Hollywood complainers need to shut-up.

[@jackuber7358]

When you are a narcissist, everyone, absolutely everyone, else is so very wrong, while the narcissist is always, always, so very right.

[@MicahMicahel]

IN the Criminology History of Crime, Colin Wilson identifies a character he called " the right man." the right man can either become a great man or more likely a criminal. He identifies this characteristic throughout history. I don't think it's quite the same thing as a narcissist. A person can be determined and persistent but not be a narcissist. Do all narcissists have this trait.

[@garthako]

​ @Nutsilica: Renaissance As many, if not all narcissists have a really low esteem, they need to persistently be better than their surrounding - being as good as others might often not be enough to ease their pain of (the perception of) not being loved. Literally, they make their worth dependent on it. Therefore, many of leading personalities are narcissists. As they always strife for their "fix", they will climb the corporate ladders pretty steadily. You have to separate the malignant narcissist from the others. The malignant ones are the ones that people correlate to "these *ssholes". What people don't correlate to narcissism are the many hard working people who try to be as good (in their job/in situations) as they can possibly be and don't harm anyone - or at least, try to not harm anyone.

[@ariochiv]

@@garthako It's an important distinction that's often glossed over, but mostly when someone says "narcissist," they're referring to the malignant variety.

[@JeanPiFresita]

HEY!!! they are "STARS!" what did you expect???

[@jackuber7358]

@@MicahMicahel A very good question.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

I usually find it difficult to feel sorry for whining millionaires.

[@MarcelNL]

Read all about it in their book "Waaagh!"

[@pigeonpoo1823]

I work in a UK family owned business. I find declining sales can easily be reversed by going to Lidl with a megaphone and accusing all the shoppers as being racist against British companies.

[@StephenGillie]

Wouldn't that get some guy in a mohawk to open your jars of pickles and throw them at your employees?

[@voodoochile333]

It works for meghan Markel!

[@codinghusky5196]

​@@voodoochile333 ...Meghan opened my eyes to new opportunities for us coloured people. Being a meditherranian Slav, my skin is darker than hers 10 out of 12 months in a year, and I am about to go and claim my privileges for evil white supremacists enslaving my ancestors , using them in wars and selling them to highest bidder. I mean; my people DID suffer that for about 1500+ years starting with the Roman Empire and kinda but not really ending with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian one, not like I'd be lying or anything...

[@Fred-gu6pk]

Aldiist

[@redemissarium]

@@voodoochile333 God save the Queen meghan markle! 🤣

[@MurderMostFowl]

Halley Bailey’s most difficult role is not Ariel but selling the world on why we needed a remake of Little Mermaid. They should have highlighted her as an artist well before the move trailer came out. Don’t tell me that if the audience was hungry for a remake, say 10-15 years ago, they wouldn’t have jumped at someone like Beyoncé to fill the lead. The thing is that there’s no need to remake this movie.

[@frednone]

Or the Lion King, or Beauty and the Beast, or any of the other live action remakes they have done. There was a play awhile back called '1776', it was made into a movie and then back into a play, I have to say they did a decent job all three times with it. One of my favorite songs from that production is 'Mollasses to Rum To Slaves.' A song about the triangle trade and how hypocritical many New Englanders were condeming southern plantation owners over their slaves, as New England hulls carried the slaves to the New World and they made a tidy profit doing it. Disney now a days is more, 'Animated to Broadway to Live Action.', yeah. Who stincketh more?

[@darthlaurel]

I'd say it is now convincing us that she doesn't look down on us for being white. Oh dear, I'm already not convinced.

[@conradhauser17]

Hang on. Live action remake of Lilo and Stitch in production.

[@lainiwakura1776]

It'll still make a billion like the Lion King remake...

[@JimmyJacpots]

the keep remaking movies because new writers dont have any stories or wisdom to impart. Daddy sent them to school and they squeaked by academically. And now is the time of the fan fic writer.

[@dinosaurwoman]

"Movies are a massive survey. If it fails, it's usually because people didn't want to see it." This is truly a brilliant observation. Thanks, Chato.

[@Cyril29a]

It is almost as if capitalism is moral!

[@glennc100]

But then you have those movies that failed in the box office but became cult classics. Mike Judge's, Office Space and Idiocracy are both great examples.

[@Cyril29a]

@@glennc100Yes... the film makers were too avant guard and they didn't resonate with their contemporaries but eventually the zeitgeist caught up with them. This doesn't contradict the original statement it just demonstrates that culture is nuanced.

[@michaelbartley7123]

@@glennc100 i think the difference is, people just didnt know about those movies or the advertisements just werent good enough. i think, with a lot of these disney movies, people really dont want to see them. that is a big difference.

[@Jeff-cn9up]

How dare we not silently and compliantly watch the terrible productions we were sullenly given.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Transminors will end th3mselfes!

[@StephenGillie]

I'm tired of companies thinking they can earn my business by calling me names.

[@ikept_the_jethryk2421]

The point I would like people to get in these situations is that I have every right to object to casting a black woman as Ariel, or a woman as The Doctor, or a Mexican as Snow White, etc. just on its own merits. I don’t have to object to the technical failures or the hostile statements of the cast and crew to justify this, although I do also object to those. It’s my right to have this opinion, as much as people would oppose a white Black Panther.

[@judgedrekk2981]

I'm good playing Saints Row 2 fir the hell of it.... modern movies make me ill....modern movies ruined my gallblatter, maybe untrue but they get the blame, it's my body and i can pass blame where I see fit.....cus I'm awesome and brave like that lolz but seriously, the past rules but the present and future sucks.... present? what did they get me??

[@SteveSmith-rt7wx]

“Consume product, then get excited for next product”

[@candide]

At 7:16 - “You’re cute, petite, and you have a soaring, clearly trained generic unrecognisable mechanised voice: you’re perfect”. That is priceless! 😄

[@wanfu5634]

If "Lightyear" was asking too much from the audience, what the freak was "2001: A Space Odyssey" asking out of theirs?!?

[@zachklopfleisch8501]

2001 wasn't the fourth (fifth?) installment in a series of children's movies.

[@markstott6689]

​@Britton Holdaway I read the book and I was still confused.

[@Lawfair]

It was not a book well suited for a cinematic adaptation. The movie can be viewed in light of the book, and one can then piece together what the director was going for; but without reading the book the movie will never make sense.

[@miguelservetus9534]

@@brittonholdaway5730 Most of my life, I could not understand Picasso’s work. One day a art student gave me a short article analysis of one of his paintings. Suddenly I saw genius. I never understand Catcher in the Rye. One day I watched a documentary on Salinger and suddenly I saw genius. Same with Kubrick. My lessons learned were that 1) I m no genius. 2) Others can provide me with the lens to recognize genius 3) Don’t be quick to critwhat you don’t understand. Doesn’t mean that all is genius, but some may be.

[@user-yv4mm6bx3c]

You win the comments section of this video.

[@fattiger6957]

There's nothing new I can say. Generations of people already grew up watching diverse movies. We learned that we didn't need to look like the person on screen to relate to and empathize with their character. That did a lot of good to make people more accepting. Now Hollywood seems deadset on regressing society back to the days of segregation. Back to the days when people were defined by superficial features they were born with, and not the contents of their hearts and minds.

[@theblackflame4002]

Nothing more regressive than a progressive

[@NurseHarley299]

​@@theblackflame4002 Patience Xina made a video talking a bit about that 👌🏻 Progressives have "progressed" so much that they've already rounded society and are now regressing us without even seeing it or caring

[@Mediados]

Racism still exists of course, but for some reason these people insist that we are back in the 20s. That's what happens when you give every new filmmaker the feeling they have to change the world.

[@codinghusky5196]

Yes. Because we need role models that LOOK LIKE US. I really loved how Michelle Wong said, out loud, that her newly won award means the world to GIRLS THAT LOOK LIKE HER. Got me thinking, poor sick anorexic girls need INFORMATION and PROFESSIONAL HELP, not some dumb bimbo winning awards....

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Every boy in the 80s looked up to Mr. T.

[@0That_Guy0]

The majority of people don't blame the actors for taking the role of a race and/or sex swapped character. They blame the studio. When the actor makes it about them and cry on social media, they're making themselves into a target as well.

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

Victimhood is valuable at this juncture.

[@MarcelNL]

We: "We don't want our classic stories to be race-swapped!" Hollywood: "The sheer hatred and racist comments that this actress is getting is absolutely shocking! Now go watch this movie to show those bigots that you don't agree with them!"

[@lynnm6413]

Looking at it from Europe I'm starting to wonder if those woke companies are not trying to force racist comments by forcefully race swapping white characters tp prove to the public how bad racism still is, even though it regularly isn't. I just commented under a video of school violence and mentioned a 'black boy'.... I got called racist for calling a black boy a black boy?! Like WTF is going on w/u?

[@MarcelNL]

@@lynnm6413 In the 1990s the word "negro" was still perfectly normal in my country ("neger", here in The Netherlands), but when I mentioned it during Dutch class, the entire classroom except for the teacher reacted shocked and furious that I used that word. The teacher was shocked about their reaction and said that it was a perfectly normal word. How times have changed, and still ARE changing.

[@lynnm6413]

@@MarcelNL well, Neger is the same in German and derived from the Latin for black, so I get why it is not defensive in and of itself, but since the Nazis did use it I‘m fine with getting rid of it. But we had this discussion when our Negerküsse were renamed into Schaumküsse in Germany at least 15 years back and I‘m on board with that. What saddens me more is that the Mohrs get the same treatment and all the Inns and apothecaries are being renamed even though traditionally those were infused with the good name Arabic medicine and culture had in the Middle Ages.

[@david_walker_esq]

If only Halle Bailey were represented in media growing-up by the likes of characters in The Jeffersons, or Thelma Evans on Good Times, Rudy Huxtable on The Cosby Show, Tootie Ramsey on The Facts of Life, Ashley Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Tia and Tamera on Sister, Sister or Moesha or Raven or Jazz on My Wife and Kids or Tiana in The Waitress and the Frog. If only there were characters she could superficially identify with in Hollywood media. If it's "representation" in animated media, it's really too bad that she wasn't exposed to shows like Fillmore!, The Proud Family, Doc McStuffins, Little Bill, Home, Fatherhood, Hey Monie!, or even Boondocks and The Cleveland Show. If it's specifically mermaid representation she needed, I blame Disney for not creating an animated feature based on the African folklore of Mami Wata once they saw the success of adapting the Danish fairytale of The Little Mermaid. That poor unfortunate soul. Thank God she's not Indigenous looking for "representation" in Hollywood mainstream media.

[@jasonpratt5126]

As someone with nieces, I feel at least 80% sure that Disney had mermaid television shows for a while, too. (I know those series existed; about 80% sure Disney made them.) If Disney didn't include enough racial diversity for the mermaids in them, that was a Disney problem, not a niece problem, I assure you! -- the nieces couldn't have possibly cared less.

[@jasonkiefer1894]

Actually, you nailed it. The is no why she was ever going to succeed as Ariel. But Tiana, that would have been smart. Not that we really need live action, but Hollywood/Disney isn't even trying (at best) or more likely deliberately trying to f up (at worst).

[@david_walker_esq]

@@jasonpratt5126 Disney had a cartoon Little Mermaid TV series based on their feature film. They also had a Sophia the First episode where she visited mermaids. Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer also had a mermaid movie, so there was some Latina "representation." But, Disney could easily adapt African folklore instead of race swapping European fairytales. They just won't do it.

[@david_walker_esq]

@@jasonkiefer1894 Rather than a live action remake of The Little Mermaid, I'd rather see an animated feature based on Mami Wata. If Disney wanted to make a live action or even an animated feature or TV series about ethnically and racially diverse mermaids, they ought to make devise a story that makes sense rather than race swapping The Little Mermaid. I'd watch a TV series that visits different oceanographic areas depicting ethnically and culturally diverse mermaids. They can even feature the Nibiinaabe (freshwater mermaids from the Anishinabe/Indigenous folklore).

[@judgedrekk2981]

I'm white and as much as I like all my white boy stuff I still liked characters like Lando, Roger Murtaugh, Shaft, Dylan in predator and Apollo in Rocky just to name a few, when i started hearing stories from japan more than just Anime but history and hearing about legends like nobunaga oda and Mitsuhide Akechi, Yukimara Sanada and more....well those stories have been interesting and their battles and ideals hold up, Nobunaga trying to unify the nation and eventually Tokogowa achieving that goal and all the other stories from the warring states are interesting hearing even the message of things like the Tao and Buddha and a lot of Asian mysticism and religions actually makes more sense than Christianity to me lol we need not be of the people to connect for we are all human, there is some of us in everyone for we are all made of the same star dust which is why we decompose into dirt, we came from the earth and so we return to it when we die, we feed the worms and maggots and they go off to fertilize flowers and grass but eventually our atoms will make up another person one day but we'll be recombined with other people's atoms too....everything in nature is repurposed we all wear a different face and have a different color, but we are all human, I'm not saying unite despite the tribalism I doubt we can get rid of but we need to relearn tolerance and some need to be punished for their crimes.... wellp that was deep [burps]

[@tadroid3858]

"Pay us to watch our stuff, or you're racist!" Disney Corp.

[@HivisoftheScale]

If Ripley from aliens randomly showed up and said "Come with me if you want to live" I would sure as heck follow her. Her actress and character was the epitome of confidence.

[@Ahmenthi]

Funny we hear Disney conditioning actors to brace for racism when they're hiding Chadwick Boseman's face and shrinking Finn for posters in China. Meanwhile I'm still blown away they didn't make Finn become a Jedi and defeat the First Order. Surely that would've been a more welcome outcome than to have him reduced to a somewhat comedic side character. A stormtrooper defecting and becoming a Jedi, however unlikely that would be, would have been a much better path to take if you ask me. Yet I'm the racist one for preferring that route for the character? That doesn't sound right. That just sounds like a studio with double standards that can't handle being told it's wrong.

[@zakofrx]

I watched the first movie before giving up on the rest due to the insanity.. When I watched it that's what I was looking for and expecting.. It even seemed like that's what they wanted but I guess some idiot changed it because of sexism.. It doesn't help either that the actor is a racist idiot but in the way the left likes.. I gave up on him when he only spoke about evil white people.. It was a shame as I liked him in the role that gave him some fame were he was a thug he fought against aliens in a tower lock..

[@dredgewalker]

They did Finn dirty and even worse by pairing him with Rose.

[@Snicker60515]

for thinking that you'd have been labeled as a misogynist, not a racist. The Force is female remember.

[@jodi2847]

How much longer can the pattern of fail, blame, fail, blame, fail, blame continue before these studios get their sh*t together?

[@scubasteve3032]

Better yet, where the hell is all of the money coming from to make the garbage?

[@StephenGillie]

@@scubasteve3032 BlackRock and other investment companies are bankrolling these Entertainment Charities to keep their Woke dream alive. Hope springs financial.

[@SigPuma]

Key word being sh*t. At least they pick out the corn bits for some content.

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

@@scubasteve3032 BlackRock/Vanguard. They're trying to destroy shit. They're hoping idiots will allow their kids to watch this shit so they can program them making more NPCs.

[@zoch9797]

​@@scubasteve3032 ESG, Blackrock, WEF, etc. Think about who stands to gain from subverting our culture.

[@artfire28]

This is why the film Tropic Thunder is still being talked about forever to poke fun at the current state of Hollywoke.

[@kevinkorenke3569]

I think you hit the nail on the head for one major point that gets easily overlooked. These aren't actresses, singers, thespians or anything of the like. These are manufactured commodities in human shape. This is a major reason why there are so few prolific actors in the market these days forcing older actors to continue working in roles they are no longer suited for. Disney and Hollywood stopped creating things and started just making them for profit and we are seeing the after-effects of that mentality. Short-term profitable but in the long run forgettable.

[@jawarholol4651]

You forgot the rampant nepotism in Hollywood as well

[@guyincognito959]

The line about that actress's soulless and fabricated sounding trained voice is pretty good. Even simplistic pop music that would not be my taste can be interesting when played by good performers.

[@TheBoyMechanic]

"Mystery Men" was great. Goofy, but great. Needed more "Mr. Canoe Head"

[@daiichidoku]

a movie actually worthy of sequels and its own universe, but none of it. we wuz robbed

[@cjk5115]

I wish to say that I'm still laughing from your comment regarding the Little Mermaid actress' career arc following Liza Minelli's with her mentioning boys first. A close second was appearing in a video with Chris Brown and living to tell about it. Thank you for today's laughs!

[@jaewok5G]

Pete Doctor, too … I thought he was one of them who knew that the role of entertainment was to entertain. "if you want my money, then don't suck at what you do."

[@brentchesson2179]

Totally agree Chato. Mystery Men is criminally underrated. As a wise man once said "We've got a blind date with destiny...and it looks like she ordered the lobster.".

[@Lammy4ever7]

"Now, do we stop Casanova Frankenstein, or DO I EAT THIS SANDWICH?"

[@shipmcgree6367]

Also: How dare we not watch Chinese language films that we can't understand, nor relate to. We must be bigots!

[@fattiger6957]

Hong Kong used to make amazing movies, then the island was handed back to the communists...

[@MicahMicahel]

@@fattiger6957 The Pang Brothers were my favourite. Recycle and the Eye movies.

[@AlejandroDiazadiaz201]

There are some amazing films from Asia, since they do not have huge budgets for CGI, Asian dramas rely on story. Don't be afraid of subtitles, and I guarantee you'll find some real gems that explore humanity and even immerse you in a different culture for a couple of hours.

[@MarcelNL]

Korean shows and movies can be pretty interesting though, if you use subtitles at least.

[@halofreak1990]

@@AlejandroDiazadiaz201 That's the way I prefer to play my games and watch my movies. There's something about consuming the content in its native language that makes it so much better than a translated work. As you said, don't be afraid of subtitles. It's well worth it

[@WilAdams]

I remember reading about Hollywood in the late 30s and up to the 50s, and in those stories by people like Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, and many others, you get to read about how each explained her hit films and from those readings you found out that each of these screen Queens at one time or another had a film that failed. Anne, for example, quit Hollywood as her star was still rising and moved all the way to Australia to try out being a wife and mother. After her marriage failed--something she admitted came about because her husband--who had gotten an assurance from her prior to the wedding that she was through with Hollywood---expected her to stop taking guest starring roles in various TV shows, and she just couldn't do it. Couldn't sit back in the huge house (ranch) that her husband's money had purchased. Nope, she wanted to be a star. Anne goes on to confess that leaving her husband was the largest mistake of her life, but she NEVER blamed anyone but herself for that mistake. Bette Davis and Lana too, each had their own stories of what they experienced with one of their films failed, but the only person they blamed was themselves. Even Bette Davis--who spent much of the 1930s locked in a battle with WB for control of her career--admitted in the end that she regretted much of the fight since she lost out on several roles. Still, she didn't blame anyone for her failures but herself. Those were the days when you could be a Movie Queen, and still be graceful. Hollywood has lost that grace.

[@MJanovicable]

Well put, sir, excellent history.

[@scottjoseph9578]

Great Professionals.

[@richardhockey8442]

owning your failures and learning from them - wish some of the people in modern Hollywood could follow that path instead of the 'it's the audience's fault my epic movie/TV show failed' we hear so much of

[@WilAdams]

@@richardhockey8442 Today's people aren't ALLOWED to face the consequences of their failure. If a kid breaks his arm on a toy, the mother sues the toy maker and the kid learns that doing stupid stuff can get you hurt, but it also can make you rich. This teaches the wrong lesson, so as they grow into what they call Adulthood, they are still--like their mothers---looking for someone else to blame instead of seeing that their own actions have caused the issue.

[@The_Burning_Sensation]

That Little Mermaid actress must have incredible depth perception.

[@LowellBoggs]

Another excellent commentary on the realities of Holyweird and Disney. Who is paying these producers to screw up the marketing so badly?

[@StephenGillie]

It's BlackRock among other investment firms. Someone else made a video about them.

[@pt7181]

@@StephenGillie ah those who got the contract of "rebuilding" ukraine after the war? Strange when u start following the money how it all ends up in the same dot. Edit: a personal story if i may add. A few years back i had to stay for a while in a hospital. It was when Star Trek discovery was created. Im not from USA, i wasnt into politics at all as this woke agenda was not hitting hard yet. Still after 10 mins from 1st episode i preferred to stare at the hospital ceiling than watching this, and i couldnt even explain why as i am huge ST nerd.. after a few days i rewatched deep space 9 instead. Once i got grabbed yet again in the story i didnt even feel the hospital stay (well, except when it was drug time).... This is all i can say about this ideology. It is making enemies from neutral people, while trying the opposite. It is shocking.

[@nolongeramused8135]

"We didn't make it for you." "Why aren't you watching it?"

[@Jimmie2429]

Disney’s Little Mermaid remake is another symptom of the lack of creativity disease Disney and Hollywood in general is suffering from.

[@DTylerFultzVA]

"Am I out of touch? NO! It's the audience who is wrong!" -Hollywood Execs

[@srichael2713]

"You call the audience out-of-touch despite the fact they on spot about the problem?"

[@ProfessorHeyTeeEn]

Halle Bailey knows she only got cast as Ariel because casting directors in Hollywood have been dyslexic for about 15 years now. Ginger, yeah, ginger.

[@Antechynus]

Those eyes are so far apart they are almost ears....

[@613-shadow9]

@@Antechynus she will play a fish well

[@Antechynus]

@@613-shadow9 lol.... I heard she's playing Admiral Akbar in the next Star Wars.... without make-up.

[@contumelious-8440]

Correct. She was cast because she was black which is not racist. Audience didn't want to watch because they race-swapped in a black character which makes the audience racist. Everyone clear how racism works now?

[@Melvin-Deeply]

If she had that when she was younger? She's only 22! Life has a few surprises for her yet. 😂😂😂

[@isamu237]

Why can't I find this Betty White/Dean Martin Axe Murder Special? I must see this!

[@jimclayson]

I loved the "Mystery Men" ('99) shout-out! Totally underrated and tragically overlooked classic! It even featured Tom Waits! Why am I using so many exclamation marks?!? 😁

[@theblackflame4002]

Because she smelt it I was forever cursed to the one who dealt it

[@JGL841]

"We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering.” The Shoveler

[@lino222]

i almost died laughing when they attacked Casanova's limo!...the dialogue was so good ( there's even a line that i think it's missed by most, when Blue Raja throws a fork saying " fork yourself") and when Spleen releases his "weapon" inside the car, with Furious banging on the roof, Casanova's expression....that movie is a gem.

[@katiefrankie6]

That movie even made me like Janine Garofalo for a minute! Now that is Hollywood magic.

[@peterfmodel]

As occurred with Narcissus, when you reach peak Narcissism you end up destroying yourself.

[@michaelcolleary8245]

YES!!! A MYSTERY MEN SHOUTOUT!! Sure, it could have been better - but it was still waaaay ahead of its time. Good call.

[@antonnym214]

"You even did a video with Chris Brown and lived to tell about it." YOU are a steely-eyed missile man! Don't stop!

[@SilverSidedSquirrel]

Every time they mouth off, I dont buy or watch. Simple formula. Looking forward to buying a new car with my savings.

[@ink-cow]

"You'd think an aspiring director would be more familiar..." I remember when Paul Feig and his co-writer on Ghostbusters 2016 were talking on the commentary track of the DVD about one of the actors singing "come out, come out, wherever you are"...Feig noted that the studio had to pay a lot of money to let them use that song. His co-writer was surprised. She didn't know it was an existing song. Feig said yeah, it was from a Disney movie. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ Present company excepted, we know that with the entertainment industry we're not dealing with the brightest bulbs.

[@barbaramelone1043]

And see the young lady, who fell from a star 🌟

[@madprophetus]

That guy from lightyear looks like he's got a 9 year old chained up in his basement.

[@IRMentat]

Pixar fans never wanted a dark, miserable looking story about a haphazard astronaut and his weird relationship with his pet/robot. Man I could have never imagined that to be the case from orbit.

[@IlyaKralinsky]

I liken it all to this: when I go to a restaurant, and I receive good service -- even baseline good service -- I ask for the manager. While this makes the waiter/waitress nervous, once the manager arrives, I extoll the virtues of the service, and that I really hope they're compensating this person well for their fantastic work. I then tip high. This is a habit developed years ago, when it became apparent most people take good service as the status quo, while getting bad service is an instigating event. When you get bad service, the immediate inclination is what? Take action! Get me the manager! I want to complain. Bad service is an inciting element, and energising element. Good service is taken as the norm. There was a better way to introduce the new Little Mermaid, but making it agenda-driven, providing a pre-emptive argument that is difficult (not impossible) to debate because of the virtue of the pre-emptive argument, this drives an incitement giving the project attention it wouldn't have otherwise had. I see these things, shrug, and think, "The fight over this will be more entertaining than the situation or the project." Wonderful, thoughtful work, as usual, Chato.

[@scottjoseph9578]

The customer is always right. Especially when it is a luxury (even mild luxury) item that no one NEEDS.

[@isaacpriestley]

Halle Bailey would have been around 8 years old in 2009, when Disney released "The Princess and The Frog".

[@RupertMDoc]

Look, the main character in that move is turned into a frog. A frog is very different than a fish, much less a half fish. So, really, you can't even begin to compare them.

[@TheVagolfer]

You advice underscores the arrogance the permeates Hollywood. Few, if any, will take well intentioned suggestions from older(sorry) and wiser people, preferring to fall into lock step with excuse-of-the day.

[@jpguthrie6669]

I've lived in Japan for a long time, and western movies have topped the charts here for the last 75 years, despite the fact that none of these movies represent the world Japanese live in today, and that almost none of them have any Japanese actors. If I want to see the world I live in, I can simply walk out the door and open my eyes. I don't go to movies to see a fantasy landscape modified to represent the world I live in, or because it reflects the world I live in, I go to movies to see something different. More than anything I want to see the physical and social landscape of the period the movie is portraying. Hollywood very rarely attempts period accuracy in fantasy and fiction, most movies and tv shows impose modern ideals and fashions on stories from times which had their own ideals and fashions. The latter are what I want to see, not the former. I love reading old literature which depicts the stories, characters, and ideals of the time it were written. When I see a Netflix story about Vikings, I would love it if were about Vikings, who were brave, brutal, and exploratory MEN who conquered and plundered lands of greater extent than the Roman Empire, and not about the virtually nonexistent female viking proving herself superior to the dominating male patriarchy. It's like making a movie which purports to be about dogs and their history in human societies, and then making the hero of the movie a cat.

[@kathleenhensley5951]

I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being called names, Chato. I think I'm just ending my time paying attention to anything Hollywood does. I no longer a fan. Its like weening myself off an addiction - I have an impossible time believing that after a life time of being a fan of Star wars , star trek, etc etc... Hollywood, generally, they find me disgusting and despise me. I've loved movies my entire life..my first date with my beloved husband was to see 2001 a space odyssey with him at a nearly empty theater. We critiqued the entire movie... and fell in love. Our DVD collection (never counted it) is, at least, in the high hundreds, probably, near 200. Just tired of it, really really sick and tired of their constant feces slinging hatred for us. I've got tons of things to do ---computers, games, DVDs, podcasts, all kinds of crafts.. heck, I could try to finish my novel. I have to learn to drive this year... tons to do. Fu Hollywood. (and I don't often use that word!)

[@MyName-tb9oz]

I have well over 300 movies on disk (DVD and Blueray) and it's not really enough. But I have some movies that I will watch over and over: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, The Little Foxes, 12 Angry Men, and a lot more. (Notice anything about those movies?) That's not to say that there aren't any excellent movies that are more recent: The Thing (both Carpenter's and the Black and White), The first two 'Alien' movies, The first two 'Terminator' movies, 12 Monkeys, Full Metal Jacket, Dark City, Syriana, Meet Joe Black, District 9, The Princess Bride, and on and on... The thing is, I don't really have any use for the things the so-called 'entertainment' industry is spewing out these days. I'd rather watch one of those horrible old Jerry Lewis movies than this stuff. (I never, ever found Jerry Lewis even slightly amusing. Just annoying.)

[@82pythons85]

These characters and franchises have already been adapted to film, we don’t need these new adaptations. Like you said, you have over 200 DVDs… watch them instead. It’s time we all walk away.

[@kathleenhensley5951]

​@@MyName-tb9oz I could never bear Jerry Lewis. That voice... Lets see... I love Anything with Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca, .. the first Shop around the corner ... Star Trek Original. Babylon 5. Opera Mozart, various Verdi operas, Shakespeare. Various dramatizations of Austen and Charles Dickens...12 monkeys was just horrific and sad, but I own it. the Thin Man series. I've always intended to buy the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series. Loved his portrayal. Perfection Perfected. Oh, Local Hero, little tiny movie, but a favorite, Put a telescope or a cat in it and I'll watch it. (as you said, its so much diversity that I just can't name everything. ) I have lots of westerns and war movies .. my husband loved both, I like some of them also. I love heroic movies... the original Star Wars. I was old enough (in my late 20s) and recognized the Hero's journey and the mythic and fairy tale aspects of it immediately. I love a well done Fairy Tale or Myth.

[@kathleenhensley5951]

@@82pythons85 Entirely agree.. . I have found many podcasts that really entertain me as well as movies. As I said many crafts. I don't have to look up when I listen to podcasts.

[@davids4610]

Thank you for mentioning MYstery Men - I love that movie! And why its stars seem to be embarrassed by it eludes me.

[@kyleolson8977]

The Halley Bailey situation is the 3rd time Disney has run the "people are racist" card with this new movie. The first time on the day the casting came out I did a search. The Disney responses condemning the racists were near simultaneous with the announcement. This is only possible if you're condemning responses that haven't happened yet. Disney pushed this situation themselves as "hate marketing", which has yet to be proven to bring in audiences.

[@sharp52092]

Thoughts on the Fleming James Bond novels being edited for "modern audiences"? smh * sighs *

[@MurderMostFowl]

It’s the books, and it’s not really all that big of a change … use of the n-word, etc. removing the sentence where bond is scared because the whole room is full of black me. We’re supposed to think worldly 007 is scared?

[@stephenthomas1492]

@@MurderMostFowl - Any changes, no matter how small, is wrong. That's how it all starts, as this nonsense we're in now clearly shows.

[@siewheilou399]

Like he beds men and trans instead of women?

[@70soperator16]

My confusion rests in the fact that a decade or so ago, all this race swapping would have been called tokenism.....and yes, it seems when actors arent speaking someone else's words....they're your basic "box of rocks"....thanks man....love your content

[@jackuber7358]

I'm thinking if someone race switched Kunta Kinte with an actor from Finland in a remake of Roots, there might be just a few upset people there and abouts.

[@doomsdaybooty1072]

Tom Sowell has some interesting take downs of Roots and Alex Hailey's motivations in writing it

[@xXHashassinXx]

I don't understand this sudden need to physically resemble our television and film heroes. I have never once come across a character that I liked that even remotely shares my appearance. Trust me, I've been looking, as I would like to try cosplaying. The fact that they do not resemble me has not in any way prevented me from enjoying hundreds, if not thousands of well portrayed characters in books, films, games, etc. It's a shame to see one's identity reduced to outward appearances, or a single aspect of who they are, i.e. sexuality, gender, religion, or what have you. GOOD characters, are complex, and have something interesting about them, their motivations, or way of speech, or a fascinating backstory, or even a small quirk that sets them apart and carries with it some charm or charisma. there are so many ways to make a fictional person engaging, and never once have i rejected or felt additional affection for someone for something as mundane as the colour of their skin.

[@grandfaultimperceptor]

We have reached the point in the culture war (yes, we are in one) where the best thing that can happen is for Disney to keep doing as they are and go down in unquenchable flames. The very near future will need Disney's ashes floating through the air to remind the entire corporate world that literally no one is too big to fail all the way to extinction.

[@mattheww2797]

They could have said we found the best young performer to do this role and not mentioned anything about her being black brown or whatever , keep up the good work Chatto!

[@anelbegic2780]

Modern woke iseology is alot like a religious cult, it must always be reinforced with adamatian rebarb lest it's members forget. It's just a shame so many great actors, artists, etc. are going to be lost in the interum before the cult burns itself out.

[@NefariousKoel]

That's obviously not their primary goal.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

And not virtue signal? And not get sympathy tickets a la Ghostbusters 2016, as well as the free press over outrage?

[@elliottpaine9259]

Did anyone notice that "Rush Hour" did well at the box office? Who was in that again?

[@domm6812]

I love being told I'm a terrible person simply because I didn't go see a movie. Everyone knows when you insult someone they always become more cooperative.

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

Elizabeth Banks: "This stupid bear movie will fail and my career will be over. And it'll be all your..." Everyone: "Errr Cocaine Bear is a success!" EB: "Fuck!"

[@jfh9219]

Yes because we want to pay for trash that is badly written and poorly acted!! Let me take my wallet out right now!! However, you are right. They should have done it right, but they don't care if it tanks. They always have excuses and it is always our fault.

[@LanceCorporal_Waffles]

I’m surprised she didn’t call all of us brownies, “LatinX” 🤣

[@tygerstripes3752]

Lance Corporal Waffles, didn't you get the memo? The word 'brownies' was cancelled a few weeks ago.

[@LanceCorporal_Waffles]

@@tygerstripes3752 Joke’s on them. I CAN’T READ!

[@stellastarbrightk7563]

No, there is no way Hollywood could have sold this actress as the little mermaid.

[@cptred1414]

Good job on your 100k Sub ! Keep on the good work you are Brillant !

[@springsogourne]

Thank you, thank you, I’m not loosing my mind after all. WTF Hollywood?!!

[@EverettBurger]

"You are a manufactured commodity" Right there defines the entire Entertainment Industry (including professional sports)

[@primmakinsofis614]

To Pete Docter, I will only say this: Physician, heal thyself.

[@MicahMicahel]

Pete Dogterd

[@malice926]

I didn't watch the Little Mermaid remake. Why? Well I have to answer it with a couple questions; 1. What, if anything, was it going to do better than the original? 2. Did it need to be the Little Mermaid? Now, I'm not a network executive, but I think that if the film industry is going to survive, let alone improve, executives need to start asking those questions. I also think there are questions about the point of diminishing returns, not in profits, but in the quality of the product, because at the end of the day, that's what movies are, they are a product. My main source of income is building PCs, and those have reached a similar point of diminishing returns, the only people that need super specific high end parts are massive businesses and researchers. The average person doesn't need a movie in 8k or with SFX that are hyper realistic, they only want something with good writing, good characters, that they can take their kids to and enjoy. Instead we are pelted with preachy messaging before, during, and after the movie, about things that nobody actually cares about, for reasons that make no sense.

[@merxeddie6474]

In the golden days of Hollywood,the Heads of Studios kept a tight rein on actors voicing inane or harmful comments and which may have damaged commercial potentialities.Actors only consider mouthing the words someone with a little more intelligence writes for you!

[@johnpglackin345]

And to hide their perverse activities.

[@eddiebruv]

They certainly are managing to suck every last bit of joy out of life, aren’t they?

[@ritafairclough6470]

OMG I don't have all day to binge on your catalogue of Call me Chato. Must get back to work

[@JohnP538]

Disney needs to stop reimagining and start creating. A classic is timeless, and shouldn't be screwed with.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

I think they are misspeaking themselves when they blame the audience. What they are doing is blaming the *potential* audience - people like me who may have had the disposable income and the time to watch the movie, but chose not to. How can they blame the audience when the big problem was that so few people went to see it? They are blaming the people who paid money to watch the movie. Should not they be getting mad at the rest of us for not paying money to watch it? And for all of us who did not watch it, how should we know how "sophisticated" for example, "Lightyear" was? There must be some other reason why people did not even want to pay money to take the chance to see a movie that they might like ... Thanks for the video! Your perspective is always appreciated.

[@flpndrox]

I'd have watched the hell out of a Dean Martin/ Betty White axe murderer project.

[@tomlevier3615]

Miss Banks really needs to dial back the persecution complex. It's getting old.

[@tomb3782]

All this is, is Hollywood trying to engage in the new version of tax evasion called "reporting a loss".

[@screenmonkey]

Didn't Brandi play Cinderella before all of this. Back in 1997

[@Splitter4416]

Yes, with Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother. it was one of the most successful TV movies ever made. The 90s made huge strides in diversity without feeling the need for the Studios to publicly pat themselves on the back for it and the movies were good to boot.

[@myrddrral]

"Pete Docter, a head honcho at Pixar" Well, definitely a head...

[@TheColonelKlink]

Hollywood is crumbling into irrelevance. A failing one industry town.

[@Warraci]

Completely valid points, on all 3. They, of course, butchered Haile's introduction to pre-emptively attack the fans because that is the only way they think anymore.

[@somethingsomething8511]

I always wonder, where do these people think the money comes from?

[@Hammerhead547]

I remember reading an interview with steve smith way back when I was in high school in the late 90's where he talked about how he'd spent 20 years trying to make it in showbiz and how after a decade of continuous failures he decided to play one last hand with The Red Green Show and that was his big success. The thing that struck me about the interview was one line where he said something to the effect of "in this business you have to be grateful for your failures, if you're patient they'll show you the path to success".

[@CallMeChato]

Steve is a great guy and very humble. Has worked very hard.

[@Hammerhead547]

@@CallMeChato I saw his red green stand up show a couple of years ago and he still made me laugh the same way I did when I saw the character for the first time when I was 12.

[@suzygirl1843]

@@CallMeChato Complaining about what? You're 60+ years old. You're the one complaining and refusing to let younger generations enjoy content. You're basically clinging onto your precious I.P. like Smeagol.

[@CallMeChato]

@@suzygirl1843 I don’t think you watched the video.

[@carpediem6431]

“Wrapping gerbils in duct tape….” 🤣

[@ainternet239]

Glad to see the cast & crew of „Queen Cleopatra „ took your advice to heart Oh … wait

[@DarioDarrow]

Elizabeth Banks hasn't heard of Kathryn Bigelow? 🤷‍♂

[@Ayatoqua]

Elizabeth Banks: "men won't listen to female action directors". Kathryn Bigelow: "am I joke to you?"

[@Pavewy]

These people are simply giving the machine what it wants, nothing more. I have detached myself from the machine and no longer want to be a part of it.

[@lomie0489]

Lightyear was shit for many reasons, the biggest offense for me was the fact that Star Command had only humans in a GALACTIC organization. I guess they killed all the aliens in the new timeline.

[@bzgraphicartist]

Pixar did ask too much of their audience... They asked us to watch garbage, and that's just too much.

[@beebtv]

Pixar was killed when John Laseter was fired for giving hugs. RIP Pixar

[@blackamerican40]

Waiting for 1983 Fall TV Guide!! Let's have a 40 year lookback!!

[@ZUGTFO]

What you remind me of is the Weird Al film UHF, it came out in the summer of 1989, and FAILED horribly at the box office. You would think that was the vote of the audience hating the film, but it was swamped by the films at that year. And it became a CULT Classic. 😷

[@tbessie]

I love that you love Mystery Men - it's one of my favorite movies that most of my friends don't like.

[@mgabbard]

I shovel well. I shovel very well.

[@MicahMicahel]

how could they not? It was such a genial movie.

[@tbessie]

@@mgabbard You shovel better than any man I've ever known!

[@tbessie]

@@MicahMicahel Dunno - a lot of them just didn't think it was funny. I showed it to a film buff friend of mine (he's taught film classes and made a few films himself, and styles himself a film expert) and he said he thought there were a couple of good bits in it, but it was too scattered and unfocused. I showed it to my dad (who was a film-maker before he retired) and he thought it was "just silly" and didn't like it. That random zaniness of it and the clever writing, however, are what I love about it.

[@MicahMicahel]

@@tbessie yeah.. a film buff! IT's not that type of movie. Film buffs maybe look for cinematography. We used to get comedies. Comedies aren't 'film.' The last vacation movie caused us to laugh our guts out. It was a terrible movie. I would never recommend it to a film buff. It was funnier than Mystery Men. Mystery Men was just genial... likeable and fun but not hilarious. A hilarious movie is almost never a 'film' or even good film. My favourite bit was the part with teh guy that was always saying mystical stuff but it was just a grammar reversal gimmick.

[@kidicarus2215]

If you make crap, people will call you out on it. It doesn't matter what you identify as. The only identity that matters, is if you're a hack or not. People are sick of live action Disney remakes. For the most part, they're soulless cash grabs without a hint of creativity.

[@itsallfunandgames723]

"It would have meant a lot to me if only black and brown people could star in media when I was growing up." "Wow it must have been tough living in segregated Jim Crow America." "Oh no, I'm 12."

[@JGL841]

From "Mystery Men" movie (1999). “We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering." The Shoveler Script lines like that only come around once every century!

[@CallMeChato]

Genius.

[@UrbanNoizeMusic]

Wrapping gerbils in ducktape 😂😂😂

[@subtropicalken1362]

In a New York ikea, that salesman would be expected. 😏

[@stevenkent5351]

"Wrapping gerbils in duct tape" that's too random to not be specific...

[@stephenthomas1492]

Richard Gere comes to mind, even though I'm pretty sure that was just BS.

[@CallMeChato]

Ramblings of a grave red mind.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

The gerbil lobbyists have passed new rules, you can no longer use duct tape, only clear office tape, it chafes less.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

I do not want them to be quiet. I want those who are antithetical to me to openly declare themselves.

[@ReinoldFZ]

The honest aggressiveness from studios suggests they don't need to sell tickets anymore. And people aren't paying attention to studios anymore judging by the very low engagement in social media.

[@Saikotic]

It's like dropping a turd in a toilet and screaming at people for complaining about the smell

[@tygerstripes3752]

Surprisingly, I have actually known people who would do that.

[@everretwavince1843]

lol I did that when there were folks gossiping and I really had to poop.

[@bakedewok]

Very good take. As always. Thanks!!!

[@pitvk549]

It's interesting that Elisabeth Banks isn't talking about "Call Jane" which, at 660K worldwide, is her next box office disaster after "Charlie's Angels."