down a bit on the dialog, especially the endings.
The problem is that writers and producers arent following the source material. I mean when was the last time a authors novel was successfully adapted to film
Great points as always. I still believe everything the entertainment industry is doing is 100% on purpose. They already knew they would alienate the current audiences and knew they would lose billions. They know it is essential to the transformation of the next generation. Also, I love hearing BASED ECONOMY! 😁
@@NateWilliams-h8q That's because most are not even mildly versed in Chancellor Mao and his rise to power. If you have never read about him, you only know the infinitesimal tidbits received on occasion and even those are delivered with a political slant. An ignorant populace is truly a nation of slaves. Indeed, "My people perish for lack of knowledge."
The people who rejected the Marvels are the same ones who begged for a Black Widow movie for years. It's not about the female lead, it's about writing quality.
This is my problem with reacher. It's a great show, but they made a HUGE mistake adding woman to the military company. First they're simply gagging for Reacher the entire time which is annoying, then it gets rid of the brotherhood and comradery we actually want to see, and of course the two woman in the group are the first found and super intelligent, and insufferable. I just want a show with male protagonist. Include a money penny at the most.
"I just want a show with male protagonist" I understand. I want that too. We simply wont get it from any current day mid-to-big-budget western company though. Its just not going to happen. They will ALWAYS inject feminism into everything they make. They cant help themselves. They cant think outside of that box because they _are_ the box. The best they can do is make it a little more subtle than it is in other current day shows, but thats not good enough for me. I dont want just a little bit of shit on my steak. I want a steak without any shit on it. The choice is to watch older stuff, indie stuff or nothing at all. Even with the older and indie stuff, you still have to sift through a mountain of feminism-riddled garbage before you find something decent. I barely even watch movies and shows anymore. I despise Reacher because the guy is a feminist simp dog. He lets bratty women bytch slap him and just takes it. I hate that. I hate that people think its ok for women to hit men. Its not. I hate that the media has normalized that misandrist idea. If you slap me, im slapping back. I dont care if you have a vajayjay and you think it makes you untouchable. It doesnt.
Once again you have really outdone yourself. Clear and concise. Thank you for the effort and work that you have put into your channel. You would be a great asset to a Disney think tank.
Lol I thought that said “US *Steaming* pile” If you want to know why Disney is deliberately failing at any cost, listen to James Lindsay’s speech to the EU Parliament. It breaks down “capturing the means of production” brilliantly.
Hero actions are basicaly unwriten, and subconsciosly known by anyone, because they support life usualy! Even animals can be heroic, and understand when someone else is heroic, and helps for example. Its a pretty universal thing!!
'Even animals can be heroic' definitely rings true, even when said animal isn't one found in real life. Godzilla and Kong are both used in this manner (Godzilla I think has had it longer due to his Showa era self being full hero mode) in the monsterverse lately even if people criticize it for various reasons
@@Furydragonstormer i mean real animals. I have seen them do things, that they are not supposed to. Like a lion saving baby deer. There is definetly stories about dogs. Some birds reason prety well. And even fish can make friends and enemies. There is universal things that almost any animal understands, including humans. Even spiders are afraid for example... Its life!
Excellent analysis. This captures what I've been calling the "cultural Lysenkoism" that currently infests Hollywood (and just about everything) these days. Lysenko was a Communist agronomist in Stalin's Soviet Union who thought he knew better than the proven, natural ways of growing crops people have done for centuries. He was able to impose his pseudoscientific agricultural ideas onto the country, which led to catastrophic famine, of course. That's analogous for me to what's happening across the culture today with woke ideology.
They have a sunny outlook for the Darkhold Diaries. That's fu*king hilarious. I think that show is going to exemplify Disparu's best point. The immorality of the show producers (writers, directors, showrunners etc.) makes it impossible for them to portray real heroes because they don't understand the concept of real heroism. 😀
It's not women led films. It is poorly written and directed movies. If it was simply women led films Mulan, Moanna, Aliens and more would have also flopped.
11:55 this whole thing is honestly better than any movie plot Disney could have done. And the fact that Disney isn't making money from it and TH-cam creators are, and by proxy myself because I put all of my money in google, I like this a lot. Rofl. Disney, you're hilarious. Magnificent 7 are magnificent for a reason.
There is nothing wrong with women lead films. Problem is, 99% of people making, writing and producing the films are doing it wrong. They are making these unlikable Mary-Sues, hiring people who care little to nothing about what they're working on while inputting their views into the project that have no business being there, they don't follow any of the source material of an IP, and they're too busy checking boxes to care about making a quality product that people want to see. They're not making films for women. They're making films for themselves and their pitiful egos. As a woman, I'm not wasting my money on poorly written, misdirected, ego stroking garbage.
So are we now getting good movies again with just good writing without some kind of agenda ? Is the madness finally over ? If that was the case Disparu needs another job.
There is a simple way to get better movies. If the CEO (or whoever pays them) said, during the pitch of a movie "Are you willing to bet your salary that this is going to make us money?"
6:50 that is a VERY generous interpretation. As "representation" can go up in 2 ways. Attracting an audience.... and scaring people off. I put it to you that in fact 0 additional women saw the movie and in fact both the number of men and woman in absolute numbers declines. But the ratio of women and men that still saw it created a greater share of woman..
8:45 super hero fatigue is a cop out of term like hero have been around since humans could craft stories it’s not hero fatigue it’s bad writing fatigue
That's a great question.. I'd love a Hollywood exec to say if they would make suits again in the same format, style etc. Think we know what the answer would be...
Traditional cable TV channels lose their appeal by failing to captivate newer generations, Hollywood is also on a path toward decline. Its struggle to create compelling and original movies accelerates this process, leading to eventual obscurity. Good job !
I’ll never forget when I was watching a film review I can’t remember the creators name but he basically said the best writing is when it doesn’t matter if the character is a man or a woman then writing is just that good for the character
If today's Hollywood films displayed a fraction of the creativity, if they were produced and acted with a fraction of the talent, of classic films, things might be different. As it is, Hollywood is finally suffering the affects of its current creativity and talent deficit.
Don’t underestimate contraction of movies and tv due to all the DEI requirements. Somewhere at these companies is a high level MBA who’s figured out that you can’t turn a profit with all these restrictions. It would be like owning an NBA team and being told you have to have short white dudes on the roster. Someone’s going to figure out that’s not a winning strategy.
The problem is in how embedded this ideology is. I don't see a big studio being able to pivot while so many involved will push this crap to the bitter end. Smaller studios and where collapse is imminent would have a better chance of changing. By contrast the Iger Company has the resources to rumble on for some time, and is packed to the rafters with incompetents and ideologues who know their careers are finished if the business shifts to a for-profit model.
Err, I agree with most of this video, but there are a couple things. One, Agatha Harkness is an important character, giving her a show is called world building. I rather doubt the only character is going to be Agatha as what would the point if that be? In the comics she helped create Wanda’s twin babies. They might be using this show to introduce more Marvel characters. That is what I’d do.
That's exactly what they did. Agatha will be accompanied by Billy Kaplan (Wiccan) and several other witches from the comics. They’re also introducing The Witches’ Road as part of the world building. Not to mention, meeting different types of witches and learning about their powers will also add to world building.
Sounds to me like Pearson is the guy they just give scripts to for a final touch-up, not because he is good, but because that is his job in the company. He is like the retailm manager who is put in to failing stores not to make them better, but so they can reassign the previous manager somewhere else.
Madame Web Reviews left a lot to be desired, but were far from the only time a movie has failed in recent time for the reason of a Hollywood girlboss. This has caused Disney to "retool" in horror as they blame the bigoted fans for not liking the ideas that have been force fed to them. But this goes deeper than just which actor plays a role. It's down to the values and messaging of entertainment, and are we going to use masculine morality, or something else? And while Disney may WANT to retool, may TRY to change direction. But can they do that with the same staff hired that caused the problems in the first place? Do they even KNOW what the audience wants, even begrudgingly? Or are Disney's hiring practices so hard baked into the company that there is no turning back anymore? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
We when from Ellen ripley and Sarah connor to Reva and Madame web... truely a fall in every single way of measurement
It's like asking the BAD PEOPLE FROM GERMANY to be nice to Jewish people and pamper them. They're not going to change, this is a religion to them. Even if Bob Iger really wants to change, the activists he helped put into the workforce and lower and middle management won't let him. Just like they rebelled against Bob Chapek.
not seem madame web yet but if it's like the rest of the ok chick flicks then most of the haters that talk trash never even seen it and if you asked them anything about it it was clear they only hate cause some YT clown told them too.
@@the_piper001 The majority of those who viewed it were still men. So women did not support their own movie. Just like with The Marvels. In general women don't like capesh1t movies, so maybe Hollywood should stop trying to ram a cube through a round hole and accept that this is a male genre. But you go ahead and play the moral high horse. As if we haters convinced the majority of the audience to give this movie a miss.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 you on crack mate ....what moral high ground .......all i said was the movie was ok ....i like chicks......you alll like dudes ..........now there is nothing wrong with you likeing dudes so stop deflecting
Rebooting is pointless as long as the same people are still in charge. Disney *ITSELF* needs a reboot.
The entertainment industry is FILLED with those people and it's not going to change any time soon. They KNOW they're losing money, but the billionaires keep on funding them to continue spreading 'the message'.
Disney, Fox .. the whole writers association… needs to be a massive industry reboot… and while at it please also reboot the gaming industry
It's not just the people in charge that need to go. The people hired to meet their diversity quotas also need to go. Hiring based on experience and competence needs to be a requirement again.
@@stephenthomas1492 Even if the billionaires stopped funding them, the lower ranks, the activists in the workforce, lower and middle management, will rise and stop the reboot from happening. Like they rebelled against Bob Chapek. The CEO's are no longer in control, they've let the inmates of the asylum come in and now they rule the corporations. Only a full Twitter style purge of 80 to 90% of the workforce can save and change Disney.
DEIsney needs to be purged and rebuit from the ground up.
"Only thing you are progressing to is Bankruptcy" - best line I have heard this week
The other trope that needs to end is "the girl/woman who is the key to everything" and becomes awesome when she "realizes" she is awesome.
I'm MoAR awesomer now!!
The problem isn't "the girl/woman who is the key to everything" aspect, as many series have done it and have been successful (take example of Japanese Anime like the ongoing "Apothecary Diaries" or "Frieren" both focusing on female main characters and both being highly popular).
The problem is the forced idea that men are the issues of all problems while woman are all great and the solution to all problems. That it's wrong for a woman to rely on a man and should either rely on themselves or other women only, and like you said "realizes she is awesome" and she is complete and perfect from start (and it's Men who are making them imperfect and dragging them down).
The biggest issue is that, in order to put Women on the high pedestal, what they are doing is bringing down the Men, by various means, rather than co-working.
@@Sup_DI'm not interested in Anime like that either.
@@bkatbamna you dont need to know anime like that it just proves that not being able to write female mains is american thing
@@derp_wolf9688That's not an American thing, it's just shitty writers/directors making shit.
Hollywood has the answer sheet, yet they keep failing the quiz. Amazing.
Jamoné
It's not like they've ever looked at the answer sheet. We've seen execs tank projects because they were proven wrong before.
It’s amazing that you summarize Hollywood films, post-Meetoo movement, in one sentence.
That's because their aim is to spread propaganda and social change to fit their agenda. None of this is to make money.
Excellent metaphor. In the age of big data, HOW CAN THEY NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.
I cancelled by BBC Tax a few years ago and took out a subscription to a Korean film and series site, once i got used to reading sub titles an whole new world of real good entertainment opened up to me. They got the lot. I hope they never get poluted the way Western film makers did.
Yeah, Korean and Japanese shows are killing it - Disparu has mentioned on several occasions he watches a lot of Korean TV - probably explains why Netflix is plowing 2.5 billion dollars into Korea over the next 3 years....
AI will decentralize media so this will never happen again 🙂
@@vagrant1943 Especially since AI is capable of generating video clips from prompts (and probably with generated audio, score and conversations too in the future). Imagine prompting a good book and generate the chapters into video clips, that you then can cut and edit. Imagine how this could change the entire industry when an author can generate the film adaptation himself instead of relying on Hollywood for that purpose.
Rachel Ziegler winning awards for stunts when John Wick and Ethan Hunt exist in the movie world 😂
Well she did pull off a few epic SNAFUs.
I have to wonder how many people she bribed to get that award.
@@hawkeye5955She didn't bribe a soul, her masters did it keep her strings from being cut. They love people like Rachel who are nothing without studio backing. You can't push around older talents like that and older talents have fans, genuine fans. Older talents can walk away. Rachel Zegler will remember her place with a tug of the string.
Zegler played the race card to pressure the Acedemy of Arts and Sciences into letting her present an Oscar. She's the worst kind of minority who holds herself up as a role model to minorities.
Bots are great for voting…her career is done.
It’s impossible to grieve when the dead are the murderers.
weird way to say they committed suicide.
Hold on... I'm writing that down.. Holy Cow, what a great line.
What if they're the undead and do the killing?
Disney loves to shoot themselves in the foot and blame everyone else. To me, Bob Iger is trying to lower the price so he can sell Disney to somebody else.
Murder you say????
The mistake the studios made was letting activists that advised on certain topics push their way from external freelance advisor into full time decision maker positions. They see the companies as a vehicle to deliver their messages and are entirely uninterested in making sound business decisions.
@RayTX1337 not a mistake though, that was the intention. it allowed them to control the narrative over what is and what isn't a good movie by making it on a Woke scale. all the while got us to get so triggered we did free advertising for them. it's a nasty business that fucks everyone, reduces the quality to 0, but does make them low-risk money.
Actors, Hollywood by and large is very liberal and progressive period They didn't need to be convinced of anything.
You are already lost when you hire 'activists' to 'advice on certain topics'. Because what you need are _professionals_ and specialists, not people with an agenda.
THIS IS ON PURPOSE. FFS
They created specific departments to supervise all this “inclusion”…
"We're not retreating! We're advancing in a rearwards direction!"
- Hollywood at present.
Ukraine army's methot
Newspeak at it's best!
Marvel bosses said something similar about their *REBOOT* ... _"we're not rebooting the MCU, were doing a a creative re-tooling!!"_ 🤣🤣🤣
I rather like ‘strategic retrograde advance’. Wish I could remember and credit the originator.
Falling & failing upwards.
Ah the good ol' rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic strategy of business!
😅😅😅 Excellent analogy.
I think it is more a case of seeking out more icebergs to ram.
If only they could rearange them into X and Y positions titanics of the world will he saved 😂
This is EXACTLY what Disney is doing.
@@mudcrab3420If they ram into the iceberg, the titanic wouldnt have sunken
Female audience in majority love male leads. Guess why we love Steve Rogers or Thor. Escapism. Not obnoxious girlbosses. But we also love good female leads
Louder for the people in the back! We want men to be men and women to be women, it's not a war between the sexes, they're supposed to complement each other and help with each other's weaknesses.
Preach @@Teverell
Truth!
i agree when they made male
Characters like indiana jones, the flash, moon knight, loki, thor
Side characters in their own
Shows & movies to have annoying
Girlbosses take over & demean or
Belittle them these films & shows
Started Completely falling apart
& became lame.
@@Teverell
Yep imagine how better
written & great these shows
like Moon knight, loki & the flash
Would of been if they had good writers, That didnt have a agenda
& followed the source Material
we were robbed.
In Greece, Theater was meant to inspire. The hero made a misjudgment. He suffered the consequences, learnt and improved. Is that so hard to understand?
The idea that I'm a bad person when I don't like it when you piss on me and try to tell me it's raining. That's gaslighting. What is sad is if they are running a large corporation like this just imagine what their personal life is like.
Are you even sure they have persona lives? Since all they do is make bad movies and shows. Act surprise and complain when most or all viewers don't like it, then make more bad shows and movies and repeat the cycle.
To writing down something like that (and believe in that), one must have a very far, off, distance from human society to even remotely aware oneself. With ego that big, they think of themselves as savior, protector, champion rather than a human being, so yes, I don't think they even think they are human anymore, let alone have a personal life.
@@kietdo4379 well they certainly fail to comprehend how to human, that's for sure 😄
A failed brain will come up with failed ideas.A weak brain will also double down on those failed ideas,that's exactly what is happening.
(TH-cam will probably delete this)
"There's a certain liberation to my plumbing business no longer being popular. I get to starve in peace without all those pesky paying customers expecting me to do my job!" Eh, Natalie?
They haven't forgotten how the world works but they are arrogant enough to think that THEY can change it.
It's the most plausible explanation of why they keep throwing money into burning pits of failures.
More so that they think they can FORCE people to accept their changes.
Its called being retarded.
Self reflection is a dirty word... 2+2=4 is dirty math that needs to be ignored all the while O'brians 2+2=5 true because he felt like it 🙄
Yeesh, the number of actors I've admired for a long time whom have become whiney, shilling, out-of-touch ignoramuses. At this point I can't watch most of those actors work anymore. Looking at them pisses me off or digusts me...more than a few have broken my heart and I know I'm not the only one.
I can relate. I try really hard to separate the character on screen and also the performance - sometimes stellar! - from the whack job having regular meltdowns on antisocial media. The result ends up being the same : I'm suddenly paying more attention to my efforts than the movie. It's a real fucking drag, out of which the only exit is watching foreign movies or dead movie stars . . . now I think of it, that's not a bad thing!
They are walking meat puppets to me. I for the most part could care less what they think. Unless they attack me directly as a fan. I mean if you tell me you don't want my money. Well let's just say I'm happy to save.
If you watch really old movies, you'll find most of the big name people worked their way up, and paid their dues. Fast forward to today, and you find movie leads with relatively little background.
Many even literally thought in WW2. Seen shit. Yet they never played victims like the spoiled brats now.
@@svetlanaandrasova6086Good point, I just looked up a list of actors and actresses who served during WW2 and Korea. There is a long list.
Most of the actors and actresses from Hollywood’s golden age were contracted to studios thus why the same faces were always working together and great directors worked with great actors multiple times. Then Hollywood let actors be free agents who could work with any studio and it created a place where the performers who drew the most crowds got all the roles.
Modern Hollywood is simply another example of diversity not being a strength.
Not just actors, but writers and directors as well.
Jennifer Lawrence comes to mind. She is crude and abrasive. She was discovered while watching a street performer in NYC. She never trained for nor aspired to an acting career.
If wanting films with "regressive gender stereotypes", means wanting women who are actually likable characters who think about something other than themselves, and men who aren't either stupid or evil, then sign me up for the "regressive gender stereotypes!"
Honestly! It amazes me how Hollywood can't write good female characters anymore. not just "good", in terms of with flaws and arcs and a personality, but "good", in terms of being morally good, thinking about something other than themselves, and developing actually strong, supporting relationships with other people (especially men.
People forget that back in the days of damsels in distress, one key attribute of the better written damsels, such as some of the classic doctor who assistance or princess Leia; not to mention original Snow white, is that they actually had to be decent people who wee, along with the hero would dam well want! To see saved!
This doesn't just go for guys either.
My wife can't abide books or films where there is nobody to like, women included!
you made good point. What is lacking in some super hero movie is concept of girl next door. or other words the average women who is painfully average. This painfully average women end up becoming a hero. this character is more relatable than girl boss. I think girl boss is like aggressive Mary sue which is feminist ideal self.
@@spark300c I see what you mean, but the point I was making wasn't that we need more average, none-powered women in films (sword fighting Wendy in the stupid Peter pan remake was supposed to be average), but rather in the past when women played damsel type characters, because they were! the damsel character, IE the one whom the hero had the connection to and who would risk danger to save, they had to be likable.
Princess Leia stands up to Darth Vader's torture, shows deep concern for her rebels when she asks Obiwan for help in the message, mourns her planet and her father and attempts to deflect the empire, even before Luke Skywalker busts in, we already get that she's a hugely selfless person.
In the classic Doctor who story Robot, Sarah Jane shows compassion to the eponymous giant robot, so that when it goes berserk, not only does it spare her, but she's able to distract it.
In New who, Rose shows kindness to many aliens she meets, from the ood to the dalek!
The same goes for male characters too of course, one of the first things we see Aladdin do in the original disney film is hand off some of the bread he's just risked his life for, to some young orphans, however it's with female characters that we're really seeing the problem here!
Not just in lack of damsels, albeit it'd be good to have a heroic man save a woman again, (both women and men enjoy seeing that), but in lack of "good", female characters, good in terms of well written, but good in terms of not being rude, callous, or down right evil!
You can have a character be both a powerful warrior, and feminine and compassionate, Katara in the original last Airbender, Major Kira in Ds9 or buffy the vampire slayer are great examples, but it's the likability and selflessness that makes the audience identify with the characters, and that's something so many modern female characters have just plane lost!
@@darktenor4967 I think damsels fits more fantasy. even though I male I grew tired of that story trope. I prefer the female to be side kick to male at least. I think trope is tiring because we are well into the industrial revolution. the industrial revolution was catalysis for change of gender roles because old ones stop working. I guess you can always have spin new on it.
It almost feels like a very subtle form of discrimination or racism, where people are being hired because of their gender or race instead of their talent or experience. It's being done just to fill a checklist, and that feels more discriminatory than anything else today.
@@kira-dk2mx About as subtle as a 50 foot high pink neon sign saying:
"Kill all men, and that goes double if they're white!"
It's not any wonder that all of the female characters writers like this produce are abrasive, power hungry narcissists!
As I said, whether it's Ripley, buffy the vampire slayer, Doctor who's companions like Sarah Jane, Ace or Jo grant, or heck original 1937 Snow white for that matter, the key difference in female characters of old, whether they were damsels being rescued or not, was that they tend to be likable, good hearted people who care about others and aren't just obsessed with power!
I smell bots giving rachel zegler stunt action award of the year from a mile away
"Remember, go out and and make a speech about how much you love movies. We need to undo the damage where you spoke from the heart"
And yet she still took the award...if she had any humility, she would have refused it.
As long as she loves them in the right direction
@@rogerwagner6940- I hope the movies love her back because the fans certainly don’t.
It's weird-weird that anyone would have connected hunger games to the action genre.
Natalie could have participated in 'not popular' movies from day one if she wanted to. It's called the indie film industry.
How do they keep losing money with nobody telling them to stop? Whose money are they flushing down the drain? When a broken vending machine takes my money, I don't keep putting more into it...
I offer you twice of whatever you're putting in that broken vending machine!
It's called ESG scores, even if they flop all those things are already paid upfront. It's basically like a lifeboat for these huge companies.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different result.
Endless money for this agenda.
I guess it all comes down to the existence of Big Money investors that are bullheadedly focused on promoting all of this propaganda 😅
"Someone who couldn't even beat me up" 😂😂😂
In this era, people can't separate the art from the artist since the politics in USA promotes the works based on the person's politics. If you don't fit the political regime's agenda, then the works and the artist BOTH are suppressed.
well I would say that we're also a generation and a half into a situation in which 'artists' and cultural creators think their 'art' / 'craft' is the politics ... so they are in fact usually deficient at the actual practice of what they should be doing and instead very practiced at performing the politics.
I seperate them when it's possible. Cases like with the VA Monica Real are easy compared to a director who openly hates men. An actor can still do their job well and keep their politcs out of the job with good directing. The trouble is that a lot of the political activists are in producer and director and other executive roles on these projects. Their intent is to mix politics and art so that you can't keep them apart and there aren't enough people above them in authority to tell them its a bad idea. At least that's what I think.
The funny thing is, that's pretty much exactly the same way how entertainment worked in the USSR (except the Soviets made it an official, legal requirement by the Party, instead of relying on lynch mobs to weed out the Undesirables)
@@LeXofLeviafan
Ironic, isn't it? USSR and Nazi Germany both.
Yes, I made a Nazi reference. In this case, when it comes to a government pushing messages in art, I feel it's valid.
@@RHFay it becomes even more ironic if you remember _what_ excuse the 3rd Reich were giving for their treatment of jews (and compare it to the statements being thrown around nowadays about "straight white men")…
Thanks for pointing out that "SUPPOSEDLY a Disney executive said" on that one article.
These days, skepticism is the way to go. (Even if it is what you WANT to hear.)
The fall of the western Roman Empire only took about 20 years, the film industry seems to have a similar trajectory.
As does the west itself.
You sure it was only 20? I thought it was 200.
It only took like 12 years of underwhelming performances.
12 years a brave
@@BatkoNashBandera774 Got there before me. Kudos!
The news that the most popular TV series are old ones did not surprise me in the least. What has surprised me is how many videos I have seen of late about people seeking a return to physical media like DVD and Blu-ray. Just a few months ago, I, too, began stockpiling DVDs of my favorite titles partly for fear that censorship would eliminate some of my favorites (e.g., Gone with the Wind, Gettysburg) and partly to save money by cancelling streaming services. I have a library with thousands of books, DVDs, and CDs plus games like chess, go, backgammon, scrabble, etc. I have enough entertainment to occupy me easily for the next 30 years, and I am definitely not alone in my sentiments. Hollywood should be worried.
I can't imagine a day and age where D list comic book characters who have a tried and true track record of underperforming and only a minimal built in audience fail to make a Morbillion at the box office. It's almost like declaring a nothing to be a thing doesn't actually make it a thing!
Have you seen the series Ewan McGregor did biking across Russia? He treated his mate like absolute shit. True Hollywood style.
Nope. When he dumped his wife for his co-star, I lost respect for him. Then the co-star dumped him after she had her fling and ruined his marriage. Seriously, he couldn't see "sl*t" from a mile away???
Then he agreed to that travesty Kenobi.
Alec Guinness is my Obi Wan.
@@emdee8840 I hate to burst your ignorant, misinformed, stupidity filled bubble, but Mary Elizabeth Winstead didn't dump Ewan McGregor. On the contrary, she married him almost two years ago now, and gave him a son, Laurie. In fact, McGregor spent Christmas with his large blended family, including wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead, his ex-wife Eve Mavrakis, and all of their kids. _People_ magazine has all the pics.
The fact is, only an idiot judges a complete stranger based on bullshit, lies, and unsubstantiated rumors they read on the internet. As much as you might like to think you do, you don't know shit about the ins and outs of McGregor's marriage with his ex. So, stop being a self-righteous asswipe who talks about things of which you know _nothing._
I guess the force isn’t strong with him.
Working towards one’s own passion and ideas is a luxury. Most people are subject to the wishes of their clientele and do not get paid for things the clients did not want or ask for.
That's not even true. Just don't spend a billion dollars making it. Hence why the indies are replacing them.
@@acrab6527 by working I really mean getting a steady paycheck.
If legitimate criticism is levied at a piece of media, and the creators' response is 'you're a bigot!' then it was never a piece of media... it was virtue signaling. It was a vehicle for 'THE MESSAGE.'
Yeah...at the minimum, the creators of the failed movie would think, "Guess it wasn't the genre this audience likes...we need to market to the correct audience next time." The tiny narrow fringe! Not the mainstream audience!
I love to point out to these people how virtue signaling is ultimately harmful to the plight of the so-called marginalized groups they claim to support, because it simultaneously presents such groups as both abnormal outsiders AND as too incompetent to achieve anything on their own. You can practically hear the grinding of the gears in their heads screeching to a halt.
I could separate Mark from Bruce in the first Avengers movie. Then he just really became Mark who claims he is Bruce. Like it stopped being a performance and he just was himself; such as that cringe scene of him wearing the Hulk Buster armor is a good performance to point to. All of Professor Hulk and his cameo in She-Hulk. It doesn't feel like Bruce Banner and they killed the Hulk, it was just Mark by the end and it fucking sucked.
The new philosophical question for the 2020's: Instead of "If a tree falls in the forest, etc", the question becomes "If you make a Message Program and no one sees it, are you really convincing anyone?"
If a tree falls in the forest, yet there is nobody there to hear it, then who has to go to HR because they clearly didnt include any underrepresented groups in the forrest?
When Iger said he was cutting 7,000 jobs, I thought it was a great opportunity for the mediocre to poor cadre to get rid of the talent.
You can have a great female lead, for example ripley in alien or Sarah Connor in the terminator, those films worked because they didn't push the whole "girl power BS" they were just strong women.
Plus ripley showed her nips through her tanktop and refused to pull up her panties during the shoot. That type of stuff goes a long way toward making a bossbabe likable lmao.
Tomb Raider. Ridiculous…but FUN.
YES! Chic here it's the way they set up these "girlboss" it's stupid. Ripley was awesome and loved Sarah Conner in T2.
Diparu's really getting his moneys worth of that Rachel Zegler screenshot
I think if we asked disp what his favorite character of the year is, he'd say John Prince
Wait, you're telling me companies plan to make less content overall because of the cost to their bottom line due to the pay increase of the SAGAFTRA negotiations, and now actors are having an even harder time finding work? That's not what the Nanny told me would happen! The Nanny wouldn't lie to me! She was on a TV show I liked 30-years-ago!
The fun part is that they’ll have a harder time with their “day jobs” too because there’ll be less money sloshing around. Fun!
I loved her in The Hollywood Knights. 🤟
The executives want us to tell them how good they are at making movies because of tiles and money, but don't seem to think they actually have to perform well. Idris Alba could still perform his acting badly, even though he has previously won an Oscar. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder not the producer. Hollywood would do well to remember that.
All they had to do was retell the stories from the books for the big screen, but you couldn't even do that! 50+ years of prewritten story, proven to be beloved by many. It's truly amazing what has happened.
"Tik Tokers got there because they have talent" said no one ever.
That statement is pure comedy gold right there!!
It's literally a f'ing ludicrous statement.
I think what he was trying to say is they get their audiences because they put out what their viewers want to watch.
Whether that required talent...or effort...or brainpower...or should even be legal in some cases...
Yea, it can certainly vary.
They used to say of great male stars "Men want to be him, women want to be with him". They have no sifted to female stars that women want to be, but men do NOT want to be with. Why did they think this would work?
Ewan is no Star Wars actor in my mind
Rock on, dudes!
He was alright in the prequels but he kinda always looked like he needed to take a piss
I mean he is probably right about them not being fans. Only that they are not fans of the bullshit Disney is trying to call Star Wars. Ewan needs a girl boss to tell him how to Star War.
@@chefref5027 Leia could kick his ass.
He spent his young years in the industry making a name for himself by whipping out his lil' Obi Wang.
You can't be taken as a "serious" actor when you mature unless you show the goods when you're young and attractive. Thats the hypocrisy of their business.
@@greggeiger7532 are you really supporting personal attacks to an actor, without mentioning racism? is that ok to you? because that was what he was against, you have to be really fucked up to say he's wrong there
They thought they could Fail Upwards successfully, and that failed at that.
"Insufferable cows who need to smile more" is TOO accurate 😂
Hollywood has lost the culture war.
Sydney Sweeney on the red carpet in that web dress was the best thing about Madame Web. LOL
I used to really like superhero movies. I have a big brother so I always thought things he liked were cool... fantasy, star wars, super heroes. I loved these things and enjoyed them for what they were. I never thought, "wow... I wish I was represented...." I could go to other things and watch rom-coms and musicals and other things if and when I felt like it, but I liked Superhero movies how they were. I got "fatigued" before the girl boss era, so I'm REALLY lucky in that respect. I think the last Marvel movie I saw in theatres was Captain America Civil War. Went to the theatres to see Star Wars Force Awakens (which happened to be just a few weeks after my father passed away) and when they killed Han Solo we were like, "Nope. Okay. We're done." Also, 2016 we started down the road of watching Korean Dramas and we haven't looked back since. Way more interesting, way more intelligent, and even if some tropes and situations are over played, I don't even care. It's FUN and I'm entertained.
It's unreal to watch people who got their positions either through being outright nepo-babies or getting positions through insiders or general luck get really upset when they see others get adoration, attention, fans and stardom.
"Whaaaa, movies just are too niche now a days! People would rather watch youtube personalities rather than pay for the privilege of watching me play pretend!"
At this point Commifornia (TM Nerdrotic) needs a reboot to be California again. But how likely is that.
I think rebooting it into the pacific ocean is the only way.
@bastiangugu4083 nerdrotic is amazing but clueless about california, no idea that california is 0% commie, 100% corporate establishment.
Corporate Media: "California is communism! California is socialism! Repeat this guys!"
meanwhile you can't find even 1 economic policy in California that isn't from the corporations, the big establishment businesses.
It's the exact same thing in reverse, the corporate media has got all the leftists to label the south cities as full of racist idiots without knowing the southern states are also corporate establishment controlled.
@@darthlaurel you know someone who lives in California and someone who lives in Texas want 99.999999% the same policies?
cnn and fox, biden and trump spend all their energy getting us to hate each other. californians are your allies.
He didn't come up with that. He also didn't come up with Taxachusetts either.
@@archstanton9073 I didn't know that, I only heard it on his channel, so I assumed. Who did come up with it?
Man, I love your delivery and the quick wit in your commentary, [chef's kiss]. Subbed when you were less than 100k and can't wait to see the drive to 1 million! Cheers from Texas!
super hero fatigue as a term is so stupid. They should call it intelligence fatigue because they lack it at these studios.
"Yes,Agatha is AMAZING. Who wants to spend eight hours looking at her!"🤣Touche!
The ai thing (bear with me) I saw when they did the animated Beowulf some years ago... I thought to myself... give it a few years... no actor strikes, no strops and stomping off stage, no petty demands... hmmm... what producer wouldn't love that...
Script Doctor talked about the script for "Madame Web" recently on Jeff's WorldClassBullshitters TH-cam channel and truly believes that it was pretty much done with ChatGPT. He evens proves it with some examples he did that came out pretty close to how the movie went. So, if A.I. writing for films and TV is that bad, there's no saving the industry if they decide to use it all the time. As much as I love Disparu's commentaries on the given topics, I do wish he wouldn't rapid fire his way through them. It's okay to slow down a bit on the dialog, especially the endings.
I'm watching that next! Thanks for the suggestion.
The problem is that writers and producers arent following the source material. I mean when was the last time a authors novel was successfully adapted to film
They really went all in on social engineering just for it to blow upmin their ignorant faces...I love it.
Great points as always. I still believe everything the entertainment industry is doing is 100% on purpose. They already knew they would alienate the current audiences and knew they would lose billions. They know it is essential to the transformation of the next generation.
Also, I love hearing BASED ECONOMY! 😁
This. BlackRock and Vanguard are just asset stripping Gordon Gekko style.
We are smack in the middle of Maos cultural revolution. It's so easy to see, yet so many are blind to it.
@@NateWilliams-h8q That's because most are not even mildly versed in Chancellor Mao and his rise to power. If you have never read about him, you only know the infinitesimal tidbits received on occasion and even those are delivered with a political slant.
An ignorant populace is truly a nation of slaves. Indeed, "My people perish for lack of knowledge."
The people who rejected the Marvels are the same ones who begged for a Black Widow movie for years. It's not about the female lead, it's about writing quality.
I love these videos. Plus the pirate teeth gimmick always cracks me up lol
This is my problem with reacher. It's a great show, but they made a HUGE mistake adding woman to the military company. First they're simply gagging for Reacher the entire time which is annoying, then it gets rid of the brotherhood and comradery we actually want to see, and of course the two woman in the group are the first found and super intelligent, and insufferable. I just want a show with male protagonist. Include a money penny at the most.
"I just want a show with male protagonist"
I understand. I want that too. We simply wont get it from any current day mid-to-big-budget western company though. Its just not going to happen. They will ALWAYS inject feminism into everything they make. They cant help themselves. They cant think outside of that box because they _are_ the box. The best they can do is make it a little more subtle than it is in other current day shows, but thats not good enough for me. I dont want just a little bit of shit on my steak. I want a steak without any shit on it.
The choice is to watch older stuff, indie stuff or nothing at all. Even with the older and indie stuff, you still have to sift through a mountain of feminism-riddled garbage before you find something decent. I barely even watch movies and shows anymore.
I despise Reacher because the guy is a feminist simp dog. He lets bratty women bytch slap him and just takes it. I hate that. I hate that people think its ok for women to hit men. Its not. I hate that the media has normalized that misandrist idea. If you slap me, im slapping back. I dont care if you have a vajayjay and you think it makes you untouchable. It doesnt.
I'm a girl and I agree. I miss having crushes on characters.
The only entertainment in Hollywood these days is watching the trainwreck.
Disparu. Just so you know not all of us in California are crazy. But I do like your work.
Preach brother! They won't listen so let em sink!
At least some tiktokers are somewhat human. Celebrities are cartoon characters.
Once again you have really outdone yourself. Clear and concise. Thank you for the effort and work that you have put into your channel. You would be a great asset to a Disney think tank.
This is the best Disparu I’ve seen.
The red carpet is a person with feelings now I can see just how sick Hollywood is full of brain dead people.
Lol I thought that said “US *Steaming* pile”
If you want to know why Disney is deliberately failing at any cost, listen to James Lindsay’s speech to the EU Parliament. It breaks down “capturing the means of production” brilliantly.
It’s sad how much fun it’s become to watch every new Disney & Marvel movie fail.
Hero actions are basicaly unwriten, and subconsciosly known by anyone, because they support life usualy! Even animals can be heroic, and understand when someone else is heroic, and helps for example. Its a pretty universal thing!!
'Even animals can be heroic' definitely rings true, even when said animal isn't one found in real life. Godzilla and Kong are both used in this manner (Godzilla I think has had it longer due to his Showa era self being full hero mode) in the monsterverse lately even if people criticize it for various reasons
@@Furydragonstormer i mean real animals. I have seen them do things, that they are not supposed to.
Like a lion saving baby deer.
There is definetly stories about dogs.
Some birds reason prety well. And even fish can make friends and enemies.
There is universal things that almost any animal understands, including humans.
Even spiders are afraid for example... Its life!
'Sniffing the exhaust' 😆
Excellent analysis. This captures what I've been calling the "cultural Lysenkoism" that currently infests Hollywood (and just about everything) these days. Lysenko was a Communist agronomist in Stalin's Soviet Union who thought he knew better than the proven, natural ways of growing crops people have done for centuries. He was able to impose his pseudoscientific agricultural ideas onto the country, which led to catastrophic famine, of course. That's analogous for me to what's happening across the culture today with woke ideology.
Bryan Cranston looks pathetic in that clip. Union "until the end" means his cushy retirement with hundreds of millions
"The problem with madam webb was there was only 4 girl bosses not 8" - blue haired trans executive probably
They have a sunny outlook for the Darkhold Diaries. That's fu*king hilarious. I think that show is going to exemplify Disparu's best point. The immorality of the show producers (writers, directors, showrunners etc.) makes it impossible for them to portray real heroes because they don't understand the concept of real heroism. 😀
It's not women led films. It is poorly written and directed movies. If it was simply women led films Mulan, Moanna, Aliens and more would have also flopped.
11:55 this whole thing is honestly better than any movie plot Disney could have done. And the fact that Disney isn't making money from it and TH-cam creators are, and by proxy myself because I put all of my money in google, I like this a lot. Rofl. Disney, you're hilarious. Magnificent 7 are magnificent for a reason.
Great as usual.
Analytical and critical (for good reason).
There is nothing wrong with women lead films. Problem is, 99% of people making, writing and producing the films are doing it wrong. They are making these unlikable Mary-Sues, hiring people who care little to nothing about what they're working on while inputting their views into the project that have no business being there, they don't follow any of the source material of an IP, and they're too busy checking boxes to care about making a quality product that people want to see.
They're not making films for women. They're making films for themselves and their pitiful egos. As a woman, I'm not wasting my money on poorly written, misdirected, ego stroking garbage.
They no longer make movies for general audience. They make movies for activist-minded people and those represent very few percentages.
So are we now getting good movies again with just good writing without some kind of agenda ? Is the madness finally over ? If that was the case Disparu needs another job.
3:35 this quote just gets me every single time. This carpet is a person, with feelings. And that's why we are stomping on it...
There is a simple way to get better movies. If the CEO (or whoever pays them) said, during the pitch of a movie "Are you willing to bet your salary that this is going to make us money?"
6:50 that is a VERY generous interpretation. As "representation" can go up in 2 ways. Attracting an audience.... and scaring people off. I put it to you that in fact 0 additional women saw the movie and in fact both the number of men and woman in absolute numbers declines. But the ratio of women and men that still saw it created a greater share of woman..
10:00 "Because what you are serving up is not what the audience wanted." ...Cough..Cough.. HALO.
8:45 super hero fatigue is a cop out of term like hero have been around since humans could craft stories it’s not hero fatigue it’s bad writing fatigue
That's a great question.. I'd love a Hollywood exec to say if they would make suits again in the same format, style etc.
Think we know what the answer would be...
Traditional cable TV channels lose their appeal by failing to captivate newer generations, Hollywood is also on a path toward decline. Its struggle to create compelling and original movies accelerates this process, leading to eventual obscurity. Good job !
"Tiktokers got there because of their talent" I never thought I'd hear that phrase in my life.
Another great vid from Disparu
I’ll never forget when I was watching a film review I can’t remember the creators name but he basically said the best writing is when it doesn’t matter if the character is a man or a woman then writing is just that good for the character
Nerdrotic said the "super hero fatigue" is with the "creatives" in Hollywood.
If today's Hollywood films displayed a fraction of the creativity, if they were produced and acted with a fraction of the talent, of classic films, things might be different. As it is, Hollywood is finally suffering the affects of its current creativity and talent deficit.
I wouldn't use "TikTokers" and "talent" in the same sentence
You are adorable on the FNT thumbnail, Disparu! :D
Awesome Vid!
Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany
Don’t underestimate contraction of movies and tv due to all the DEI requirements. Somewhere at these companies is a high level MBA who’s figured out that you can’t turn a profit with all these restrictions. It would be like owning an NBA team and being told you have to have short white dudes on the roster. Someone’s going to figure out that’s not a winning strategy.
“… another step in a long term goal of mine: the peaceful, nonviolent, disappearance of the white race.”
- Tom Hayden
The problem is in how embedded this ideology is. I don't see a big studio being able to pivot while so many involved will push this crap to the bitter end. Smaller studios and where collapse is imminent would have a better chance of changing. By contrast the Iger Company has the resources to rumble on for some time, and is packed to the rafters with incompetents and ideologues who know their careers are finished if the business shifts to a for-profit model.
Well if the short white dudes were Stockton and Hornacek, you could still pull in some wins.
Err, I agree with most of this video, but there are a couple things. One, Agatha Harkness is an important character, giving her a show is called world building. I rather doubt the only character is going to be Agatha as what would the point if that be? In the comics she helped create Wanda’s twin babies. They might be using this show to introduce more Marvel characters. That is what I’d do.
That's exactly what they did. Agatha will be accompanied by Billy Kaplan (Wiccan) and several other witches from the comics. They’re also introducing The Witches’ Road as part of the world building. Not to mention, meeting different types of witches and learning about their powers will also add to world building.
Sounds to me like Pearson is the guy they just give scripts to for a final touch-up, not because he is good, but because that is his job in the company. He is like the retailm manager who is put in to failing stores not to make them better, but so they can reassign the previous manager somewhere else.