Disney is banking on a password crackdown and spate of sequels as it pushes to make its streaming business profitable.
The company, which is under pressure as audiences move away from traditional pay-TV and cinema, said it was on track to meet its goals after new subscribers and price rises helped to narrow losses in its streaming business.
The password crackdown will work, sadly. However is it going to be enough to make up for the fact that Disney’s got nothing right now except shitting out sequels?
I don’t know that it will work. How many additional people sign up when these password sharing crackdowns happen? I doubt it’s enough to make their number crunchers happy.
How many additional people sign up when these password sharing crackdowns happen?
Which every company saw, and that’s why they’re all gonna do this too.
Netflix has been such a staple for so long it took a full Arr suite to get my wife to be ok that I cancelled it. When it came to Disney plus, she didn’t care because she’s not into Star wars and she hulk soured her on marvel. My 5 year old niece and nephew only ask to watch Netflix when they come over. As someone who has witnessed them kill so many franchises I love, I think Disney cracking down on password sharing is a great idea.
I dare them to cut me off. Every dollar not spent on streaming will go to selfhosting and piracy.
You should spend that dollar on self-hosting and piracy anyways, it’s a better value.
People shit on Disney for only doing sequels, yet when they release original properties like they have the last 2 years, people ignore them and don’t watch them. No wonder they go to sequels, viewers clearly don’t want to gamble on new stuff. And all the people removeding about Disney only doing sequels, don’t watch Disney movies anyways
I get what you mean, but I really feel like the quality of original stuff is not up to the standard that they were putting out 30 years ago. I just rewatched Lion King the other day and I couldn’t believe how well it holds up. Every performance ranges from great to fantastic, every song is really good, the score is fucking phenomenal, the animation truly pushed the boundaries for the time, and the story and dialogue are straight up Shakespeare. Encanto and Onward are good, but they’re not Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast good.
At the end of the day, Disney is not in the business of making art this century; they’re in the money making business. They make a product, not art. It’s more profitable to make something that’s just good enough to get people’s money, and that’s all they actually care about. Remember that with every culture war stance they take. They don’t actually give a shit about LGBTQ rights or representation, they just know that they can get extra attention and sales from barely doing anything, and it’s not far enough to alienate the Chinese market. Win-win. When they fight that dorky Florida meatball, understand that they’re not on your side; they’re on their side. If they could have it their way, they would own all media and distribution, and you’d never see another movie or TV show again without first forking over everything they can get out of you.
Excellent points. Disney couldn’t care less about the groups it claims to support. Their actions are more in line with co-opting identity groups to sell them back to you as a commodity. This fact really ossified for me when visiting Epcot a while back. I realized that many of their recent (and planned future) films are literally designed around ethnicities or cultures so they can have tie-in IP in the world showcase at Epcot, driving more merch and premium ride sales.
There is always an ulterior motive.
What original properties? Not a rhetorical question, I’m curious
I assume they mean “Wish”, also known as “how many Disney references do I need to make for them to count as a movie”
I wouldn’t have minded the references if the movie was good. It wasn’t and the songs were subpar.
In the past ten years, I thought Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, and Encanto were good. Raya, Strange World, and Wish were not for me… and those were three of the last four Disney animated original movies.
For Pixar, they’ve been hit or miss for me too. I liked Inside Out, Coco, Soul, Luca, and Elemental. Didn’t care for The Good Dinosaur, Onward, Turning Red, or Lightyear.
But sequels can be hit or miss too.
One of the best animated movies I’ve seen in recent years (apart from Spider-Man) is The Mitchells vs. the Machines. It’s completely hyper, but original and funny.
The ones you didn’t like my kids loved, so maybe you’re just not the target audience anymore?
I definitely am not the target audience for Turning Red. I admit that. And kids probably didn’t like Soul as much as adults. But if Disney/Pixar wonders why they aren’t getting the numbers they used to, they need to target the four quadrant audience, but more importantly have better writing overall.
Kids like a lot of things… sometimes things that are truly awful. I used to be a kid who liked awful stuff growing up too. You can have a monkey character who says “poop” every other word and kids would find that hilarious. Doesn’t make it good. I’m not the target audience for Bluey, but I can tell it’s better than most things out there.
Also, it’s definitely subjective. I’ve watched a lot of movies and television so I can see more unoriginality than others. I used to like the Knock Knock joke about the banana and orange… and the chicken crossing the road. But now, what else is new? How many stories about a character turning into an animal to learn a lesson do we need?
There is plenty of things Ioved as a kid that I can look at objectively look at now and say if it was good or not. I’m not sure if a kids enjoyment says much about quality; I used to think Gex was better than Mario.
I think kids enjoyment of a kids movie says quite a bit. Disney adults are weird.
Where did I speak on Disney? Just had nothing original to say?
