okay the Coco + Olaf’s Frozen Adventure thing needs some explanation because i just found out about it today and im still cracking up
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure was supposed to be the next part in the Frozenverse that was set to be a holiday special on ABC, but for whatever reason, that fell through and it instead aired in front of airings of Coco, continuing Pixar’s tradition of airing short standalone films in front of their full feature-length films
only… the key word here is “short.” i definitely don’t remember any Pixar short being longer than 5 minutes, but Olaf’s Frozen Adventure was originally set to be a holiday special… on TV. a holiday special the length of a TV show
ie, ~twenty one minutes long
opinions of the short itself vary wildly, but pretty much everyone universally agrees that it was far too long to be played as an “opening act”
combined with the fact that the short wasn’t shown during critic screenings, meaning reviews of the movie did not have any clue about the short’s existence, the “short” led to some baffled and very unhappy movie-goers, particularly in Mexico. confused kids, harried parents (taking young children to the movie is hard enough for a regular movie, imagine an extra half-hour), and theater workers having to explain to a lot of customers that they were in the right movie
and, as that last post said, there was so much backlash in Mexico at least one theater chain has outright pulled the short from screenings of Coco
i cant believe that Disney decided to turn theatergoers into a captive audience for Frozen and made everyone, including children, hate their precious franchise
i love it.
“Let us gooo, let us goooo!”
For the record: there are two big theater chains in Mexico and both removed it the very next weekend after Coco’s premier.
First look at what Dash’s hair might look like in Incredibles 2.
what the fuck
This is giving me an intense emotion that I can’t quite understand
They’re doing the same thing they did when promoting the first film!
I remember seeing this bit of hair testing animation EVERYWHERE when they were talking about the technology of making the first film. They were so proud of it, and rightfully so! So it’s looking like they’re doing the same thing again with showing off this hair lighting.
You grow up and you realise A Bug’s Life was the revolutionary Leftist masterpiece of our childhoods
I’m not even slightly kidding
Ants are the workforce doing the labour needed to survive, and they have to do it twice over to provide for both themselves and for a group of parasites who do nothing but consume the labour of others
The ants work themselves near to death trying to stay afloat
The grasshoppers don’t even need any food. They have tons
to spare but still insist on taking the food the ants worked for because they ‘deserve’ it, despite actually contributing nothing of value. The only reason this works is by threatening ants with force and degrading them so they feel weak and worthless, and insisting that the grasshoppers deserve a cut for some vague service they claim to provide to society
In reality Hopper is desperate to stop the ants from thinking for themselves, keeping them ignorant of the fact that he has subjugated ants through threats of power while the ants actually overpower the grasshoppers through sheer numbers.
And should the ants ever realise that the grasshoppers take from them while providing nothing and that revolution is possible, the class system they’ve installed will be finished.
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