Disney's "Worst Year Ever"

if you've been anywhere near social media in the past year you've definitely begun seeing the uptick in people sharing the sentiment that Disney is going Dar Hill fast from box office bombs to actor and writer strikes to just an overall consensus that the output has been poor everything seemed to reach a boiling point with the release of their newest animated feature made to celebrate the company's 100th anniversary wish I clean upes and I'm always there when you need and what a celebration it's been now this has left a lot of people to wonder why is this happening to Disney one of the biggest corporations in the world just why I've been seeing folks try and find someone to blame for this left and right from the money hungry CEOs making these decisions all the way to the folks who choose not to give Disney any money for subpar products you're telling me you didn't want to give this innocent little Mega Corporation your hard-earned money for the high cinematic Masterpiece that was Indiana Jones p well I guess you're just an awful awful person I mean it would make sense if it was something like oh I don't know you not buying the limited edition LS marketable figure that's only available for one more week before it goes away forever then you're an awful person comes a little dog but it's not just as simple as saying movie Bad like comment subscribe although you should do all those things instead what I think we're seeing here is simply the culmination of the past 3 or 4 years of dumb finded decision- making and so today I thought hey let's go over everything going on with Disney's film division right now why they're struggling so badly and why ultimately I believe their 2024 is going to be just as bad if not worse so as of right now Disney has released seven major films this year there are others they've had a hand in distributing that I'm sure no one has heard of like next goal wins and smaller stuff they're doing through Fox like the boogeyman well let's focus on their Temple releases for now the movies that are supposed to make the their year what gives the CEOs their Christmas bonus those seven consisting of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 The Little Mermaid Elemental Indiana Jones in the dial of Destiny Haunted Mansion the Marvels and finally Wick now I want to start this by showing you all the box office results of all these films not that bad huh well now I want to show you the box office results for all these films when put up right against the budgets barely made it not a stellar no is it now this isn't even conning the advertising which can double the budget at times but it's clear here none of these movies were smash hits or anything except for you why did these movies perform so poorly how are we living in a world where Captain Marvel can make a billion dollars yet only 4 years later Captain Marvel 2 is the Studio's biggest bomb ever and it really comes down to three meon things that I will Breck down right now one who the [ __ ] wanted a haunted mansion reboot did you even know a haunted mansion reboot was a thing I know Danny DeVito's in it Disney for the better part of a decade has been remaking countless older films from their Library films they knew were a success back then and hope to double up profits for with an up toate retelling and while generally I don't give a [ __ ] about these when they're shamelessly dumped on Disney plus like that god- awul Home Alone reboot but they make sure to put the real money makers in theaters every now and then basically anything from the Renaissance Era gets a oneway ticket to Cinemas for a couple weeks to then be dumped on Disney plus where it can be forgotten with the rest of them I can't wait until people have completely forgotten about these remakes and so we start to see Disney try and re remake The Lion King oh boy but really if we look past the titles what is Disney putting art this year what are they providing you that's worth any substance well we've got a sequel a remake A Pixar movie a sequel a remake a sequel and wish other than the couple animated features they're really offering you nothing here nothing at all just a load of tripe that they're trying to Bank off you recognizing a neem or piece of iconography and that's not to speak on the actual quality of all these movies I liked Guardians 3 quite a bit Elemental was all right and well other than that I've only seen The Little Mermaid remake I was like sucks I just don't understand how you can expect to keep people excited about this year after year fool me once she on you fool me 10 times the advertising for these movies is either non-existent are so desperate to capitalize on you just paying to see it because it has the Disney logo attached along with something you remember from your childhood basically the entire marketing for wish seemed to be based on trying to create the next big Tik Tok song along with constantly going we are Disney we are Disney don't forget Wei Aladdin and Little Mermaid and just ignore all the bad ones because wow Moana you like Moana don't you don't you it sure doesn't help the poor advertising that 2023 also marked an event that indirectly caused the marketing for their movies to suffer that being two the 2023 writer SL actor strike got to mostly focus on the actor strike right now because the writer strike will come into play later but the gist of it is most studios are not paying Fair wages to the people who actually create the content that profit off which has reached a breaking point now that streaming is by far become the most preferred way for people to enjoy their favorite shows and movies the problem with this is that there hasn't been any definitive Fair rules in place for actors receiving royalties based on how many minutes of watch time the show or movie got on streaming meaning a majority of that money gets pocketed by the CEOs not the actors and especially not the writers and so in these 118 dayss of the actors being on strike Disney realized they had a tiny little problem that being for the unions rules no actor can do any press for their upcoming films during the strike meaning Disney n has an even bigger issue on their hands here because they can't have the actors advertise the movies they've been pumping so much money into most of their exposure only coming from trailers and and posters so worst of all these movies are our relying on whether or not the film actually looks good and nine times out of 10 what do you know that answer is a big fat no they're relying on the fact that they're Disney at a point in time where people have never been more pissed off at Studios for underpaying employees well they could just end the strike right wrong see with a strike like this you're kind of damned if you do damned if you don't like if you don't give into demands and stretch out the strike for as long as possible sure you could probably get a better deal and show how resilient you are as a company but it also means for all those months you had nobody working on new stuff setting your entire production schedule back however if you give in too soon you look weak to the industry you wouldn't want those pesky workers getting too greedy n and demanding a livable wige you want to make them struggle so much that they're so relieved the strike is ending that they don't ever want to even think about starting up a new strike for years people are working for you but they're more expensive now or you're saving money but have nothing to put art a decision that as we'll soon see is really going to end up biting them in the ass in the new year as we approach my third reason for Disney's Fallen Empire that being number three fatigue not superhero fatigue not Marvel fatigue Disney fatigue whether or not they realize it people are getting sick of these safe ass movies movies that don't challenge them movies that are simply me to be watched and then forgotten about it Disney has been banking on Nostalgia so much that people are actively getting sick of being pandered to and they're starting to run out of things for you to even be nostalgic for I can't imagine we're going to start seeing them do liveaction versions of Home on the Range or I don't know Chicken Little and it's only now we've begun seeing them rely more heavily on remix for movies that sure people remember fondly but not enough to want a pet to see it again with different actors and the box office is reflecting that Disney have this issue where they're seemingly so big too big to feel that they release schedule for a year primarily consists of a handful of big budget releases that realistically are just not going to make make that money back but at one point they did look at the box office for the liveaction Aladdin versus The liveaction Little Mermaid I'd argue The Little Mermaid remake is a better movie than Aladdin yet only one of these Films Broke a billion dollars this isn't a CO thing anymore this is people starting to think about what's actually worth their time and money instead of doing the smart thing and putting all their money into a bunch of tiny budgeted films that have the potential to Rick in massive profits like a company such as Blum hos does who also don't have the best movies admittedly but Jason Blum if anything is a smart smart businessman and has perfected the art of making bank instead of this Disney has chosen to put all her eggs in a small handful of baskets one of these movies feeling could result in massive profit losses for the company as a whole now what if almost every one of these films were a failure like that studio ending I don't think we're ever going to see Marvel in the same skill we once did just like Star Wars all it took was a couple films to not make a billion dollars and and they started dumping that [ __ ] directly to Disney Plus what's even worse is that because of his head actor and writer strikes just about every major Disney release next year has been delayed in a lot of cases until 2025 they're not going to be making any money off movies they can't release and because these Productions are so massive any small shakeup like this can cause massive ramifications on the film as a whole which probably means they'll come right bad which means nobody wants to see him which means disaster but at this point in time here and not we're stuck with wish a movie that wants to Revel in and celebrate Disney at a point in time when Disney's reputation has never been worse I've seen a lot of folks blaming wish's failure on a boycott when the movie was doing poorly people claimed it was because everyone was boycotting the company due to how they handled the strike then when one of their movies even does slightly well people say see there is no real boycott here people still want to watch these movies and I don't agree with either of these sides a Twitter boycott is not going to affect Disney's bottom line and your average person does not give a [ __ ] about most of their output this year and it's not for any ulterior reason it's not black and white it's simply a culmination of a bunch of different issues that have been building up for a long long time from delays to unfair treatment of staff to just making bad movies that people don't want to see it's becoming more and more clear by the dead that Disney sees you as nothing more than a dollar sign and so trying to give us a celebration like wish just comes off kind of hollow and unearned this is not the dfall of Disney I really don't think they're going anywhere if anything they'll just tone it back until fth and them picks back up in which the cycle can repeat as it always does but I guess until we see what happens next I'll hold my tongue from here holding my tongue not going to okay well first of all that's really high you're describing the likes of Aquafina the repping seagull an Indiana Jones that looks like he could be my [ __ ] Granddad when the [ __ ] did you ever focus on quality over quantity never mind 2023 the year You released [ __ ] Haunted Mansion [ __ ] me does anyone actually believe this [ __ ] [ __ ] this I'm going to bed

Channel: LS Mark

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Keywords: LS Mark, LS Mark Disney, Disney, Pixar, Wish, Wish Review, LS Mark Wish, The Haunted Mansion Remake, Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny, Elemental, LS Mark Elemental, The Little Mermaid, The Little Mermaid Remake, What Is Happening to Disney?, What Is Going on with Disney?, Disney bad, The Disney Problem

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Length: 11min 2sec (662 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 30 2023