Elemental turned out to be a sleeper hit but Inside Out 2 is the sequel to one of the most acclaimed Pixar films that grossed over $850M worldwide. I'm expecting it to hit $700M worldwide at minimum.I am intrigued to see how well this will perform at the Box office. Elemental did fine last year, but still didn't hit $200 million in North America and was 4 million short from hitting $500 million worldwide.
Its weird that PiXar haven't had a ginormous Box office hit in years. 2019 for me feels like ages ago.
And let's not forget Soul, Luca and Turning Red all got screwed over by getting shunted to Disney+. Soul was a little more understandable due to it being released during the worst of the pandemic, but Luca and Turning Red were victims of Bob Chapeck's overreliance on Disney+ over theaters (Sure, they SAID Turning Red was shunted due to the Omicron strain, but by March that wasn't much of a concern anymore so I call BS). There's a reason we got the recent theatrical re-releases.Remember Covid basically erased years at the movie theaters between closures, mask guidelines influencing people to stay at home, and then people just starting to gradually go back out again. I think a good estimate is it basically deleted about two years.
Irl, there’s still oddly this surreal sense of missing time since everything went into limbo. Almost like being cryogenically frozen but awake throughout it.
And let's not forget Soul, Luca and Turning Red all got screwed over by getting shunted to Disney+. Soul was a little more understandable due to it being released during the worst of the pandemic, but Luca and Turning Red were victims of Bob Chapeck's overreliance on Disney+ over theaters (Sure, they SAID Turning Red was shunted due to the Omicron strain, but by March that wasn't much of a concern anymore so I call BS). There's a reason we got the recent theatrical re-releases.
A lot the "flops" Disney theatrically had had are partly due to the damage Chapeck did (the dude had a ton of Marvel projects rushed which explains a lot) and quite a bit of them don't deserve the derision and scorn heaped on them, with the exception a few honestly deserved flops like Strange World, Secret Invasion and Eternals. They'll get their footing back and I'm sure a lot of stuff set for this year will do very well (sans Mufasa; Disney's making a huge mistake pitting that against Sonic 3).
Strange World really half-assed the "gay boyfriend" thing and had a really stupid and bland plot. Whole damn thing was forgettable aside from Denis Quad's character being an a-hole for a good chunk of the story.Agree with all but Strange World.
Critics and audiences as RT shows gravitated to it. It also awesomely put forth the first actual lgbtq rep in a Disney animated film; that alone in years to come will help it to age well (when we’re outside of this age of homophobic snowflakes whining about that, the sooner the better) akin to Treasure Planet and Atlantis (whose box office count it basically matches). Original animated (and live action) sci-fi has rarely done well for Disney.
While I liked Eternals, understandable I’m a rarity.
Strange World really half-assed the "gay boyfriend" thing and had a really stupid and bland plot. Whole damn thing was forgettable aside from Denis Quad's character being an a-hole for a good chunk of the story.
I cannot remember when was the last time I really enjoyed watching a new Disney animated film or a Pixar film. I don't know if its my age, I still check them when I have the time. I haven't seen Wish yet but I didn't like the trailers. I was ambivalent with Inside Out 1, so I cannot muster any excitement for the second one.
Maybe Finding Dory or Zootopia?
For me it was definitely 'Luca' and - yes, there is bias there due to the now recognized undertones in it.
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I remember the poster who had a fit when people were talking about that possibility. Fun times.
Undertones? What ever could you mean? Just a harmless not bi allegory at all.For me it was definitely 'Luca' and - yes, there is bias there due to the now recognized undertones in it.
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Undertones? What ever could you mean? Just a harmless not bi allegory at all.
When the rest of the Builders Generation, all of the Boomers and most of Generation X consisting of all of the traditionally and conservative minded folk, the older and elderly white executives in Hollywood and in the audience still holding on to their outdated and harmful views, beliefs and values, all die off in the next 20-30 years, and the more open-minded and progressive folks of my and the younger and current generations take over from them, we’ll probably start really very publicly seeing and very completely acknowledging that stuff in all of mainstream media. There’ll probably still be a contingent of people railing against it or crying “wOkE!!!1!!1!”, but it will probably be even smaller and more minuscule compared to what we have now.People are still questioning whether Will Byers is in 'Stranger Things.'
I just really hope going forward studios drop the pretenses and not hide characters being obviously queer. Most recently in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
I think/hope that always being the case (not concealed) will happen in my lifetime.