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I don't know what the "nine percent" Zucker refers to; trannies are 0.6% and niggers are 14%. At least he anticipates
the pendulum will swing and people will hopefully be doing comedies without fear.
I like how Bob is denigrating one of the greatest comedy directors of all time, and subsequently discarding his very accurate opinions, just because he hasn't had a big hit in a while. Setting aside the obvious that you don't have to be great at [x] to be a critic of [x], I'd trust the director of Airplane!, Top Secret!, and The Naked Gun to know about comedy way more than some fat unfunny slob from Bahstahn.
Okay, first off, we know for a fact Bob never read any comics when they were current, so this is once again him pulling supposed expertise out of his ass. Shocker, I know. Moreover, he was barely alive and probably not even literate when the Bronze Age was ending, so there's no way that he knew anything about it when it was current. Maybe he's mixing it up with the Dark Age, but again, see first point.
But why is he implying this is actually a good thing, or at least that it isn't a bad one? He's clearly trying to pull his old "comics are weird" defense to handwave the just criticism that the MCU has turned into a clusterfuck of nonsense that's just digging out whatever C- and D-listers they can find and throwing them at the wall under the pretense of "it'll all make sense eventually, consoom more product."
If Bobby were even a little bit conscious of history, he'd know what happened to comics as a medium during the Dark Age and maybe be more concerned about what that means for his beloved Disney slop.
Well, Chris, let's compare to the originals and see (I'm not factoring in inflation through the re-releases, just going off of lifetime gross):
- The Lion King: $968.5 million/$45 million budget (21.5x)
- Cinderella: $182 million/$2.2 million budget (82.7x(!))
- Aladdin: $504.1 million/$28 million budget (18x)
- Beauty and the Beast: $440.1 million/$25 million budget (17.6x)
- Dumbo: $1.3 million/$950,000 budget (1.36x; to be fair, there was a war on)
So aside from Dumbo which maybe did worse and has an excuse, these garbage remakes don't do anywhere near as well as the original animated classics they're based on. People go to see them anyway for a couple reasons: they need some kids' entertainment at the theater and Disney's dreck is their only option, they have nostalgia for the originals, or they simply don't know any better. They might sell, but these pale imitations simply can't hold a candle to classic animation, and I know for a fact they won't stand the test of time.
If people actually applauded yet another of these cash grabs, they should be ashamed of themselves. Then again, they willingly went to see Black Panther 2: Oh Shit Black Panther Died, What Do We Do in theaters opening weekend, so that would explain a bit.