Lightyear (2022)

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Chukzombi

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Thor doesn't come out until July 8th so why did this come out a single week behind Jurassic Parkworld 23 and three weeks from Top Gun?

Rest of big summer releases look rather spread out as well.
they probably thought one or the other would tank. so it doesnt really matter if one beats the other one as long as the money goes in their pocket. or they got dingdongs at Disney not in touch with the dingdongs at Pixar to communicate when to release their films
 

Animosity

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If this movie had Tim Allen it would of done a lot better. That’s the biggest backlash I’ve seen about it. Even if it is about a different character.
 
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TheNozz

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I’ve heard the term “Buzz Lightqueer” being tossed around
 
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Ravishing

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Has nothing to do with politics, Tim Allen, or anything.
The marketing just sucked for this and it does not appeal to kids at all.
I asked my kids if they wanted to see this, they got bored 5 seconds into the trailer.

It's too dark, doesn't have the visual appeal, need more bright/fun/funny/cute stuff to sell to the kids.

Instead they watched Sing & Sing 2 all weekend.
They are more excited for the upcoming Minions movie.
 

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I'm honestly surprised it did $51M. The last few PIXAR movies have been released straight to Disney+ and even Encanto didn't really take off in terms of public perception until it hit D+ at Xmas. People have kinda got it programmed now that animated Disney = Disney+.

Encanto hit $28.7M opening weekend and Sing 2 hit $22.3M for its debut. Given what a royal pain in the butt it is to take kids to a movie theater in the first place I think you'll see a lot of people just waiting for streaming.

Minions : Rise of Gru will be the ultimate test of crossover appeal box office draw.
 

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Kid appeal is a tough one for a Toy Story movie at this point. It's been 27 years since Toy Story and while I'm sure there are current kids that love Toy Story I'm guessing the real target for this movie is 30-40 year old's. Let the parents drag their kids along rather than relying on kids to suggest it.

How many of us bitched about the kid stuff in Phantom Menace and wished it was more of an adult story and that was only a 22 year gap?

I agree that the marketing sucked though. Fundamentally this isn't a movie about toys which I think confused people.
 

Qhue

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I will kindly ask you not to mention that Phantom Menace was 22 years ago...it's bad enough that I've somehow gotten on the AARP mailing list.

Given that we are past the heyday of both Saturday Morning and after school.cartoons, what is the primary vector to market to kids these days?
 

Chukzombi

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Kid appeal is a tough one for a Toy Story movie at this point. It's been 27 years since Toy Story and while I'm sure there are current kids that love Toy Story I'm guessing the real target for this movie is 30-40 year old's. Let the parents drag their kids along rather than relying on kids to suggest it.

How many of us bitched about the kid stuff in Phantom Menace and wished it was more of an adult story and that was only a 22 year gap?

I agree that the marketing sucked though. Fundamentally this isn't a movie about toys which I think confused people.
Lucas tried to appeal to adults too, he made it about space taxes. It was just boring because you knew Ob1 would be fine, anakin would be vader and everyone else not named anakin and vader was going to die.
 

Chukzombi

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I will kindly ask you not to mention that Phantom Menace was 22 years ago...it's bad enough that I've somehow gotten on the AARP mailing list.
He`s lying. It was 23 years ago. Same year we all started Everquest and watched Matrix.
 

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Given that we are past the heyday of both Saturday Morning and after school.cartoons, what is the primary vector to market to kids these days?
Based on the very small sample size of my two kids I'm going to guess social media ads and paid influencers. Not too terribly different than getting movie/tv/game suggestions from FOH just their network is bigger and across more platforms.
 
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Chukzombi

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do kids even play with non electronic toys anymore? maybe a doll for a girl, but other than a ball of some kind, i dont see what young boys are given to play with unless guns and swords and action figures with guns and swords are still allowed.
 
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Animosity

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do kids even play with non electronic toys anymore? maybe a doll for a girl, but other than a ball of some kind, i dont see what young boys are given to play with unless guns and swords and action figures with guns and swords are still allowed.
Kids still play with action figures and such. Nephew loves Ghost Busters and Star Wars etc. Same with friends kids. But of course all they wanna do is play video games.
 
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I just don't think parents want to spend >50 dollars taking their kids out to watch a movie (more than that, because the kid is going to want movie food and then some other food afterwards) when they know it's gonna be on D+ (which they have anyway because they have kids) in ~2 months.

D+ is competing with Disney's box office for sure. That's a bad position to be in.
 
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Chukzombi

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I just don't think parents want to spend >50 dollars taking their kids out to watch a movie (more than that, because the kid is going to want movie food and then some other food afterwards) when they know it's gonna be on D+ (which they have anyway because they have kids) in ~2 months.

D+ is competing with Disney's box office for sure. That's a bad position to be in.
also keep in mind this is an origin story for a toy. so if you have the Toy Story Buzz toy already and the movie is based around the toy. you arent going to go out and buy the toy from the Buzz movie thats based on the toy from the Toy Story movies. makes the whole thing a giant waste of time.
 

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Well due to covid shutdowns I hadn’t gone to a movie with my kids in a few years. 5/7

Black lesbian having babies hamfisted in your face at the beginning. There was the classic shady Latino, clever black spunky youth, useless white guy trio.

The movie itself was kind of difficult to care about with a few exciting scenes and cool space art animation. Huge meh, but I scored dad points so that’s ok I guess.
 

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I'm honestly surprised it did $51M. The last few PIXAR movies have been released straight to Disney+ and even Encanto didn't really take off in terms of public perception until it hit D+ at Xmas. People have kinda got it programmed now that animated Disney = Disney+.

Encanto hit $28.7M opening weekend and Sing 2 hit $22.3M for its debut. Given what a royal pain in the butt it is to take kids to a movie theater in the first place I think you'll see a lot of people just waiting for streaming.

Minions : Rise of Gru will be the ultimate test of crossover appeal box office draw.
What you mean Pixar has been in a downward spiral since the metoo'ed Lasseter, I would have never predicted that.
 
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Chukzombi

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What you mean Pixar has been in a downward spiral since the metoo'ed Lasseter, I would have never predicted that.
its been before that, til about 2009, his big hits were Pixar films, then he made huge hits with Tangled and then Frozen and then Wreck It Ralph. which are Disney animation flicks and not just Pixar, around that same time Pixar started churning out sequels like Toy Story 3, Monsters Inc 2 and Cars 2 or mediocre shit like Good Dinosaur and Brave. there is a distinct drop in quality in Pixar films. thats not to say these are all bad Pixar films, you could say Cars 2, Good Dinosaur and Brave are pretty fucking lame. the others are just ok to good. Inside Out is probably the last GREAT Pixar film. but nothing since UP! i would consider a classic.
the Metoo stuff has never been confirmed or proven, but i assume it happened but not as serious as it was made out to be. maybe he grabbed some chick's ass or talked about grabbin some ass and it was overheard by a karen. not enough to tank your billion dollar studio over, but hey, this is Disney, they got enough pedos already and one top exec who is into adult women and brags about it is far too much for them to tolerate.
 

Kovaks

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its been before that, til about 2009, his big hits were Pixar films, then he made huge hits with Tangled and then Frozen and then Wreck It Ralph. which are Disney animation flicks and not just Pixar, around that same time Pixar started churning out sequels like Toy Story 3, Monsters Inc 2 and Cars 2 or mediocre shit like Good Dinosaur and Brave. there is a distinct drop in quality in Pixar films. thats not to say these are all bad Pixar films, you could say Cars 2, Good Dinosaur and Brave are pretty fucking lame. the others are just ok to good. Inside Out is probably the last GREAT Pixar film. but nothing since UP! i would consider a classic.
the Metoo stuff has never been confirmed or proven, but i assume it happened but not as serious as it was made out to be. maybe he grabbed some chick's ass or talked about grabbin some ass and it was overheard by a karen. not enough to tank your bilion dollar studio over, but hey, this is Disney they got enough pedos already and one top exec who is into adult women and brags about it is far too much to tolerate.
I remember hearing he just liked to give hugs, and to everyone not just women
 
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Chukzombi

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I remember hearing he just liked to give hugs, and to everyone not just women
oh yeah, i remember now, he "touched" women way too much. its pretty hard to molest somebody in a hug. unless he's doing hugs differently than everyone else on the planet. even a Boozecube "hug" doesnt involve sex.