Posted on 06/06/2023 1:45:25 PM PDT by zeestephen
The Little Mermaid Dropped 56.7% At The Box Office In Its 2nd Weekend.
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They don’t have money to pay their electrical bills or make payments on their student loans but they have money to go watch this crap.
The problem is that people who did go and see it told other people what they saw. Those people then decided that they would rather get an enema than watch one on screen.
But the upshot is it got a bunch of ghetto dwellers to crawl out of the ghetto this weekend, come over to my quiet little white neighborhood and hang out all night in front of the little 4 screen theater that was showing the Mermaid flick. Some of them didn’t get there in time to get tickets, so they just hung out on the street instead. And of course one of them was nice enough to pull his SUV in front of the theater and blast his radio for everyone to enjoy.
“They’re adding nothing to the story. They need to come up with new material.”
Umm, that advice is a bit ironic, since this is Disney we are talking about here. Their entire (very successful) business model was built on unoriginality. Almost every success they ever had was taking a very old story written by some dead guy that everyone had already heard and just using that as a tentpole to hang their cartoons on.
Maybe they should just try more of that.
Disney is also planning remakes of “The Sword In The Stone” and “Robin Hood”. I bet they’ll make those woke too.
Don’t sorry, they’ll just cook the books for the box office in the same way that they cooked the ratings.
Well, at least the live action Little Mermaid Ariel had red hair - extensions.
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and she’s black ...
Disney is like a rich person that is living paycheck to paycheck using their credit cards to pay for their living expenses and facing a balloon payment on their million dollar home.
In early 2024 Disney has to pay Comcast billions of dollars (that Disney does not have). The final amount has yet to be determined.
Expect to see Disney start selling off some assets (at a small fraction of what they paid for them) in the near future and firing many employees.
Attendance is down at their cash cow otherwise known as their Amusement Parks and and they may even have to close some of their oversea parks.
At some point in the future there will be a business class on how to kill a business and Disney will star in it.
Dead White Guy not just dead guy. Most every great book was written by a dead white guy.
Think of all the poor people they could have helped. Think of all the reparations they could have paid instead of making this movie.
I'm not as offended by pan-racial depictions of fictional semi-aquatic characters (what is the "race" of a mermaid?) as I am the totally woke BS of recasting historical figures.
Hamilton? Really? The whitey whitiest of all the Founding Fathers? Mr. uptight elitist NY douchbag himself?
That comment reminds me of ‘Vanilla Sky’ with Tom Cruise.
On top of the budget, as I understand it, they also spent like 140 million to promote the film, advertising, publicity, etc.
Gee, am I supposed to feel sorry for Groomers, Inc.?
The Top Gun sequel pumped so much cash back into the studios that they can afford to take the hit on all their woke crap.
Tom Cruise saved the movie industry.
The analysts I have been listening to have said that with the advertising they have been doing, likely near $200 million, and the actual cost overruns that aren’t in the reported budget (something Disney is famous for doing) this film will have to do close to $800 million to break even.
Disney is also planning remakes of “The Sword In The Stone” and “Robin Hood”. I bet they’ll make those woke too.
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Thanks for the warning.
They’re blaming racism for its failure in China and S. Korea.
Go Woke—Go Broke.
“Hamilton? Really?”
Hamilton is really great, IMHO. I wondered what all the fuss was about, and no way could I get tickets, so I borrowed the Original Cast Album from the Library.
It’s 100% great, and patriotic, and just amazing. The guy actually wrote a good tune about monetary policy (something like that!).
George Washington, and all the Founders are treated with true respect.
As to the race changes, or whatever we would call it, I realized that it might have seemed quite silly to have a bunch of white guys doing that rap. There are only so many Eminems (sp?) available.
If you haven’t watched or listened to it, give it a try, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Now, about this article, who wrote it? AI? It’s just garbled mush!
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