Is the Political Left killing Disney (Captain Marvel controversy)

That reminds me of my daughter's school talent show several years ago after Frozen was all the rage. At least every other girl sang "Let It Go." The parents were all sitting politely and applauding but were obviously getting tired by the 10th poor rendition. (Except for Lily, of course. Her version was better than the original.) Being a natural class clown, for the benefit of my surrounding audience, I started to mutter that the perpetual song had to be stopped. And if no one else was going to doing anything I would, by God! The parents in earshot, our friends, got the joke immediately. My wife, of course, did not and was terrified I was going to ruin the talent show. Didn't she understand I have to do something?! When I finally told her I was joking she still didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did. Ah, immigrants. They don't know what funny is.

81usaf92 said:

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i have so far been able to keep this a secret from my daughter.

92tide said:

i have so far been able to keep this a secret from my daughter.

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LOL! Reminds me ... My Mom never told me about Saturday morning cartoons. I found out when I started going to school. Upon returning from the first day of kindergarten, I exclaimed, "Mom! Guess what? There are cartoons on television on Saturdays! On every channel - all three of them! All day long!" To this day she claims she had no idea, but I'm pretty sure she was and is lying.

81usaf92 said:

Frozen maybe the most overrated Disney Movie of all time imo. I always have thought that Tangled was far better, but never got the overwhelming praise and fandom as Frozen.

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Did the sjw’s or the alt-right dude bros take down Tangled? /blue

Tangled was far better.

81usaf92 said:

Frozen maybe the most overrated Disney Movie of all time imo. I always have thought that Tangled was far better, but never got the overwhelming praise and fandom as Frozen.

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I have an 11 year old that would disagree with you. Musically, Frozen is probably a better movie.

If I never hear Let It Go again, it will be too soon.

Moana is better than both

92tide said:

i am filled with dread at the thought of frozen 2

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I hope she gets a girlfriend so heads will explode.

These are explosions I wouldn't mind.

81usaf92 said:

To me personally I would blast Let it go 3 days straight before I hear " Wanna build a snowman" again

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How about this version:

RollTide_HTTR said:

Moana is better than both

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I agree as well, Moana is a great movie. Although, I think Coco is the best Disney movie of the decade, story and music.

Manbabies can go straight to you-know-where. So I agree with Brie. But I think she needs to be a little more diplomatic with her response. I know "A Wrinkle in Time" was not made for me, thus I never did watch it.

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As for Star Wars, can we please end the Skywalker saga already. 9 movies about this and there still no conclusion to it. Give me something new. New characters, new settings, and different stories. No Skywalker, Solo, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan, etc. New set of trilogy should have NO CONNECTIONS to the first nine movies.

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I'm not burnt out on Frozen (and I still love "Let it go" so blows raspberries), so I do think it's a pretty good film. Never seen Tangled or Moana, so I cannot judge them. But as for me, Lion King is still the preeminent Disney film to me, with Meet the Robinson, Wreck-it Ralph, and Big Hero 6 right behind. (Iron Giant as my favorite non-Disney animation.)

Another crushing defeat for those mean old women.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...-opens-historic-153m-us-455m-globally-1193585

MattinBama said:

Another crushing defeat for those mean old women.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...-opens-historic-153m-us-455m-globally-1193585

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too bad the movie is meh

Jon said:

too bad the movie is meh

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Haven’t seen it yet (plans with friends got cancelled over premature baby delivery scare) but a lot of folks seem to have enjoyed it a lot. Although I’ve seen others say it was just ok.

Doesn’t change the point of the previous post in regards to the evil SJWs though.

81usaf92 said:

That's the consensus Ive heard. But its to be expected when you try to make a "meh" comic book character great. I think Scarlet Witch would've probably been more of a home run for a story, but Fiege had his hands tied way too long with the Xmen being owned by Fox to give Scarlet Witch a real shot.
Controversy either kills or boosts movies. Its hard to predict which one. Marvel's shared universe probably had a bigger effect on folks going to see the movie than people being legit excited to see the movie. But I think this movie proved one thing.... Rotten Tomatoes is the most flawed website that rates movies. The average certified critic score is 2.5 out of 5 but its 79% fresh, and RT deleted over 50k user reviews and it still is having trouble getting over 50% approval.

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Its a shame too as the only really interesting Captain Marvell story line to me is the one where Rogue get's tricked into attacking Carol Danvers by Mystique. Can't have that now with Fox owning Rogue or with the fact that we have a good guy Mystique in the current Xmen Universe as Fox doesn't want to make Jennifer Lawrence a bad guy.

This movie was honestly just boring. It was essentially an early phase 1 MCU movie at a time where we've moved way past that. Reminded me of Thor 2 or Iron Man 2 or 3, I know I've seen them but I'll be damned if I recall the details and I know I can't be bothered to rewatch. That's how I feel about this movie. Shame as I like Brie Larson a lot, this just didn't work for me.

81usaf92 said:

That's the consensus Ive heard. But its to be expected when you try to make a "meh" comic book character great. I think Scarlet Witch would've probably been more of a home run for a story, but Fiege had his hands tied way too long with the Xmen being owned by Fox to give Scarlet Witch a real shot.

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The main problem with the movie has nothing to do with the character, but rather that Marvel was trying to serve too many masters. They were not only trying to tell CM's origin story, but also Fury's origin story, plus do a lot of world building, plus set up things for Avengers: Endgame, etc.

The movie has great performances and some great character beats, but the plot never gets enough momentum to really fly.