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What’s With These Movie Disasters?

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It’s not just Disney Corp’s new Snow White movie that’s having a total meltdown. It’s only No. 9 or 10 in an unbroken series of box-office bombs. Obviously they have no idea of what they’re doing wrong… or they wouldn’t keep doing it. Would they? So hard to tell with Wokies!

Here are some things those movies have in common.

*They are all based on earlier movies or, in “The Haunted Mansion,” a Disney theme park ride. You take a classic feature-length cartoon and try to turn it into a live-action movie. Or you could use a ride or a toy or a TV show. This is not originality.

*If they’re not based on Disney capers, they’re based on Marvel Comics. I’m so sick of superheroes, I could heave. That doesn’t stop Disney from cranking them out. (“Stop, please stop! Enough, enough!”) But Disney bought Marvel, and a few other companies, too–and now it’s just too big. Alexander the Great’s empire was too big to stay in one piece. So is Disney’s empire.

*Every Disney movie now is steeped in Woke-ness. This insults and antagonizes millions of potential viewers. “Hey! We despise you and everything you stand for–and your country sucks, too! Hope you like our movies.” Woke is abominable. Normal people loathe it. Disney has picked the wrong side of the cultural divide.

*No matter how many times they fail, they just keep on doing the same damned things over and over again. Unoriginal, confused, and culturally hostile–that’s the Disney formula.

And if they don’t change, drastically, their corporation might collapse.

(Not a dry eye on the house!)

More and More Ridiculous

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So what have they done about systemic racism lately?

The Ban Everything movement has moved on to… superheroes, in a piece written by some airhead at Time Magazine (https://www.foxnews.com/media/time-magazine-superheroes) who does not appear to understand that superheroes aren’t real.

Yep, superheroes need “a cultural reckoning,” she babbled, blaming “superhero creators for being white men”–forsooth, for being (gasp!) “straight white men.” So the world needs “more creators of color,” yatta-yatta. Uh, so who’s stopping “creators of color” from creating their own superheroes?

Our existing superheroes, she complained, are “vigilantes” who “decide the parameters of justice” without any oversight committee to ride herd over them.

Superheroes are dull, annoying, and vapid at their best. People used to outgrow them, but not anymore. But to make them even more dull, annoying, and vapid, this lulu at Time sez superheroes from now on ought to “reckon with issues of systemic racism”–which is imaginary, and only Far Left Crazy types believe in it–along with other burning issues like transphobia, homophobia, and phobophobia, etc.

Assorted “critics” have objected to this essay, perhaps moved by a suspicion that bad movies should not be made worse. A movie which you watch to relax shouldn’t be turned into a nagathon. It shouldn’t pepper you with woke crapola.

What do we have to do to shut these people up?

Honk if you think we need to bring back the ducking stool.