chapotraphouse

I haven't seen any of these and have no idea how successful any have been lol

Absolute cherry picking. The Little Mermaid remake did better than Cruella backstory, the Dumbo remake, not to mention the straight to Disney+ stinkers like Pinocchio and Lady and the Tramp, none of which messed with race elements (I could throw the Mulan remake in there but that got FUBAR’d by COVID so I’ll give it a pass). It’s also ignoring that audiences have gotten wise to these live action remakes being soulless cash grabs and so they’re checking out.

It's an easy tactic, just call every movie woke and when one inevitably bombs, they can strut around and pretend like they knew it the whole time while ignoring all the other movies they called woke that did well. Remember how they called the Barbie movie 'woke?' Or how they called the Mario movie woke until it did well at the box office, at which point they flipped and starting calling it anti-woke.

Vibes based incoherent nonsense, all of it.

wThere is an overall contraction happening in the industry, particularly when it comes to theatrical releases. Even though there are still box office hits, people aren't going to movie theaters in the same numbers as they were, and Hollywood is flailing. The right is trying to latch onto this phenomenon by blaming woke messaging, and there are some in Hollywood who are happy to go along with that because it distracts from the real issues. A couple months ago, Bob Iger himself came out and said Disney needs to focus more on "entertainment" rather than "political messaging". This is cope, but it's cope that chuds are willing to endorse and amplify. Expect to see it happen more often as the industry continues to fail to meet expectations.

The only live action remake I've seen is Aladdin, and that was pretty bad - it felt like watching the original film at 1.5x speed on youtube - but if I'm not mistaken that film had an almost entirely POC cast and it did really well.

Does a movie have to gross a billion dollars to not be considered a failure now?

Conservatives pretend to hate Star Wars for being soy then become obsessed experts in the box office and insider Hollywood news.