Here is a visualisation showing just how big Disney (I can't spot a couple of companies that I know are owned by Disney in this, so the list is actually even bigger).
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Geek_King@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I feel that Disney is very much a bad thing for the entertainment industry. They own so many huge IPs and have proven that they by and large, can’t actually make good use of them. Just look at what they did to Star Wars movie wise. It makes me wonder how a monopoly is actually defined.
I wish they’d get broken up into smaller companies to help fix the entertainment industry.
LollerCorleone@kbin.social 11 months ago
Geek_King@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Damn it, that’s insane. I knew they were huge, but I had no idea the scope of their holdings! Someone print out a huge poster of that graphic and show congress or whoever needs to decide that they’re faaaaar too large and are negatively impacting many industries.
lolpostslol@kbin.social 11 months ago
There’s no way this shit is tax optimal, so many companies with super-specific purposes… unless it’s all to trigger specific tax regimes. Maybe they should simplify the corporate structure instead of axing creative staff they clearly need
_Rho_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reminds me of the Walt Disney ERB lines:
“I’m the Disney landlord of your intellectual property”
LollerCorleone@kbin.social 11 months ago
They are definitely too big at this point.
Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 11 months ago
There should really be a cap on the percentage of a national (or the global) economy that a single company can directly influence. Otherwise they get too big, start doing hellish stuff, and it's very difficult for consumers to respond to their choices. If every choice in an aisle at the store is owned by like 3 companies, that's a problem.
notun@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My biggest gripe is how everything needs to be connected to each other. I noped out of MCU after Endgame, really don’t want to get suckered into another “phase” or whatever they call them. Too many shows, too many movies, and most of it is not interesting at all.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah, I had a fun ride with the MCU up til Endgame, and genuinely enjoyed that, but at this point, I'm just tired.
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
They were always connected, but how they were connected has changed a lot.
Iron Man had a post credits scene. The Winter Soldier had Black Panther a core part of the plot. Stark had a lot of cross movie connections that didn't overstay their welcome.
After Endgame the crossovers are mostly junk. Guardians in Thor 3 was a lame follow up to the going out together because it was a summary and one scene, not core to the plot of the movie which could have been neat. Several were not memorable and were just exposition that the movie's characters could have handled on their own. It is more of an overall hit the plot points and move on as scripts instead of each scene being its own thing ad part of a bigger whole.
On top of that the overuse of green screen settings, quips from every character, and the overuse of world ending threats in almost every movie and series has made most of the movies bland. Yeah, early on they had a few duds but now they are mostly duds with a few gems and it feels like that is the result of trying to rush so much out at once while trying to connect them all at the same time.
blivet@kbin.social 11 months ago
Also, they've really doubled down on the interconnectivity. You used to be able to follow the main arc without difficulty if you saw most of the movies, but now you have to watch absolutely everything including the TV shows or you have no idea what's going on.
HubertManne@kbin.social 11 months ago
I agree. Honestly its not just disney. Not much is worth watching much less paying to watch.