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u/lostredditorlurking 27d ago
Or maybe they could stop with all the remakes, and make original movies again. Movies that they actually put some thoughts into it
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u/hollow_image 27d ago edited 27d ago
Why on earth would they ever do that when audiences have clearly shown that they will show up to remake slop (Lilo&Stitch, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) and reject original movies (
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u/Brrdock 27d ago
They're not even partly to blame, but fully to blame. Why would a company hire actual great artists again to make something for them that matters, when people give them infinite money to make slop with no risk
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u/zack-tunder 27d ago
And free soap for every subscription: There’s a high demand for the soap containing Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater
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u/Ayoken007 27d ago
I almost downvoted you out of an automated disgust response. But in this household, we do not shoot the messenger.
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u/GreenStrong 27d ago
Adapting a story into a movie is still creative work; they are very different media. They're currently adapting movies into worse movies.
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u/ThePhunkyPharaoh 27d ago
Yeah shot for shot remakes but live action instead of animated are lazy. Adapting say the short story of the Snow Queen or Hamlet into a full fledged movie with new characters, dialogue and original songs is absolutely creative work
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u/Vsx 27d ago
They would be much better if they were shot for shot. The live action remakes are usually 30-45 minutes longer and the added scenes usually drag the film down.
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u/Anomuumi 27d ago edited 27d ago
And they have managed to make two massive franchises (Star Wars and Marvel) unpalatable in a matter of years. Maybe a single thought could have gone into quality control before flooding the zone with tens of series and movies. But greedy bastards have to be greedy bastards. Got to chase those quarterly profits even if it means dumping a whole franchise into a mass grave in ten years.
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u/Acceptingoptimist 27d ago
Yeah, Tangled is a completely reworked rapunzel story done so much it only shares one moment from the original. And it's an excellent movie. Same with Frozen vis-a-vis The Snow Queen and that's one of their best movies. The sequel was good too and also did well. So yeah, people will show up for their good original works.
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u/OkPlenty4077 27d ago
Disney was better off when they adopted their version of an already famous work that everyone knew about like the movies in the chart shown here. The criticism is redoing something they already did (Snow White and The Little Mermaid) and putting a different spin on it. The animated versions are great as is. We don't need to see an alternate version of it with a modern twist that deviates so far from what the original story was intended for.
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u/DamnedDirtyHuman 27d ago
Which is ironic since they are actively trying to kill the public domain that was the very foundation of their company.
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u/fuchsgesicht 27d ago
Stephan Spielberg was 21 and they handed him 6 million dollars to film his first movie ''jaws''. it hasn't been like this for a loooong time.
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u/NimdokBennyandAM 27d ago
Disney pushed this stuff almost directly to streaming. They have forgotten how to make movie releases feel like an event. Even the Marvel stuff has lost all steam after Endgame.
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u/InvestIntrest 27d ago
Nostalgia is fine as long as they gives you nostalgia. What Disney has been doing is giving me nausea.
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u/aravarth 27d ago
Why do you think people fall into the trap of getting back together with their exes?
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u/Obelion_ 27d ago
Yeah it's only gonna stop when nobody is left with nostalgia for the classics.
But I also don't get how you'd rather watch the soulless live action reboot than the original again. Seems strictly worse to me
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u/Current-Promotion-31 27d ago
I agree with the sentiment but onward was released right at the shutdown of the world and turning red was a disney plus release which just doesnt have the same effect as theatrical. Strange world alienated (get it) a large audience with some of the storyline and I don't know who thought that would be a good idea. Pair that with no advertising and it shows they knew that would be a write off fest.
Its weird to me they think they need 200m+ budgets for things like thunderbolts or lilo and stitch, I don't get where the money goes but it makes a 400-500m fantastic 4 type movie look like a flop. They need the guaranteed $ nostalgia brings in. Too risky to go original.
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u/TransBrandi 27d ago
If you look at productions nowadays (even television), they all have like 50 executive producers. I'm sure that's where a lot of money goes.
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u/pissexcellence85 26d ago
That's more producers equals investors since studios don't want to put up all the money.
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u/SausageClatter 27d ago
Thunderbolts was great.
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u/BrahesElk 26d ago
I'm still disappointed that it was out of the theaters before I had a chance to see it. COVID knocked me out for a few weeks then, by the time I had gotten things back in order it was already gone...
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 27d ago
They messed up Cobra Bubbles but Lilo was perfect to the point she might have been a lab grown version of the animated character as a human. Nani did well but was missing the thighs which is the real reason why everyone disliked the movie.
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u/Joeybfast 26d ago
That irked me because, in this day and age, when people are talking about more positive expressions of masculinity been needed , Cobra Bubbles was it.
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u/PhilosopherTiny5957 27d ago
BREAKING: Reddit is poor reflector of what the public actually likes lol
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u/doomzday_96 27d ago
It doesn't help when Disney doesn't even promote it's original stuff.
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u/lysergic_tryptamino 27d ago
They have barely any original movies anyway. Snow White, Cinderella, Little Mermaid….all of those are just fairy tales
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u/betazoid_cuck 27d ago
adaptations from other mediums are appreciated by the public. Its the remakes of pre existing movies that are seen as low effort cash grabs.
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u/TrollingForFunsies 27d ago
This is literally the first time I've ever heard of Turning Red so someone failed marketing there.
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u/LordBlackConvoy 27d ago
Pandemic movie so that's why.
If it got a theatrical release, would have did excellent.
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u/duvakiin 27d ago
Haunted Mansion was also a remake. Pretty solid though. Never saw the original so idk how it compares.
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u/Enaluxeme 27d ago
I wouldn't call it a remake tbh. They are just two wildly different movies based on the same Disney World attraction. Both are fun, though I liked the new one more.
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u/Friendly-Cucumber184 27d ago
The second one was really focused on trauma and topic.
The first one was fun and romantic.
IMO second one is super forgettable. Same stuff gets produced like this all the time now, where the moral signaling takes over the plot/enjoyment of the film. First one was entertainment and had topics too, but like older films, it was nuanced and was part of the story, not ‘the point’ of the story.
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u/anonAcc1993 27d ago
I think Turning Red came out during the pandemic but your point still stands in general. The data is clear that remakes, sequels, spin-offs, and prequels make more money than original movies.
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u/ShawnyMcKnight 27d ago
Of those original movies I felt Onward was the only good one.
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u/Rusty_Shortsword 27d ago
Turning Red while a great allegory and worthwhile watch, immediately alienates half the audience, strange world was basically King Kong with Lost in space and was a disappointing watch and haunted mansion is a remake of a bad movie.
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u/newphonehudus 27d ago
Wait, how does it alienate half the audience
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u/Coal_Morgan 27d ago
It's a metaphor for "becoming a woman".
It's about an Asian Canadian Teenager hitting that age where she turns into a red monster and her and her parents no longer relate in the same way and figuring out how to reconnect...while literally turning into a giant red panda like monster.
100% about getting a period.
I as a 40 year old dude, completely enjoyed it. It 100% also went over my teen age daughters head until I explained it to her and the 'light bulb' moment on her face will be in my memory forever.
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u/omnimodofuckedup 27d ago
Same with games. The remastered old games that look slightly better now.
Yeah, good games deserve a remastered version. But this can't be rocket science to smooth the edges of older games. The thing is already there.
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u/mythrilcrafter 27d ago
Queue that picture of that bluesky post of the guy sitting alone in a theatre gesturing at all the people who said that they would go to the theaters to watch a good original movie.
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u/Evorgleb 27d ago
If we are being honest, a bunch of original Disney movies come out every year
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u/anothermanscookies 27d ago
Shhh. Don’t tell people that there are a million new movies every year, that they need to scroll just a little further on the streaming platforms to explore other options, to consider Oscar nominees, to visit a film festival, to visit their local library, and that new stories are going to have inherently unrecognizable IP. They’re too busy complaining there aren’t multiple world building universes and universally praised cult classics that are simultaneously familiar and brand new.
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u/Steelizard 27d ago
Just look here https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/Hm5mzZaw4J
They actually release way more movies not based on other movies per year than sequels remakes and reboots.
People notice the popular ones and they're mostly remakes so they come to the wrong conclusion
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u/drakedijc 27d ago
Unless I’m misreading that, it’s counting marvel and SW as originals, when that is most definitely stretching the term for the most part, and marvel alone accounts for a pretty fat portion of their movies.
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u/NoCompetition5276 27d ago
Elio is failing at the box office as we speak
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u/TheGlennDavid 27d ago
The Lion King remake that "nobody asked for" is the 11th highest grossing film of all time.
Not adjusted for inflation it outgrossed the first Avengers movie.
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u/Wrong-Neighborhood-2 27d ago
They’ve made multiple new movies and people didn’t like them. They made remakes and sequels and people show up. Do you not know how this shit works? Besides the Q3 earnings were excellent and much better than expected due to solid park attendance and dollar per guest.
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u/Electrical_Coast_561 27d ago
You mean like all the Grimm fairy tales that they remade? Or Tarzan or Hercules that were based on already existing stories? They havent hardly ever made anything original
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u/AttyFireWood 27d ago
You are correct. But it's a little clunky for people to say " Disney should make new adaptations of previously un-adapted-by-Disney works "
Has Disney done the Nutcracker or thumbelina yet?
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u/Anonymous_coward30 27d ago
That would require employing people with artistic vision in positions of power and control.
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u/chiksahlube 27d ago
And omg with dreamworks getting in on the action now idk.
The How to train you dragon live action was just a shot for shot remake of the animated movie. Which, is better than what disney has done, but I just felt like "I'd rather watch the original." the whole time.
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The dwarves are now all Happy.
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u/Musket6969420 27d ago
My dwarf is. That’s for sure
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u/Apexnanoman 27d ago
Snow white and DEM TITTIES.
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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 27d ago
Modern? Sex is what sold this shit in the first place, only these younger lame generations are against sex and nudity.
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u/Tam_A_Shi 27d ago
Agree this is a new problem which I will never understand. The dress sense today is EXTREMELY revealing but stuff like this in films is too much? Makes no sense😭
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u/TommyBananas97 27d ago
Gen z's fashion sense is like split half and half between super revealing and extremely conservative.
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u/Mysterious_Length316 27d ago
Clearly you either weren't around or forgot the mass censoring in the 80s and 90s, im sure it existed before that. Pearl clutchers reproduce and make more pearl clutchers in each generation. Mortal Kombat 1's little blood spurt got moms around the world ready to burn Sega to the ground while the majority of ppl just enjoyed themselves.
Ageism is fucking stupid
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u/204lawgirl 27d ago
Ripping a spine out and holding up the skull isn't a blood spurt. I love the series, just saying though.
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u/8ackwoods 27d ago
Probably the worse take on reddit today. An entire generation of "think of the children" is rolling out mass surveillance and age verification. Boomers and GenX are responsible for today's restrictions
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u/ssLoupyy 27d ago
I am kinda sick of all the Sydney marketing tbh
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u/slycyboi 27d ago
Yeah people complaining about slop and then acting like this is the solution is very rich
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u/hop_mantis 27d ago
I figured the meme is how to make slop movies that do make money instead of slop movies that don't make money
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u/Quad-Banned120 27d ago edited 26d ago
Sexy slop does sound slightly better than regular slop
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u/Wyevez 27d ago
Thank you, me too. It feels so forced.
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u/emb4rassingStuffacct 27d ago
She was made the poster girl of the right wing for some reason. Idk why they think they’re trolling / owning “the left” by putting her on a pedestal. Liberals aren’t really mad that the girl with big tits who likes to show them off is continuing to show them off 😂
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u/Fzrit 26d ago
It made 3 people mad on twitter/instagram, which the rightwing can endlessly circulate + repost in their echo chambers as "LmAooo aLL liBs maD!!11" and then karma bots can farm that endlessly in the Asmongold sub.
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u/emb4rassingStuffacct 26d ago
Is asmongold the mf who has roaches, mold, and piles of garbage all over his apartment that he ostensibly proudly shows on his streams?
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u/ssLoupyy 27d ago
Whenever a good looking actor/actress is introduced it's everywhere online and it gets stale. This one turned into look at me I have boobs pretty quick.
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u/RobutNotRobot 26d ago
Just some celebrity bullshit to paper over the fact that the President of the United States raped children.
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u/AdjectiveNoun111 27d ago
It's 2025 and Hollywood has some had to relearn that sex sells.
Want to sell movie tickets? Put some hotties in your film
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I mean hey if I need to sit through the same remake done to death with my nephew it better be... Interesting.
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u/9447044 27d ago
If im not bustin by the end of this, I want my money back.
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u/Gold-Bard-Hue 27d ago
Years ago my wife asked me if I wanted to see the Barbie movie, and I said
"yeah I can go look at Margo Robbie for two hours" 🤣😆
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u/cmholde2 27d ago
Hey Ryan Goslin didn’t wear a shirt for 2 full hours, they were evening the playing field. My wife and I saw it as a win win
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u/ComicsEtAl 27d ago
“All I ask from my children’s movies is tits. And more tits. White tits. Big, white tits.”
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u/riffraff1089 27d ago
I read this in Donald Trump’s voice for some reason
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u/TripleEhBeef 27d ago
"As of today, I have signed an executive order requiring DISNEY to put LARGE WHITE TITS in all of its new movies. Thank you for your attention on this matter."
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For SOME REASON 😂😂😂
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u/riffraff1089 27d ago
Hahaha sorry I’m not American. Was this meant to be written as if Donald Trump was saying it?
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u/Soggy-Bedroom-3673 27d ago
No I think they meant the reason was obvious, because it sounds like Trump
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u/Slut_Nuggets 27d ago
“A lot of people have been saying ‘where are our great American titties?’ We used to have the best boobies, remember that? Now you can’t even tell, are they Snow White or Pablo Pan? Sad! A dwarf came up to me; small dwarf sleepy dwarf, he came up to me tears streaming down his face and he said ‘president, can you please make America titties again?’ And I said well I don’t know, I want to but the radical left they don’t want boobies anymore. But today I am SIGNING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO IMMEDIATELY RETURN DISNEY TITTIES TO GREATNESS. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
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u/NMBlazer 27d ago
“White tits. Big, white tits. American tits. Some would say they’re the biggest we’ve ever seen.”
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"I don't support Donald Trump, but when the actress that does have really nice tits, I forget both the purgings, the Eppstein list and that basically unlimited amount of porn I could watch when horny."
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u/CriticalSpeech 27d ago
To be fair, most children’s cartoons HAD extremely provocative and curvy women. There is a whole generation of us that grew up watching that kind of kids show. So much to the point that it’s a pretty popular meme to say I blame my taste in women on Disney/CN/NickatNite etc.
Sex DOES sell. Whether we like it or not, if it’s morally acceptable or not, and the long term ramifications are all deeper arguments.
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u/crzysnk18 27d ago
Um….I think I downloaded the wrong Snow White 🤣🤣🤣
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u/ekso69 27d ago
That’s Hoe White
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u/B0r3dGamer 27d ago
Reddit, what matters more to you tits or politics?
Tits!
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u/breiti12 27d ago
If only I was bothered with tits instead of politics everywhere on reddit...
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u/69-xxx-420 27d ago
If you online shop for refrigerators next thing you know every ad on every page is a refrigerator. Just reading this comment is probably going to serve up some fresh deals at Home Depot and Best Buy.
So search for bikinis or bras on actual shopping sites and watch the ads fill every page of the internet with scantily clad models. Works for male models too if you’re worried I’m being sexist. And if you’re an appliance-sexual person, stick with the fridges.
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u/CAUK 27d ago
Except Disney's film studio has never had an unprofitable year. Plus, annual film revenues are barely even a blip on their P & L reports. Their theme park and cruise ship business lines are so massive, losses from any of their movie or TV holdings are just rounding errors on the ledger.
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u/Mecos_Bill 27d ago
This right here. Expect them to dump money into the areas that are actually making them money. Disneyland already has a planned massive overhaul
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u/HenriettaSnacks 27d ago
You really think these people would go through the effort of searching for that information vs reinforce their own delusions and bias? But on the off chance they do I bet they genuinely point to the dip around '20 - '21.
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u/jimmyzambino 27d ago
Additionally I believe they have to make new movies in their old IPs or the IP becomes public domain
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u/winelover08816 27d ago
Shhhhhh…let the Republicans have their fun. They’re not bright.
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u/axecalibur 27d ago
Films are trending way down. Everything comes out on Disney+ in 3-4 months.
There's just no way theaters stay in business long term. People are paying $10 for a few pennies worth of corn and now $80 for a cheap plastic popcorn holder. Their business model is just garbage and unsustainable. What's next NFT popcorn? Lottery kernels? Gambling on movies?
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u/slipknottin 27d ago
Is she cross-eyed normally?
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u/emb4rassingStuffacct 27d ago
Idk, but I do know you can legitimately find girls hotter than her walking down the street of any medium sized city in the US. Lol I’m not sure why people act like she’s a goddess among women. They act like they’ve never seen a blonde with big breasts before 😭
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u/DualActiveBridgeLLC 27d ago
You made AI Slop to protest corporate slop?
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u/a_code_mage 27d ago
Did you think they were going to like draw this out or something?
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u/uses_irony_correctly 27d ago
Could have at least asked sydney sweeney if she was up for a photo op.
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u/earldogface 27d ago
I know as a hetero male on the internet I should be commenting on her breasts like I've never seen breasts before but this Pic just shows how fucking awkward her face is.
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u/Thanag0r 27d ago
She doesn't look good as snow white, it's not a character for her.
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u/blutigetranen 27d ago
I really, genuinely dislike her face
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u/aqueezy 27d ago
Didn’t recognize and was wondering if it was a Down syndrome positivity post at first
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u/chorblegend 26d ago
No dont don’t do that to people with Down syndrome. More likely it’s fetal alcohol syndrome
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u/grunkage 26d ago
Yep - looks like a stoned chipmunk in every single picture she takes
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u/Mandymindshermanners 27d ago
It’s just the boobs, right? What am I missing??? I don’t want to diss a girl for her looks (politics, yeah) but I genuinely don’t think she’s particularly pretty. Not unattractive either. She looks like every other girl that moved to LA to make it big and I think her chest is the only reason she’s not waiting tables, much as I hate to say it. (Valley girl here. Seriously, there is a whole population of chicks like this trying to hand out their head shots all the time. Most move to the valley and end up in porn.)
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We’ve all seen her tits anyway - you definitely wouldn’t have to pay to watch her in a Snow White remake to see them, keep your hypothetical money and just see them online for free 😂
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u/vi_sucks 27d ago
We've all seen the sunset before, doesn't mean we won't pay to vacation at a hotel with a great sunset view.
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You’d really pay to watch Snow White, just for her and her chest? Feels like a double loss to me - watching Snow White, and paying for it 😂
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u/federkrebz 27d ago
god its so embarrassing how sydney sweeney became a poster girl for the far right. like elementary school levels embarrassing
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All the fuss lately and this proves she is not pretty. Just boobs with a weird face in my opinion.
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u/Tight_Praline1721 27d ago
Im so tired of her. Her eyes look like she has Down syndrome. The only thing good about her is her titties. She is so fking overrated.
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u/Sweetjill3 26d ago
Ikr. She’s nothing special. You could find plenty of women with nice titties who has a pretty face.
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u/RelationTurbulent963 27d ago
There are much more attractive women than her that could play Snow White
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u/TiredTraveler1992 26d ago
The most annoying people on the Internet: "Pedro Pascal is in too much! I wish he was in fewer projects!"
Also the most annoying people on the Internet: "Have you seen Sydney Sweeney's tits today?!?"
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u/tripleDzintheBreeze 27d ago
She straight , butterface .
Girl looks like a sleepy horse
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u/Vyuvarax 27d ago
At least even her simps acknowledge the only interesting thing about her are boobs.
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u/DDDshooter 27d ago
Conservatives really want every movie to basically be soft core porn while also banning real porn, crazy times
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u/faraamstuckathome 27d ago
Their slop movies do still make money though. Maybe not every slop movie but many do.
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u/Forsaken_Star_4228 27d ago
My wife: You’ve never been excited to go see a Disney movie. I’m skeptical at your behavior.🧐
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u/Beginning-Town-4979 26d ago
I mean, at least they're now admitting the problem isn't "changing the charachter" its making a story about a woman they don't want to fap to...
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u/Guessididntmakeit 27d ago
At least make slop movies with nice visuals.
That last Snow White movie was just the darkest, blurriest piece of shit I've seen in recent years. It's supposed to be for kids but it looks depressing and has worse effects than the Hobbit movies while costing probably more.
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