Two big reasons why modern Disney movies are failing: 1: Most of their properties rely on audience nostalgia, but you can't get nostalgic about something that refuses to go away. 2: The lack of original stories, replaced with remakes and spinoffs, is because coming up with new and original movies requires creativity, and investing in them requires taking a financial risk. Disney is a corporate bureaucracy, and is thus capable of neither.
I'm with you in this, but I'd rather see this company die faster, otherwise they'll get a chance to recover and see this as a chance to sell actual trash at the general public again for ten years at least.
People have seem to forgotten that the Pixar company was formed by former Disney animators who formed their own company. To say that Disney “acquired” Pixar basically confirmed Disney’s strategy of buying out any creative competition. This is the basic model of Disney.
Acquiring instead of creating seems to be slowly doing them in now. Their best eras and movies were when they were smaller and had much more competition, because they had to hire the best and to take creative risks. Now they're just doing rote films and shows with no creativity, their movies are overproduced and dull, and they are destroying most franchises they touch.
@@belstar1128 There was actually a mini documentary about how the Pixar folk struck out on their own because they had chafed at the draconian interference of corporate Disney. As far as why they sold said competitive corporation back to the original tyrants, who can say.
I agree with all of your points but you forgot one: Disney’s outright refusal to fire people that are consistently turning Billion dollar IP’s into absolute dirt.
You are ABSOLUTELY right! Why hasn't that happened yet!? They qould fire their production workers, no question. But when it comes to Kathleen Kennedy or Kevin Fiege and what they've been turning out, nope, completely untouchable
There's a question I have regarding that. Have they done anything that's actually immoral (examples: really insulting tweets/speeches, sexual assault, murder)? Because I don't think the IP thing is enough for a reason to fire them, but that's just me.
@@CarloNassar When you have something that can generate billions of dollars in revenue, and all you do is cause said IP to hemeridge money. That is reason enough to be fired. Disney is in the business of making money not losing it.
They fire plenty of actors who say or tweet stupid shit, as if that was a reason to lose your job. I stopped watching the flash and the mandalorian because actors were fired for no good reason. Now.... Most people probably won't just dump shows like me, but I don't have time to watch everything I want anyway so there are worse reasons to dump shows :).
Good point! I realized this when I watched Mary Poppins two. This was nothing more than a money grab! Terrible movie, and a huge disservice to the original. That was the last time Disney got any of my money.
@@steveroberts9222 There isn’t a Mary Poppins two. And Mary Poppins Returns was a surprisingly good movie that did service to the books. The original film was notorious for changing the character and making her nice. Mary Poppins Returns kept her snarkier attitude and intrigue that are found in the books. Though it still deviates from the books as the movie is a sequel more towards those. Also Dick Van Dyke dances on a desk in that movie and I wish I could still move like that in my 90’s.
@@jamesbarbour8400 No, the Woke stuff works if it's implemented properly. it's the Fauxke stuff that needs to go. you know, the stuff that people call woke that isn't actually woke. Bad writing is one such fauxke thing.
It's funny how the marketing of Disney movies changed from "hey, look at this wonderful story with a colorful cast of characters, that you can enjoy with the whole family" to "hey, did you know that a bunch of bigots are attacking our movie? come to see our a movie to prove that you are not a bigot", trying to guiltrip the audience to watch their horrendously lazy productions, it always cracks me up 🤣
Corporations can't believe in anything but their own success (Disney owns FOX News). They can't, and wouldn't voluntarily drown themselves to own bigots. Either a LOT of people aren't worth their salary, or someone's numbers are going up. There's likely a reason Disney's faces talk politics on Twitter, and not on posters and TV ads. They still do the colors and wonder, fun for the whole family, adventure of a lifetime (again) spiel on more traditional media.
It's honestly very simple. Competition breeds innovation. Disney itself saw that back when Don Bluth left the company, proceeded to hand Disney its *entire* ass at the box office, and then Disney made better products in response. But now that they own everything, there IS no competition. They have no reason to try and do better. Until they stop owning everything, we will get nothing but stale crap no one wants to see.
Competition should be supported and praised. Also executives from the higher ups of any major studio corporation should have their finger in the creative process of a film director, writers, producers, and etc. Don't give a unreasonable harsh time schedule for vfx artist, editors, and anyone involved in the film and show making process.
MS is even doing the same thing with Activision Blizzard & ZeniMax, making everything exclusive to PC & Xbox platforms. When they fully acquired Rare from the Big N, the quality of Rare took a serious nosedive and there was little to nothing being done with the studios.
@@KTJohnsonkidThunder They even censored Conker when they remade it. A game that was originally made for the Nintendo 64 but Microsoft and X Box censored it. Fortunately I still have a working N64 and Conker’s Bad Fur Day and I have most of the good games Rare made for Nintendo’s systems except for the Donkey Kong Country franchise.
I've always had a rather bitter dislike for the company since they bought Pixar and for leaving traditional animation which they stemmed from. It's only time that they are crumbling from their own arrogance and greed. They won't go away given their assets right now, but they will probably be looking for the highest bidder if they persist in their losses.
I may be in the minority but I really enjoyed Quantumania. It just goes to show a movie that is "not bad" and part of the MCU is not enough to be successful anymore. Good or bad what matters is whether it gathers enough audience to make money. But Disney has lost sight of what made them successful in the first place and instead hell bent on pushing a social agenda their audience doesn't want.
That’s why the „extreme“ form of capitalism isn‘t good either. Capitalism needs some rules at least to function. Disney buying Marvel, Pixar, Lucas and 20th Century Fox should have been against some law…which I thought existed in the US but well.
Honestly as a star wars fan, I think the best thing Disney could do would be to let go of my favorite franchise and stop raping it for money. They're the worst thing to have ever happened to my beloved franchised.
Same here. I’ve reached apathy at this point. I’ll always have the original trilogy, tainted as that is now by having the sequel trilogy basically undo all the accomplishments of Luke, Han, and Leia, but I just don’t care about it anymore.
@@YT1300MF What sequels? There’s only 6 movies. The originals and the prequels. The only sequels I know of exist on fan fiction websites and Disney just adapted the works of 12 year old fan fiction authors.
I really wonder what made Disney think destroying Luke fucken Skywalker's character and replacing him with the biggest Mary Sue in history think that was a good idea an that everyone will jump on board. Holy fuck what a shit company.
My uncle once said "Never beg people to take your money." This is what Disney expects of longtime fans. I don't know how a company can claim they're making films for "fan service" while simultaneously attacking fans over perceived bigotry. I'm personally sick and tired of it and IMHO they deserve to go bankrupt.
It's no longer valid to claim that it's perceived bigotry when that element is crystal clear after so many years of the same exact rhetoric against minorities in media. Woke? What does it really mean and why does the term keep being brought up when it's minorities in media? Seems awfully familiar it keeps being brought up every time.
@@wyattgeorge9696 yup. They very clearly have people at the top who want to shift the moral structure of society and individuals. And that is worth infinitely more than money. Plus, most of the time, they own a whole bunch of other stuff that people don’t realize they own, so they end up getting their money too anyway
The fact Disney has a clear monopoly in the movie industry, and is literally buying it's competition and nobody is looking to do anything about it is very telling.
The reason why is that it will always fall no corperation will surivive if they get too big. The only way they can surivive is with the government which it , the government, gives the ability to create a monoply through increasing regulation etc. These regulations won't really matter to Disney or any other giant corperation because they are able to just eat it small bussiness can't. Sp when all these small bussinesss fall or get consumed by a bigger corp. It will leave a industry with few competition.
Here's my secret: I don't. I don't watch anything Disney, after End Game & The Force Awakens. I gave up sports after athletes starting kneeling. Meaning, I don't watch TV, I don't watch anything streaming (nothing), and the only sport I watch is UFC. I don't miss it in the slightest. Although, I do enjoy watching the dumpster fires from the comfort of TH-cam and various channels here. I enjoyed Star Wars, grew up on comics and love Marvel, etc. I gave it all up, and don't consider it canon. Just like they destroyed the comics with liberal propaganda, they destroyed the movies. Know what's funny? They chased off their main audience. This is all Gen X childhood. We are the ones with disposable income, homes, and children. Once they lost me - they lost my wife and kids. If my kids ask, I tell them it's garbage now. They say, ok, and no longer care either. I saw Sound Of Freedom, though. Great movie.
@@trooperjoe73 Same. I basically don't watch anything you can see is pushing their stupid ideology from a mile away. I think a lot of people feel the same way and its the reason why they are losing money now.
@@trooperjoe73 I commend you fellow Gen X'r. Same here, I tell my kids it's all garbage. My daughter wanted to watch the new Little Mermaid. I told her absolutely not, because it's garbage. Their movies were the highest grossing these past few years because we got to see our childhood come to life PROPERLY on the big screen. And then came THE MESSAGE! and we all tuned out. Voting with your wallet is the only way to show them what's up.
What bothers me most is the wholesale destruction of legacy characters like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones to promote new characters. Leave the legacy characters alone and simply create the new characters in a quality way. Disney’s failure to understand this is the reason I have no empathy for their current failures.
I really am proud of all the people standing up to Disney like this! Me and many others have discussed these problems for YEARS, and I’m glad more and more people are waking. While I do want Disney to return to normal and it will happen, there are many of you that have said that Disney first needs to be reduced to ashes before it becomes good again; And I am totally with those people.
In regards to the large push of diversity/social justice themes in a lot of recent Disney properties, I think it’s important to remember how political opinions, social issues, messaging about diversity, etc., has always been incorporated into filmmaking, or any sort of media. I think the difference between then and now is the capacity in which they do it. I consider myself a film lover, and I love seeing subliminal messaging, or the thoughts/opinions of writers/filmmakers put forward in an artistic way. Even if I don’t agree with the point they’re making, I can still appreciate the level of thought that goes into those messages being put forward in a meaningful and interesting way. Nowadays, it feels like every Disney property does this big song and dance about diversity and inclusion, and it repeatedly slaps you in the face as you watch anything they make. It’s like I’m being talked down to for an hour and a half during each movie I watch. I have no problem with race or even gender swapping of characters if the actor/actress is the best person for the role and genuinely fits a character really well. You brought up Zoë Kravitz and Jeremy Wright in another video as their roles in the Batman. They were both outstanding, and genuinely fit their roles extremely well. But often it feels Disney casts minorities just so they can get articles written about them and garner social points, even if that actor/actress doesn’t fit the character at all. Its like they have a checklist for every movie they make to include minority x or gender y and it’s not only lazy, but outright putting pandering before putting out a great and passionately made film.
Hit the nail on the head. When hiring for diversity becomes your main priority and the constant in-your-face political discourse, you vilify the audience. When you vilify your audience, you end up driving a wedge between your audience and your product. Political commentary in film isn’t necessarily a bad thing, like you said. If it flows with the story and doesn’t overbear the story beats, it can actually open up room for discussion, in some cases it can expand, challenge, or change a person’s own beliefs. However, Disney’s messaging just feels too overbearing. It doesn’t make me think or open up possibilities to challenge my beliefs. It reads like their own messages were adapted from Twitter and I can’t help but eye roll at the obvious messaging.
It's like Star Trek. People always say "Star Trek has always been woke". I know. _That's one of the reasons I liked it._ Star Trek: Discovery introduced a trans character just to have a trans character. It was obvious because they wrote him off the show as soon as they could. What's the point? If you want to tell stories about trans people you need to *tell stories* about them. Don't just have them exist and act like you've done something amazing. When Star Trek: The Next Generation did a story about gender identity I liked it because it actually said something. Now they want applause just for doing the bare minimum. All right I have to stop because I could talk for hours about how much NuTrek shits on all the work done by people for decades to create a franchise that was a cultural juggernaut and is still loved to this day.
@@crakhaed It was pretty good but I think it stumbled badly towards the end. SNW is acceptable but I still don't understand why every freaking character needs to have a traumatic backstory. Pike's haunted by trauma that hasn't even happened yet! _Lower Decks_ was rough at first but I stuck with it and it *really* grew on me. It's the only NuTrek show that gets the spirit of Star Trek right. Hell, I had the day off today and rewatched the entire third season. At this point they need to do a Next Next Generation and move on, especially from Spock. For people my age (I was born I 1981) "Star Trek" means TNG, DS9 and VOY. That indicates that the franchise doesn't have to keep going back to the well of old characters to be successful. Ever since the 2009 movie it seems like producers think "Star Trek" is only the Enterprise, Kirk, Spock, Klingons, Khan and Tribbles. It is and can be so much more than that.
@@BiggieTrismegistusyou're right. star trek was always about understanding each other and working together for a brighter future. It was never done to look good or be trendy, it was done with genuine heart. It's a shame that feeling has been quietly fading away.
Disney forgot they needed writers. Good writers. Writing is not easy, you can't just hire someone who used to write blogposts on Buzzfeed, but that's all Disney seems to hire nowadays...
Reminds me of people who spend a lot on their wedding day and cheap out on the photographer. A good photographer can make even the most basic wedding look amazing. But an expensive wedding can look like total shit if you hire someone because they're cheap.
Disney went from getting everyone excited to the next movie to a point where whenever people hear that a movie is being produced by Disney, fans fears that something might go wrong. If people fears your product instead of being excited for it, that's a bad sign. Not to mention that went a movie or series flops they now blame the audience instead of keeping their mouths and fingers shut and rethink what they did wrong. Either they learn from their failures and clean the brand's image or continue to insist on getting politically involved and collapse like a tower being demolished.
I still can't believe the hubris of buying Star Wars for 4 Billion dollars and just launching into movies with no plan whatsoever. They absolutely thought they couldn't fail.
If they think 6000 dollars for a family is a reasonable price for a Star Wars hotel, they've lost their goddamn minds! Ohh... How the Mighty have Fallen!
It took you 22 minuets to say: Corporate suits tried to drive the Creative Bus...and should have let artists lead the company...like they used to. It's essentially what happened to the music industry.
“ Give the people what they want” Disney has done the opposite of that for almost a decade. The sad part for me and I’m sure others is, it feels deliberate.
Disney: Oh come on folks, what am I doing wrong?! Person 1: You race swap characters! Disney: We only did that so we won't look like racists! And it's called diversity! Person 2: You made every female character OP! Disney: Do you want us to p*** off feminists by making women look weak?! Person 3: You shove LGBTQ down our throats! Disney: Hello, LGBTQ is a thing now! Person 4: You remake animated classics into live-action garbage! Disney: I thought you people loved nostalgia! Person 5: You shut down Blue Sky Studios! Disney: They were too expensive! ....plus I already have Pixar. Pixar: Hi. Person 6: *sighs sadly* Face it Disney, your an empty shell of your former self. Why can't you just open your eyes and wake up already? Disney: I- *is unable to think of something to say, and leaves with no argument*
@@SomePkmnlovingdude The irony of swapping is that you essentially give other cultures the message that they are only relevant for being in a copy of a western story.
As millennial, i think we were at fault. As my generation got older and into the writing, producing, exec roles, our politics had overwhemled decision making and made it impossible to assess a situation with an honest take. Its the only way I can think of that makes sense of why woke tactics continually fail yet companies like disney tell shareholders a completely unrelated reason for why something failed.
I don't think over saturation is really contributing to the downfall of disney. If they were pumping out good movie after good movie, I'd be out there with my kids all the time watching them. The issue is that even ignoring the social issue they feel the need to spam, the writing of these movies is just hot garbage and they actively hate the people who the movie is supposed to be written for. Disney has been down this road before though. They just need to have the guts to clean house and get some people in whose focus is on writing a good story, not using a kids movie as their personal soap box.
"Disney won't ever disappear entirely" Yeaaah, tell that to Sears, Blockbuster, Kmart, Radioshack, Tower Records, Toys-R-Us and Sports Authority - to name just a few who people thought would always "be around." lol
The reason fall down to nothin more "Disney has heavily overestimated its value in people's live, at this point the big budget movies are as much valuable as a TH-cam video to the audiences, and non ironically, the TH-cam videos have a greater entertainment value at almost 0 cost."
disney's new style of dollar-store writing earned this unsustainable failure. i'll never forget the twerking she-hulk. way to go writers and disney studios... you failed in only the most obvious way by forgetting about your core audience. all of these results have been earned (garbage in, garbage out). i'll never forget the blaming of fans, with labels such as rrrrrrrrracist, toxic, and every -ist and -phobe word they had in their quiver for us. a solid f. and u. has been earned. it will take decades to recover.
"Too Big to Fail" does not mean that something is incapable of failing. It means that said thing is so big and interconnected that it's failure would be catastrophic. The Bigger they are, the Harder they Fall.
Not having a plan for the sequel trilogy is mind blowing. Spend 4 billion dollars and then just wing it. Now Star Wars has around the same prestige as the Fast and Furious franchise
rey is literally the worst mockery of a 'character' that ive ever laid eyes on in my entire life. i pray for Lucas, as insane as he can be, buying star wars back from disney and declaring everything disney has made as non-canon. im willing to make that faustian deal.
I used to dream about working at Disney when i was a kid up until i was a teen. I watched every single release on opening night. I bought all the products i could. Its absolutely devastating to realize i dont care a bit about this company anymore. I resent it. Even the movies i used to love so much, used to watch every other week, dont have the same effect anymore because of the bitter taste i get from comparing their golden days to now. Its insane. I hate this.
Buying FOX and not immediately starting production of X-Men movies was the stupidest move and just waste of money from Disney. That alone explains that company is in hands of idiots.
Ehh, I kinda disagree. They had to find a way to make mutants existence make sense. They had to find a way to explain why people in the MCU love superheroes and hate mutants. Apparently, the plan is to lay the grounds for that in Deadpool 3, which from the leaks seems like the most exciting and well realized Marvel movie since Endgame. Three bad years does not exactly seem like a death knell. I'm still gonna hold off on the whole DISNEY IS DEAD thing juuuust a bit longer.
you THINK Disney won't completely die, but there are abandoned theme parks all over the world. No company is immortal. This gives me hope Disney will die and let us have the stories of our culture back. They've RUINED copyright law. It's time for Karma to bring them down :)) I'm boycotting everything they make, good or bad, to do my part in bringing down the evil giant. I know lots of people are doing the same. It's only a matter of time. They forgot they needed our money, thought themselves above us... if they remember to serve us, and quickly - they'll die.
I’ve always hated modern disney. Blinded by greed causing them to ruin countless classics. Buying beloved and popular franchises just to milk all of what it’s worth. I wish the old disney was back, the one to make their own original stories without being a Mr. Krabs of franchisees.
It’s not super hero fatigue. The problem is 100% the terrible writing focusing on radical political agendas instead of telling a good story. They used to hire writers based on talent and now they hire them based on skin color.
I hope they go broke in every way I can imagine. The woke remakes are one thing, but trying to avoid the law and replacing their artists fully with ai is just such a scummy move and shows how dystopian Disney really is. I hope they go down, together with Universal who are just the same
@@Oscar95451 They‘re the same as disney in terms of ai. Atm they‘re trying to find any possible loophole to get rid of their human artists and to replace them. Money hungry bastards. And the worst part is that they’re doing this while there are still strikes going on
@@taki7546 Don't think there's any truth to that, various courts have already ruled against any copyright claim to AI-generated works, so if Disney or Universal were using AI in their productions then they'd lose the rights to it in which case anybody could use it freely for whatever purposes they wanted
@@cm3368 If that's the case then why are the strikers freaking out about it? Why is literally every news source that covers the strike taking AI deadly seriously?
Gotta hand it to Bob Iger & co. They managed to destroy one of the most (if not the most) recognizable brands in history in a little more than a decade. It's a shitshow, a beautifully chaotic shitshow.
Disney needs an intervention. In order to make a change, they need to first identify and accept responsibility for their actions. That means they need to finally accept that they are the problem, not the fans. They need to get rid of anyone associated with any failing movie/show.
Nobody, but nobody was a bigger fan of Disney than I… So, if their crazy business decisions and ridiculous antics could make me rejoice in their downfall, it could happen to anyone. Disney has no one to blame but themselves. Poor old Walt would be turning in his grave to see how they butchered his beloved empire.
@@JonathanGaeta i agree. With the exception of phantom menace, I liked the rest of the trilogy. We really should have just kept our fucking mouths shut.
Star Wars was just slaughtered... the franchise is DEAD. Which anyone could of predicted when they had J.J. Abrams for the first movie, the man is known for destroying every franchise he touches. People don't talk about star trek or star wars like they used to before Abrams touched those franchises.
@@hobogardenerbeneoliberal Capitalism wasn't created at Bretton Woods. John Maynard Keynes was intimately involved in the creation of Bretton Woods system so it was based on Keynesian economics. Neoliberalism was formulated in the 1970s as a rejection of Keynesian thinking and was supposedly a throwback to the liberal capitalism that allegedly existed before the ideas of Keynes (and Karl Marx) took hold. Basically neoliberals said free markets are everything, the profit motive is everything and the government shouldn't be involved in the economy at all. Pretty much every prediction made by neoliberal economists has proven to be wrong and no one (not even the right-wingers who absolutely adored them less than a decade ago) takes them very seriously today. I also disagree that JJ Abrams is a symptom not a cause of the problem. No one hires JJ Abrams for political reasons. They hire him because he's a hack who makes big dumb movies that dumb people enjoy.
My wife is a huuuuge Disney fan. Last year we watched a Disney film starring Bette Medler as part of a trio of witches, I forgot the name, and they had a scene with a drag show that had absolutely nothing to do with the movement of the story. I’m not a prude. I don’t care if an adult wants to see a drag show, but the movie was geared towards children and the scene had no purpose other than to expose the underage to drag. I just thought it bizarre and was waiting for the conservative elements to throw a fit.
I'm excited for the fall personally, I would love to see Disney shatter into thousands of small start-up studios so we actually get some creative freedom again.
The problem with having your hands on so much I.P. is that you need intelligent, creative, well-versed individuals capable of manipulating and articulating that I.P. into new stories and experiences that are actually worth engaging in. Instead of doing that, Disney battened down on twisted ideological representation and soulless box-checking. They've gotten everything that they deserve. Get ready to see Disney theme parks covered in overgrowth and weeds.
it won't but there is a chance it will transition to fascist ( patriotism, race supermacy, idolize shady individual,extreme religious ...), and i hope it will never happen
@@hiepninh8416and your side of the political spectrum is to blame for it 100% The further you pull, the harder the pendulum will swing And it's gonna be fucking devastating Mark my words
@@hiepninh8416 lol typical liberal hyperbole trash "THE EVIL NAZISS ARE TAKING OVER" whats funny is your kind pushed people to that extreme by trying to sexualize, mutilate and rape children
@@tenanaciouz the way you say "your kind" like are we not even humans anymore. has our basis of ideas grown to such an extent that no one would even contemplate reaching the middle ground. please provide PROOF of someone being a CHILD PREDATOR next time, please and thank you
"My name is Disneymandias, King of Corporations; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
The diversity thing could've worked well if they'd actually made good and interesting characters out of them. But Disney made the mistake of confusing a minority of noisy tossers on twitter with the voices of mass audiences. Schoolboy error.
They also switched from entertaining to influencing. A few other things are going this route and it's costing them. Many news outlets went from informing (relatively) to influencing. You see this trend. Certain companies with certain sorts of people at the helm use the years and or decades of value and trust built to influence. Everyone's caught on at this point though. The tank is about empty and we're seeing the results.
The Little Mermaid remake is inherently racist. Their black lead is white-washed. They want a black actress to look more white for better success and can't decide whether her hair is caucasian or black. I assume they straightened her hair but threw in a few dreads for good measure just so they could escape this very criticism. But hey, I hope that last assumption isn't true, even though the look of it is problematic as is.
To be fair, Disney never made an original movie in their existence. All their stuff is based on some pre-existing story. How fitting is that after cannibalizing everything else, they turned on themselves for sustenance. It's like a serpent eating its own tail.
@@simoneb208 Kids don't, but investors do. Disney ditched it's core audience (Kids and Families) to please few activists and investors. How is it going? Great. They bleed houndreds of millions $ every quarter and lost like half of stock price in last couple years.
Their re-imaginings of old films is one of the laziest things we've ever seen from a film studio. It's half-assed nostalgia bait. If they wanted to add diverse stories and characters then they should've written new stories and created new characters. I'd happily watch a film based on African and/or Asian fairytales. That would take too much time, money and effort on Disney's part so they pretend to care about diversity by just throwing a bone via race and gender swaps. Anyone who thinks Disney actually cares about diversity, I've got a bridge to sell you. Edit: What family of 4 can afford a 2 day hotel stay for $4,000??? Most families save money for years just to be able to go to Disney. It's insane that Disney thought that would be successful.
Their was supposed to be a African disney princess film like years ago I don't remember what it was called just that the princess's name started with a s. No idea what happened to that.
they own ALL the film and tv outlets. Even if Disney as a brand and name falls out of homes, they're still running the show behind most if not all other productions so either they'll learn from their mistakes until they start making more with the other companies or they get to try again with all the other studios they own and do well.
Two big reasons why modern Disney movies are failing:
1: Most of their properties rely on audience nostalgia, but you can't get nostalgic about something that refuses to go away.
2: The lack of original stories, replaced with remakes and spinoffs, is because coming up with new and original movies requires creativity, and investing in them requires taking a financial risk.
Disney is a corporate bureaucracy, and is thus capable of neither.
Also don't forget they're starting to lose their monopoly over the mouse, Steamboat Willie entered the public domain.
Nothing I love more than witnessing the slow painful death of Disney in real time
For what they did to Star Wars, I'm enjoying their utter collapse after destroying the franchise with their fucken trash
I'm with you in this, but I'd rather see this company die faster, otherwise they'll get a chance to recover and see this as a chance to sell actual trash at the general public again for ten years at least.
My issue with it is that they're taking everything they own down with them...
Same
People have seem to forgotten that the Pixar company was formed by former Disney animators who formed their own company. To say that Disney “acquired” Pixar basically confirmed Disney’s strategy of buying out any creative competition. This is the basic model of Disney.
Acquiring instead of creating seems to be slowly doing them in now. Their best eras and movies were when they were smaller and had much more competition, because they had to hire the best and to take creative risks. Now they're just doing rote films and shows with no creativity, their movies are overproduced and dull, and they are destroying most franchises they touch.
I thought Disney bought pixar right after toy story came out
@@belstar1128 There was actually a mini documentary about how the Pixar folk struck out on their own because they had chafed at the draconian interference of corporate Disney. As far as why they sold said competitive corporation back to the original tyrants, who can say.
this is the way.
Pixar already had a relationship to Disney since Disney distributed most of their films,them buying star wars and marvel was a bigger surprise.
Pretty ironic that Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the movie that got Disney started, and it's remake is the movie that will end them.
Kinda poetic, if you ask me
It was already ending, but you could call it the final nail in the coffin.
I agree with all of your points but you forgot one: Disney’s outright refusal to fire people that are consistently turning Billion dollar IP’s into absolute dirt.
You are ABSOLUTELY right! Why hasn't that happened yet!?
They qould fire their production workers, no question. But when it comes to Kathleen Kennedy or Kevin Fiege and what they've been turning out, nope, completely untouchable
There's a question I have regarding that. Have they done anything that's actually immoral (examples: really insulting tweets/speeches, sexual assault, murder)? Because I don't think the IP thing is enough for a reason to fire them, but that's just me.
@@CarloNassar When you have something that can generate billions of dollars in revenue, and all you do is cause said IP to hemeridge money. That is reason enough to be fired. Disney is in the business of making money not losing it.
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That's understandable, but I'm still not sure.
They fire plenty of actors who say or tweet stupid shit, as if that was a reason to lose your job. I stopped watching the flash and the mandalorian because actors were fired for no good reason.
Now.... Most people probably won't just dump shows like me, but I don't have time to watch everything I want anyway so there are worse reasons to dump shows :).
It wasn't fatigue of the property that did them in. It was fatigue of poor writing.
Good point! I realized this when I watched Mary Poppins two. This was nothing more than a money grab! Terrible movie, and a huge disservice to the original. That was the last time Disney got any of my money.
@@steveroberts9222 good on you!
@@steveroberts9222 There isn’t a Mary Poppins two. And Mary Poppins Returns was a surprisingly good movie that did service to the books. The original film was notorious for changing the character and making her nice. Mary Poppins Returns kept her snarkier attitude and intrigue that are found in the books. Though it still deviates from the books as the movie is a sequel more towards those. Also Dick Van Dyke dances on a desk in that movie and I wish I could still move like that in my 90’s.
And all the woke crap !
@@jamesbarbour8400 No, the Woke stuff works if it's implemented properly. it's the Fauxke stuff that needs to go. you know, the stuff that people call woke that isn't actually woke. Bad writing is one such fauxke thing.
It's funny how the marketing of Disney movies changed from "hey, look at this wonderful story with a colorful cast of characters, that you can enjoy with the whole family" to "hey, did you know that a bunch of bigots are attacking our movie? come to see our a movie to prove that you are not a bigot", trying to guiltrip the audience to watch their horrendously lazy productions, it always cracks me up 🤣
Disney must think the whole world is nothing but racist bigots at this point. 🙃
Corporations can't believe in anything but their own success (Disney owns FOX News). They can't, and wouldn't voluntarily drown themselves to own bigots. Either a LOT of people aren't worth their salary, or someone's numbers are going up.
There's likely a reason Disney's faces talk politics on Twitter, and not on posters and TV ads. They still do the colors and wonder, fun for the whole family, adventure of a lifetime (again) spiel on more traditional media.
It looks like the CEOs are deliberately trying to destroy Disney, all I can say is, keep up the good work.
Totally, Totally agree.
This is actually bittersweet and sad. We all knew Disney used to be good. But nowadays...
It's honestly very simple. Competition breeds innovation. Disney itself saw that back when Don Bluth left the company, proceeded to hand Disney its *entire* ass at the box office, and then Disney made better products in response.
But now that they own everything, there IS no competition. They have no reason to try and do better. Until they stop owning everything, we will get nothing but stale crap no one wants to see.
Competition should be supported and praised. Also executives from the higher ups of any major studio corporation should have their finger in the creative process of a film director, writers, producers, and etc. Don't give a unreasonable harsh time schedule for vfx artist, editors, and anyone involved in the film and show making process.
Same happen to the NFL video game Madden, no competition means the same crap every year.
Reminds me of when wwf bought wcw and ecw
MS is even doing the same thing with Activision Blizzard & ZeniMax, making everything exclusive to PC & Xbox platforms. When they fully acquired Rare from the Big N, the quality of Rare took a serious nosedive and there was little to nothing being done with the studios.
@@KTJohnsonkidThunder They even censored Conker when they remade it. A game that was originally made for the Nintendo 64 but Microsoft and X Box censored it. Fortunately I still have a working N64 and Conker’s Bad Fur Day and I have most of the good games Rare made for Nintendo’s systems except for the Donkey Kong Country franchise.
I feel sorry for little kids growing up now. The boys think they're doomed to incompetence, and the girls think they have to master kick-boxing.
Also forgot kids wondering what gender they really are.
I'm still confused as to which bathroom to use 😕
As a long time Disney hater, I couldn't be happier. Monopolies are inherently anti-consumer, especially in media.
I Hate Disney since I was a Child.
I've always had a rather bitter dislike for the company since they bought Pixar and for leaving traditional animation which they stemmed from. It's only time that they are crumbling from their own arrogance and greed. They won't go away given their assets right now, but they will probably be looking for the highest bidder if they persist in their losses.
I may be in the minority but I really enjoyed Quantumania. It just goes to show a movie that is "not bad" and part of the MCU is not enough to be successful anymore. Good or bad what matters is whether it gathers enough audience to make money. But Disney has lost sight of what made them successful in the first place and instead hell bent on pushing a social agenda their audience doesn't want.
@@4lackofbetterbut wasn't Ant-Man himself was side lined.
That’s why the „extreme“ form of capitalism isn‘t good either. Capitalism needs some rules at least to function. Disney buying Marvel, Pixar, Lucas and 20th Century Fox should have been against some law…which I thought existed in the US but well.
Walt Disney is turning so fast in his grave that we could give the entire world enough electricity.
Honestly as a star wars fan, I think the best thing Disney could do would be to let go of my favorite franchise and stop raping it for money.
They're the worst thing to have ever happened to my beloved franchised.
Had such hope for the sequel trilogy. Sad it ended up being just trash.
Same here. I’ve reached apathy at this point. I’ll always have the original trilogy, tainted as that is now by having the sequel trilogy basically undo all the accomplishments of Luke, Han, and Leia, but I just don’t care about it anymore.
Middle aged nerds ruined Star Wars before Disney got it. In fact they are the reason it was sold to Disney in the first place.
@@YT1300MF What sequels? There’s only 6 movies. The originals and the prequels. The only sequels I know of exist on fan fiction websites and Disney just adapted the works of 12 year old fan fiction authors.
I really wonder what made Disney think destroying Luke fucken Skywalker's character and replacing him with the biggest Mary Sue in history think that was a good idea an that everyone will jump on board. Holy fuck what a shit company.
My uncle once said "Never beg people to take your money." This is what Disney expects of longtime fans. I don't know how a company can claim they're making films for "fan service" while simultaneously attacking fans over perceived bigotry. I'm personally sick and tired of it and IMHO they deserve to go bankrupt.
It's no longer valid to claim that it's perceived bigotry when that element is crystal clear after so many years of the same exact rhetoric against minorities in media. Woke? What does it really mean and why does the term keep being brought up when it's minorities in media? Seems awfully familiar it keeps being brought up every time.
People don’t realize that once you get to a certain level of power, it’s not about the money anymore. It’s about control.
Thankfully didn't work out in this case
Yes, that's why companies continue to be woke, despite losing money
@@wyattgeorge9696 yup. They very clearly have people at the top who want to shift the moral structure of society and individuals. And that is worth infinitely more than money. Plus, most of the time, they own a whole bunch of other stuff that people don’t realize they own, so they end up getting their money too anyway
1.If you hate your customers just close your shop. 2.if you want to be in politics run for office.
When a company tells you they dont want you as a customer, believe them.
You had me with the Macho Man Savage edits 😂 RIP Disney
Ooooo Yeeeaaaaaa!!!! ….that’s all I needed to say
RIP Disney, the empire that bite they hand that feed it.
DISNEY'S GOING UNDER.
Hope it burns
The cream of the crop😎👍😎
To quote Zemo: "An empire toppled from the outside can rise again. But the one crumbling from within, that's death, forever."
Reject Disney, Embrace piratebay
YARRR!!!
HORRAY FOR PIRATE BAY
Can confirm.
Arrrrgh.
Snow White 1937 made Disney. Snow White 2024 will end Disney.
It would be so poetic if that's the case.
Politics aside I cant imagine how that movie would work in today's age, theres about 10 minutes worth of plot
That could be a big possibility.
@@MultiGamer600 it would be beautiful
Make snow white join kkk
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving company.
The fact Disney has a clear monopoly in the movie industry, and is literally buying it's competition and nobody is looking to do anything about it is very telling.
I don’t get why the U.S. Government stepped in to stop Disney
The reason why is that it will always fall no corperation will surivive if they get too big. The only way they can surivive is with the government which it , the government, gives the ability to create a monoply through increasing regulation etc. These regulations won't really matter to Disney or any other giant corperation because they are able to just eat it small bussiness can't. Sp when all these small bussinesss fall or get consumed by a bigger corp. It will leave a industry with few competition.
Nonsense assessment, WB, UNIVERSAL, SONY all Stull exist n make big successful films
@@kurtshastany1945 And Paramount
@@JonathanGaeta Because contrary to popular belief, Disney isn't a monopoly
this is ACTUAL social justice. Disney gets what it deserves and justice is served.
I absolutely HATE the fact that I have to go to ONE company for all my entertainment needs.
Here's my secret: I don't.
I don't watch anything Disney, after End Game & The Force Awakens. I gave up sports after athletes starting kneeling. Meaning, I don't watch TV, I don't watch anything streaming (nothing), and the only sport I watch is UFC.
I don't miss it in the slightest. Although, I do enjoy watching the dumpster fires from the comfort of TH-cam and various channels here. I enjoyed Star Wars, grew up on comics and love Marvel, etc. I gave it all up, and don't consider it canon. Just like they destroyed the comics with liberal propaganda, they destroyed the movies.
Know what's funny? They chased off their main audience. This is all Gen X childhood. We are the ones with disposable income, homes, and children. Once they lost me - they lost my wife and kids. If my kids ask, I tell them it's garbage now. They say, ok, and no longer care either.
I saw Sound Of Freedom, though. Great movie.
@@trooperjoe73 Same. I basically don't watch anything you can see is pushing their stupid ideology from a mile away. I think a lot of people feel the same way and its the reason why they are losing money now.
Do what you want because a pirate is free
@@Crackedcripple YOU ARE A PIRATE!
@@trooperjoe73 I commend you fellow Gen X'r. Same here, I tell my kids it's all garbage. My daughter wanted to watch the new Little Mermaid. I told her absolutely not, because it's garbage. Their movies were the highest grossing these past few years because we got to see our childhood come to life PROPERLY on the big screen. And then came THE MESSAGE! and we all tuned out. Voting with your wallet is the only way to show them what's up.
What bothers me most is the wholesale destruction of legacy characters like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones to promote new characters. Leave the legacy characters alone and simply create the new characters in a quality way. Disney’s failure to understand this is the reason I have no empathy for their current failures.
I don't care they own the IP, I don't care what they say, to me the sequel movies and the characters in them are not cannon.
@@toreadoress Yep. It's just fan fiction written by people who were never fans.
I really am proud of all the people standing up to Disney like this! Me and many others have discussed these problems for YEARS, and I’m glad more and more people are waking. While I do want Disney to return to normal and it will happen, there are many of you that have said that Disney first needs to be reduced to ashes before it becomes good again; And I am totally with those people.
Put all the drug addicts homeless pi’s at the magic kingdom
@-TheMovie_Cynic-Tele-Gram_me benchode
@@ElectricalExistence Stop it!
@@orangeslash1667 why would i stop calling a scammer a name?
@@ElectricalExistence Because your spamming the same vague thing over and over again. It's really annoying.
If Disney does happen to go down I really hope fox becomes independent again. It did not deserve to get absolutely demolished by Disney
Nice work, Blue. You did your homework and it shows... 👍🏻
Disney is doing a much better job than DeSantis of destroying Disney.
LMAO, so true. Desantis still the man though, but that was good.
If Disney's doing so good why they raising ticket prices and why are their latest movies doing so horrible
@@roberthernandez7792 you misread his comment. Reread it, slowly.
In regards to the large push of diversity/social justice themes in a lot of recent Disney properties, I think it’s important to remember how political opinions, social issues, messaging about diversity, etc., has always been incorporated into filmmaking, or any sort of media. I think the difference between then and now is the capacity in which they do it. I consider myself a film lover, and I love seeing subliminal messaging, or the thoughts/opinions of writers/filmmakers put forward in an artistic way. Even if I don’t agree with the point they’re making, I can still appreciate the level of thought that goes into those messages being put forward in a meaningful and interesting way. Nowadays, it feels like every Disney property does this big song and dance about diversity and inclusion, and it repeatedly slaps you in the face as you watch anything they make. It’s like I’m being talked down to for an hour and a half during each movie I watch. I have no problem with race or even gender swapping of characters if the actor/actress is the best person for the role and genuinely fits a character really well. You brought up Zoë Kravitz and Jeremy Wright in another video as their roles in the Batman. They were both outstanding, and genuinely fit their roles extremely well. But often it feels Disney casts minorities just so they can get articles written about them and garner social points, even if that actor/actress doesn’t fit the character at all. Its like they have a checklist for every movie they make to include minority x or gender y and it’s not only lazy, but outright putting pandering before putting out a great and passionately made film.
Hit the nail on the head.
When hiring for diversity becomes your main priority and the constant in-your-face political discourse, you vilify the audience. When you vilify your audience, you end up driving a wedge between your audience and your product.
Political commentary in film isn’t necessarily a bad thing, like you said. If it flows with the story and doesn’t overbear the story beats, it can actually open up room for discussion, in some cases it can expand, challenge, or change a person’s own beliefs.
However, Disney’s messaging just feels too overbearing. It doesn’t make me think or open up possibilities to challenge my beliefs. It reads like their own messages were adapted from Twitter and I can’t help but eye roll at the obvious messaging.
It's like Star Trek. People always say "Star Trek has always been woke". I know. _That's one of the reasons I liked it._ Star Trek: Discovery introduced a trans character just to have a trans character. It was obvious because they wrote him off the show as soon as they could. What's the point? If you want to tell stories about trans people you need to *tell stories* about them. Don't just have them exist and act like you've done something amazing. When Star Trek: The Next Generation did a story about gender identity I liked it because it actually said something. Now they want applause just for doing the bare minimum.
All right I have to stop because I could talk for hours about how much NuTrek shits on all the work done by people for decades to create a franchise that was a cultural juggernaut and is still loved to this day.
@@BiggieTrismegistus what'd you think about the new Picard season?
@@crakhaed It was pretty good but I think it stumbled badly towards the end. SNW is acceptable but I still don't understand why every freaking character needs to have a traumatic backstory. Pike's haunted by trauma that hasn't even happened yet! _Lower Decks_ was rough at first but I stuck with it and it *really* grew on me. It's the only NuTrek show that gets the spirit of Star Trek right. Hell, I had the day off today and rewatched the entire third season.
At this point they need to do a Next Next Generation and move on, especially from Spock. For people my age (I was born I 1981) "Star Trek" means TNG, DS9 and VOY. That indicates that the franchise doesn't have to keep going back to the well of old characters to be successful. Ever since the 2009 movie it seems like producers think "Star Trek" is only the Enterprise, Kirk, Spock, Klingons, Khan and Tribbles. It is and can be so much more than that.
@@BiggieTrismegistusyou're right. star trek was always about understanding each other and working together for a brighter future. It was never done to look good or be trendy, it was done with genuine heart.
It's a shame that feeling has been quietly fading away.
I miss the old Disney, but it is dead and gone. I won’t miss this bastardized, propaganda machine.
Disney forgot they needed writers. Good writers. Writing is not easy, you can't just hire someone who used to write blogposts on Buzzfeed, but that's all Disney seems to hire nowadays...
Reminds me of people who spend a lot on their wedding day and cheap out on the photographer. A good photographer can make even the most basic wedding look amazing. But an expensive wedding can look like total shit if you hire someone because they're cheap.
Disney start with Snow White and wants to end with Snow White. 😂
Its like poetry.... or circle of life.. end and beginning XD
😂😂👍👍
George Lucas: I sold off Star Wars for future generations to enjoy
That aged liked fuckin' milk
Get Woke, Go Broke !
Disney went from getting everyone excited to the next movie to a point where whenever people hear that a movie is being produced by Disney, fans fears that something might go wrong. If people fears your product instead of being excited for it, that's a bad sign. Not to mention that went a movie or series flops they now blame the audience instead of keeping their mouths and fingers shut and rethink what they did wrong. Either they learn from their failures and clean the brand's image or continue to insist on getting politically involved and collapse like a tower being demolished.
I still can't believe the hubris of buying Star Wars for 4 Billion dollars and just launching into movies with no plan whatsoever. They absolutely thought they couldn't fail.
If they think 6000 dollars for a family is a reasonable price for a Star Wars hotel, they've lost their goddamn minds!
Ohh... How the Mighty have Fallen!
It took you 22 minuets to say:
Corporate suits tried to drive the Creative Bus...and should have let artists lead the company...like they used to.
It's essentially what happened to the music industry.
Let it burn baby. The Disney I knew has been dead for year’s. Now it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Well said.
“ Give the people what they want” Disney has done the opposite of that for almost a decade. The sad part for me and I’m sure others is, it feels deliberate.
But they set box office records in 2019. The people who liked outnumbered those who didn’t for a while
@@DoctorDestyNova box office doesn't mean good.. just means a lot of people bought garbage in 2019
Disney: Oh come on folks, what am I doing wrong?!
Person 1: You race swap characters!
Disney: We only did that so we won't look like racists! And it's called diversity!
Person 2: You made every female character OP!
Disney: Do you want us to p*** off feminists by making women look weak?!
Person 3: You shove LGBTQ down our throats!
Disney: Hello, LGBTQ is a thing now!
Person 4: You remake animated classics into live-action garbage!
Disney: I thought you people loved nostalgia!
Person 5: You shut down Blue Sky Studios!
Disney: They were too expensive! ....plus I already have Pixar.
Pixar: Hi.
Person 6: *sighs sadly* Face it Disney, your an empty shell of your former self. Why can't you just open your eyes and wake up already?
Disney: I- *is unable to think of something to say, and leaves with no argument*
@@oSamiSrzo I hope a lot of people are broke now, so they can share my experience of having little money to buy garbage 😆
@@SomePkmnlovingdude The irony of swapping is that you essentially give other cultures the message that they are only relevant for being in a copy of a western story.
Disney and Hollywood really going down with the ship over politics is hilarious. All they had to do was not that and this calamity doesn't exist lol.
As millennial, i think we were at fault. As my generation got older and into the writing, producing, exec roles, our politics had overwhemled decision making and made it impossible to assess a situation with an honest take. Its the only way I can think of that makes sense of why woke tactics continually fail yet companies like disney tell shareholders a completely unrelated reason for why something failed.
Well they ran out of ideas a long time ago, so it was just a matter of time, regardless. The wokeness is just a symptom of a greater sickness.
I cheer every time a Disney film, or other product, flops. They truly suck.
The meme edits on this whole entire video are on point. Excellent commentary as well.
I don't think over saturation is really contributing to the downfall of disney. If they were pumping out good movie after good movie, I'd be out there with my kids all the time watching them. The issue is that even ignoring the social issue they feel the need to spam, the writing of these movies is just hot garbage and they actively hate the people who the movie is supposed to be written for. Disney has been down this road before though. They just need to have the guts to clean house and get some people in whose focus is on writing a good story, not using a kids movie as their personal soap box.
"Disney won't ever disappear entirely"
Yeaaah, tell that to Sears, Blockbuster, Kmart, Radioshack, Tower Records, Toys-R-Us and Sports Authority - to name just a few who people thought would always "be around." lol
Shhhhh, lefties can’t stand when you bring up reality.
Add Kodak
The reason fall down to nothin more "Disney has heavily overestimated its value in people's live, at this point the big budget movies are as much valuable as a TH-cam video to the audiences, and non ironically, the TH-cam videos have a greater entertainment value at almost 0 cost."
disney's new style of dollar-store writing earned this unsustainable failure. i'll never forget the twerking she-hulk. way to go writers and disney studios... you failed in only the most obvious way by forgetting about your core audience. all of these results have been earned (garbage in, garbage out). i'll never forget the blaming of fans, with labels such as rrrrrrrrracist, toxic, and every -ist and -phobe word they had in their quiver for us. a solid f. and u. has been earned. it will take decades to recover.
"Too Big to Fail" does not mean that something is incapable of failing.
It means that said thing is so big and interconnected that it's failure would be catastrophic.
The Bigger they are, the Harder they Fall.
well it usually also means there will be a government bailout if they fail.
problem with disney is they royally pissed off the reps...
The Roman Empire and the Soviet Union seem to disprove the idea of "too big to fail."
The classic 2D animated movies will be forever iconic
Disney will fall and we’ll move on
Charging 16 bucks for a gas station level burger at their parks is enough to earn an F-off for life
Not having a plan for the sequel trilogy is mind blowing. Spend 4 billion dollars and then just wing it. Now Star Wars has around the same prestige as the Fast and Furious franchise
It has the prestige of one of the cheap straight-to-DVD Fast and the Furious knockoffs.
That's how empires fall. They overexpand and implode - any storyteller or historian knows this.
Look at the Roman Empire.
rey is literally the worst mockery of a 'character' that ive ever laid eyes on in my entire life. i pray for Lucas, as insane as he can be, buying star wars back from disney and declaring everything disney has made as non-canon. im willing to make that faustian deal.
Lucas is the big reason why star wars failed.
What i find so ironic is that Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs built the empire. And it’ll be the new Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs that will destroy it.
Their greatest kickstarter into fame will be the final nail in the coffin
How poetic.😌
I used to dream about working at Disney when i was a kid up until i was a teen. I watched every single release on opening night. I bought all the products i could. Its absolutely devastating to realize i dont care a bit about this company anymore. I resent it. Even the movies i used to love so much, used to watch every other week, dont have the same effect anymore because of the bitter taste i get from comparing their golden days to now. Its insane. I hate this.
My thoughts are likewise.
I remember when Marvel movies were must sees for me and my family. Now we aren’t even aware when a new one is releasing
Buying FOX and not immediately starting production of X-Men movies was the stupidest move and just waste of money from Disney. That alone explains that company is in hands of idiots.
Ehh, I kinda disagree. They had to find a way to make mutants existence make sense. They had to find a way to explain why people in the MCU love superheroes and hate mutants. Apparently, the plan is to lay the grounds for that in Deadpool 3, which from the leaks seems like the most exciting and well realized Marvel movie since Endgame. Three bad years does not exactly seem like a death knell. I'm still gonna hold off on the whole DISNEY IS DEAD thing juuuust a bit longer.
"..mcu productions went from being events to something youll completely ignore.."
So true 😢💔
you THINK Disney won't completely die, but there are abandoned theme parks all over the world. No company is immortal.
This gives me hope Disney will die and let us have the stories of our culture back. They've RUINED copyright law. It's time for Karma to bring them down :))
I'm boycotting everything they make, good or bad, to do my part in bringing down the evil giant. I know lots of people are doing the same. It's only a matter of time. They forgot they needed our money, thought themselves above us... if they remember to serve us, and quickly - they'll die.
I feel terrible for the spirit of Walt himself.
Dont be. He lived a good life, during a good time, leaving a good legacy. He would feel sorry for us if he could see us.
Don't be he was a terrible person
Now he can't step into the Throne of Heroes. 😂😂😂
Nah, you really shouldn't feel bad for a guy like him, unless you are stupid
Nah, fuck em
This video should be shown to stockholders.
My Parents didn't have to worry when I went to see a Disney movie Now I worry when my kids see one and what propaganda and Wokeness they're exposed to
I’ve always hated modern disney. Blinded by greed causing them to ruin countless classics. Buying beloved and popular franchises just to milk all of what it’s worth. I wish the old disney was back, the one to make their own original stories without being a Mr. Krabs of franchisees.
It’s not super hero fatigue. The problem is 100% the terrible writing focusing on radical political agendas instead of telling a good story.
They used to hire writers based on talent and now they hire them based on skin color.
That last sentence is so damn real and I’m a person of color as well.
you have it spot on.
the book "when race trumps merit", is a very good read.
I cannot believe Pixar are making a fifth Toy Story film.
Imagine Disney trying to make a shitty-ass LAR
Sixth. Don’t forget Lightyear. (Or forget it, along with Toy Story 4-it’s probably best.)
I hope they go broke in every way I can imagine. The woke remakes are one thing, but trying to avoid the law and replacing their artists fully with ai is just such a scummy move and shows how dystopian Disney really is. I hope they go down, together with Universal who are just the same
What did Universal do?
@@Oscar95451 They‘re the same as disney in terms of ai. Atm they‘re trying to find any possible loophole to get rid of their human artists and to replace them. Money hungry bastards. And the worst part is that they’re doing this while there are still strikes going on
@@taki7546 Don't think there's any truth to that, various courts have already ruled against any copyright claim to AI-generated works, so if Disney or Universal were using AI in their productions then they'd lose the rights to it in which case anybody could use it freely for whatever purposes they wanted
@@cm3368 If that's the case then why are the strikers freaking out about it? Why is literally every news source that covers the strike taking AI deadly seriously?
Gotta hand it to Bob Iger & co. They managed to destroy one of the most (if not the most) recognizable brands in history in a little more than a decade.
It's a shitshow, a beautifully chaotic shitshow.
I'm never going to support Disney ever again. I'm not even sad about it, just done.
I never supported them
No one would miss Disney if it disappeared tomorrow. They no longer make products people want or care about.
I grew up on Disney, but as I got older I've started to realize how bad Disney is
I think overtime they just become a lot more greedy. Old disney was just passionate
Disney needs an intervention. In order to make a change, they need to first identify and accept responsibility for their actions. That means they need to finally accept that they are the problem, not the fans. They need to get rid of anyone associated with any failing movie/show.
Nobody, but nobody was a bigger fan of Disney than I… So, if their crazy business decisions and ridiculous antics could make me rejoice in their downfall, it could happen to anyone.
Disney has no one to blame but themselves.
Poor old Walt would be turning in his grave to see how they butchered his beloved empire.
He probably is.
"Don't shoot, let 'em burn."
Disney took every single part of entertainment only to self-destruct right away. Leaving us alone in the dark era of the internet. Well done genius.
George said he felt like he sold his children to slavers. _Great job, George._
Star Wars fans shouldn’t have bullied him because of the prequels and now look at Star Wars
@@JonathanGaeta i agree. With the exception of phantom menace, I liked the rest of the trilogy. We really should have just kept our fucking mouths shut.
Star Wars was just slaughtered... the franchise is DEAD. Which anyone could of predicted when they had J.J. Abrams for the first movie, the man is known for destroying every franchise he touches. People don't talk about star trek or star wars like they used to before Abrams touched those franchises.
@@hobogardenerbeneoliberal Capitalism wasn't created at Bretton Woods. John Maynard Keynes was intimately involved in the creation of Bretton Woods system so it was based on Keynesian economics. Neoliberalism was formulated in the 1970s as a rejection of Keynesian thinking and was supposedly a throwback to the liberal capitalism that allegedly existed before the ideas of Keynes (and Karl Marx) took hold. Basically neoliberals said free markets are everything, the profit motive is everything and the government shouldn't be involved in the economy at all. Pretty much every prediction made by neoliberal economists has proven to be wrong and no one (not even the right-wingers who absolutely adored them less than a decade ago) takes them very seriously today.
I also disagree that JJ Abrams is a symptom not a cause of the problem. No one hires JJ Abrams for political reasons. They hire him because he's a hack who makes big dumb movies that dumb people enjoy.
TLDR: Never let a billionaire in charge of anything. Never let a company replace the job of an artist. Never let greed get in the way of creativity.
Amen. If Walt could see what Disney had become, he'd ask for a gun.
My wife is a huuuuge Disney fan. Last year we watched a Disney film starring Bette Medler as part of a trio of witches, I forgot the name, and they had a scene with a drag show that had absolutely nothing to do with the movement of the story. I’m not a prude. I don’t care if an adult wants to see a drag show, but the movie was geared towards children and the scene had no purpose other than to expose the underage to drag. I just thought it bizarre and was waiting for the conservative elements to throw a fit.
Just for trying to repackage the live action remakes, rather than create original content, they deserve to get whacked.
I'm excited for the fall personally, I would love to see Disney shatter into thousands of small start-up studios so we actually get some creative freedom again.
Do u work for them?
Disney is the modern day Roman empire, it rises only to fall.
Rome never fell, it churched!
@@imaginasean That it did lol
Sic transit Gloria!
The problem with having your hands on so much I.P. is that you need intelligent, creative, well-versed individuals capable of manipulating and articulating that I.P. into new stories and experiences that are actually worth engaging in. Instead of doing that, Disney battened down on twisted ideological representation and soulless box-checking. They've gotten everything that they deserve.
Get ready to see Disney theme parks covered in overgrowth and weeds.
I hate Disney for ruining Star Wars.
I hate Disney for being Disney because they ruined everything!! °° EVERYTHING !1 ^^
I like them for that.
@@Ken_Doll_Roy You sick madman!
George lucas killed star wars.
@@orangefacedbuddah1776 And Yoda!°°
;-P
I don't think I've ever been happier to see the fall of an empire LOL
It's not dying fast enough.
The critical drinker brought me here
Go away Now!
There’s a bigger empire than Disney that is collapsing…..Murica!
it won't but there is a chance it will transition to fascist ( patriotism, race supermacy, idolize shady individual,extreme religious ...), and i hope it will never happen
@@hiepninh8416and your side of the political spectrum is to blame for it 100%
The further you pull, the harder the pendulum will swing
And it's gonna be fucking devastating
Mark my words
@@hiepninh8416 lol typical liberal hyperbole trash "THE EVIL NAZISS ARE TAKING OVER" whats funny is your kind pushed people to that extreme by trying to sexualize, mutilate and rape children
@@tenanaciouz the way you say "your kind" like are we not even humans anymore. has our basis of ideas grown to such an extent that no one would even contemplate reaching the middle ground. please provide PROOF of someone being a CHILD PREDATOR next time, please and thank you
"My name is Disneymandias, King of Corporations;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Bob Iger fiddled while Disney burned....ego maniac...worse than Nero..RIP Disney...
The diversity thing could've worked well if they'd actually made good and interesting characters out of them. But Disney made the mistake of confusing a minority of noisy tossers on twitter with the voices of mass audiences. Schoolboy error.
They also switched from entertaining to influencing. A few other things are going this route and it's costing them. Many news outlets went from informing (relatively) to influencing. You see this trend. Certain companies with certain sorts of people at the helm use the years and or decades of value and trust built to influence. Everyone's caught on at this point though. The tank is about empty and we're seeing the results.
The Little Mermaid remake is inherently racist. Their black lead is white-washed. They want a black actress to look more white for better success and can't decide whether her hair is caucasian or black. I assume they straightened her hair but threw in a few dreads for good measure just so they could escape this very criticism. But hey, I hope that last assumption isn't true, even though the look of it is problematic as is.
Film company makes a good movie
Disney: ill have that one
DEI destroyed Disney, just as debauchery destroyed Rome.
To be fair, Disney never made an original movie in their existence. All their stuff is based on some pre-existing story. How fitting is that after cannibalizing everything else, they turned on themselves for sustenance. It's like a serpent eating its own tail.
There was no reason to pander to leftist ideology because kids are innocent and don't have political beliefs
@@simoneb208 Kids don't, but investors do. Disney ditched it's core audience (Kids and Families) to please few activists and investors. How is it going? Great. They bleed houndreds of millions $ every quarter and lost like half of stock price in last couple years.
A movie studio literally built on public domain. Smart way to build up profit. Not entirely creative though.
Their re-imaginings of old films is one of the laziest things we've ever seen from a film studio. It's half-assed nostalgia bait. If they wanted to add diverse stories and characters then they should've written new stories and created new characters. I'd happily watch a film based on African and/or Asian fairytales. That would take too much time, money and effort on Disney's part so they pretend to care about diversity by just throwing a bone via race and gender swaps. Anyone who thinks Disney actually cares about diversity, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Edit: What family of 4 can afford a 2 day hotel stay for $4,000??? Most families save money for years just to be able to go to Disney. It's insane that Disney thought that would be successful.
You may be giving them too much credit by calling what they’re doing “re-imaginings.” Makes it sound like they’re actually doing something creative.
Their was supposed to be a African disney princess film like years ago I don't remember what it was called just that the princess's name started with a s. No idea what happened to that.
I hope Disney Bankrupts, they never deserved to manage the creative media.
they own ALL the film and tv outlets. Even if Disney as a brand and name falls out of homes, they're still running the show behind most if not all other productions so either they'll learn from their mistakes until they start making more with the other companies or they get to try again with all the other studios they own and do well.
Disney is no longer safe for kids.
It wasn't in the 1990s. And even before that I believe.