Disney's first film with LGBTQ+ lead bombs at box office – and fans have thoughts (gay fans accuse Disney of purposely trying to sabotage the movie through lack or marketing to justify lack of gay representation in future movies)

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[–]Alienhunter糞大名[S] 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I've yet to see it and I won't bother probably until it's on streaming and I'm really bored. Seemed utterly bland and disinteresting from the trailer.

Definitely makes sense not to market a movie they think is gonna do terrible. The gay conspiracy theorists are doing the whole "Disney is purposely trying to make the gay movie fail" thing so they can pretend to themselves that anything with rainbows is automatically good and =$$$$ probably so they can keep the grift going a bit longer before people realize they have nothing to offer the writing departments besides "what if X character was gay, a lemur, a retarded bisexual wheelchair" line of immature ADHD riddled brainstorming rather than actually making coherent well thought out scripts.

Of course if there was some shadowy gay bashing cabal of homophobic executives they'd just nix the gay outright rather than jump through the expensive hoops of actually spending millions of dollars to make the movie then purposely have it fail to pull a "see gay movies don't make money". Rather than just, use normal focus group shit.

Ask a bunch of San Francisco 30 something tweenny boppers if they want more rainbows and bisexual interracial wheelchairs and they'll sat golly gee yes sirree, and go pirate the movie anyway.

Ask a bunch of hardline conservative christian types what they want and they'll consistently just add Jesus to every movie.

There's money to be made by targeting both groups but not with these crappy multimillion dollar Hollywood spectacles since they need to be as mass market as possible, which is why you've got the stupid checklists of mandatory diversity.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Hollywood has massively misjudged what matters to the majority of their customers, and we are seeing it with the massive flops of Bros, She Said, Lightyear, Don’t Worry Darling, Amsterdam. Even Marvel films and TV series are flopping, Black Panther 2:Wakandan Boogaloo, is struggling to break even. Avatar 2 is set to be the biggest flop in history, needing $2b to just break even. Star Wars is a dead IP, Star Trek is dead, Lord of the Rings, although not Disney is potentially suffering the same fate, could be too if the animated Rohirrim film flops next year and Indiana Jones is looking to be that way ahead of Indy 5 next year. James Bond is looking very much like the producers want to diversify him, and lose everything that made him enjoyable. It’s hard to understand how this has all happened other than by the toxic effects of social media and the critical social justice cult.

Hollywood is in big trouble and it was them that killed the golden goose in service to their current year ideology.

The other disaster for Hollywood has been JJ Abrams and his coterie of directors, writers and producers. He talked up his “mystery box” style of writing and now it is being used everywhere, the trouble is that it’s not a tactic that works with existing IPs. Combine JJ Abrams with ideologically-driven productions and you explain the disastrous Star Wars sequels and series, the destruction of Star Trek both in theatres and TV and the shite that was Rings of Power (the show runners, never having had a producer credit before, got given the gig for the most expensive TV show in history on Abrams recommendation and they wrote it in Abrams style).

[–]SerpensInferna 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So weird that people don't want to be condescendingly preached at while just trying to enjoy some mindless entertainment for a damn minute. Who would have thought.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So weird that people don't want to be condescendingly preached at while just trying to enjoy some mindless entertainment for a damn minute.

Not to mention having paid through the nose for the privilege!