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[StreetsofBeige]

I'm still continuously baffled by the complete lack of interest by Disney's investors in the performance of the company. Either 100% of shareholders of Disney are completely invested in The Message™ and are willing to lose infinity money to further their Woke Agenda™ or there is something seriously fucking wrong with the corporate governance of that company. I refuse to believe that 100% of Disney investors are perfectly happy with the financial performance of Disney and continue to vote for More of the Same despite the fact the company's stock is in the sewer system after being flushed down the toilet

If I was a Disney investor I would be livid. Thank God I'm not

It is weird.

I guess the typical Disney stock holder doesn't give a shit, and the institutional holders (the ones who carry the weight) dont care either. They just go with the flow of whatever roller coaster ride of successful superhero and Pixar movies deflated by the trainwrecks, instead of pressuring the company to make steady success stories like way back when it seemed just about every cartoon movie would be a smash hit.

At my old company (big steady consumer goods company), it's the type of industry or company that will not be skyrocketing like a tech company, but the investors stick around for small steady growth and juicy dividends. I even asked why the company pays so much of their EPS in dividends and the reply from the VP is that the big investors commit to the company to get them and small stock growth potential. Add it up and it wont be a tech company, but steady eddie returns.

If the company chopped the dividend trying to hoard the money and not using it since the company is in mature categories you dont just spend the money buying up shit or making factories for no good reason, investors would bail. And any stock holders would feel the pinch. They arent sticking around for shitty growth. But they will when it pays a big yield.

Disney doesn't even have a good dividend ($1 = 1% yield right now). So their speech to investors would likely trend to stock appreciation growth and ROE metrics. But to get that, it seems Disney's movie/tv strategy is shotgun as many pricey superhero movies, TV shows, and cartoons and live action kids movies and hope more shells hit the bullseye than miss the target.

And never mind 5 years ago. 10 years ago. Same stock price. If you bought 10 years ago, you be breaking even on the stock and your only gain is some piddly annual dividends. You'd actually make more money putting it into a 2% term deposit at a bank.

 

[calistan]

The problem is that low ass argument aways keeping coming back again and again.
Why when theres a bad movie/series its aways the fault of review bombing? Same happened to Lightyear, Velma, Acolyte, and many others.
Also, didn't pass through your mind that people cast unhelpfull because...they are not being helpfull at all? Specially with parents wanting to see if its actually safe for their children? Hence why reviews are for.

People really need a better argument. Btw go there and watch it, I don't think anyone is barring you from it. This brainrot attitude needs to end.

Calm down, fella. Not sure what a low ass argument or a brainrot attitude is, I’m just saying this is perhaps not the worst movie ever made.

 

[Saber]

Calm down, fella. Not sure what a low ass argument or a brainrot attitude is, I’m just saying this is perhaps not the worst movie ever made.

Her voice is ok I guess, maybe the only good thing I can say about this whole movie. The rest is pretty damn bad, so the dislike is pretty much justified. Also the movie has a terrible color problem btw, either is everything yellow, blue or dessaturated.
The brainrot attitude comes to the fact that one only comes to have interest to watch a movie because "people hate it". Again, not the first time I heard that. If you want to watch it, go watch it. But not because everyone hate it.

 

[calistan]

Her voice is ok I guess, maybe the only good thing I can say about this whole movie. The rest is pretty damn bad, so the dislike is pretty much justified. Also the movie has a terrible color problem btw, either is everything yellow, blue or dessaturated.
The brainrot attitude comes to the fact that one only comes to have interest to watch a movie because "people hate it". Again, not the first time I heard that. If you want to watch it, go watch it. But not because everyone hate it.

It's not purely because people hate it - I like watching Disney films with my daughter. Maybe I just want to see how this could possibly be rated lower than something like Human Centipede 3. There doesn't seem to be any justification for that.

The negativity surrounding Snow White has been building since those early photos from the set. A shitstorm was kind of preordained, but when a cynical Disney cash-in like Mufasa The Lion King can get 6.6, and the semi-contentious Little Mermaid remake gets 7.2, I'm curious about whether there's anything other than a mob metaility that could lead this to be rated as one of the worst movies ever made.

The only other things that get sub-2 on IMDB are Justin Bieber concerts and sneaky mockbusters with similar names to legit films.

 

[AJUMP23]

It's not purely because people hate it - I like watching Disney films with my daughter. Maybe I just want to see how this could possibly be rated lower than something like Human Centipede 3. There doesn't seem to be any justification for that.

The negativity surrounding Snow White has been building since those early photos from the set. A shitstorm was kind of preordained, but when a cynical Disney cash-in like Mufasa The Lion King can get 6.6, and the semi-contentious Little Mermaid remake gets 7.2, I'm curious about whether there's anything other than a mob metaility that could lead this to be rated as one of the worst movies ever made.

The only other things that get sub-2 on IMDB are Justin Bieber concerts and sneaky mockbusters with similar names to legit films.

One thing we don't like is people being reasonable. We have a guy for that Mr Reasonable . The other thing we don't like is rational thought. We go to extremes.

 

[Saber]

It's not purely because people hate it - I like watching Disney films with my daughter. Maybe I just want to see how this could possibly be rated lower than something like Human Centipede 3. There doesn't seem to be any justification for that.

I already talked here, but I wouldn't recommend this film for kids as is kinda boring and has a plot that doesn't actually gonna catch the kids interest.
But the major problem here is the dwarves. I dunno what you think about them initially, but the big screen of the movie makes them way worse imo. I'm not sure if your daugher will like that, but if you still want to watch with your kid go foward. Outside that theres nothing that actually can be considerate innapropriate for her.
Also I'm not go into much this film discussion to drag too much, but the main difference between those movies and Snow White is that this small brain actress had the brilliant idea of doing damage to the popular opinion of this movie before came out. You didn't see things like that with Mufasa or Little Mermaid.

 

[calistan]

this small brain actress had the brilliant idea of doing damage to the popular opinion of this movie before came out.

Ah, yes. I hadn't actually seen what she'd said, I thought the anger was because of the DEI. Just looked it up, and it's no surprise that people were ready with their 1/10 ratings as soon as the IMDB page went live.

I might wait until this one is available on TV.

 

[Woggleman]

I have no plans to see this but grown men getting worked up over freaken Snow White is embarrassing.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I have no plans to see this but grown men getting worked up over freaken Snow White is embarrassing.

Taking issue with the destruction of art should never be considered embarrassing

 

[Woggleman]

It is simply a crappy remake with a sometimes annoying but ultimately harmless actress. No need to make a war over it.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

And? Those statements can coexist. There's nothing to be "embarrassed about" taking issue with this. You're probably one of the guys who was fine with the rewriting of the Oz books too.

 

[Woggleman]

I simply don't care.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I simply don't care.

Cool. I take issue with the bastardization of art and literature. Many people do. I'm not going to "war" over it. I simply won't give them my money. I'm not review bombing or protesting at an empty screening. I doubt anyone here is.

 

[thefool]

I have no plans to see this but grown men getting worked up over freaken Snow White is embarrassing.

It's actually a grown woman (and lead actress) who was "worked up" over Snow White.

 

[Woggleman]

It's actually a grown woman (and lead actress) who was "worked up" over Snow White.

She is young and in her activist stage. Is that reason to treat like she killed somebody? I also don't like Gal Gadot getting crap for being pro Isreal so it works both ways.

 

[Sybrix]

 

[Saber]

Ah, yes. I hadn't actually seen what she'd said, I thought the anger was because of the DEI.

One could say that, but only a very little part of it and most from the internet.
The main issue here is Zegler.
These movies maybe are intended for kids, but the real target is adults, aka parents. It's just like kids commercials are not intended for the kids themselves, it's made for the parents so they can judge wheter the toy is appropriate for the kids.

 

[GateofD]

how dare people get worked up over their favorite stories and characters getting treated like garbage and remade with 0 care and commitment

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Disney hitched to the worst wagon.

God she is so unlikable it's crazy.

 

[AJUMP23]

Cool. I take issue with the bastardization of art and literature. Many people do. I'm not going to "war" over it. I simply won't give them my money. I'm not review bombing or protesting at an empty screening. I doubt anyone here is.

If I took some story that was culturally significant to a western minority and swapped up everything that would be met with protest in today's environment. But you can take a European story or even the story of Americas founding fathers and make it as colorblind as you want. I personally am tired of the double standard. But I am not doing anything about it. Just commenting online.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

and that she is thin

 

[Fake]

Angry Joe said that today he would took the guys from the show to watch Snow White to make a proper review. He reserved the tickets online and showed from his phone that only their three would attend. All the others seats are empty.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

LOL.

I saw your pic earlier today but on my small cell phone screen I thought it was just a generic empty theatre pic. Didn't realize they were in the middle.