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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[–]ClassroomPast6178 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 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).

[–]SolidSnek 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Excellent point about JJ Abrams. Rian johnson is by no means innocent but it really is JJ that killed star wars.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The moment that really broke Force Awakens for me was when the gold stormtrooper lady just disables the shield without a fight the instant they pull a gun on her.

You expect me to believe that your brainwashed soldier raised from childhood to be a soldier is just going to give up without a fight and do what two guys with a gun say? Please.

Then in the second movie turns out her armor is laser proof anyway. So fucking stupid.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Who says they are brainwashed?

Would you want the likes of Finn and Rey running your galaxy?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In a blink and you'll miss it rare instance of sequel trilogy world building it's said somewhere the new stormtroopers are kidnapped as children and raised in the service, hence they are brainwashed from birth to be loyal soldiers essentially. Do you train your loyal soldiers , especially your top generals, to follow the 7/11 part time employee guide of what to do when a gun is pulled on you?

As for Finn and Rey, they'd probably destroy the galactic economy within a few days but it's ok because they have "the force" and would be able to Deus ex machina out some kind of joint galactic economic stimulus recovery. Oh wait sorry I was thinking of the prequels. Um. Pew pew space laser boooooooom hooray!