So, let’s talk about something less depressing than the train wreck that is Western Civilization. Let’s laugh at the misfortune of Hollywood. And specifically let’s mock Disney and their putrid movies. Look at this article and the underlying video.
They include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Thor: Love and Thunder, Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3.
Two of the titles were outright bombs — Strange World and Lightyear — while two others are still in theaters, The Little Mermaid and Elemental.”
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— Valliant Renegade (@ValliantRenegad) June 22, 2023
Now, admittedly, Disney has deep pockets. They can absorb losses that would bankrupt smaller companies and move forward. But let’s think for a moment about how they will analyze these problems and what their idea will be to address them.
They will see that these films include heaping doses of progressive girl power, gay themes and anti-white and anti-male bias and they will assume that the problem is too many racist and sexist Americans refusing to celebrate wokeness sufficiently. After all, what parent wouldn’t want to send his kids to a movie with a gay kid as the main character? Or why wouldn’t a Buzz Lightyear origin story benefit from a lesbian kiss? Why would this make parents uncomfortable?
So, their solution to this rejection of woke content will be … doubling down on girl power, gay themes and anti-white and anti-male bias! Now how could that possibly fail?
So, I’m incredibly happy for Disney. This winning strategy may be able to do the impossible; namely bankrupt the largest remaining Hollywood studio. And just to keep things hopping along comes the fifth Indiana Jones movie. And from everything I’ve heard it’s going to be a humdinger. Picture if you can an eighty-year-old Harrison Ford shuffling around the set getting hen-pecked and brow beaten by his “god-daughter” as she performs the heroic stunts and he gets lost in the caves and probably soils himself. Oh yeah, that’s gonna be box office gold.
There is some word on the street that some of this is beginning to dawn on Disney’s front office and there might be a program to step back from the precipice of woke financial suicide. But that wouldn’t be my favorite outcome. I really hope they give us some more Captain Marvel and Rey Skywalker and She-Hulk and whatever trans-super-hero they currently have on the drawing board. This is really good stuff. It will reinforce to parents just how screwed up the role models that Disney pushes on their kids are. It will dovetail with the gender dysphoria that seems to have magically exploded among the teen and pre-teen age groups that are Disney’s target audience.
So, yeah, I do hope that other studios start to return to healthier cinematic fare. It’s high time that some of them figure out that there is an enormous domestic and international audience for healthy role models in the super-hero genre and in other genres too. But for Disney I hope they never turn back. If they crash and burn it would be a powerful lesson for the corporate world. And it comes right at the point where conservative boycotts seem to be picking up steam.
What a wonderful coincidence.
Meanwhile, I’ll keep streaming those unwoke old fogey flics like It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, In Harm’s Way, How Green was my Valley, To Catch a Thief, The Pink Panther, The Quiet Man…
Ed, “It Happened One Night” is one of my all time favorite films. Just a remarkably good movie.
“Oh yeah?”
“Okay, Ya got me. Yeah!!!”
Right up my alley. I’m also into noir (Robert Mitchum the king of noir). Also Maltese Falcon, Casa Blanca, Road to Rio, Hatari, Dr Zhivago, Ghengis Khan (the Omar Sharif version), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Robert Mason & Pat Boone), Bad Day at Black Rock, Once Upon a Time in the West, spaghetti westerns, Blazing Saddles, Sky Above Mud Below, The Longest Day, Nosferatu, The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions), Ivan Tors movies, etc. So much good, old stuff so there is no reason to watch 80% of what is coming out now.
I need to do an OCF Goes to the Movies series where I put out a list of my favorite movies by category and then get the readers to vote and recommend their favorites. That would at least be fun in these dark times.
Let’s see: Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Humiliate the beloved male lead and replace him with a “Girl Power!” Lead. James Bond: No Time To Die – Humiliate the beloved male lead and replace him with a “Girl Power!” Lead. Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny – Humiliate the beloved male lead and replace him with a “Girl Power!” Lead. I’m sure there are more. I think I’m seeing a pattern here. Oh, and although some of these films made money, none of them made what they should have for the franchise. People saw the first three Star Wars… Read more »
I’m somewhat hopeful that some new studios will emerge supported by money that isn’t beholden to the Left.