Bigots definitely didn’t help, but I know far more people who didn’t go simply because “why would I want to see that?” Vs bigots
simple@lemm.ee 4 days ago
This is the part where Disney blames bigots rather than admitting they just made a bad movie people never wanted to watch
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 days ago
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Outside of Maleficent, all of them have been shot for shot remakes (with one additional scene/song to make it “different”). And animation is just a better medium for magic and whimsy compared to what you can do in live action.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Couldn’t agree more. If I wanted to watch someone pretend to have magical powers and interact with nonexistent set pieces, I’d assemble my game group. There’s so much that you can do with animation that just cannot be done live action. I miss when animated movies had distinct styles that contributed to the atmosphere the fiction was building. Live action is comparatively empty of expression.
Grimm665@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I’m probably preaching to the choir, but Arcane, Scavengers Reign, and Nimona all check those boxes, and are all well worth watching.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 days ago
The bigots who got riled up by fox bews wouldn’t go to see it anyway. Maybe if they turn the evil witch jewish and snow white was the good nazi child.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 days ago
the AI/CGI was so cringy too.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 days ago
What bothers me is that some of the scenes did look beautiful.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
“we made the ultimate masterpiece and THE only people disagreeing with us are trolls/incels/haters/trump voters/faschists/literal SATAN” is a two pronged attack. Not only it makes everyone not in the loop think “oh no poor tiny company disney is being bullied for the movie I used to love as a kid!”. The person is likely to see a comment not liking the movie and think instantly that person is terrible.
Second is “I was lukewarm on the movie but man I don’t wanna be one of them nazis who hates this movie”
Classic change the conversation from absolute waste of money and creative bankruptsy of disney to culture war strategy straight out of literally the russian kgb playbook.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
They purposely casted controversial actors hoping to get free publicity - Hollywood’s new favourite marketing ploy is outrage casting. But this time it didn’t pay off.