Disney's latest go woke go broke fiasco

[MechAg94]

Last movie I saw in a theater was the last Hobbit movie and that was only because my nephew was in town and he wanted to see it. Consider all three of them a bloated mess that seriously needed trimming down to something like to less than half of what they were in the end. Way way too much padding. Some scenes that should have been a minute or two went on for 15-20 minutes and there were times I checked my watch.

I thought the Hobbit should have been a single 2 hour movie.  IMO, that book could be broken down in the about a dozen 10 minute segments, give or take.  IMO, it wasn't written as a big epic trilogy like LOTR and should have been a more concise, fast paced story. 

[MechAg94]

That was a golden age. For me, High School through early 20s, it was stuff like Rocky Horror Picture Show, with the audience participation, Star Wars, Alien, and Bladerunner.

The last really movie theater-worthy movies for me were the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies. I don't think I have been in an actual theater more than three times since they came out, and I can't even remember the movies I saw.

The main movie I have seen in recent years that is flat-out really good is Godzilla Minus One.  Little or no criticisms of that one.  It is in Japanese, but it is a very well made movie.  I would call it the best of all the Godzilla movies, but that is not a real high bar and might give the wrong impression. 

Other movies have been entertaining, but most have their issues. 

[dogmush]

I thought the Hobbit should have been a single 2 hour movie.  IMO, that book could be broken down in the about a dozen 10 minute segments, give or take.  IMO, it wasn't written as a big epic trilogy like LOTR and should have been a more concise, fast paced story.

I may be remembering it with rose tinted childhood glasses, but I fondly remember the 1977 animated Hobbit, and really hoped Jackson was going to give us a slightly more fleshed out, and visually better looking version of that instead of........what we got.


I too enjoyed Godzilla Minus One.  I streamed it a while ago.  It did a good job of telling a human story in a kaiju movie.

[K Frame]

Wow... Apparently Disney is considering rebooting Snow White AGAIN to try to get past this whole mess.

[Ben]

Wow... Apparently Disney is considering rebooting Snow White AGAIN to try to get past this whole mess.

At this point they would be better off to just digitally remaster the original and sell it as a DVD special edition. They would probably actually turn a profit on that.

[Brad Johnson]

At this point they would be better off to just digitally remaster the original and sell it as a DVD special edition. They would probably actually turn a profit on that.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Snow-White-and-the-Seven-Dwarfs-4K-Blu-ray/335673/

Brad

[WLJ]

I may be remembering it with rose tinted childhood glasses, but I fondly remember the 1977 animated Hobbit, and really hoped Jackson was going to give us a slightly more fleshed out, and visually better looking version of that instead of........what we got.

I do too although other people's opinions on it are all over the map. It really needed another 1/2 hour to an hour to flesh out the story but IIRC they didn't have the budget.

There was an animated TLOTR but after part one (which is SORT OF okay in it's own way) it fell into production hell where you are left wondering just what the heck were they trying to do. It's a massive CF after the first part.

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Disney's latest go woke go broke fiasco
« on: March 29, 2025, 03:51:26 AM »
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Really surprised no one has been commenting on this one, because it's been a lot of fun...
..... I  tried to quote but very difficult on a phone.
I've been totally ignoring it until today.
"Our" side has been generating a lot of content on YouTube and Rumble and probably other conservative outlets with this latest "go woke/broke" thing.
 I.M.O  the best strategy is completely removing myself from modern cinema. I go to one movie every 10 yrs now.
It used to be something I really liked.
 Now, let's say quartering or Benny or some content creator even talks about a dumb Hollywood player,  I avoid it.
 I do watch the occasional thing on prime.but nothing really grabs me.

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Snow White starring Samuel Jackson (2026) | Teaser Trailer | Disney

[K Frame]

I'd go to see that in the theater.

[WLJ]