Disney General - The saddest fandom on Earth

[Kari Kamiya]

I wouldn't have an issue if this hypothetical sequel focused on Dot, who is now queen.

Oh God, imagine how much of a girlboss the modern Pixar writer would turn her into.

 

[X-avier cuck]

https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1936153743747342566

It is astounding gentleman just how much the usual suspects are going out of their way to eat out this woman because she used the 2025 magic buzzword "Free Gaza".

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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It is astounding gentleman just how much the usual suspects are going out of their way to eat out this woman because she used the 2025 magic buzzword "Free Gaza".

What's the level after "doubling down"? Because that's what's happening here.

Do they genuinely get off on the hate that everyone brings them or are they just THAT retarded? Like I'm fucking floored at the balls they have to even consider something like this if this rumor is true.

The bitch is cancer! She ruined whatever good-will she had left, just fucking stop this shit already.

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

OK, but why does that bean-mouthed kid in the Elio movie just have a random eye patch for no reason? I mean, I know that it can be a common treatment for a lazy eye, but does no one fucking refer to it at all? Is it ever brought up in the movie, or is it just shallow 'muh representation' for the sake of 'muh representation'?

It's such a baffling artistic choice for me. I can't understand why you'd design a character with an eye patch for seemingly no explored reason at all, unless the character's like, a pirate or something.

You got to get with the times and understand modern character design. Giving a character an eyepatch, a missing limb, or a gnarly scar to show that they're a grizzled badass is othering disabled people. And explaining a character's injuries is also offensive, disabled people don't owe you explanations! So, the correct thing to do is to give a character a distracting physical deformity and never elaborate on it, ever.

How much do you want to bet that there was some concept sketches of him with vitiligo?

 

[Eventide]

https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1936153743747342566

It is astounding gentleman just how much the usual suspects are going out of their way to eat out this woman because she used the 2025 magic buzzword "Free Gaza".

I thought people hated that actress 'cause she was always performatively sperging about feminism & DEI bullsh!t? She started 'sperging about Gaza now too?

Anyway, I just saw Elio today. The story was meh/very run of the mill. Standard Pixar "sad kid with dead parents" protagonist. Design wise, it was very uncanny valley/uncomfortable to watch, not what I'd expect from a Pixar film. The human characters all looked Play Doh-y & soft (???), & the aliens all looked gooey and gross. Like, clearly whoever was involved in this film wasn't Pixar's top animators or talent.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

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It is astounding gentleman just how much the usual suspects are going out of their way to eat out this woman because she used the 2025 magic buzzword "Free Gaza".

She ought to shut her fucking Von Trapp.

 

[mlanguishi]

Opening weekends:

Half even Elemntal, much less Lighyear which made headlines about how big of a bomb it was. Elio is the lowest ever by half the next one, yikes.

I was wondering about these 2 and figured they had to be lowest but forgot they were straight to D+


This makes me this F4 is going to do REAL bad, and probably Superman too. Everything's been tracking down this summer. Those saying Jurassic World might be the top movie this year are probably right.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

This makes me this F4 is going to do REAL bad, and probably Superman too. Everything's been tracking down this summer. Those saying Jurassic World might be the top movie this year are probably right.

Even if F4 winds up actually being Good - with the prices of literally everything these days, the apparent death of the movie theatre outside big cities post Covid, and the fact people know if they don’t mind waiting a month it’ll be on D+?

Schizo theory - I think that D+ is, completely unironically, helping to fuck over their Box Office figures. Yeah, you’ll always have the people who insist on seeing everything in IMAX, but if you have to choose between shelling out God only knows how much to get the theatre experience, or wait 30 days and watch it from the comfort of your own home? I know which one I’d pick…

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Thunderbolts was actually decent and I am glad Florence took over as Widow. Have not seen the Captain America film. I have no hope for F4 because its going to be woke shit everywhere. Focusing on Sue would be fine if it wasn't infested with shit like the Torch miscast, Fag Pascal still trying to convince everyone hes straight (and I noticed he actually lacks range. Seriously.) and female Silver Surfer because.........what? Why? Then there's Natasha Lyonne and less said about her the better.

Its so obvious their 60s world is either a simulation or alternate dimension. Stupid. Should have just St Elsewhere finale'd it. I did hear that Ralph is great as Galactus.

But anyway yeah I was looking at scrapped Disney projects. Apparently there was to be a Jack and the Beanstalk type film starring Kristin Chenoweth? And the original designs for The Snow Queen before they regurgitated it into that shite Frozen...

The direct to video films that were originally envisioned as television series (Belles Magical World, Cinderella 2, Atlantis Milo's Return) are interesting to look at. Helga was going to return to Atlantis as a cyborg.

 

[Gingervitis]

It needs a good villain that is on par with Hopper.

Fuck you, you’re getting Grasshopper Trump/Musk. With the state of modern Disney/Pixar villains, you’re not getting any modern classics here.

Anyway, I just saw Elio today. The story was meh/very run of the mill. Standard Pixar "sad kid with dead parents" protagonist. Design wise, it was very uncanny valley/uncomfortable to watch, not what I'd expect from a Pixar film. The human characters all looked Play Doh-y & soft (???), & the aliens all looked gooey and gross. Like, clearly whoever was involved in this film wasn't Pixar's top animators or talent.

Did they ever explain why he has an eyepatch that looks like he got socked in the face? That’s what I’ve been wondering the most.

Helga was going to return to Atlantis as a cyborg.

Honestly? Still would.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Listen I can relate as an autist to the whole "I just want somewhere to belong" shit but that's like one small facet of me as a person and I'm tired of exploring that over and over and over aagain.

Honestly they don't even do it that well. Naruto devolves into a giant shit pile by the end but do you know one thing it never really fucked up on?

Naruto's desire to be respected and how it relates to his goal of being Hokage. He gains the respect and admiration of his peers...and achieves his basic goal without even realizing it and that fact is really only brought up in passing. They don't hit you over the head with the fact that Naruto belongs...except the one time the entire village is celebrating him because he beat the shit out of the arcs big badman.

 

[X-avier cuck]

What's the level after "doubling down"? Because that's what's happening here.

Do they genuinely get off on the hate that everyone brings them or are they just THAT retarded? Like I'm fucking floored at the balls they have to even consider something like this if this rumor is true.

The bitch is cancer! She ruined whatever good-will she had left, just fucking stop this shit already.

It's sociopolitical posturing that the American Left LOVES doing.

I thought people hated that actress 'cause she was always performatively sperging about feminism & DEI bullsh!t? She started 'sperging about Gaza now too?

Anyway, I just saw Elio today. The story was meh/very run of the mill. Standard Pixar "sad kid with dead parents" protagonist. Design wise, it was very uncanny valley/uncomfortable to watch, not what I'd expect from a Pixar film. The human characters all looked Play Doh-y & soft (???), & the aliens all looked gooey and gross. Like, clearly whoever was involved in this film wasn't Pixar's top animators or talent.

Zegler was a total non-factor until the Snow White PR trainwreck exposed how insufferable she actually is. Then, when that wasn’t getting enough clout, she pivoted to full "Free Gaza" mode, dropping spicy anti-Zionist takes like she was auditioning for Activist Idol. Suddenly the same leftists who were memeing on her wooden acting were doing backflips to stan her—but still not watching anything she's in. Classic performative allyship: elevate her as long as she says the right buzzwords, then ghost her, and her flop projects the second they drop. It’s all optics, zero substance.

So yeah—Zegler went from “Who?” to “She’s so brave, you guys ” in 6 months flat. But give it a year, and the same people pretending she’s Audre Lorde with a SAG card will be ghosting her next Netflix musical faster than you can say “algorithm.”

 

[Eventide]

This makes me this F4 is going to do REAL bad, and probably Superman too. Everything's been tracking down this summer. Those saying Jurassic World might be the top movie this year are probably right.

I wouldn't sell F4 short just yet. While I agree it probably won't do gangbusters when compared to Jurassic World, I wouldn't be shocked if it outperformed Gunn's Superman reboot.

I'm starting to think the rumors that the new Superman film did dogshit in previews and executives were furious at James Gunn for delivering a stinker, must have some truth to them. Think about it - the new Superman movie comes out in like, 3 weeks? and there's practically zero promotion for it. It's like Warner Brothers already cut their losses/realizes they won't being making back the marketing budget.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Elio Tracking Disastrous Opening Box Office Projections as Pixar Faces One of Its Worst Debuts Ever

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This is what happens when you get rid of the old guard of veteran storytellers and replace them with Millennial diversity hires. The people at the helm of Pixar can't write for shit anything that appeals to a general audience anymore and the adoption of the repulsive bean mouth visuals in all their latest projects doesn't help either. I really hope this is seen as another nail in the coffin for this accursed art style.

It gets even worse, opening weekend is now being estimated at $27m to $31m. At this point Lilo and Stitch will need to gross over $2billion in order to make up for all the money Disney is losing in the first two quarters. How much longer can Disney last while losing hundreds of millions of dollars ever quarter? Even their parks are starting to have a drop off. You'll know when Disney is fucked when Iger announces his replacement and fucks off.

A BOMB OF ALL BOMBS.


Pixar animators on suicide watch, lay-offs are a'coming.

 

[Grand Duke Snowfall]

Out of curiosity I went to go see how some of those spergs on Disneytwit are handling things.

Spoiler: The cope is real

There’s something sad and funny about them being like “No, no, it’s good movie! It can make a comeback like Elemental, we just need more people talking about it!!”
And in regard to the “muh CalArts” tweet, I thought one of the reasons why it became so widespread is because it’s super cheap to animate. It doesn’t translate well to 3D, and even if it did, why would a massive studio like Pixar need to cut costs on animation like that?

 

[Belvedere]

It just dawned on me that the last movies Disney has for this year are Tron: Ares, Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ice. I get the feeling these movies will do well in the box office. Ares more serious tone might resonate better with Sci-Fi audiences and Fire and Ice is a known quantity because those damn movies for some bizarre reason always manage to break box office records while having zero cultural impact.

Spoiler

Except for the memes of people siding with the RDA faction, "Fuck them Xenos, the stars belong to Mankind" which goes completely against Cameron's intentions. KEK

Semantics aside of what an "animated" movie is in today's day and age ("Live-action" remakes are mostly made with tons of animated CGI characters but so long there is a real human on screen, that enough for them. Don't get me started with the """"LIVE-ACTION""" remake of Lion King, ... fuck off Disney, the entire movie is animated!!

The one "true" animated Disney movie left for 2025 is Zootopia 2 and by the mere happenstance that it is not a bean-mouth eyesore, it'll have a better chance to have mass market appeal. What makes me laugh is how hard Disney is marketing this thing to furries, this is how desperate they are at this point for a win, especially after Snow White and Elio bombing.

 

[Flaming Carrot]

I'm spilt on Elio. On one it looks stupid. I'm so tired of these bean-mouth designs that is in everything now. The alien with him also looks like a bunch of alien designs in movies.

One the other hand if this movie fails it would convince Pixar to di more sequels. We won't need an Up 2 or a Ratatouille 2. Coco ended perfectly. The only one I would really like is A Bug's Life 2. Comparing that and the original animation would be amazing.

I saw the movie today, and it's fine. Obviously not up there with Pixar's best, but I wasn't checking my watch every five minutes like I was during Elemental or praying for death like I was with Despicable Me 4. I thought it was mostly harmless as far as children's entertainment goes, but unless you have a kid who really wants to see it, you can wait to watch it on Disney Plus.

Did they ever explain why he has an eyepatch that looks like he got socked in the face? That’s what I’ve been wondering the most.

He looks like he got socked in the face because he gets socked in the face in the first five minutes of the movie. The eye patch also becomes a plot point later on. There's no lectures on disability or anything like that.

I wouldn't sell F4 short just yet. While I agree it probably won't do gangbusters when compared to Jurassic World, I wouldn't be shocked if it outperformed Gunn's Superman reboot.

I'm starting to think the rumors that the new Superman film did dogshit in previews and executives were furious at James Gunn for delivering a stinker, must have some truth to them. Think about it - the new Superman movie comes out in like, 3 weeks? and there's practically zero promotion for it. It's like Warner Brothers already cut their losses/realizes they won't being making back the marketing budget.

Superman has already beaten Fantastic Four in terms of ticket presales, and Superman has better name recognition. Also, I'm not sure if you've been to the movies lately, but I've seen a Superman trailer before almost every movie I've been to for the past six months. Its going to come down to word of mouth and reviews, but there's a good chance Superman is going to make more money than Fantastic Four.

 

[Chilson]

“No, no, it’s good movie! It can make a comeback like Elemental, we just need more people talking about it!!”

Elemental had a comeback???? It bombed at the box office was savaged by both critics and audiences.

Even if it was a huge success with critical acclaim, that wouldn't change that it was still just a shitty bland animated film from a studio that has no talent left in its stables.

 

[Grand Duke Snowfall]

Elemental had a comeback???? It bombed at the box office was savaged by both critics and audiences.

Even if it was a huge success with critical acclaim, that wouldn't change that it was still just a shitty bland animated film from a studio that has no talent left in its stables.

I heard it being praised by the expected crowd for portraying racism and prejudice through nonhuman characters. As if that concept hasn’t been done to death. I personally didn’t watch it because of that and the horrendously ugly character designs.

 

[Eventide]

Superman has already beaten Fantastic Four in terms of ticket presales,

Yeah but it also comes out like, 2 weeks later than Superman, so I'd imagine F4 pre-ticket sales might go up as the opening date approaches. & a lot of movie theatres only allow you to buy tickets a month in advance (and July 25 is still more than a month away).

and Superman has better name recognition. Also, I'm not sure if you've been to the movies lately, but I've seen a Superman trailer before almost every movie I've been to for the past six months. Its going to come down to word of mouth and reviews, but there's a good chance Superman is going to make more money than Fantastic Four.

I saw Elio the other day in theatres, and I saw Superman trailer. & that's the ONLY place I saw the trailer. Not online, not on Youtube, not on tv, not on the sides of buses or on billboards (& I live in a relatively major city). Clearly Superman's advertising budget is non-existent - which begs the question, why?

I'm not some MCU fangirl (in fact, I somewhat dislike the MCU/not a big fan of superhero films & expanded universes. I'm too ADHD & hate movies where you gotta do homework to know what's going on/who characters are). I'm not all that invested in Fantastic Four - I just think, out of the tentpole superhero films releasing this summer, Fantastic Four has more advertising by the studio/more internet buzz than Superman.

...anyway, the only movie I'm actually excited for this summer is Meghan 2.0. I love a good campy horror flick.