Lol hilariously ironic that Disney owned the distribution rights to Sound of Freedom ($14m budget) and didn't want to put it out. And later, after the creators of that movie got the rights back, they debuted it on the same day as the new Indiana Jones ($295m budget) movie and beat it in the American box office.
I saw SoF opening weekend and then again with my sister and father two days ago. BOTH screenings were completely full theaters and when I was looking for times the second time there were screenings we couldn't go to because they had no seats available next to each other cause they sold so many seats! The movie is doing really, really well. I'm expecting it will put Disney to shame with how much it performs compared to their summer films. Haunted Mansion in the middle of summer? Elemental where no one cared? Indiana Jones and the Dial of Dreariness? Yeah, they're really bringin' their A game, I hope Disney tanks hard with Elio and Wish. Their brand is so damaged.
Disney went broke when they aquired other properties debt. *Exemple:* Ray Croc of McDonald's fame. You think he made his fortune from the restaurant business. *NO HE DIDN'T.* He made his fortune in real estate. The land those restaurants sit on. He also made money exclusively supplying the restaurants. Ray Croc could sell off his supply chain business to another investor. That investor can immediately make money. What at Disney can an investor make money on without spending a fortune. Instead of buying a piece of Disney's debt. Start up your own studio instead.
Now we can finally get a white man in lead after China buys Disney. Get to smoke on planes when Russia wins the war. I'm starting to think we are our worst enemies
Oh no, I get you, but he's not comparing Spirit Halloween to Disney. I'm just hoping we see Disney World and Galactic Starcruiser be converted to Spirit Halloween stores.
Spirit Halloween let's you go back inside all the old retail shops you used to visit as a kid but have long been out of business. Like Sears, K-Mart, and Mervins. They provide a valuable service.
Walt Disney once said, "No matter how big we become, I only hope we never forget that it all started with a mouse." Disney Inc. has long forgotten that legacy.
The death of Disney led to people who own & run it without heart. They don’t hold the love for the creation that Walt did, simply because they didn’t build it. They are emotionally removed from the building of such a corporation.
@@ShinSeikiEvan If you are referring to "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit," I think reacquired would be a better term. They used him in a couple of video games and maybe a short or two, buy yeah, that's been about it.
I remember being a little girl and the Disney logo on our tv overjoyed me because mom had brought another sweeping, beautiful childhood story home. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, my little sister and I loved them all and they inspired so many times where our imagination was let loose. We had the "figurines" and legos to build houses and create new stories(in our childish ways). Now it's like coming across a dead body. Back away, don't look and don't let the children see... I despair that the younger generation will not know these classics unless their parents show them. I've shown my daughter the Disney movies from my childhood and she loves them.
Whenever I see the Disney logo or Mickey Mouse, I can only think of try-hard boomers, dogmatist zoomers, and naive business majors all in a corporate meeting voting on their next product. The illusion of creativity and personal touch is gone. Replaced by the hollow image of graphs and corporate speak on how to nickel and dime their customers, why they can't reach target demographics, or why their last product flopped.
@tsbol2201 That's all i've shown her. I could not prevent Frozen and it's not the worst . I think my sister and I stopped really watching any of the newer onesafter Mulan or maybe the next one, it's been a long time.
Except The Little Mermaid has possibly the worst message of any movie, ever. Be rebellious, disobedient, betray your family, partner with evil and nearly destroy your father…and get rewarded with everything you always wanted. The music is good though.
Yeah, Disney learned the hard way that catering to just man children with woke sensitivities and disregard parents and kids would go down south quick. Disney was built with families in mind, not singles or degenerates, then again Walt Disney was living in a time where nuclear families were encouraged.
@fakeyoutuber5124 Does it really matter who is saving the kids as long as somebody is? And shouldn't it bother you more as to why the elites hate the movie?
Anyone who thinks Disney is “too big to fail” doesn’t understand how economics works. The same was said about General Motors. Sears a couple decades ago.
My favorite thing about Disney imploding are the excuses. Fatigue. High prices. Saturation. Anything in between...but never ever can it be the fact that they went woke and now they go broke. I'll never take my kids to a Disney park or movie until they course correct. It's that simple. I was a Disney 90s kid. I didn't get to go to the parks until the mid 2000s. It still was awesome. Sucks my kids can't experience that but I'm not supporting them. Principles matter and my kids will have strong ones by the time they leave my home.
Based on all the glut and excess fat that Disney has accumulated over the past several decades, there’s a lot of Disney to sell even if the cost per pound is low.
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 Hopefully no one. I hope their bloated corpse rots in the sun. Only then may they be offered a chance to whip themselves BEFORE their true penance begins.
And another kick to the nuts on Disney... THEY HAD THE DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS FOR THE SOUND OF FREEDOM BUT CHOSE TO SHELVE IT! A movie that is going gangbusters right now in the theaters!
The biggest insult is they are remaking Snow White. The arrogance. The original was a hand drawn, hand painted masterpiece. Real musicians playing real musical instruments. Years of work made by animators who put love into it. All to create the very first animated movie. And all Disney is making this new one for is to make money. It's disgusting and it's evil.
It's not superhero fatigue, ots not nostalgia fatigue, its shit preachy movie fatigue, but Disney is too committed to trying to make sure everything is shit and preachy to stop now.
There's no superhero fatigue. The main problem is that in phase 4 Marvel's main characters aren't heroic. They're propaganda mouthpieces for a particular agenda.
No, there's superhero fatigue. Keep in mind, normies aren't the ones who buy comic books. Normies get tired of geriatric plot repetition and reusage of themes. It's why Zombies went out of favor, it's why the Romcoms went out of favor, and it's now why Disney's saccharine bullshit itself is going out of favor. People get tired of themes, this is why Hollywood has historically moved on from topics, but Disney apparently couldn't take the hint that Endgame was probably their endgame; nah, that's not true, they knew it was, but they couldn't AFFORD it to be after dropping 70 billion dollars on Fox Media to pick up their ownership of various superhero's.
I thought superhero fatigue wasn't the case, but just because I have the appetite for good superhero content doesn't mean others aren't tired of seeing spandex. I'm personally of the mind that bad writing is the issue, as well as the failed comic characters and stories from 10 years ago they're trying to rehash, but that's just me. I know people who are sick of Marvel and DC regardless of whether it was a good time or an ideological finger-wagging.
I AGREE 💯% - Stan Lee is spinning in his grave with the BS they started putting out = no fresh original ideas/ use of imagination!! Imagine that!! = when they start pushing "their" agendas & repeating old story lines like a broken record they BLEW IT!!
@@Ahmenthi It's Razorfist's assertion that genre fatigue sets in when the genre in question is flooded by low quality garbage. So people being tired of the bad writing is superhero fatigue according to him.
If Phase 3 took a break after Endgame and we only got the Spider-Man movies until Phase 4 which was all about the X-Men and Fantastic 4 then the MCU would be in a much better place now. Of course Disney would have to make sure the X-Men and FF were actually good and not woke.
This sounds bad, but I know Disney's answer! Blame the fans more, push more race swap stuff, and quadrupal down on the alphabet mob stuff! It's worked great so far!!!
Disney’s collapse is our time to shine. We should take this as an opportunity to publish our own works. This might be the fall of the current iterations of the entertainment corporations and the rise of the small-time studio.
Twist of fate, George Lucas comes in and buys all of Disney for less than what they bought Lucasfilm for. Fires all the execs and turns the whole ship around.
The problem isn't the loss of money. They have basically unlimited money. They're part of the system. The problem is if no one's watching the propaganda,they aren't following the programming. And if people aren't following the programming,they don't have control. Losing control for a moment can mean losing control forever so that's bad for them. In the end,that's what makes them shut down companies,when they're no longer useful for controlling people.
“They have basically unlimited money” You’d think Disney could pay off Comcast on the spot if that were true. Nor discuss ‘invaluable’ assets. ‘Unlimited money’ is a communist mindset to begin with.
Bob Iger is such a great CEO that he had to (temporarily) step down and spend the next two years sabotaging his successor like a conniving snake in the grass just to justify his continued reign
Apparently it only takes a couple years for people to forget who actually _caused_ Disney's problems. People need to remember that in Hollywood it takes a couple years for changes to make it down to the production-line. A new executive is stuck with all the projects of his predecessor - Which are still in development...
@@Mattened Not to forget the "hostile takeover" after Walt's death that removed any control his heirs might have - And put everything under the control of people who are perfectly happy to drag the _Disney_ name through the mud....
Rest in powerful peace 🙏 Walter Elias Disney 5 December 1901 ~ 15 December 1966⚘ I was just thinking of him before seeing your video. My most prized memory is a photo of me sitting on his lap @ our house because of a photo shoot on account of my P.I. dad signing an investigative contract w/Walt regarding "The Red Scare"
I don’t live in America and I don’t give a fuck about american entertainment industry or politics, yet I’m here infatuated with his way with words. Reminiscent of the H.P. Lovecraft, yet he speaks of eternal horror that comes from our very own retardation
This is all going to end in there being one or two streaming services who will have no competition and charge what cable used to charge. Think demolition man taco bell but streaming
It's both joyous and sad at the same time. But we must remember what Eric July said, we're looking back at good times and how they made us felt. Those times are gone and what we have is something that needs to die, or at least survive humbly as a shadow of its former self. Like Sega, for example. Disney was so huge with a seemingly endless budget and a vast platform in the form of impressionable innocent children. So naturally it was a magnet for peedos, rainbow groomers, and activists. My only hope is that the rats drown with the ship they helped to sink.
At this point, I'd say the sweet release of death would be a kindness for Disney, but we all know Walt is waiting on the other side and would like a word....
I recently was looking at books detailing Disneys animated history, its sad to see what a once truly proud brand name that made smash hit after smash hit has become. The book " illustrated treasures of Disney" harkens back to that time and is a reminder of what can happen when you dont have pinkos running the show and creativity and be left to flourish.
The best way to fix Star Wars would be to ... a) burn every copy of the sequels that can be found and declare them to be HERESY b) get young lookalike actors for the original cast and train them for a year c) start making a new sequel trilogy starting right after "Return of the Jedi" ... but only start filming AFTER THE STORY FOR THE TRILOGY IS FULLY WRITTEN
The craziest part is, if Disney held an open audition for amateur writers, selected a hundred scripts, and spent the next 5 years turning some of them into movies, they would literally fix their problems. It's that fucking simple. Write. Good. Stories. They have the best cinematographers and the largest animation studios at their disposal. They have a streaming platform. They have basically a monopoly over Hollywood. Literally the only thing they'd have to do is WRITE GOOD STORIES AND TURN THEM INTO MOVIES. How is there not a single sane person in that entire company who understands this concept? Is the entirety of the Disney company built on diversiry hires and nepo babies? The few time they actually managed to put a somewhat talented person in the directorial seat, SURPRISE, it was a success. Guardians of the Galaxy might not be what everyone wants to see, but it's a decent movie. Something I'm not actively cringing at. Free Guy was surprisingly entertaining, and Rogue One was refreshing... I'm out, actually. How can a tumor of a company like Disney not produce even double digit bearable movies? Just... just hire good writers, FFS
Honestly , even IF they started making good movies again they would be screwed anyway because of all the trust they have lost with the fan bases. No saving them now just laugh as they drown.
Thanks to Bob Iger’s ego and hubris Disney’s grip on established franchises are slipping through their fingers, I don’t have much hope for Marvel but at least the Lucasfilms properties and some of Pixar’s are hopefully sold off to other studios who actually give a damn to make something good out of them with quality.
The sad truth is that they are destroying these franchises ... on purpose ... because they are basically communists and thus NEED TO destroy the existing society to "(re)BUILD BACK BETTER on its ashes into the commie utopia dreamland theme park".
Idk man, Disney really obliterated my enjoyment of Star Wars, there's just no point in expanding the canon with a new trilogy past what George Lucas established. Star Wars is Lucas' creation, whether we love his films or not, without him, it's just soulless and unfocused. There are other stories that can be told, but that would require bringing the expanded universe back. We can't redo a sequel trilogy because many have died since then, so that ship sailed and Disney chose to sink it.
You know what the sad thing about all this is? The fact that we knew this was going to happen because EA did it something like 10 or so years ago, they did the EXACT same thing, instead of producing good quality content to improve their numbers, they simply bought other development studios, added their good balance sheets to their own and declared their company was "growing", they ended up having to face the music about 2012/13, which is funny because think about where we are 2022/2023 and Disney is having to go through the same thing.
EA started doing it thirty years ago, bud. they've always done that. they've dissolved every small talented studio that produces anything both commercially and critically successful, leaving the talent to go on and try forming new supergroups, and their IPs to rot in a closet. i've been boycotting them since a child when they dissolved Bullfrog.
Its just funny to see Bob Iger get demolished by basically the entire planet, he even managed to piss off the very commies Disney were trying to appeal to with his response to the strikes. Truly magical.
Pretty sure that's intentional. Don't forget the "hostile takeover" after Walt's death that removed any control from his heirs and handed it to people that would be perfectly happy to drag his name through the mud....
@@MrManor-zu7uw Just look up "hostile takeover". Basically, one quietly buys up a majority of stock in a company, then takes control. There are a couple different methods. Another method is a "proxy fight", where you infiltrate and influence the Company's Board to replace the management. (Then, there's the way Elon Musk acquired Twitter.) It became almost a standard business practice in the 1980s. Often it was a way to eliminate competition - One company would get control of a competitor, then fire most of the staff, sell off anything that they couldn't use and then shut it down or declare bankruptcy. This actually became so common that the Government was actually considering passing laws to prevent it. This was what happened to Disney in the mid 80s - Around the same time the name was changed from Walt Disney Productions to Walt Disney Company. Without going into detail, I suspect that the people running the Company now couldn't care less about Disney's reputation...
Dear @Razorfist. My deepest gratitude for your mention of my dear family friend, Jon Schaffer. He truly did nothing wrong and has been pilloried for staying honest. Some day you two can openly discuss this ordeal. Meanwhile, sending you blessings. Keep sharing the truth!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤗
@@errortaptoretry6019 thank you. Hope you listen to his Sons of Liberty solo music. Those were the songs the black hats had targeted him for since 2010. Men in black with earpieces started coming to all his DC and NYC concerts after those music releases. The entire Spirit of the Times EP was completely deleted off the internet GLOBALLY in late 2020. Even my own iTunes library uploads were erased.
@@dariaschooler I looked up Spirit of the times and was only able to find one video on RU-vid. As for Brush fires of the mind, I just listened to it and it’s pretty good. I’ll definitely recommend it to my brother who is more into music. Thanks.
That feel when your old IPs aren't relevant anymore so you buy new IPs, but now those aren't relevant anymore so you buy new IPs, but now those aren't relevant anymore so you buy new IPs...
If I was into conspiracy theories how about this: what if George Lucas sold Lucasfilm, at an inflated price, to only turn around and buy it back at a reduced one?
George Lucas is 79 years old, and the rest of the OG cast is similar. He sold it because he recognized he was in his twilight years, and falsely thought he was handing the property off to someone who would take care of it.
@@jebe4563 That is true but he has stated before in the past that he may want it back. Cannot remember the source so take it as "I made it up". Even if he did buy it back, he would probably try to sell it off again
The streaming game got oversaturated right as Disney was making an all in push. Simultaneously, they produced some of the most expensive movies in a genre that had already cliffed. Woof. Going to be a hard landing over there.
It's a damn shame to see what it once was a great company fall so damn hard, but at the same time, it does feel good to see them burning millions of dollars daily on shitty projects like the worst rides ever made.
Growing up with Disney, holding its work as a benchmark of animation..........then seeing it degrade before my eyes....... My childhood memories may mourn this, but my adult brain is wanting this whole thing to implode. They did this to themselves.
Thank God I backed up all my original Disney classics, and keep the DVDs (except for one of the best, Song of the South, which I only have digitally.) I never would've expected Disney to go the way they've gone, but Razorfist has their number!
Agreed. I still buy CDs. Then I burn them and put the music on both my computers, my phone and my mp3 players. After having my car/phone/cds stolen I am not losing my music collection again.
"Superhero fatigue" isn't real. "Bad movie fatigue," on the other hand... Or "bait and switch fatigue." Or "Callously murdering my childhood fatigue." Those are real.
Superhero Fatigue and Bad Movie Fatigue are the same thing. They literally go hand-in-hand. *Every* movie phase ends when release after release gets progressively worse. It happened to Noir, it happened to Westerns, its happening now.
@@Rebellions The whole concept of genre fatigue is pretty sketchy to me, unless the genre itself is too gimmicky. The differentiation I'm making is that, if they were still making quality superhero movies, people wouldn't be tired of watching them. Their inability to tell compelling stories isn't really a reflection upon the audience and their interests. The only "fatigue" that may be happening is on the creative side, which is mind-boggling given that they have over 50 years of book material to translate to film.
@@MrMagnanimanSpider-Verse 2, and Guardians 3, are two of the most successful movies of this year, whilst The Flash and Ant-Man 3 are two of the worst performing of the year. As you correctly said in your comment, it's not superhero fatigue, it is, bad movie fatigue.
@@chriscorben-green2640 Multiverse of Madness was one of the shittiest Superhero movies to date. So why did it make more at the box office both domestically AND worldwide than both of those films? Same story with Wakanda Forever, outperformed BOTH Guardians 3 & Spiderverse. And even THOSE films made a pittance compared to the money printing machine Superhero films were only a few short years ago. The genre is in decline, there will be a renaissance of it in about 20-35 years, but Superhero films are on the way out. People are not watching even the "good ones" in the numbers they once were EDIT: And it isnt that "people are going to the theater less" The Mario Bros movie proved the audience is still there, they just arent showing up to see Superhero flicks in those same numbers, regardless of quality, most just look at the newest tights and spandex release and say "Ehhh I'll wait for it to release on (insert streaming service here) instead, I ain't missing anything by missing opening night"
Razor, the Federal Reserve is reaching its apex of interest rate hikes just now. The money printers have been off for a while, about a year. There's even some debate as to whether they'll print their way out of a recession (if there is one) (there definitely will be one by summer 2024) or just keep the printers off since reducing inflation to 2% from its current level will be difficult.
At this point, I want Disney to collapse just so that Ol' Walt's legacy can be avenged. Quite frankly if he were alive today he would tear this thing down himself and start over.
I'll be real, I don't believe in "superhero fatigue" per say. Its just that superhero movies are all shit now, and nobody wants to watch shit movies anymore.
I know they say you gotta spend money to make money, but I never thought Disney of all companies would be showing the world a way of spending shit loads of money to lose even more money.
The Endgame story was STUPID to begin with, because it is an "ultimate threat level", which will make any story following that either "less of a threat" (and thus dull) or turns up the ridiculous meter to such a degree that it doesnt make any sense anymore ... like any time travel / alternate universe storyline.
@@Muck006On the other hand, it was a good way to end the franchise on a high note. Too bad the concept of endings doesn't exist in the american entertainment industry...
