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The Disney+ thread of ever-growing entertainment monopolies

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
GIVE ME MY LARGE LADY LAWYER.
I desperately hope the She Hulk show is largely an overwrought court procedural with little to no superheroing going on beyond the superheroing that leads to an overwrought court procedural
 

Gaer

chat.exe a cessé de fonctionner
Staff member
Moderator
The movie itself was also pretty bad, apparently.


They apparently scrubbed clean any trans analogue present in the original animated film.

(Why did babby Gaer love Mulan so much??? The world will never know.)
 

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)
I desperately hope the She Hulk show is largely an overwrought court procedural with little to no superheroing going on beyond the superheroing that leads to an overwrought court procedural

The 4th wall better take a beating.
 
Really, really bad.
I just assumed from a million miles away that a movie about Chinese culture, made by Disney, produced, directed, and written almost exclusively by white people, would be amazing and culturally sensitive and authentic. I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the movie would end up being awful in that regard. How could Hollywood do such a thing?? It's not like they have a history of... oh...
 

Büge

Arm Candy
(she/her)
Yes, and I made that post so I could share that video, which is several times more entertaining than the film
 
Yes, and I made that post so I could share that video, which is several times more entertaining than the film
I know I quoted you, but it was not with the intent of directing my dissatisfaction in your direction for anything you did or said (or anyone else in these forums for that matter). Just using it as launching point to discuss my own lack of surprise that this movie is awful considering everything I said and how disappointing it is that 100+ years later, Hollywood is still doing *this* with Asian culture. And it'll keep doing this because as much as some of the industry has made strides towards ameliorating these kinds of issues, the majority of Americans/Hollywood can't even comprehend why something like this was bad in the first place because Asians/Asian-Americans are invisible in this country and nobody cares about racism and exploitation of us and our cultures.
 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
A bajillion things got announced but a Zootopia series is by far the most compelling draw to Disney+ for me yet.
 

Positronic Brain

Out Of Warranty
(He/him)
They are also increasing the price. 1€ a month or 10€ a year more here in Europe.

They are also supposed to add more series and content. We'll see - so far all the content is family friendly so I don't foresee many ABC or Fox shows. And it'd be nice if they could bridge the release gap - no Owl House or Season 2 of Ducktales here in Spain so far.
 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
Watching Christmas stuff on Disney+ and I’m really annoyed that the more important an old show/movie is, the more likely they are to have ruined it by stretching it out, with no option to fix it. I’m glad they fixed The Simpsons but scads of other stuff is borked.

And of course this is going to be the only practical way to experience a lot of this stuff legally.
 

Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
Has anyone seen Soul yet? I haven't caught Onward, either, but I'm amused at how the marketing for the former is basically, "I lost my body and ended up where all other souls end up" and somehow that doesn't constitute "dying" :p
 

Bulgakov

Yes, that Russian author.
(He/Him)
Has anyone seen Soul yet? I haven't caught Onward, either, but I'm amused at how the marketing for the former is basically, "I lost my body and ended up where all other souls end up" and somehow that doesn't constitute "dying" :p
Having watched it tonight, Soul is not what you describe, but it could be easily mistaken for that without the full context of the movie. My wife was in (good) tears by the end, and my six year-old daughter stayed engaged the whole movie. I thought it was pretty charming and went to surprising places despite the fact that it has some big-idea metaphysics embedded within an overall human story.

I would say it's worth it if you want 100 minutes of entertainment.
 

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
We just got this with the GamePass trial, and I'm surprised at how many documentaries there are, no one had mentioned that to me. I haven't watched any of them yet but from the brief descriptions it looks like a lot of them are the Walt-narrated animation studio tours that aired a lot when I was a kid. It'll be neat to watch some of those again.

Can't imagine we'll keep up the subscription when we're done, but nice to have it for a bit and see all this stuff.
 

sfried

Fluffy Prince
Since Disney owns 20th Century Fox, does that technically mean they own Don Bluth films like Titan A.E.?
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
Oh, apparently Dinosaurs is coming at the end of the month. Or at least it is to the US, no idea if we’re getting it up here
 

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)

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