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Which is Better

  • Chicken Little

    Votos: 435 27.4%
  • Hunchback 2

    Votos: 58 3.7%
  • A slow death

    Votos: 1,092 68.9%

  • Total de votantes
    1,585
Oh jeez, 35 is too soon for anyone to die.

And the worst part is that she was severely malnourished (from a combination of homelessness and chronic drug use) and her death was caused by sepsis and meningitis.

Disney movies preach socialism and about girl power but they couldn't use a few hundred thpusand dollars to get the actress they have made billions off of off the streets and save her life?!
 
Wherever you are, Daveigh, those monsters can't hurt you anymore. Rest in your long-sought after peace.
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Disney movies preach socialism and about girl power but they couldn't use a few hundred thpusand dollars to get the actress they have made billions off of off the streets and save her life?!
What's crazy is that she actually had a good deal where she was getting lots of royalties from Lilo and stitch. . She died with millions of dollars in the bank that she never accessed because no one could get in touch with her. Although I guess it's just as well, because she would have spent it on drugs.


 
Against my better judgement I went out to see Toy Story 5, and I just gotta hit some plot highlights here to bitch about.


Despite being almost two hour long, this movie rushes by at a million miles an hour, probably due to how many plot threads the movie has to juggle. To its credit, the film does a fairly good job at catching new viewers up to speed that have never seen or probably forgotten the last four movies. The movie bounces between Jessie, Woody and Buzz, and an army of newly awakened Buzz Lightyears that all have Starlink built into them (yes really). I thought the army of Buzzes were funny at first, but they exist ONLY to rescue the iPad frog and everyone else from a donation truck at the end of the movie.

The plot wastes no time in beating you over the head with the "tEcHnOlOgY bAd FoR kIdS!", but the solution the movie proposes, as far as I can tell, is that parents of socially awkward kids should socially engineer meetings between kids of a similar mindset. Jessie ends up meeting a new kid (similar to how Woody met Bonnie in the third movie) and she can somehow tell just by watching this new girl in her sleep (weird) that she'd be a perfect friend for Bonnie. By the end of the movie, Jessie and the iPad frog have teamed up to arrange a meeting between the two girls, so...technology good now, actually?

The stuff they did to Woody I was expecting since they put it in the trailer: he's bald now since the paint under his hat wore off, he's fat (somehow? how does a toy get fat?), and he wears a poncho. What I was not expecting was how they emasculated Buzz in this movie. He spends most of the film bumbling over his words trying to ask Jessie to marry him. At one point he puts two star shaped stickers on his chest as sheriff badges and they look like patsies. When the inevitable kiss scene happens at the end of the film, it's Jessie that takes the initiative. Buzz does the "leg pop" thing, and in the marriage scene at the end where Bonnie and Blaise play out the wedding between Jessie and Buzz, it's Buzz that takes the role of the "bride" (he wears a kilt). I get that it's played for laughs, and some of the kids in the theater did laugh at that, but in "current year" the political undertones are kind of hard to miss.

On the whole I don't think this was as bad as Toy Story 4, but I really feel like they've scraped the bottom of the barrel here. This story was neatly wrapped up in a three-act trilogy, the fourth movie was just digging into Woody's character some more, and now this fifth movie has mined what was left of Jessie's character. It reminds me a lot of the Pirates of the Caribbean films; the story should've ended at three, but they tacked on another two movies just to pad out the plot and kind of ruin the characters. Woody and Buzz are more thoroughly emasculated by calling them old or making Buzz even dumber, the rest of the toys from the first movie basically get shoved in a box and are barely present. I think it's fair to call this movie "female-coded", since the plot heavily focuses around making friends, socializing, and relationships. I don't have a problem with that necessarily, but it's definitely a far cry from the previous films where the stakes included getting blown up by fireworks or burning in a giant trash fire.
 
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They have to punish Tim Allen for being On The Wrong Side Of History. He's still voicing Buzz, right? I haven't watched a Toy Story movie since the first one.
Yeah he's still voicing Buzz, including the army of Buzz Lightyears. They've been doing the "Evil Buzz thing" for the the first three movies, and I was interested to see where they'd go with Buzz for the fourth movie. Instead they turned him into Woody's dumb sidekick, basically ala Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove.

Something that occurs to me now, is that the first three movies kind of had a more "male-coded" attitude to them when Andy still owned the toys. Now that Bonnie owns the toys in 4 & 5, the stakes of the movies have a more "emotional" component to them, as opposed to the first three where the threat of physical destruction was always present.
 
So if like me you felt Toy Story 3 was repeating story beats and done as a cash grab you are really not going to find anything to enjoy in this movie is what I am hearing.
 
Soneone also mentioned that in the movie, woodys head now squishes like a modern soft/hollow plastic toy rather than the harder material the original woody seemed to be made of..

Also seriously how does he get fat?? Stuffing can get displaced ig but soft toys usually also get flatter with use bc the stuffing loses its fluffiness... Plus shouldnt his main sign of wear and tear be smudges bc this dude is a fabric+plastic toy out in the dirt all day?? Is this dude stealing laundry detergent or what
 
When the inevitable kiss scene happens at the end of the film, it's Jessie that takes the initiative.
Honestly, I can see Jessie doing that, at least several years ago for sure. She's a firecracker cowgirl, that actually was what attracted Buzz to her in the second movie unless he just naturally had a thing for redheads. The emasculation of Buzz unfortunately was there in the third film and they've just continued to run with it. Spanish Buzz was the "excuse" the movie made to make him be unapologetically masculine and it was played for laughs.

This sounds like a real missed opportunity to have Buzz and Jessie actually work as a team now that Woody is out of the picture. If that had happened, I might've sucked it up to watch the film. But can't have men and women work as a team in current year. :roll:
 
EDIT: trailer for the latest disney trainwreck is out.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mtC4sjABZNwThe director for this slop is the same one who lead the Raya and Wish projects, both major and obvious flops compared to Encanto, so idk why the fuck they keep giving this woman more opportunities to ruin.
I know we joke about CEO boomers and shit but damn. "The ""weird"" girl with punk attire & colorful hair at school is a witch" +"you don't understand my (weird) world mom" trope combo is 30 years too late mate.
But let's stay positive a little and hope the story and world building will be well made enough.

:optimistic:
 
I’ll have to stop you right there. What the fuck have they possibly to say that warrants it being that long? Were the other four that fucking long?
After a quick google search…

Toy Story 1: hour and 21 minutes
Toy Story 2: hour and 32 minutes
Toy Story 3: hour and 43 minutes
Toy Story 4: hour and 40 minutes
Toy Story 5: hour and 42 minutes
 
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