Disney's month of bombs: Elemental, Indiana Jones and Secret Invasion

[@S3aChange]

Look, Disney may make terrible movies but they're also terrible human beings.

[@Peter2k84]

Oh thank God there is a least synergy

[@chasehedges6775]

Exactly but I think you mean MODERN DISNEY

[@brandonscott5544]

DISNEY'S PIXAR ELEMENTAL AND INDIANA JONES DIAL OF DESTINY FAILURE WOKE SECRET INVASION HOT 🔥 GARAGE BOMB

[@AtomicAdame]

👍

[@Spankydoodle]

And woke

[@Sacto1654]

The biggest problem: hiring Latondra Newton in 2017 in senior VP in charge of the "Reimagine Tomorrow" DEI program. That essentially ruined almost *EVERYTHING* at Disney, and the company is paying the price in a big way. No wonder she was let go just a few days ago.

[@pyropulseIXXI]

They were putting out shit well before 2017

[@andrewshaughnessy5828]

"Bombing harder than an Oscar Wilde production put on in Uganda." Priceless!🤩

[@hemaccabe4292]

Keep in mind, each movie bomb does not just lose a huge sum of money for Disney. As Disney has been a past master of capitalizing on hits, as a failure, Disney loses the revenue from successful merchandising as well as reduced interest in park attendance. As Disney must pay for merchandising and having parks in advance, movie failures are all tripled. An occasional flop is expected, but this relentless drumbeat of failure is catastrophic. This doesn't even include the massive damage to the IP each huge failure inflicts.

[@pretorious700]

Also, their stock plummets.

[@connorgaydos8677]

Ahhhhhhh :)

[@michaelwittmann1973]

happens if you despise the majority of your customers as a company

[@hemig2869]

I remember watching some Disney BTS and they legit hired a lady whose sole job was to make sure women had just as much screen time as men in any Disney movie..... That's when it started going downhill. Any company that hires someone based on their race/sex/political leaning instead of competency is doomed to fail

[@diemes5463]

Which movie/series was this?

[@buttscarlton1490]

Source

[@lawrencemanning]

Regardless of wether this is hyperbole, it would be fascinating to try to pinpoint exactly when things went to shit. For me it was the moment I walked out of the cinema after The Force Awakens. I couldn’t believe that a Star Wars film was so dreadful (recycled plots etc) but worse then that: it was clear that there was an agenda behind it and the entertainment was secondary. I haven’t been back to the cinema since.

[@josephbassey1501]

​@@lawrencemanningyou're a man of focus and commitment I haven't had the urge to watch another marvel movie since Endgame. I chilled out waiting to listen to the reviews on the shows to confirm whether their promise of going down the diversity n inclusion path was true n they didn't disappoint. There used to be a time when you couldn't wait for the movie to come out after watching the trailer but now I couldn't careless Even if I was given a free ticket Watching them burn n loose money is the only satisfaction now

[@hemig2869]

@@diemes5463inside Pixar epp 4 - Jessica heidt To sum the episode up she basically took it upon herself to go through Disneys catalogue of movies and find out how much of an imbalance there was between screen time of both sexes Intially it was for better representation but if you're going to sacrifice story beats/elements because one sex is on the screen too long then you're actually sacrificing the story that you want to tell

[@hayleylongster4698]

They even managed to wreck Pixar. They are now currently pounding the remains into the ocean floor alongside those of SS Titanawoke.

[@buttscarlton1490]

Too soon..

[@hayleylongster4698]

@@buttscarlton1490 It's never too soon lol

[@davidpetersen3778]

Loved the song. Hollywood has always had an issue with conflict between creatives and corporate. Problem is now creatives they hire for 'cheap' have no talent and corporate has no one willing to take a risk, spend or recognize talent. Disney and most other studios with these popular IPs, don't under stand that to get the new audience you keep the old and the old passes it on. No amount of marketing can beat word of mouth. Disney also allowed for the complete mis-management of Marvel and Lucasfilm. Those studios were bought to get that audience demographic they had missed for years... males 12-40. They had no idea how to market it. They catered to an audience that didn't support them financially. And the answer is to still just through out more low quality content to hope it will catch eyes and be consumed. I hate to say let it burn, but that is the path they want to take.

[@jarchack]

I'm running out of universes to escape to. The MCU, DCEU, Pixar, Star Wars, Star Trek... all of them ruined by people who do not understand character and world building. At 65, maybe I'm too old but I still like watching movies like Up, the original Iron Man and The Empire Strikes Back.

[@lawrencemanning]

I suggest you take up reading. You will find plenty of books, old and some new, to escape into.

[@jarchack]

@@lawrencemanning Already have. I picked up a Kindle a while back and it's loaded for bear. Before getting into pc's in the late 80s, I was knocking out at least a book a week.

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

They hit rock bottom years ago. They have been tunneling/mining deeper for a while.

[@jgamer2228]

Disney used to be synonymous with quality. That is no longer the case

[@georgejones5019]

At this point it's earned and deserved. I hope they have to sell off these company's to stay afloat snd it saves these IPs.

[@GregorMima]

Yeah it´s beautiful, isnt it.🤣 I really enjoying every second of my Schadenfreude after they killed all my childhood heros. Burn Disney burn.

[@tyr3759]

Disney's goal has shifted from making entertainment to a more sinister Orwellian one. Why that is, one can only guess. But it doesn't seem to work, so that's a good thing.

[@greenhill004]

The fact Kathleen Kennedy still has a job says everything I need to know about the company.

[@matthewgaulke8094]

I find it hilarious that these KZbin channels like yours are far more interesting than the million dollar movies. I don't look forward to the movies but the KZbinrs takes on them.

[@Larry]

I saw the first episode of Secret Invasion, found it incredibly boring. The only thing I took away from it was thinking "Wow, Moscow looks an awful lot like London".

[@M567dk]

I think Secret invasion could have been worked more on the show a bit better, but Pixar…ever since Toy Story 3 it has been more of a miss than a few hits here and there. We don’t talk about Lucasfilm and their already messed ups in films and properties.

[@MarketingMovies1337]

I feel like the nerd culture of media of 2011 - 2019 is now on life support. It started with Last Jedi, major blow with the finale of Game of Thrones, things like comics sales dipping, companies such as Funko in financial trouble, and now Disney & DC's recent output have been mid to awful.

[@thetimturnershow2883]

I’m glad I stopped paying attention to anything popular. I guess I’m not the only one who check out of Marvel after Endgame. I feel bad for Disney’s self sinking ship… but at the same time, I’m not.

[@arc8216]

I think Hollywood is in danger of large portions of the population becoming indifferent to more traditional forms of entertainment in general. The online landscape changed entertainment forever with KZbin and online gaming. Streaming networks haven't at all slowed this decline.. only accelerated it.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

And even there, Twitch is kind of garbage. That being said, there definitely is a demand.

[@AnthonyW86]

Disney: We got tons of new content incoming! Me: Double it and give it to the next person.

[@Dembilaja]

I always thought how Endgame is to MCU what T2:Judgement Day was to the Terminator franchise. Both had a clear, definitive, impactful ending. I liked Rise of the Machines and I didn't hate Salvation, but they were unnecessary, and they made the series watered down. Then there were Genesis and Dark Fate, what to say about them... Well, basically MCU is in now in DF territory, but difference being that Terminator series needed quarter of a century to devolve from T2 to DF, while MCU took only four years to become what it is. What always scared me, because I like some of these movies, was the thought that when MCU starts failing one day, that they would pay absurd amounts of money to RDJ and Chris Evans to bring them back, and make a joke out of Endgame's ending. That fear I've felt for the first time shortly after Endgame came out, I had no idea about Multiverse thing back then. Now they have a perfect excuse to pay 130 million a movie to RDJ just to have a glorified cameo, and do Rise of Skywalker type of damage to MCU

[@parycartoons6840]

Thankfully I don’t think they will bring RDJ back. He gave a firm asking price and Marvel went “nah we can’t afford that. Let’s tell the audience it’s because we want to focus on the new characters even though they’re all shit” they might have Tom Cruise or Joseph Quinn to play a variant of him though.

[@anubusx]

Endgame and Back To The Future 2 are really alike.

[@Dembilaja]

@@parycartoons6840 i could bet that we'll have "Somehow Tony Stark returned" moment in near future, we'll reach a point where they'll be that desperate to pay him whatever sum he demands either to return for real, or to have his likeness for CGI or AI generated version of him.

[@takeoffyourblinkers]

endgame was pretty much shite, judgement day was masterclass

[@anubusx]

@@takeoffyourblinkers I hated it. The rat thing and lame time travel plot. Also the final battle against a completly different version of Thanos from Infinty War. What awful writing.

[@redsoxu571]

Commenting on a video about IJ and the Crystal Skull the other day, I realized that it would have made a lot more sense to end up with an Indy who has semi retired from a life of adventuring...and living in *satisfaction*! He could have been dragged back in out of necessity, his initial "ineptitude" easily explained as a guy who chose to fall out of form, and then over the course of the film the heroic and capable adventurer could emerge once more. Someone should really try that with...some legacy character. Just one!

[@SamtheBravesFan]

T would make sense to see him stumble because he usually does.

[@crackdbrain34]

Dry, well delivered observations as always, love your work, however I'm saddened that you have to do it.

[@Snikit]

Sometimes you just can’t get rid of a bomb! 🦇 The Pandemic is partly responsible for my pull back from theaters, but I’m just not excited by it all like I used to be. I will be returning to the theatre for the first time since the lockdowns for Transformers:Rise of the Beasts. We’ll see where things go from there. But I’m done with Disney until the axe falls on this trend. And for the record, I don’t suffer from superhero fatigue. The writing just plain sucks. It’s not worth my energy, let alone my money. I hope you’re channel continues to grow. ✨🍀✨

[@wilsonram39]

I'm sprry but the movie to pull you back to the theatre is Transformers? That one looks like it's been left out to die; why not Spiderverse or Guardians at least, or Top Gun Maverick a year ago? All were worthwhile movie theater experiences - Guardians 3 is the one exceptional movie in Marvel phase...4? 5? Just seems like you're setup to fail when expecting good things from a Transformers movie

[@kurtdewittphoto]

You missed out not seeing Top Gun Maverick or Dune in theaters.

[@Rhamsody]

Classic Batman win. 👍🏾

[@pyropulseIXXI]

there is no such thing as super hero fatigue; they are just releasing shitty movies. Imagine a burger joint started putting shit in their food and going "Wow, people have burger fatigue." People that repeat this "fatigue" nonsense are nonsensical nonces

[@StarwarsFannick]

True words.

[@TimeIsFire000]

I live for your reviews. You always word how I feel so eloquently.

[@Barot8]

Actually named off a comic with no real connection to the original comic. The show runner admitted Disney told him not to read the source material so other than name, and Skrulls there's no real connection. Hurrah. Genius.

[@ajvela4310]

they keep ruining everything and there’s nothing we can do about it… this sucks

[@twinpinesmall7510]

The problem with the modern Disney today is that they were too much involved into politics which is the good reason why Pixar has now became the box office losers, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is starting to lose its steam despite the success of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and the new Indiana Jones movie is not looking to hot at all. This may make Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull look like a masterpiece. However, I hope this new Haunted Mansion movie looks good and promising.

[@pigglypoof]

You just keep hitting the home runs Disney

[@northshore1000]

I LOVE the way you put your thoughts-OUR thoughts-to words! Exactly, EXACTLY how we all feel!! Brilliant!!!!

[@kevinmccabe7263]

The sad truth is that they're still making insane revenue from their parks and Disney+. Thankfully both those are turning around now but it's gonna be years before Iger and Disney see any repercussions for their terrible work.

[@supremelebowski2712]

Started secret invasion... got to the scene where Fury meets Sonya and turned that shit right off. They couldn't even wait 10 minutes before tearing down Sam Jackson lol

[@NormieNerddom]

Let's also not forget that Elemental just looks terrible. It's so flat and one dimensional, it just looks lifeless, bland, and uninteresting

[@NebLleb]

DAMN, you got Pipes!

[@lumbagoboi1649]

I'm so pissed that starwars is basically dead now because of Disney. Our only hope is that EA no longer has a monopoly over starwars games so maybe a company will release an absolute banger and revive starwars, but I doubt it will happen...

[@jakestefano4118]

The "Borg of Entertainment" is the most accurate thing I've heard.

[@TheRealBlackarrot]

I knew that Last of Us "Bomb" clip would be making the rounds soon

[@hagerty1952]

Pixar didn't just lose their way, they slit their own throat by "cancelling" their chief storyteller, John Lasseter. He was the heart and soul of the company. The PC folks who are left have been pushing out imitative product with no idea of why it worked in the past andy why their current movies don't.

[@guai9632]

I guess Disney still isn't diverse enough

[@Mpel3]

Poor Jaba. 😢

[@christophertaylor9100]

I love how Nick Fury's scars over his eye changed after they came up with the imbecilic cat scratch explanation

[@takeoffyourblinkers]

damn, squeezed alot in that 9 mins lol and still only the tip of the iceberg 😂

[@MillywiggZ]

Oh my God JC a bomb!

[@daniellappen4845]

The chickens are coming home to roost.

[@shawna620]

Another quality video! "Stamp on your man..." Love it!

[@mxvega1097]

Great song. What on earth are Disney going to tell their investors? There's only so long they can say "tough quarter, consolidation in some areas, D+ is a black hole". Investors will potentially forgive mistakes, market movements, whatever. But they are a lot less forgiving if the company has no fricking idea what next - not just surviving but returning to profitability. "Yeah, the future's so shit I gotta wear a snorkel..."

[@esathegreat]

they are going to tell their investors "Blackrock is in charge now,so you can go eff yourself"

[@rfletch62]

Even episodes of "The Drinker Fixes" aren't going to be able to patch this crap together.

[@clancydowrca]

Disney believe they are pioneers and given enough time people/audiences will give in and accept woke content in all its forms. Given the success of spider-man across the spider-verse where once again the white Spider-man is treated badly by the women, in one scene told to shut-up by pregnant spider-woman (race-swapped of course) when trying to make a valid point. He also is wearing a pink bath robe. The tide is turning in woke favour which is why Disney and others just press on churning out fail after fail, waiting for that one hit where audiences just accept and consume product.

[@theonejmv]

Professional victims esp Hollywood writers take their hate and depression out on white men creatively. Glad I didn't pay to see this film

[@TryingToWakeUp-qb7iu]

Yup, movie made a lot of money so even those who make their money from calling out "The Message" wore pink colored glasses and completely ignored all the blatantly woke stuff just there to be woke.

[@jonbuono7826]

Disney has never been the same since the "blip".

[@mck1972]

Yeah maybe Thanos was right after all...

[@Eldon_is_The_Best]

I wasn’t even aware that any of these were out already

[@huro1845]

What a phantastic musical number! 🤩 You get a like just for that. Haven't even finished watching the video yet.

[@andrewshaughnessy5828]

I had a coughing fit when he juxtaposed Jabba the Hutt with Sam Smith!🤣

[@marda0maranwe]

7:50. Thank you for reminding me . I think I'll rewatch Black adder instead of all of this new Disney hits.

[@free_at_last8141]

"Wow! We're doing great! All those people are calling our movies the bomb!" - Disney Executives

[@WrvrUgoThrUR]

First off, extra points for the Black Adder clip 7:48-second…It seems people have finally reached my level saturation with over-produced, glossy, celebrity-drenched fantastical, supernatural and CGI’d to within a nanometer of complete lack of ability for viewers to suspend all disbelief-that Hollywood schlockgineers seem to think we don’t get enough of our already divisive politics in our daily lives.

[@shamrockdragon7634]

"Stamp on your men" 🤣🤣

[@paulhugo1623]

“The illusion of choice”… exactly

[@richardmcgowan1651]

There was no hype at all around Secret Invasion. Im sure people on D+ watched it and I can't see the ratings for the first few episodes being that bad. But no one at my work was even talking about the show at all.

[@dhajjiyan672]

Yes, they will have to sell stuff like WB. The audience should not give them an inch.

[@Shdan125]

Sunlight averse stone lmaoooo 😂

[@FoulPet]

Has to be the worst era in film since its invention

[@michelleyoung731]

I enjoy your biting sarcasm. Very good work.

[@stormgirl09]

Message to Disney and Hollyweird in general: You groom?? Expect doom!!!!

[@shanekimberlin]

"'Peter Pan and Wendy' bombing harder than an Oscar Wilde production put on in Uganda" is so specifically funny.

[@ThePoliticrat]

Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb. 🤷

[@cliffbooth4826]

Kudos on that fantastic song stamp on your man .. I lold bahaj

[@TheRagdollrejects]

They’ll change eventually because at the end of the day the market decides. If the things they’re making don’t make money the shareholders will complain and other companies will step in and give people what they want, so they’ll be left with the choice, adapt or die.

[@austinpeters4509]

Theworldneedsmore of this EC type. Thank you.

[@coltekr]

I actually wanted to like Elemental, the concept and characters are definitely creative. If only they didn’t make the story about blatant racial politics… Political messages has to be handled carefully and intelligently, it adds weight to the story, but only if it’s incorporated correctly.

[@JasonRasmussen]

All Bob Iger's doing. Bob Iger and everyone in Disney management among all businesses (including ALL of Lucasfilm) need to go.

[@antwaunmcdowell2236]

I mean, I don't think secret invasion is bomb. YET. Of course, only the first episode is out, not much to go off of also, Nick Fury has been through the worst lately he w a s gone for 5 years then returned to a world that moved on from him also including the avengers and iron man is gone, now he has to fight an incoming invasion of scrulls I think this is what is with him.

[@kennyoconnor6564]

Can’t take him seriously after the cat scratch.

[@joshuacalkins]

I bet Disney hasn’t hit rock bottom yet. How would we know? They’d have to make something decent for comparison.

[@Kerath]

As long as the ESG Rating does it's thing and the BlackRock is compensating Disney all the loses, it doesn't matter if it bombs. It takes 25 years to subvert a generation. This madness been going for less than half of that time. There will be another 15 years of Woke Garbage and replacing good old art with THE MESSAGE. They have to, it takes 25 years and they know it, ESG makes it a long game.

[@WarTheory]

I was a huge and diehard Disney fan… so was my family since the 1980s… now nobody cares… I gave up comic book collecting I stop watching the movies just because they got dumb

[@rsolsjo]

When Disney crashes and burns and a Nolan and Gerwig movie are making bucks: STAY CALM EVERYBODY, IT'S HAPPENING! 😄

[@ibtaba]

Simpsons predicted it. 😊

[@jadoyon]

Disney hasn't had a profitable film in a while. I think that's why they fired the CFO and the Diversity lady. The shareholders are fed up with them losing money and finally demanding change. We will see if anything happens or if their replacements make the same woke mistakes as their predecessors.

[@HuffinStufff]

That Jabba the Hut one 😂

[@ca6koto0]

Pinocchio was good actually the Guillermo del Toro one

[@josephnjuguna1986]

There's absolutely no hype for secret invasion

[@steveswafen2528]

Awesome video Echo. Give this man a sub peeps 👍

[@VinceLyle2161]

I hope they never learn their lesson. Let it all burn to the ground.

[@yolandabraithwaite7730]

Elementals is a copy of Zootopia which is a copy of Robots, Ants, Nutcracker and the 7 Realms, Bee Story etc, etc…

[@quadeingram6874]

nice singing voice

[@dylanwong6065]

Before Disney used to be great and wonderful but now not anymore. While Universal, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination Entertainment, Paramount, Sony, and Sony Pictures Animation is doing better now, Disney and Pixar are getting worse. The golden age era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is over. Now we are in the silver age era of the MCU. But to be fair, I love Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and it’s the best film I saw this year so far while Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania which I did like but not as good as the first two Ant-Man movies. I will check this new Indiana Jones movie but I won’t expect too much. Even Warner Bros is also not doing so well this year either especially since the DC Extended Universe are going to to be extinct like a dinosaur and had to reboot the DC movies again and also the last Fantastic Beasts movie underperformed at the box office which means the Harry Potter franchise is officially over.

[@princewellidk]

WB have Dune 2 and The Meg 2 so they're going to be fine

[@the_absurd_hero]

I’m just as angry about what they did to Jabba the Hutt as you are! He deserved so much better..

[@OddityDK]

There might also be an overarching trend at play here. Cinema might simply be dying. What is supposed to make up this next generation of moviegoers come from a completely different background of streaming, mini-series, KZbin etc. - everything available on demand on large HD screens. There’s so much to chose from at any given time and if some “blockbuster” isn’t among it right now, it will be shortly, so why bother trekking to some building to see it? It doesn’t help of course that pretty much everything produced at the moment is utter garbage.

[@MrDecelles]

Secret invasion.... Did anybody see the list of work of the director? Who got this director? We need ARMOR WARS and SPUNK.

[@theproplady]

Compare Elemental, a soulless analogy for racial tensions and interracial romance, with "Heavy Traffic", Ralph Bakshi's semi-autobiographical cartoon portraying interracial romance in a fully realized 70's era New York. One has heart, feeling, and a sense of realism. The other is a cashgrab made to push Current Year politics. I know which one I'd rather watch.

[@Aristocles22]

This isn't necessarily rock bottom. Wait until The Marvels.

[@finwefingolfin7113]

Enough with the multiverses already!!

[@planescaped]

"Chief diversity and inclusion officer" lol .....wait that's real?

[@JeghedderThomas]

No worries, Oz and the Kiwies are on the ball, indepentend studios comes to the fore and in most European nations the film industry is about stories, not lecturing. It's just L.A. that's going to sink.

[@taketheredpill1452]

Funny, the Skrull story is actually based on real events....

[@pauldavidartistclub6723]

The only thing I would say is that the comics line of Marvel Comics has been truly awful since the mid-1980’s (though actually, with a number of obviously excellent exceptions, going back to the mid to later 1970’s); so the movie/TV versions have only followed apace. Star Wars has sucked since the 1983 release of the miserable The Return of The Jedi. There was only one truly outstanding Indiana Jones film, the first. And personally I couldn’t care less for any Pixar product , but OK, I concede that I liked the first Incredibles, but it wasn’t a great motion picture either.

[@DrTIPUSUK]

Let the money do the talking the more they flop the more they will lose and that will force their hand to change their thinking

[@StarwarsFannick]

I mean Disney is pretty much a dead company and it's only a matter of time before the guys like wall street not only take notice but pretty much start breaking apart Disney.

[@after-worknetwork6095]

Coincidence that the video length is 9:11? I think NOT!