The REAL REASON Disney is Flopping

[@TheoJay615]

I'm gonna throw this is in Geekdom: the reason why the woke stuff bothers people is because it has REPLACED creativity and is the ultimate criticism strawman for these talentless hacks in Hollywood. Films like Princess Frog, Mulan, and Aladdin have characters of different ethnic backgrounds but no one ever complains about how those movies star black, asian, and middle eastern characters. They are great films which star a diverse cast.

[@grawman67]

Excellent point. People loved thise films because they were good and the characters were amazing. People largely have no issue with what a character looks like or who they're attracted to. They care about the story, dialogue, and quality.

[@qtindavis433]

why wont Disney accept actual critique over their stories and characters?? add in woke stuff and its all disney uses to deflect ANY criticism

[@petrhruby7562]

Objectively whole studio system is in deep crisis. It's not just Disney.

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[@RayValdezPhotography]

True but Disney is making poor decisions and that's not helping.

[@villesanti1]

Kathleen Kennedy has always been a glorified secretary. I'm not being mean. It's just a really. She finally gets a company to run, and she just proved to the world that she's an incompetent leader. The only reason her name is in almost every iconic movie is because of her husband, Spielberg, and George Lucas.

[@hunterkuhl1960]

The Panderverse is real

[@darthkoo5000]

There is a reason why Manga and Anime is killing it. Hollywood can't write anymore. Turns out maybe doing a few things with an IP (Dragonball) is better than doing too many crappy things with an IP (Star Wars). Better late than never when it comes to this topic.

[@brando3424]

Disney went woke, and now they're going broke lol. Plus Kennedy tried to strongarm "the force is female" across not only SW, but MARVEL, too. Also, Blackrock also enforcing this shit, too

[@brandonbrehmer3069]

The woke problem is a bigger part of it than you think. The actors/actresses aren’t a good fit due to wanting to hire a POC or something to fill the role. Then the shoehorned in things. It goes beyond Disney. The Boys abandoned a build up of Frenchie and Kimiko breaking walls and healing each other for three seasons to put him in a gay relationship. Sure you can say it was stated he was bi in season 1 but it doesn’t change the fact they abandoned a great storyline for it.

[@Viper_0713]

I don't know how big Disney bank account is. It always takes a person bottom-line to be impacted in order a change to take place.

[@bantuboi3131]

It's not quantity, dude. They're just bad shows/movies. Nobody would complain about watching Mando, Book of Boba Fett, and Acolyte back 2 back if they were good. Problem is its mid after mid after mid.

[@mcurran6505]

Here are some examples on why Disney is falling. 1. Relying too much on souless remakes. 2. Constantly milking too much Marvel & Star Wars (mostly Star Wars) projects. Some succeed, but some end up being a total disaster. 3. Either destroying or disowning their animation department by releasing mediocre films with bad plots or unnecessarily sequels.

[@jsmoothd654]

Some actual criticism, finally.

[@jaredcassidy7635]

And let's not forget, not caring about their own TV networks (mostly Disney Channel and Disney XD), and their desperate need for fangirl money.

[@sonnywoods6846]

Trying to turn a boys brand into a girls brand

[@jaredcassidy7635]

@sonnywoods6846 Exactly. There's no balance to it, making their sole purpose to appeal to girls more than boys, and they can't even do that right.

[@brando3424]

4.the blackrock enforcement of sjw and identity politics into their staff, films, roles, etc

[@FatKid4Lyfe]

Don’t forget, the main actress of the new Star Wars series plus the director said THE MAIN GOAL WAS TO MAKE WHITE PEOPLE CRY. “It’s not about the woke stuff” excuse me??? lol as a white man why would I give two shits about this series when that’s what the main actress and director said?

[@ChilledNurse]

It’s simple. I love good story telling. I hate modern Disney and their constant forced agendas and self inserting in films. I even asked my sister and gay cousin separately “do you feel empowered with all these recent movie releases from Disney” They answered “I don’t care” and “I dont even watch those films”. So it’s not us men being -ists and phobes. It’s just bad movies and bad story telling, that no one cares for. Story telling > Agendas and Self inserting

[@dandansfu]

U sound like a racist ppl Saying I have black friends

[@resistancepublishing]

The reason you gave for Disney’s failure is the same reason that the antiwokers gave. It’s all under the same umbrella. It’s a bit too late for Disney to turn this around. Disney has burned too many bridges. Who wants to keep paying for Disappointments after disappointments? Once you lose the trust of regular viewers then you won’t survive as a company. Disney isn’t too big to fail. Apathy has already set in

[@LAZRGATR]

I don’t understand why you dance around the political shit. I agree that shit doesn’t matter, but if we’re actually being honest, we all know what Disney is getting at. Regardless if you want to denote a person to a certain group of people, it is what it is.

[@brando3424]

yeah he's dodging everything but the Blackrock content. I think he's trying to avoid any "cancel culture"

[@mtf88]

He's not trying to lose any subscribers. He's trying to please everyone.

[@SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist]

The thing is "woke bs" is such a vague term. Like what does "woke" even mean? From what I've seen it's just anything the right doesn't like. 🤷‍

[@brando3424]

@@mtf88 he doesn't want the minority of....that field to try to cancel him. I get it, but let's also not tip toe around things

[@brando3424]

@@SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist that sounds like something CNN would say. It's not about "the right" doesn't like it. It's about how Disney has shoved down the sjw and identity politics nonsense down the audience's throat between two IPS. On top of that, they've focused on that instead of telling and directing a good story. So, the quality tanks. It's been like this for almost a decade now. They're losing billions of dollars but they blame "the fans" and censor their voices when the fans throw criticism their way. It's a collective of things that's turned into a giant snowball where Disney's products for SW and Marvel generate more apathy than revenue. I think general audience has decided to vote with their wallet and it shows nowadays

[@wickdaline8668]

They don't want us asking questions. They want us consuming product so we can be excited for the next products.

[@AussieDadAndrew]

I think Star Wars needs to be put on ice for 10 or 15 year's. Until Disney and Lucasfilm know what Star Wars is

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Disney really need to get in touch with what made them amazing: Animated films

[@saberiandream316]

I'd love animated Legends films. Sadly, Lucasfilm will never do that.

[@LambChopzWrestling]

@@saberiandream316 Golden idea that will never see the light of day truly tragic

[@saberiandream316]

@@LambChopzWrestling Truly.

[@elkins_guy]

It's way more than $60-$70 for a family of 4 to go to an Imax movie and get snacks and soda at the theater. Hell it's more than that at a small town normal theater for a family of four. It's ridiculous.

[@johniekilroy2825]

Ike Perlmutter was responsible for the success of marvel not Kevin Figgy.

[@Hypershell]

Disney was torn down and rebuilt to be run by activists. They actively pushed out talent that failed to tow the line, like John Lasseter, and one could argue this includes sidelining Jon Favreau even though he is still technically there. Wokeness and creative bankruptcy go hand-in-hand. What happens is that anyone who pushes back on quality concerns is accused by the activists of being "difficult to work with" because the agenda and not the story is their priority. Yes, Barbie is woke and made tons of money, but that was a specifically female brand with pent-up demand for a movie already. You'll never make money doing that to Star Wars. I will say it again, wokeness is not about diversity, it's about identitarian grievance. LucasFilm's hostility to the audience IS a direct result of their wokeness. You can easily be diverse and not be woke.

[@maxdubs222]

It’s interesting that you haven’t seen moonknight yet because honestly out of all the Disney plus shows that came out over the last couple of years, it’s been one of my favorites. Oscar Issac does an awesome job

[@grawman67]

I agree. It, Loki season 1, and Wandavision were my favorites of the shows. Oscar Isaac was really good and the writing was solid.

[@soupful]

Michael Arndt was Academy Award win screen writer for 'Little Miss Sunshine" to write THE FORCE AWAKENS they heavily featured Luke Skywalker with Rey. He let himself go as couldnt deliver in such demand time. So Lucasfilm had tried to negotiate development more time for scripting for an additional 12 months. Disney wouldnt relent from a projected scheduled May 2016 release afforded to Lucasfilm only an extra six months to get released earlier by December 2015. So J.J Abrams started script from scratch writing himself within six or five months. Lucasfilm KK approved

[@soupful]

BLAME DISNEY, But also KK

[@Make2wo]

Yeah, Disney is creatively bankrupt. Most of their creators think it's creative to remake stories that, to be honest, was already remakes of others original works. They are dipping into the same well too often and there's no water left.

[@flight4951]

Disney always find a way to milk you of your money and they are really good at it. Reminds me in the 90s when they re-released Snow White and the 40s and 50s movies remastered.

[@nworder4life]

They cater to a minority and the majority are sick of it. That's your answer, Danny.

[@MANDING0]

They ignored the outspoken fans warning them and now the normies are leaving

[@tophercabba]

sonic is a prime example ppl saw what he looked like and collectively face palmed and said change it and paramount did and it was a success

[@178laaleros]

Movies have been dying ever since the whole streaming service took over

[@richborn6700]

I didn't trust the Acolyte as soon as I saw the show runner looked like a lesbian lunch lady from the 1980s. The one who was laughing that people called it the gayest star wars thing ever and she loved it

[@mattatk92]

I feel like they dont care about money anymore just making fun of their traditional audience. Its so confusing.

[@johnnyhutchinson5394]

The things you identified as the problems, are woke. They're toxic woke though, with an abject lack of creativity at any level. At this point, there is an identifiable maliciousness with the treatment of "traditional" fans of these franchises. They've told us for decades how much they despise us, and the material they're shitting out at us reflects this.

[@grawman67]

I don't know about for decades but I do agree this has been the case with Star Wars now since 2017 at least.

[@underground.dreamkingz]

If they would've made finn a Jedi, they wouldn't have these problems! 👑💯🤷🏾‍♂️

[@michealrosen]

He had a great start to a story, storm trooper switched sides and questions everything he was taught, he's force sensitive and becomes a jedi, instead he's in a coma, then he falls in love and goes to a casino planet, then he spends a whole movie screaming ray.

[@tophercabba]

@@michealrosen he was a cuke boy the whole series lol

[@dandansfu]

Nah Ppl will complain it’s woke coz there are crazy ppl out there

[@grawman67]

Luke, Palpatine returning, and the Force being out of balance so quickly after Anakin returning it would still be issues But I agree Finn being a Jedi would have been so cool

[@darkglass3011]

Reasons why Disney (and Western entertainment in general) are flopping: 1. Awful writing that insults the intelligence of people who watch their product. Example: Rey is a Mary Sue and her victories attained by defeating people with YEARS of training and experience under their belt is unearned. 2. Gaslighting people who critique their awful writing. Example: using identity politics to deflect criticism of their dogshit writing by calling them racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. 3. Moving the goal post, using false equivalences, and making bad faith arguments when their identity politics deflection strategy doesn't work. Example: Saying that "Rey being a Mary Sue isn't all that different from Anakin Skywalker being a Mary Sue". EXCUSE ME? Even Anakin Skywalker, the f@%king CHOSEN ONE, had to undergo YEARS of training in the ways of the Force compared to Rey, the latter of whom for some reason is able to use the Force with equivalent proficiency in a matter of days. Even after YEARS of training, Anakin still lost in his first encounter against Count Dooku, someone more knowledgeable than he was in the ways of the Force, and who had DECADES of Lightsaber combat experience under his belt. When Anakin went through a few more YEARS of training and finally defeated Count Dooku, that victory was EARNED. Rey on the other hand didn't earn her victory when she fought against Kylo. She defeated him right away even though Kylo had YEARS of training under his belt and she didn't have any. Saying that both Anakin and Rey are Mary Sues is a bad faith argument made by people trying to defend the indefensible and their fragile ego: their product is dogshit.

[@johnbenedetto4220]

Easily $60 for family of 4 ( 17:30 ) popcorn? Snacks? Drinks? For everyone? Basically doubling the total cost

[@Finfection]

The biggest issue I have with the MCU right now is that we are five years post-endgame(which feels crazy to think!) and we haven't had a major event movie happen. It's taking way too long to build up to anything.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Start with a series of movies starring the villains, giving their characters more depth ans the audience something different. Have an "anti-Avengers" film showing them teaming up to raise hell and eventually agree to go after heroes they normally don't (like the Kingpin setting his sights on Captain American for example). Switch back the films starring the heroes dealing with the new threats and then an Avengers film defeating the main villain pulling all the strings who has been repeatedly hinted at: a debuting (in the MCU) Doctor Doom.

[@Whit3WolfXArcadia]

Not hiring quality non woke writers is there downfall

[@PrinxeGaming_]

shiiiit even non quality writers who know their shit can do it

[@jsmoothd654]

*Their

[@DimkaSulegnaa]

I personally wouldn’t care if the writers were worke if what they were writing was something of substance in the first place but hey, like geekdome said, you point out the problems, they as well as the fans of the garbage will deflect

[@user-FTRU6GJ]

@@DimkaSulegnaait does matter if they are woke because all of them so far have added their opinions into Star Wars content

[@Soulofan_Angel]

First of all there is no " wokeness" because " woke" is a BS dog whistle . The moment people start using words like Woke they instantly loose credibility in my mind.

[@dragonslayer2107]

Some people in California are definitely out of touch especially with some of the state's policies.

[@justchyll2009]

Obi wan did it to me, they were not even trying with that one, and it was so easy to do

[@hoopbaby07]

They need to stop being political, I’m a Trump supporter and straight . I’d be equally as Annoyed if they said this show is for Christians and not for you . And the only gay person the put on was evil . And they made clear anti Joe Biden shit . Like shut up about politics and make a good movie or show .

[@nilesrodriguez4343]

You guys keep paying for shit, y'all gonna keep getting it. 🤷‍♂️

[@KaiserThanatos]

I don’t think the only problem is too much content. That by itself doesn’t ruin stuff. I mean unless it’s obscene amounts. Like there is no way to keep up and work a job levels. If it were gold after gold after gold, we wouldn’t be where we are. I think, in marvel, phase 3 capped it so well. There was almost no way to keep people in. We lost iron man and cap. Wandavision was good and so was falcon and winter soldier. But there was quality drop and people checked out and there just hasn’t been that gold blockbuster that draws you in since. Or if there was, it was Spider-Man nwh and then garbage after. And that was helped by nostalgia. Star Wars is a little different. Like you said, Force Awakens left everyone kind of hopeful. It wasn’t bad. It ended with Rey finding Luke and they have that moment. Everyone’s thinking “I wonder what’s going to happen” excited or curious for the next one. Who’s snoke? And last Jedi happens and it’s a disaster. It takes subverting expectations to the millionth degree and takes Luke Skywalker to bizzaro world. Completely defies everything we know about his character. That along with many other things in the movie just make it awful. And then Solo was meh. I didn’t think it was that bad but it didn’t draw people. People were leery after TLJ and weren’t drawn in to see solo. And then jja had the impossible task of trying to wrap up the sequels within the confines of keeping TLJ canon. There was no way to save it with the trend.

[@grawman67]

Agreed. There has been too much but they didn't give TFA enough time to be written, had no plan for the trilogy, want to push ideology over storytelling, keep hiring people who don't get the material, and also won't listen to fan feedback

[@PCGUYSMiami]

Star Wars can be recovered with a clean house within Lucas film hire respawn writing group including filoni and redoing sequels

[@hungryalmighty7156]

The reason Disney failing can be summed up in one word. Agenda

[@BaithNa]

No, its bad writing and hiring people that don't have respect for the fans. Everything and everyone has an agenda, kid. Get used to it.

[@BaithNa]

No, its bad writing and hiring people that don't have respect for the fans. Everything and everyone has an agenda, kid. Get used to it.

[@hungryalmighty7156]

@@BaithNa almost casting Steven Yuen to play sentry, having female characters constantly be this all powerful girl boss while at the same time making the male characters look like idiots, Victoria Alonso trying to rename the x-men to mutants cause “x-men” is a dated name since there are women in the team, and I can go on and on lol.

[@LS-my4rp]

⁠the agenda should be to please your clients. Which in this case are hard core fans who will buy your movie tickets, subscribe to your streaming service, visit your parks, and buy your merch. You make everything lgbtq (insert rest of the alphabet), forced race and minority representation and female characters who are infallible, perfect, Mary Sues and men are dumb and if they're white they're evil, then 99% of you main core paying audience is going to leave. So there is a wrong anti-core audience currently, despising their consumers, and there is the right agenda, which is catering to those who buy your stuff. It's business 101.

[@hungryalmighty7156]

@@BaithNa bad writing without saying the specific reason why the writing is so bad is the equivalent to a chef judging the food u made and says it’s terrible without giving specific reasons why it’s bad or what went wrong

[@Ryder187-r3p]

I also believe that it's tied to stock market manipulation for investors. Producing all shows/movies on the cheap to create more content for viewer retention that keeps people subscribed for longer and then they create uproar via the internet so the algorithms work in their favour and then people get fooled but i do feel sorry for those that get caught in the trap because the content is kinda trash on multiple fronts plus subliminal virtue signalling is in some of it and the common working folk & young children shouldn't be dealing with it.

[@Jordan-qw7yw]

Almost half of the TV shows and movies are complete garbage that no one asked for and Disney propaganda

[@izumolee6714]

It's simple, they are hiring inexperienced activist who push agenda rather than artists who care about the process of making entertainment.

[@kickdreaming]

DISNEY KILLED STAR WARS. NAMASTE 🙏🏽 FROM BROOKLYN.

[@Andrew-xx-s4d]

After watching Inside out 2, it showed to me that if Disney Tries then they can make a solid film. I loved the movie so much bro and I highly recommend you go see it if possible. The movie is good because the story itself has heart, it's funny and amazing for the whole family to watch not just kids. I agree Geekdom, I think the main problem is that Disney needs to make actual good stories that everyone can enjoy. What the company has put out for a while now is rushed cash grabs that don't have a good story and with people not having the money, they are not going to spend the cash for crap. I feel it is possible for them to fix the problem and with Inside out 2 making a lot of money, hopefully this gives them the message that we want good storytelling. Great Video Bro, Keep up the great content!!

[@dreadnaught2448]

Glad to hear Inside Out 2 was good. Haven't seen the first one and have heard great things about that one as well. I need to fix that. Perhaps I can help Disney see what movies we like.

[@saberiandream316]

They could make a real killing giving us animated Legends features, but of course Lucasfilm is too vain to do that.

[@RogueFox2185]

They should stay far away from legends, if they can’t even do right the things they pilfer from it then why should we expect them to adapt the actual stories well?

[@saberiandream316]

@@RogueFox2185 The real problem now is they don't adapt these stories and characters faithfully. I meant faithful adaptations. Clearly you're not going to get that from Filoni or Disney, but it's not impossible. Japan has been adapting source material faithfully for _decades._ They just don't want to. Kennedy insists there's "no source material," and that's how Lucasfilm treats it.

[@LucidPhoton]

I don't trust anyone at Lucas film. Definitely not Kathleen, I don't trust Dave filoni, Pablo Hidalgo... Not even Jon Favereau. They need to completely reboot themselves with new staff and creatives and GOOD ones. Not interested in any Disney products or shows or films coming out and I'm even debating not seeing Deadpool and Wolverine. It's really sad. Even when they make something good I can't enjoy it

[@WGPhil-uw5cs]

People blame bob chepek yet he brought back hugh jackman.

[@brando3424]

people blame Chapek when Iger enforced this, too

[@WGPhil-uw5cs]

@brando3424 I don't think chapek had a lot of executive power. Iger had a consulting deal. Chapek was a temporary scapegoat for most of Disney problems, he was blamed for the Disney plus bloat, but most of those shows were greenlit & produced before the pandemic.

[@darkscythe1334]

I’m of the view that it’s not just specifically wokeness in itself, but rather the execution and decisions of how they go about it. There is nothing wrong with a level of diversity or more prominence of leading female characters. The problem is that hollywood feels that in order to create strong female role models, they have to be unrealistically or unreasonably perfect. Id compare it with a wrestling perspective. How WWE has top guys they push. They protect said guys and present them a certain way. Often the big monster heavyweight guys McMahon would love. They’d squash jobbers or perform the same schtick but often it just wouldnt win the fans over. In my view that is characters like Captain Marvel, Rey Skywalker or really a great many characters in recent times. There are exceptions - Kamala Khan for example has some nusiance. Shes likeable and portrayed as moreso as a believable organic teen. Lisa Simpson was always a good example of someone exceptional, but whose intelligence was a double edged sword. Perfect characters are not interesting. Theyre arguably not even good role models. They set unrealistic standards. As a male, i grew up and felt cringe over (Disney’s Aladdin) - hes a male character who is flawed and makes the wrong decisions. He just cant see that Jasmine values him for him. He over compensates, lies and turns peopel away. Yet he loses it all, and has to persevere. Theres a time and a place for exceptional self sufficient characters. I think its problematic that its suddenly taboo for males to be unable to help females many a time. I think we need more females saving the day, sure. But have it make more sense within the story.

[@michalmintystone8067]

I don't think I represent the majority with my opinion but I'm definitely sick of woke garbage. For me it feels like games, movies and shows are just being used as propaganda tools now. Not all the time, but enough of the time that It has infuriated me and made me much more selective with what I consume. My wife is sick of it too. We both generally stay away from modern content and mainly consume content from a time when it was more about telling a story and less about lecturing an ideology.

[@rllove016148]

I think you underestimate how much the “woke” stuff affects. It leads to the creatively bankrupt situation they are in. It’s not entirely separated.

[@alfin3571]

I think another problem is the marketing of the shows/movies. Disney's marketing leans far too much into the LGBT.... agenda when the product does not really reflect.

[@bhdemoreel]

Should have stuck with the source material from all the books that were written post episode 6 instead of trashing it and referring to it as legends now. What they have come up with is 🗑️💩💯

[@RogueFox2185]

Lucasfilms hardly have any talented writers for their stories and it shows with their track record, second they can’t help but go back into the past and put their own spin on things which damages the overall universe even further and finally they have burned too many bridges with fans over the years and apathy has for the most part set in.

[@saberiandream316]

As a setting, I've never seen Star Wars so damaged as this, especially since they threw out the EU, yet want to wear its skin in terms of setting and history. It's a waste. Why not invent your own, completely new history and mythology for the Disney Star Wars canon instead of trying to trick people into thinking the Great Decanonization didn't happen ten years ago?

[@RogueFox2185]

@@saberiandream316 They do it because they know whatever they make on their own can never match up to even a fraction of what came before, it’s more convenient to steal something and pass it off as your own that people loved while also marking it with your “additions” so people will think of it as the definitive version.

[@teddysama5745]

They can just use expanded universe novelizations. I don’t get why they are writing their own when most fandom would love see expanded unv come to life anyway. I have never seen a series of actions that fit better to saying: trying to lose money.

[@saberiandream316]

@@RogueFox2185 Claiming there's no source material a month before the Disney version of Dark Empire hit the screens. I hear ya.

[@roseroselyne9045]

No woke movie has made real money apologizer.

[@NiallByrne]

Being extremely genuine. Drop the live action Disney remakes and give me Muppets adaptations of Classic Disney movies. I would pay good money to see a muppets adaptation of Beauty and Beast or the Hunchback of Notre damn. With Gonzo and Rizzo acting as the narrators like in the Christmas carol. Handle it with care and it would be an Instant money maker.

[@nosfonader8792]

Rey could have worked as an already maxed out character like John Wick was. Just make Rey a clone of a dark sider and there ya go. That could have solved a lot of problems with Rey. Why Rey knew how ro use the Force and was skilled with a lightsaber without training: being a clone of an already master in Darth Rey. Go all Forced Unleashed on it. As for Marvel, a lot of phase 4-5 had next to no connectivity. It was the glue that made 1-3 work. A lot of phase 4 projects could have simply been in between Infinity War and Endgame. Like Black Widow, Moon Knight, Shang Chi, Hawkeye, Falcon and Winter Soldier. There was a 5 year time gap after all. That is how I would have handled those Marvel projects.

[@Exile976]

Bro is still sleeping on Moonknight? You need to watch that one Geekdom!

[@nissanzenkiboy]

IVE BEEN SAYING IT FOR YEARS NO ONE BELIEVED ME YALL CALLED ME SEXIST RACIST AND ALL BUT I CALLED IT GET WOKE GO BROKE !!!!! And yes old Disney was amazing the problem is the people they’re hiring, of course are coming from colleges that are teaching wildness. Then these companies start hiring for diversity and bringing their work ideology into the business and yes, colleges are pushing wokeness . I just graduated college in December and the last semester was horrible because it was full of it. I actually got in an argument with a professor about it, of course I do a lot of paperwork regarding a lot of these issues I got an “A” because I’m not wrong. I don’t think it’s the flooding issue also because look at Deadpool there’s a bunch of hype behind that look at Spider-Man. There was a lot of hype behind that Spider-Man definitely delivered. I would not have a problem with them flooding us with all these different movies and shows if they had a good story the same thing is happening with the video game industry.

[@grawman67]

Agreed. I was in college in the mid 2010s and certain ideologies were pushed more than others.

[@bobbynolastname3119]

last movie ive seen was detective pikachu back in 2019.. was probably 20-30bucks. back then we didnt buy snacks or drinks in the theatres we snuck those in. might go back to a theatre to see Deapool and Wolverine.

[@anthonydivon5571]

If Walt Disney was alive what do you think he would say about the company with his name on it?

[@ZumaZoom07]

Woke isn't bad in itself. It's the fucking obvious lecturing and talking down in every damn project. And that's in combination to the fact that they're a multi billion company who could make tangible gains in the causes the chase if they really wanted to.

[@grawman67]

It's a mixture of incompetent leadership, hiring writers and staff who don't have the skillset or don't care enough, too much pride to listen to criticism, and caring more about having their political views in these projects than quality writing first and foremost.

[@Izadirad1995]

Disney world pricing is wild. It use to be 100 plus tax for Florida residents for one day. Now it’s 200 plus tax for one day. The cost of a couple has doubled. One person now cost what a couple cost in like 2018

[@rocknroller7034]

''They must go dark!!!!!!!'' RATED R!!!!!!!!!!....... BLADE!!!!!!! Time to save the day again!!!!!!!! Weapon X!!!!!!! We Need You!!!!!!! Star Wars............... it might be too late for you.........

[@elixier33]

Movie theatres in the UK are about £5 per ticket.

[@OdaNobunaga15]

My personal opinion is that they’re just relying too much on nostalgia. They tried to do something different with The Last Jedi, but they completely botched it and now they’re too afraid to try anything new. I’ve said for a long time they should just reboot Star Wars. Create a separate universe with new lore and everything. They just don’t know what to do with old stuff.

[@marca.9365]

Since Darth Kennedy, these guys are doing to Star Wars what the director did making that live dragon ball movie 😒🎥

[@tophercabba]

the director wasnt the problem with DBE it was the story ,steven chow did wat he could , kung fu hustle was a great movie action was good and story was good , DBE wasnt dragonball , like anyone who thought making goku in high school and then the ozaruu being like pawns of the nameks like jesus ,and there in lies the problem with dragonball you cant really do it live action theres to much to cover in a short time , youd have to do it as a tv series and even then theres just too much ,like it takes what 100 episodes to get to demon king piccolo how do u do that in 2 hours or 10 hour episodes ... u cant ,so yea its not stevens fault its the writer who made it hot garbage , only really good thing i took from it was james marstens piccolo he wasnt bad and im glad he got another chance at a villian in super /

[@kungfuscubabape953]

It's cause their woke and focus on forcing an esg agenda into every project

[@hoopbaby07]

Unrelated but kinda the same thing Disney is doing . The boys season 4 🙄 full on one side political agenda

[@frankverisco4722]

Episode III is the best star wars movie.

[@mostcreativename1]

I think the creative bankruptcy that you mentioned is true. I think that's actually the problem but I don't know how they fix it

[@roxtechs]

Disney Star Wars vs Disney Marvel response to criticism is like night and day.

[@PJan811]

I enjoyed this video of yours Danny explaining why Disney is failing and I agree with pretty much everything you said. Disney has been a part of my childhood ever since I was a young kid and seeing this company fall apart is such a shame. They really need to slow down the amount of content they produce and refocus in telling good stories with compelling characters that most of us will care about.

[@Phinal_Flash]

Here is one problem with the new age Disney films that doesn't get discussed enough. All the PC stuff devalues the comeuppance of the villains. What made some of the classic Disney villains so despicable was how awful characters like Scar, Gaston, and Governor Ratcliffe were. I'll use the Lion King as an example. Scar is quite literally a bigot. He has no regard for the animals of his family's kingdom and thinks they're all inferior to him. He thinks that only female lions should hunt and flat-out assaults his sister-in-law (I'm not calling her his ex. Screw that prequel). What leads to his demise is when he throws the Hyenas under the bus. The species that risked their lives for him were sold out by him in a cheap attempt to keep Simba from finishing him off. We don't need some BS prequel that makes Scar out to be some outcast that was betrayed by his brother. What made Scar's fate work so well was how disgusting of a creature he was.

[@elitedovahkiin756]

I can’t believe Dave filoni greenlit the acolyte

[@GabrielSyler33]

Development for The Acolyte began in 2020. Filoni wasn’t promoted to his current position in the company until 2023.

[@nyxayde]

Danny you have no idea how true that statement you made is "as long as you slap star wars on it, they'll eat it up" I have a cousin that I refuse to talk star wars with because he legit does not care how poorly written, convoluted, awfully acted something is, as long as it says Star Wars he considers it amazing and perfect.

[@chrisinglis5631]

Kevin wasn't alone in the MCU during phases 1 through 3 so lets not pretend it was him who was doing the heavy lifting during those projects. Phase four is all Kevin and these projects are his real work.

[@F22raptor46]

You are not at all wrong about them having a disdain for the OG fanbase. Idk if you've seen this but right after TLJ released, there was a video taken inside the Lucasfilm HQ where they had multiple behind the scenes people talking into the camera, and there was a picture of Luke Skywalker on the wall with a big red X on his face!

[@NiallByrne]

They are trying to cater to everyone and it’s taken away the uniqueness to the films and tv they put out. The live action remakes are the perfect example of that. Disney still owns the muppets and have released a new movie in over a decade. They are sleeping on the property.

[@kenmck7802]

All good points. Job well done on the video. Uhhhh just one question. WHO in the hell is Disney and WHY should I care?

[@jonc4545]

Started at Toy Story??? No it started with Bugs Life bro

[@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD]

john fabbro made good things in both marvel and Star Wars and he got fucked over

[@SandMan1998]

I wish they just focused on mandalore. They're kinda badasses

[@mattatk92]

The power of one! The power of two! The power of many!

[@robguitarwizard]

Poor scriptwriting!

[@Dretilltheday]

Remember this. There’s no example of media pushing out too much GOOD content. Fans will eat unlimited amounts of quality work. Disney is doing too much AWFUL content. Period…

[@mingo8379]

After episode 9 Star Wars has been permanently ruined

[@acejumper1681]

My take on the star wars stuff is that it's mixed. When a franchise gets as big as star wars, and gets in the hands of someone like Disney. They're going to naturally want to milk that cash cow. Sometimes we get good stuff, sometimes other stuff isn't as good. I liked the clone wars s7, and the mandalorian. Visions was fun, and I love the animated shows like Rebels, and tales. Truth is, star wars has always been inconsistent before disney even got the ip. The prequels have been criticized, and some of the expanded universe games have not been great. Star Wars has also always had retcons before disney got the ip too. Even during the original trilogy.

[@georgecostan3248]

Too much content + too short deadlines = flops.

[@Vivi_9]

WELL SAID DANNY! You nailed it, it's refreshing not to hear a grifter moaning about "teh woke", I genuinely hope someone at Disney hears this and hires you.

[@strategicperson95]

Kathleen Kennedy as far as I recall only had Executive Producer credits. They have little to no creative input to films. All they are is the person who pays the checks and bills.

[@damianm8960]

Even if we still had the same amount of stuff pumped out, if the writing was good and characters are likable, then Disney would be making bank. But instead we have weak, lackluster, spiteful, political pandering stories Like are they trying to get rid of most of the fanbase?! Edit: i removed a sentence, cuz it was mostly wrong, sry

[@TheBlackOtaku]

People complain that Hollywood doesn’t do anything original all they do is sequels remakes and reboots that’s false, Hollywood does do originality the problem is that you people just don’t go to your local movie theaters and support these films.

[@donovanmartin7946]

To me I think Disney is more creatively bankrupt in terms of their remakes, for marvel feige has publicly acknowledged that they have been saturated the market and they are scaling it back and actually fixing lot of their internals to operate like an actual studio and they are fixing their tv division with getting actual show-runners and for lucasfilm as a whole, it’s been a disaster with kk falling out with mutiple directors, having many projects either shelved to indefinitely delayed due to ‘creative differences’ and even sitting on the rights of that children of blood and bone that was based off a novel they where going to turn into a movie series and even the author of that exact story offered to write the script…for her own freaking story and kk declined that offer

[@Kevfactor]

I actually think The Last Jedi was a work of art. Pushed woke as far as it could ever go for the time, and was like a heel to fans in every way possible. There is a bit of art n crafting something like that. Of course, you don’t keep doing shock art afterwards as it’ll get old.

[@israelruiz8706]

Geekdom I have to correct you and a lot of people don't seem to know this. You mentioned that back in 2012 disney was trustworthy because of avengers. They didn't release avengers. They took over marvel after avengers. Before all marvel movies were distributed by other companies. Iron man was distrubuted by paramount. Hulk was by Universal and I'm not sure lf captain America and thor. But yea disney was nit responsible for marvel being great. At least at the begining. Granted they probably helped with funding and helped marvel be more stable after avengers which lead to bigger releases