Posted on 07/01/2025 6:35:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello The latest Disney/Pixar animated film, 'Elio', has a dubious distinction. It has the worst opening weekend ever for a Pixar film, making only $21 million domestically and $14 million overseas. This is against a budget reportedly ranging from $150 million to $300 million. Yikes! Would you believe us if we told you things could have been even worse at the box office? Before some major changes, the 11-year-old title character was going to be gay ('queer-coded') and, for fun, put on fashion shows with clothing made out of trash he found on the beach. Oh, and he had a boy-crush. No really!
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See new posts Conversation DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm Pixar massively changed ‘ELIO’ after the original cut was test screened & not a single person raised their hand when asked if they’d pay to see the film in a movie theater
Elio was also initially a queer-coded character until leadership told them to make him more masculine
(Source: https://hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/elio-pixar-america-ferrera-director-queer-2-1236301860/)
You’re probably asking how the original pitch for the movie was approved. No sane person would ever think that’s something that would appeal to mainstream families.
Posters say the answer is clear - the studio 'talent' isn’t making movies for mass audiences, they’re making movies for themselves and about themselves.
More gay wouldn’t have saved the film.
Many posters have a simple solution that will prevent this from happening in the future.
They could have canned the film while it was in its original form or skipped the theatrical release on the reworked version and sent it straight to Disney+. Now, they have to deal with the huge financial loss of putting it in theaters and the embarrassment of it being a colossal flop.
Yeah!
Where every character is so dumb that breathing is a challenge.
Yeah! Wait. What?
Yes, we are going to have every single being in this movie have an IQ so low that they should be lightly watered and placed on a sunny windowsill.
Why would you do that?
Because that is what we think original content is. Stupid.
It is going to flop.
Yes. That is the point. And when it flops we will say it is because the audience does not actually want original content.
O-kay....
And then we can go back to taking old stories and saying that the main character is now a feminist gay mouse with bladder issues.
Why?
Because it is easier.
Oh.
they’re making movies for themselves and about themselves.
You know they don’t give a f___ about anybody else.
“Still waiting for the Disney shareholders to get tired of the hemorrhaging that Disney’s wokeness is costing”
The big funds like Blackrock and Vanguard are woke too. They’re in on it.
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