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Remember when ya'all were legit cheering for them buying FOX? Disney is so big it verges on being a monopoly, and having one company be the gatekeeper of our media across the board is terrifying shit. This is just the beginning.
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Disney produced an unprecedented 80 percent of the top box office hits this year
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Remember when ya'all were legit cheering for them buying FOX? Disney is so big it verges on being a monopoly, and having one company be the gatekeeper of our media across the board is terrifying shit. This is just the beginning.
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Blame fox for selling out then. Someone was going to buy them.
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I blame the Feds for allowing a deal that would result in such an obviously lopsided market landscape, really.
Disney is just doing what all corporations do.
Would comcast buying them be any better? Comcast is worse than disney.
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It would be better in that the IP would be decentralized across two shitty players instead of one.
Disagree, but just my opinion. I think comcast is just way worse.
Yeah...that sounds about right. A lot of their movies weren't great either. That being said, what's preventing other studios from making stuff people want to go see? Ultimately movies aren't a necessity so it's not really comparable to say a telecommunications owning all of the phone towers or internet infrastructure.
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Don't get me wrong, I agree Comcast is worse than Disney; I just think Comcast owning some key IP is better than Disney owning all key IP.
No surprise here. There's a reason they purchased these assets. They're film division prior was pedestrian and anything coming from them in-house was hit or miss. It almost feels like forever ago when Disney would barely crack the top 5 in studio earnings.
Ya especially with all the shitty live action remakes of the animated films.
Was arguing in the other thread about a lot of users on this forum cheering on disney to absorb sony since "sony pictures sucks and they waste the IP anyways". Also people cheering on Bob Iger's desire to acquire bond beccause disney would "treat it right". Their PR is fucking god tier, it's developed a truly cult like following that just continues to cheer on the companies growth for some strange reason. Brand loyalty is a hell of a drug.
Pretty much. 2019 was always going to be a gargantuan year for Disney. I'm more surprised other studios couldn't bring the heat.
The breakout hit this year was actually Joker and no one expected the success.
I mean, Disney is Disney even the shittiest movie can generate up to $1b as long as Disney brand is in place.
lol this again
If anyone was truly celebrating this deal solely because of that, well, they should be ignored.
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I wish Disney went back to just being hand drawn cartoons and kids shit.
I hate new Disney
(But.....then I wouldn't be able to watch all that old Disney stuff on Disney + without all this happening so there is that)
I hate new Disney
(But.....then I wouldn't be able to watch all that old Disney stuff on Disney + without all this happening so there is that)
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Comcast didn't end up buying them so why bring it up?
On the one hand the Disney monopoly sucks, on the other hand it's a natural monopoly in many ways. They got this dominant by being the only movie company in the last decade consistently making good blockbuster movies several times a year. It's not like they are churning out garbage.
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They've publicly denounced and disclaimed the video game market owing to repeated failures there. So I think we're safe there. For now.
i could list you 30-50 great movies of 2019 that weren't made by disney and there's lots of good ones i haven't seen yet.