I was going to watch it anyway because I like the Lonely Island and also the trailer made me chuckle, but if I weren’t ye dunn sold me, yo
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The Disney+ thread of ever-growing entertainment monopolies
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Yeah, I'm coming down on "terrible concept, good execution" for Chip & Dale. Akiva Schaffer has never directed a bad movie, but this is certainly an odd one.
Also, they use Tenacious D in the soundtrack early on, and it really made me want to like the movie more.
Also, they use Tenacious D in the soundtrack early on, and it really made me want to like the movie more.
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Yep! I lost it for like a solid minute. Definitely an example of the movie nailing the vibe it was going for.
ArugulaZ
Fearful asymmetry
I think the review Wisteria mentioned is right on the money. Maybe they just went with the bootlegs plot because bootlegs are admittedly silly, but there is this underlying subtext of "Only we as the American film industry are ordained to make cartoons... the rest of you are unworthy, and must only consume, never create." I suppose you could just as easily make Sweet Pete the hero of the movie, a Prometheus bringing the fire of animation to mortals. And instead of mutating existing cartoons into bootlegs, he instead gives the rest of us the forbidden knowledge of Adobe Flash and Toon Boom.
Disney Removes Dozens Of Series From Disney+ & Hulu, Including ‘Big Shot’, ‘Willow’, ‘Y’ & ‘Dollface’
Don't like this. I haven't heard of most of these shows so I guess it's not that big of a loss to me, but it's not like Disney+ is so content-rich that it requires pruning. And didn't Willow just come out?
Don't like this. I haven't heard of most of these shows so I guess it's not that big of a loss to me, but it's not like Disney+ is so content-rich that it requires pruning. And didn't Willow just come out?
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I have a vague memory from when they were developing Disney+ that they were planning to rotate content in and out, so the vault was probably always the plan.
This feels less like a vault move and more like purging as the streaming bubble bursts. These shows may just be gone forever through legal means.
Looks like Willow’s gone May 26th? I should try to watch it before then.
This feels less like a vault move and more like purging as the streaming bubble bursts. These shows may just be gone forever through legal means.
Looks like Willow’s gone May 26th? I should try to watch it before then.
Some of that is probably just rights expiring, or not wanting to continue to pay for the rights of shows that nobody watches. Like, Disney does not own Stargirl, so it's not like they're vaulting Stargirl.
This does remind me of WB/Discovery nuking a bunch of shows/films off their platform for tax write-offs. Feels like either way, this is another datapoint of the big media corps getting tired of the investment-phase of building streaming platforms and trying to reign in costs to achieve some sort of profitability. Which I don't think is the doom and gloom people make it out to be, but it's definitely a shift to things that aren't going to be as nice for consumers as they have been. We're gonna see more ads, higher fees, less "multiple screens", a lower output of content, and fewer platforms.
This does remind me of WB/Discovery nuking a bunch of shows/films off their platform for tax write-offs. Feels like either way, this is another datapoint of the big media corps getting tired of the investment-phase of building streaming platforms and trying to reign in costs to achieve some sort of profitability. Which I don't think is the doom and gloom people make it out to be, but it's definitely a shift to things that aren't going to be as nice for consumers as they have been. We're gonna see more ads, higher fees, less "multiple screens", a lower output of content, and fewer platforms.
Ugggggh, I kinda wanted to finish off Willow sometime but I doubt I’ll get to it in the next week. This sucks, things should not go away, like, ever. If they’re really *that* wildly unprofitable to provide as part of the subscription then at least make a pay-on-demand option or something.
Everything in one place sounds appealing, until that business begins flexing its captured market share to price gouge
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I’m just laughing because so many people hated this era of over-saturation and complained about it constantly but I guarantee you a lot of those people will be wistfully pining for the days when there was a streaming service just for horror movies and more new TV shows every year than you could watch in your lifetime. We’ll probably get a nostalgic documentary called “Binge” or something with random comedians taking about Netflix and Chill with the same reverence they give to Blockbuster in that one doc.
Isn't this exactly how we ended up with a bajillion cable TV channels back in the day?
