{{
`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
3/31/2025 1:08:32 AM
12
If Warner Bros isn’t handling Looney Toons well, then isn’t it a good thing that they’re selling it? Someone else could pick it up and start making new Looney Toons material.
English
-
I would say yeah but the next company could ruin cartoon history just hope Disney doesn't go for it
-
Oh, you’re one of [i]those[/i] people are you? Blech.
-
One of what people?
-
One of those people who thinks Disney corrupts & destroys everything it touches. Probably a whiny Star Wars purist, too, tends to come with the territory.
-
Except Disney is a terrible company. It has habitually mistreated its employees, undermined their work, spent the last decade parading around the corpses of their greatest hits in a blatant and lazy attempt at a cash grab, and worst of all worked with and thanked the concentration camps in China, and their dubious involvement with child sweatshops, all while trying to pretend like they care about people. They killed a woman, and then tried to prevent the husband from getting reparations by using a Disney+ contract. I don't care why someone hates Disney, only that they do. And however much they do, isn't enough.
-
Disney has done some terrible things, but so has literally every big company ever. I'm pretty numb to it. The world is a terrible place, and everyone--especially those with money and power--are terrible people. Shocking. If you don't want to support Disney because of the terrible things they've done, more power to you, but if I tried to stop supporting every company that did something I personally disagree with, I'd have to stop supporting literally every company ever, so I don't bother. [quote]spent the last decade parading around the corpses of their greatest hits in a blatant and lazy attempt at a cash grab[/quote] This is the kind of whiny stuff I really hate hearing from Disney haters, though, and why I simply said "you're one of those people". I'm not the biggest fan of the live action stuff either, but acting like there's no love or care put into any of them is such a ridiculous idea. A couple of them like Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast are pretty good, too.
-
Jungle Book was admittedly a step up from its predecessor in many ways. However, Beauty and the Beast was by far one of their worst attempts. A hollow, soulless remake. Much like Mulan, Aladdin, the Lion King, Dumbo, Pinocchio... can you really look at these films and say they were created because of a genuine passion? But this isn't even my big issue. I don't care that they're creating sloppy, lazy remakes. If they want to diminish the artistic integrity of their brand, that's for them to decide. However, I will say trying to label the criticism of this cynical practice as "whining" is reductive. Especially as concerns any other malicious practice of the company. Companies can behave the way they do because people are largely complacent. So long as we are entertained, we don't care about the underpaid overworked employees, the children chained to tables, or the Uyghurs in camps. But then, phone batteries recieve lithium mined from Africa by children, so I guess my hypocrisy can go only so far.
-
I don't watch most of the live action remakes, but at least as far as Beauty and the Beast is concerned, yeah, it was a work of genuine passion to me. I thought Beauty and the Beast was really good, especially when it came to how they reworked Gaston. He was a much more believable character this time around. They obviously put time and effort into this thing. The Maleficent movies were really good, too, if you want to count those, but they weren't "remakes" per se, as much as they were a different take. The reason I mark it as whiny, is often times the reason behind hating a lot of the new Disney stuff comes down to "muh nostalgia". If it's too similar, people complain about how they didn't change enough and they can just watch the original, if it's too different, people complain about how they changed too much and it's nowhere near as good as the original. Would I like Disney to stop making live action remakes? Yes, definitely. Animation is superior to live action stuff anyway. But are they hot steaming piles of garbage? Not at all. Plus, Disney *is* still putting out other stuff, and a lot of their newer stuff is some of the best stuff they've ever put out. Encanto, and Luca, for instance, are right near the top of my favorite Disney/Pixar movies of all time. And while Raya was a little iffy, they still branched out and tried something new, and honestly, it was pretty alright for what it was trying to be. [quote]But then, phone batteries recieve lithium mined from Africa by children, so I guess my hypocrisy can go only so far.[/quote] Exactly my point. The systems that run our society are so fundamentally rotten all the way down to their core, that there's not really any way to do anything about them. So there's not point in even bothering. The only way to remove yourself from these kinds of issues is to withdraw from society altogether.
-
Personally I wouldn’t want Disney to have it, not because I think they’ll ruin it, but because I think that they already own enough iconic franchises and don’t need any more of them. Let someone else have some fun. And also just a tiny bit of fear of a live action/cgi remake bc I just don’t trust any big studios anymore
-
Context behind where the original statement came from is important, though. The fact that "I hope Disney doesn't go for it" was said in response to "someone else could make new Looney Toons material", implying that the reason for not wanting Disney to go for it is because Disney is going to ruin it somehow. If you don't want Disney to go for it for other reasons, fair enough, but I doubt the op had any reason behind "Disney never puts out any good stuff", which is just incorrect.
-
Touché
-
