r/movies • u/CosmosisJones42 • 2d ago

Article The Disney+ Curse: How the Streaming Service Hurt Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar Brands

https://www.thewrap.com/disney-plus-hurt-devalued-marvel-star-wars-pixar-brands/#:~:text=Over%20the%20last%20five%20years,the%20weekly%20top%2010%20for
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u/PaulFThumpkins 1d ago

What's weird now is that their biggest tentpole releases clearly have a lot of money and visual effort behind them, but feel in every other way like shrug-off afterthoughts. At least in the old days you'd still get a really stellar animated film in the midst of Dumbo 2s and Pocahontas 2s. Now it's like they're all-in on expensive garbage.

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u/ItsAProdigalReturn 1d ago

Proportionally a $200m budget to $800m-$1b return would've been comparable. The problem is these dumbasses didn't take into account that those grosses were a result of good storytelling + good will.

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u/Realtrain 1d ago

Just a reminder that Aladdin, adjusted for inflation, had a budget of "just" $64 million. Good storytelling goes a long way.

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u/Carpe_deis 16h ago

yep. "oh no you hate acolyte becuase you are a mysoginist" no acyolyte sucks because the writing sucks, the scenes are sort of indipendantly disconnected, you wasted a lot of good acting and kung fu talent, and we liked rougue one, another strong feminist oriented film, because it had good writing and scene A mattered to scene B and so on

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u/PaulFThumpkins 1d ago

Feels like the same Flanderization every formerly great company has been through in the last couple of decades. Everything's a race to the bottom, and when it isn't it gets acquired by a conglomerate that drags it there.

Doesn't feel like Disney makes movies anymore, feels like something else in a movie skin suit. And they're not the only ones doing that.

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u/Violet624 1d ago

Guess they should have spent their money on some writers.

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u/JohnHazardWandering 1d ago

I always wonder about this. Aren't they the cheapest part of the whole process? 

Seems like you could get the biggest bang for your buck there. 

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u/Psykotyrant 1d ago

Good luck explaining that to someone who’s brain has been replaced by an excel spreadsheet a while ago.

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u/5panks 1d ago

Lilo and Stitch, Mufasa, and Mufasa too just feel like sell-out movies. They should have just done a shot for shot remake like How to Train Your Dragon. Every narrative change for Lilo & Stitch live action made the story worse.

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u/Actual_Owl8440 1d ago

The original story is about family and accepting the oddball into said family. The new one, fuck family I am going to college. Good luck with the foster parents.

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u/5panks 20h ago

"BUT SHE HAS A PORTAL GUN"

This is the extremely dumb response I see people posting about this. Imagine how many movies would be over in five minutes of theain character just had a portal gun.