Disney live-action remakes of the classic animations are just awful, not to mention an indication of a complete lack of ideas. Pixar has lost the joy and edge of their earlier efforts and now wallow in "feelings" and gratuitous diversity.
Every now and again a good'n manages to emerge having escaped the intellectual slaughter of the Imperious Hollywood Woke Society and Lecture Circuit, things like "1917" and "Darkest Hour". A lot of the Marvel stuff has been fantastically clever, and I'm not a fan of the genre.
They can do it, but for every glimmer of brilliance there are a hundred turgid presumptive social sledgehammers dealt, like the last Star Wars trilogy and anything with Emma Watson or Meryl Streep in it (though I need to watch her as Margaret Thatcher).
Then they give themselves awards on Oscars night and clap each other on the back for another successful year of thinly veiled social lectures and other cinematic turds, things no average person really remembers let alone has seen with any level of joy or relish.
I'm very disgusted with the whole of Hollywood; their behaviour over the last couple years has been absolutely self-serving. Back in the '30s they made huge quantities of good films, and a very respectable array of great films. Stars like Bogarde, genres like detective mysteries, styles like film noir. All of it was intended to give a weary public a couple hours respite from the Depression.
It continued during the war, if it wasn't a tour de force like Fantasia, it was a laugh at the Stooges. They called it Hollywood's Golden Years for a reason. They did the public a great mental service.
Fast forward to two years of a pandemic, and they failed miserably to rise to that same sort of occasion. "The theatres were shut so you couldn't have seen anything even if we did release it". There's a load needing a freight-train to carry it. They could have leveraged the streaming services and given us something to brighten what was one grey day after another. The tech was there for them to use, to benefit, to cheer.
But no. If they couldn't count the box-office take and keep score on whose film was raking in the most on a given week, they decided they just would delay it until they could rather than release it as a ray of sunshine in a bleak two years. And they have the unmitigated gall to lecture us on social matters.
The most cynical of all was Disney. I will never forgive them for this one. They start their own streaming service, charge a fee, then say, "OK, we'll release something on stream". First was "Mulan", released on their script streaming platform, but at $30 pay-per-view, the greedy bastards; "Mulan", a steaming pile of cultural lecture of the first order, too.
They could have given a little something back to us who support their lifestyles and wealth, like they did in the Depression and during WWII. But no. just greed lecturing me on how I should think socially. The hypocritical blood-suckers.
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