Not a cruise, not a visit to the parks, not viewing their movies. Disney can dry up and blow away for all I care.
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Since 1984 when the Sid Bass family gained control and brought in Eisner as CEO. But these days Walt is spinning like a tornado.
And just who is going to watch it?
For the last few decades, Disney was all about catering to their “Disney Princesses”. Most of their movies were about female characters. The Disney market was pre-teen girls, and their moms who still fantasize about “Prince Charming”.
But lately, they seem to have noticed that a big and growing part of their business is from gay men who also fantasize about Prince Charming, and who are eager to gain access to children.
Disney, Muppets, etc have been grooming kids for 2 decades. Any wonder why the kids are so screwed up about their sex?
Let me guess, making what was shown in the porno houses on 42nd Street in NYC, as featured in the movie “Taxi Driver”, look like Sunday evening Disney fare from those days.
If Musk wants to be one of the greatest heroes in history he should buy Disney too and bring it under control. I don’t know if he’s rich enough yet to try though.
Broadway and Disney are both in the support LBGQT movement and have been for years. I’m now noticing how it serves to make money for the movement and to create a haven to inculcate members to political ideology.
There is a new musical coming out next year that is full of gays, trans, lesbians and minorities. 1776.
https://www.playbill.com/production/1776-touring
“In this new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, this pivotal moment in American history is reexamined with a cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity”.
Meanwhile, the comic strip “For Better or For Worse” (re-runs from many years ago) is running the series where the next-door neighbor boy Lawrence tells Mike and then his mother Connie that he is gay—and is thrown out of the house by his step-father. Naturally the strip is very sympathetic to Lawrence and the step-father is the bad guy. But why even have a story on that topic?
Recent polling indicates that almost 70% of the American population dis-approves of the new Disney direction.
Rueby Woods is a minor and obviously has parents who condone his prancing fairy performance. One might think his parents are a same sex couple.
As for the movie…it might play well in New York, West Hollywood and other gay enclaves, but will it be a box office smash? I have my doubts that anyone but queer folk would want to see this movie and Disney rightfully will have a huge loss in its production.
I know I'm a Johnny One-Note on this, but I think that when we get done with raining anathemas on Disney or Hollywood in general, which is shooting fish in a barrel, we should pause to point out the good films that are still being made. We can at least support the saving remnant who aren't just woke sock puppets and who still endeavor to make honest films. So for the record, here is my current working list of "new" films that freepers have endorsed/recommended on recent movie threads. My definition of "new" here is flexible because some films premiered in festivals in 2021 but aren't reaching audiences until this year. So these are 2021/22 freeper favorites.
I've not seen them all, and a couple I didn't care for personally, but enough freepers have endorsed them that they merit mention. None of them are highly or obnoxiously woke; the filmmakers may be personally liberal, but if they tell honest stories without putting a cheating thumb on the scale, they can still make good movies. There may be a gay character here and there, but none of them are gay propaganda films. And everybody keeps their clothes on, with an asterisk for Drive My Car, which has two(?) scenes with nudity early in the film before moving on to an otherwise fully clothed movie. Drive My Car, of course, is a Japanese film and was a surprise breakout hit. A surprising number of freepers have seen it, and as far as I know, all of us who have seen it seem to like it. The nudity is fairly tame by current U.S. television standards, but it stands out on this list in contrast to the other films.
With no further ado: NEW "freeper endorsed" films, listed by date of release: The Dig: CODA; I'm Your Man; After Yang; Stillwater; Drive My Car; Free Guy; Old Henry; The Last Duel; Montana Story; The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis; West Side Story.
I don't think any of these are Disney films.
I think that all of these are now streaming on various platforms except Montana Story, which is still playing at festivals. Bleeker Street has announced a May 13 release date. If you want to beat the lines, it is available online right now through the Seattle International Film Festival: Montana Story It's an indie family drama, entirely character drive, well written, and brilliantly acted. If you think that sounds like indie navel gazing, it may not be your cup of tea, but it involves decent, attractive, responsible, and thoroughly relatable characters dealing with real (and unfortunately all too common) life issues, as opposed to freakshow weirdness or dysfunctional, self-destructive behavior. And everyone is dressed appropriately throughout for Montana weather in October; there is no nudity or sex.
Other suggestions? NEW movies (2021/22) that you enjoyed enough to recommend?
Oh, yeah: %^$#@( Disney. Who needs Disney? Watch the films listed above if you're sick of a steady diet of streamer filler.
to every gay kid who loves stage plays and musicals
I always suspected Mickey Mouse was really a gerbil
Ha ha..."Pride" = stereotype. They should make a movie about a black kid who goes crazy for fried chicken and watermelons while they're at it.