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Iger is like an absentee parent. When the kids are doing great, they're getting praise, he'll be like "That's my boy", taking credit for work he didn't do, but the kid did, but the moment things aren't going well, it's " who raised you", acting like a parent who's mad that their kid is growing into a teenager. The fact that he's blaming Marvel's recent failures on "messaging" is such a fucking dog whistle and I don't even think he realizes what he did, which is worse. He ostensibly pushed the blame onto two black women, a 17 year old Muslim girl, and a woman who had an entire hate campaign staged against her for asking for more diversity in film criticism. The fact that he would use the cloud and Goodwill he's gained over the years just to throw them under the bus says a lot about him as a person, even after the strikes.

In true executive manner, Iger is willing to toss other people under his heel when things get slightly bad.

Its wild that Iger has the balls to say this when Barbie, one of the most overtly "woke" movies made in recent years (at least by anti-woke people's definition of the word) is not only one of the most successful movies this year, but also of ALL TIME. Meanwhile, The Marvels is kinda apolitical (unless you count Having POC Women In It) and it did terribly. "Go Woke, Go Broke" is utter fantasy nonsense and anyone who doesn't see that isn't paying attention.

The problem is simple: Infinite growth is not a sustainable strategy. The Marvel franchise was always going to result in diminishing returns because everything has a sell-by date. People got tired of the sense of obligation to watch every Marvel movie and show, and those of us who have been here from the start know that if you don’t watch everything, you might miss something important. This is the same level of fatigue that led to my losing interest in the comics when I was in high school. The Big Annual Events were just coming in to their own and were already showing diminishing returns. “Secret Wars” was cool. “Secret Wars II”…not so much. And there was already pressure to read every title (starting stories in an issue of “Avengers”, only to continue it in the pages of “Fantastic Four”, etc.) so you could keep up. It was exhausting and expensive. It’s the same thing on a larger scale, but now everyone is exhausted and bored, not just teenage nerds.

I like the part of the Marvels when Goose's kitten spontaneously started reading the communist manifesto. Best part of the film

Trying to scapegoat Nia is such a scumbag move and im glad youtubers (even those that hate Disney rn) are calling it out. Maybe the movie quality is, in part, due to her creative choices. But to act like its ALL her fault is straight up bull shit.

I cannot imagine how someone could watch The Marvels and think “This movie’s problem is that it tried too hard to have the message”

What the right fails to realise is that if Disney really does by some miracle go under, they’ll all have to talk to their own children who they despise.

The greatest problem of Quantumania is that it was about nothing. Say that messaging was to much is delusional. It was a lot of nothing. The Marvels was very fluffy too, but at least was more entertaining. But there is a lack of heart, a lack of messaging in Marvel. The recent films are just like Thor Dark World: A movie about nothing.

Instead of replacing workers with AI maybe it should replace CEOs, seems like they're jobs easy enough

It's fair to say that this has been a bad year for Disney, because for their 100th anniversary, This was certainly an underwhelming with is celebrate it but Disney will Get over this like they always do. However, I've seen people who actually try to say "This is disney's "worst" year ever" and that is complete and utter nonsense Because people who think that clearly know nothing about the Black Cauldron era

GOTG3 is pretty woke on is themes. The villain try to make the perfect society by making it like the old United States (the good old days) and he's trying to make the perfect race because the other races are inferior. The Guardians on the other hand have a policy of not leaving anyone behind , so they won together and saved every living thing on the ship.

Corporate executives are basically always to blame for almost everything bad in the world. Good things ever happen only in spite of them, NEVER because of them.

Disney picking their CEOs is just like someone giving you the choice between eating wet cardboard or eating wet cardboard soaked in battery acid. Sure one’s better than the other but you’re still eating cardboard

"Go woke go broke" Baldur's Gates 3 is the most popular thing in the planet this year and the wokest one.

I’ve always argued that woke, specifically in entertainment is such a lazy and over-simplified form of media analysis that blatantly ignores other factors to the success or failure of a project.

No one ever looks at the single biggest issue facing the average person in the past 2 years. Inflation. Most people have way less disposable income now. Add in there are a dozen super hero movies coming out in a year, and people are going to be a lot more choosy about what they spend their limited disposable income on. this is petty basic economics that I have yet to see anyone on youtube seriously explore. I'm lucky in that I have a petty good job, I bought my place 12 years ago and I don't have kids. I have more disposable income than most, and even I can't do everything I might want. So my income goes to a few video games and super hero movies because I like them. And i will say I enjoyed all the movies I went to see this year, I can understand why some people wouldn't go, as they want to see an Avengers if they are going to spend $200 to take their family out for a movie and snacks. Antman was I enjoyed. The Marvels was a lot of Fun, but I wouldn't put either in my top 10 Marvel movies. The one thing I will agree with here though is Disney has to get their budgets under control. Not many movies are going to be making a billion dollars in the next few years.

Yeah people are just chomping at the bits especially anti-sjws, hoping for the demise of Disney. I remember in the late 1970s and through just about all the 80s, Disney was at a very low point. But they had their Renaissance.

What sucks the most about The Marvels is that even when the sequel to Captain Marvel was first announced, there are a majority of people who WANTED this movie to suck AND bomb at the box office because they already hate the character and/or the actress. And for stupid shit that wasn't even the actress's fault and shit she said that was taken out of context. Instead of hoping it at least improves on some of the things the first movie did like I do. Go watch the second part of CinemaWins' Captain Marvel video because I don't have the mental capacity to explain the context.

Bob Iger being a piece of shit isn't anything new, but the timing of this news is extremely funny when you remember that at least 10 minutes of Hbomb's plagiarism video is dedicated to chronicling James Somerton's history of stanning him for no discernible reason.

I feel so bad for Disney... Wait, no I don't. I feel bad for the people working under them!

Ah finally, Iger found the solution! More👏brainless👏amorphous👏sludge👏! They didn't dumb down things *enough!* And he's totally right. I'm a producer's idea of the average cinema-goer, my brain is leaking out my ears. I have the intellect of a shoggoth, mindlessly screaming some learned buzzwords I don't understand into the eldritch wastes. I hate it when movies make me think in the slightest, make Grug brain hurt. Almost as much as when they have women in prominent roles, those people scare me. That's why my favourite movies are the Transformers franchise. 🤤 End me.

I would have seen guardians, antman, and marvels in theaters, but I needed a babysitter, and people want to charge a lot even though it was during our daughter's napping time. It was a miracle that I got a babysitter for wakanda forever. She understood that our daughter would be knocked out and we would come straight afterward.

Studio executives blaming directors, writers, and actors for their own mistakes. Nothing new and something that needs to end.

As a recent stockholder, sadly 10 shares, I also have been following the situation of how a lot of the anti-fandom is trying to support a rando guy named Nelson Peltz, a hedge fund manager who demands that Disney cut its spending, cuts executive pay, and some orher thing I forgot. I think Iger is trying harder to appease him so he'll leave them alone before he continues trying to take over the company. And Peltz anger let Iger to fire over 7000 in their spending cuts. I think that context should also help solidify why Iger is also going at this angle.

One theme I took away from 'The Marvels' is the mistake of idolizing heros/people. Kamala having this blind admiration for Captain Marvel deprived Carol of her humanity in her eyes until Kamala had to see for herself that she's not perfect and can't save everyone all the time. Monica also represents the person who had their hero worship shattered, since at one point, like Kamala, was a little girl who thought the world of Carol, but didn't fully understand that weight of the responsibility she was carrying, which is why she couldn't be superhero and super aunt at the same time. Dar-Benn is the extreme end of this idea, since she's someone who sees one person's hero as the bad guy. The scene where Carol destroys the supreme intelligence property her as a straight up villain. And eyes of the people living on Hala, Dar-Benn is the hero. And the cycle continues with the Skrulls seeing Dar-Benn as the villain. And finally their is Carol's relationship with her identity as Captain Marvel herself. Her still seeing herself as Captain Marvel, the space warrior hero first, made her too comfortable with using her powers unchcked. That her decisions will always be be the best for others. Once she realises that they've made things worse for both the Kree and Skrulls, she's reminded that she's still human at the end of the day, and has to take responsibility for her mistakes. When most heros defeat the bad guy, they don't often address how their past actions in doing so effect others negatively (be it passively or directly). Though it should have come at a genuine sacrifice, Carol took responsibility in the end. The film DEFINITELY needed more time to explore all these ideas in more depth, but it was still something I thought was quite clear given all the different characters relationship with Carol and what she's been portrayed as unstoppable, all powerful warrior both inside and outside the MCU.

I honestly don’t think "the message" played a large part in the comercial failure of Marvels. Wakanda Forever had a similar "message" yet that movie did allright and Captain Marvel broke the 1 billion bar with a slightly different and more prominent "message" not to mention Barbie became the biggest earner of the year despite having the most "message" out of any blockbuster. I think the reason Marvels failed to such degree is just the culmilation of lackluster MCU (and lack of actor lead promotion due to the strike but that's a separate thing compeletely). You can’t convince me that if Marvels came out at phase 4 it would still perform worse than Eternals.

If I were a director or writer I sure as hell would avoid working with Disney after the BS Bob did. Want to throw time and effort and creative energy into a project only to be micromanaged and then scapegoated by the CEO? Forget that. I’m sure most would rather not tarnish their reputation by risking it.

I wonder if the highest grossing movie of this year has any progressive messaging

A capitalist having no consistent ideology beyond whatever maximizes profit? colour me shocked!

Ironically, I think the idea of "entertainment, not messages" is exactly what's bogging these films down -- they have nothing to say, no big resonant idea for audiences to connect with. These films merely exist to make money, but how will they do that if the films have no value to the world outside the Disney offices?

Napoleon and Killers of the flower moon were streaming films that were not planned to be in theaters. They are by no means disappointments. In fact Napoleon opened higher than Disney’s wish

Another point about our friend Bob and his spin - he never actually left Disney when Chapek took over, Instead, he kept an office, had meeting with executives there, etc. This was all covered in an article by CNBC, titled 'Disney’s wildest ride: Iger, Chapek and the making of an epic succession mess'. There's even an odd part about 'two shower days'.

Well let's see, which of the recent Disney projects have worked: - In terms of Marvel: No Way Home had some good performances, Multiverse of Madness was an interesting concept that could have been taken further, Moon Knight was fun, Wakanda Forever was pretty good, Ms. Marvel was the first thing post-Endgame I can say I actually really liked, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was obviously great, and everything else was a slurry of mediocrity. Having a cinematic universe means tying great projects to bad ones, dragging them to the bottom of the ocean. - On Pixar's side: Luca, Turning Red and Elemental were all good, but not quite at the level of some of Pixar's earlier work. - On the main Disney animation front: Encanto and Strange World were both only ok, and everything else has been pretty bad. - I haven't kept up with the Star Wars extended media, the last thing I saw and liked was The Last Jedi, and apparently that scared Disney so much that they've committed to never making anything interesting again. There doesn't really seem to be a pattern here, except that they're pushing out WAY TOO MANY PROJECTS.

I think what's going on is Disney has been shooting things with effectively half a script and a chaotic schedule to keep up the constant releases & using heavy handed executive interference & post production to cover this. The process has started to break down. COVID is likely a factor. Rather than admitting this is a bad process (probably also drives up costs) Iger just said they aren't interfering enough.

Too many projects, and too many projects that consist solely of "we want to make a [FRANCHISE] movie, let's see who we can pay to write one" instead of waiting for actual story ideas. If you make more movies, you make more money, right? Wrong. No matter how many movies they make, 12 months of Disney+ costs the same amount. People went from buying 3 cinema tickets to 15 and then to zero, because why on earth would you pay for something twice?

I find everyone salivating over Disney's supposed downfall bizzare for multiple reasons. First, where would these idiots go next for entertainment? And second, without all the Disney-produced IP like Marvel and Star Wars, they have absolutely nothing to talk/rant about. So if anything, these anti-woke jackasses still need Disney more than they realize.

it's just so weird. I really liked Iger before he stepped down, he seemed like someone who knows that... letting creatives do their thing, creating "magic" (Disney-speak), do great stuff and he's just there to check the finances so the creatives don't go crazy. but now he's blaming everyone for bad decisions. cost cutting is all over the place, streaming was his worst decision ever, the parks are suffering (they have no political message) ... he's too old... Disney needs fresh blood and a new perspective to going into the next years.

I did also see an image leak of either The Marvels or Secret Invasion where it's Nick Fury sitting down with a gun. The thing is that everything in that shot save for Samuel L Jackson and the chair is in some way CGI, including the gun he's holding having tracking points so they can change the gun into whatever they want. The Marvels and Phase 4 films having mediocre special effects is something of a meme now but the scene ends up taking place in a very everyday location. Meaning that it's actually more expensive to do what they did, not less. This also flies directly in the face of the idea that the CG is bad because 90% of the CGI you're looking at, you don't notice. They just dump a good 99% (not even an exaggeration) of the shots in one house's lap and have them work potentially round the clock for several months straight. Point is a lot of Hollywood is broken and the messaging isn't what's doing it.

I think the thing that irks me so much about the C suite of Disney blaming everyone but themselves, is that isn't the justification for the C suite that they're there to take the blame? That's why they get paid so much (or at least what was explained to me) - because the buck stops with them. If they're not even going to do that, could we maybe finally get rid of executives?

I honestly feel sad that The Marvels bombed. After seeing it, I thought it was really not THAT bad. Even had some really good development for the characters. Also the Flerken scene was brillant and nobody's gonna change my mind on this. I am crossing my fingers that in a few years people will look back at it a bit more memorably.

As a woman of color, I just want to say I appreciate this video and a lot of the comments here. Someone raised you right. 😊

Apparently, treating your workers like crap to the point where they decided to unionize and strike had nothing to do with any box office failure. Obviously, it the lack of business suits.

Probably the closest Marvels came to a message was something along the lines of not shutting people out.

If Jamie Vardy is to be believed then the next step for Iger is to get banged.

I think it's really funny how Critical Drinker's "THE MESSAGE" line is now repeated by big review websites and now Bob Iger.

Iger means the "woke stuff" he's dog whistling at Marvel fans, "don't worry we'll go less Woke, please come back and watch our shit" This is one of the issues that we facer as a society, society is molded and big influential things like Disney and Marvel are steered by the wrong headed opinions, biases and prejudices of a handful of powerful uber wealthy people. Iger is wrong in his diagnosis of why Marvel stuff is doing badly, but heyho, his opinion however wrong is the thing that will be the final word on it.

Ultimately, this is what people warned about: the studios' commitment to diversity was only for show, and the moment that a movie made by diverse filmmakers failed, they'd blame it all on diversity and use it as an excuse to roll everything back.

Iger is going to kill Disney if their messages get any quieter. The REASON new Disney movies are trash is because their stories are underdeveloped, if Disney becomes any more of a vapid spectacle machine, they're gonna have a rough time bringing in and keeping fans 🙄

I personally think the biggest disappointment from Disney this year was Wish. The premise had a lot of potential, it’s supposed to be Disney’s 100 year anniversary film, and it’s a stylized animated fantasy film like what the company is known for. Yet it’s not doing too well at the box office and it just kind of existed. It feels like such a missed opportunity especially when you find out about all the interesting ideas they had that didn’t make the Final Cut.

Yeah, just another super rich guy looking after himself. But you're definitely right about creatives.Great video PoG.

So having female main characters is woke. Christ alive, how do these people function in everyday life when they encounter women everywhere? Is life woke?

One could argue that the Marvels needed to be more "woke." Captain Marvel's feminism is much more pronounced in the comics then in any of the movies. Disney doesn't go into that nearly as much they could (and maybe should.) In the first Captain Marvel movie there was that one scene where she deals with that misogynist who tells her she needs to smile and that's about as "feminist" as the movie gets. In "The Marvels" even that small amount of feminism is nowhere to be seen. I suppose Captain Marvel even existing as a female pilot and super hero could be feminist in and of itself, at least of the first wave kind. But if that's what the anti-wokes mean when crying about "wokeness" then they are basically demanding that women have no representation at all and that we go back to post ww2 gender roles.

Now I understand why scholagladitoria stopped dealing with Shad.

The political message of the Marvels was "Women are people" duh! **eye roll**

Great video, thank you. This money is for everything you've been creating for the past while, not just this one clip. I wish I could give more. You give hope that the internet doesn't have to be a hateful wasteland of misinformation.

Great analysis.

Theres literally a quote from Iger about how making art is secondary to making money. idk how anyone takes anything the dude says about art seriously.

The director not being invited to the crew screening is actually pretty normal. They’re intended more as a way that those that worked on the movie can enjoy and reflect back on their work without the pressures of the higher ups in their presence.

House of the Dragon proved it's possible to have diversity and do something good. Disney's problem is quantity and quality and the excuse that the movies are bad due to executive not being there... They hired a director for that and all the shitstorm she's taking is unjustified. That being said she shouldn't have been hired in the first place (like many others) as she only directed a couple of low budget movies. They want women of color directing stuff, I have no issue with that but at least, let them direct a few movies, some marvel episodes... and keep the bests, same for writers or other positions. I loved how with Sam Rami, there was his horror touch (though restricted), with Waititi, you have humor, with Chloe Zhao, it's character driven with good photo. I want good directors with good scripts and every hero having its style. Right now we have a lot of projects with no quality and "the message" which gives people the feeling "the message" replaces the quality.

When the usual crowd calls something like The Marvels "woke" or "political" they really end up giving the game away. It's so apolitical and safe. But two-thirds of its main cast are POC. That's enough for them. That makes it "political".

The message in The Marvels was the following: "We don't even have to try. It's always a good time."

None of these CEOs have any vision or originals ideas: it’s just min/maxing and risk aversion

Thanks for tha video

Iger brought in Chapek to basically be a fall guy 😂

There is no progressive ideas in Quantumania? Are we talking about the same story that starts with a child angry with his dad because he doesnt want to risk his life after loosing so many years with his family? And for some reason the story makes it sound like the child its correct in anyway when she only wants to work in the same shit as her family and go protest?

God DAMN that concluding sentiment in part two pisses me off, albeit through no fault of your own. Like, everyone really did learn fuck all from The Rise of Skywalker, didn't they?

I wish I could post a screenshot of a member of a Facebook group I'm in who dick rides Disney and Bob Iger everyday of the week no questions asked desperately pleading with the members of the group that "he's bad but things could be worse" and bruh I'm not having it, these executives aren't even going to stop letting budgets balloon, because most of that money goes to their pockets, they really don't give a damn about the films and shows they make so long as their place corporately is secured

great video!

As they say, pride comes before the fall. The effect corporations have had on the entertainment industry has been detrimental. High time for Iger to leave and Disney to refocus on creating art, not "content." That being said, I just think that the Marvels was simply not a great movie. The story is forgettable and it has one of the worst villains of any MCU movie. I think the movie suffered from too much interference from studio executives. Black Panther is a "messagy" movie, but people loved it. You could see the passion behind it. Save for GotG Vol. 3, Marvel movie have been lacking in that lately.

I still can't forget the "Go Woke go Broke" crowd initially attacked the Mario Movie because Princess Peach wasn't the damsel in distress and became a girl boss, but changed tune when they realised the movie is earning a lot. They even claim the film is Antiwoke now. 😂

11:44 Why are you apologising? You're right 😂😂😂😂

Really makes James Somerton’s weird love and attempted hagiography of Iger as some (entirely fictional) champion for queer rights seem all the weirder in context

Excellent episode as always. I can’t help but think that you’re still gonna be called a shill by certain people on this platform ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There was also an anti-colonialist theme in both The Marvels and Quantimania

“But I can guarantee you not a single viewer walked out of the theater, reflected on the film, and came away thinking Quantumania’s big point was that we as a society should be more like giant futuristic ants.” **Flashbacks to February, walking out of the theater thinking about how society would be better if we acted more like the socialist ants** 🫣😳😮

I don’t think it’s political messaging that’s the problem it’s this specific political message that’s the most controversial. I mean with the captain America movies the message is largely about government overreach which is way less controversial and the way the betray it is nuanced enough that it won’t bring down the movie. It’s also important to mention that the culture has become more divided on political lines and the issues they are pushing in these movies is being pushed by lots of media and it’s pretty annoying after a while when you want something fresh. I’d say their main problem is defining lowering quality and how nothing feels connected anymore. I think audiences are also getting sick of big blockbusters since that’s pretty much all that’s released these days.

It turns out a greedy businessman with no creative talent whatsoever running a company that made its name on innovation, creativity and pushing the bounds of storytelling and filmmaking isn’t a recipe for success. Who knew?

To counter wokness, I heard that Disney is remaking Roots as an all white male cast.

The whole underperfomance and less critical acclaim of "The Marvels" is: 1) kind of sad for it being an enjoyable and good film with an actress that loves being there and an improvement on the previous film, 2) annoying for the various (mostly far right) jabronis making an unearned victory lap with their "go woke go broke" banners, and 3)infuriating for Iger throwing the director under the bus. Also, why is everyone on the anti-MCU crowd acting like "Guardians Vol. 3" and "Loki Season 2" didn't happen this year? They were both adored and brought people to watch them, but for some reason everyone (of _those_ people) seems to forget them. Edit 1: As for the message/theme of "The Marvels", one could stretch for the Hero's/Heroine's heroics messing things up (the Kree civil war and things getting dangerous for everyone because of Carol), although a better one would be something on Regret and dealing with the concept of Heroism (meeting your idols and dealing with being ones idol), the later one being the plagiarising of MCU as a theme. Edit 2: Pardom my french, but *fuck Bob Iger* and the whole streaming shit. Edit 3 (final one, I promise!): Keep up the great -non plagiarised- work and stay safe out there!

It's hard to take anything of what this guy says when he has Frozen sequels in his backpocket. What quality control over shilling out more stuff?

Iger runs Disney on a quantity over quality model, attach progressive points* (not even messages) as gimmicks... and then blame the messages??? Bruh, your movies storytelling ain't storytelling because you're not letting them cook. You blame the chefs and the ingredients, even though you run the whole fcking restaurant.

good video that deserves more views

i mean i think if you asked a lot of queer people, Disney's "wokeness" absolutely is part of the issue - because it's fake, it's literally just marketing stunts. how many times does a character with no real heavy lifting in the plot or screentime to speak of get to be "the first gay character"? and then actually good queer rep and opportunities that could have been get snubbed or erased entirely (Strange World comes to mind, and Luca was read as a gay allegory by many a queer viewer only for it be *vehemently* publicly denied as a valid reading of the text by it's maker). more of us are safely out right now than ever, and so more and more of your audience is, yes, going to be very annoyed at being repeatedly used as a prop to market on rather than actually included than, say, 10 years ago. not to play "who's got it worse", i don't mean it like that, but i would argue they do this worse with queer rep than they do most other minority groups at this point, but that's probably because you can't typically make someone "visually gay" without offending someone. so you can't even really use us to present some immediately apparent aesthetic idea of progressivism. on that note, i doubt POC like being used as a marketing gimmick either - is it better to have shitty rep or like, basically none is what it comes down to i guess. disney would have to actually mean it for any of this literal actual virtue signaling to mean f*cking anything beyond something to goad people into paying them by making us think it won't be insulting to our intelligence this time (they prommy, this time For Realsies Guys no really) and they just don't. there's only so many times you can burn a significant chunk of your audience and expect us to still care. so i mean, sure, just very much not in the way it's being presented by people who just actually hate all progressivism real or imagined. also i don't rly like super hero movies and junk... i think that stuff's boring personally. they even made star wars boring. i wish they'd just make actual cartoons again.

The fixation on DeCosta... it's giving racially motivated Never mind giving, it's all but yelling to distract from him sliding out the backdoor

Elon didn’t have a meltdown. He was firmly in control and delivered his message.

there are a few points that aren't mutually exclusive: - the director is being setup by PR hitpieces to cover the Disney execs' collective asses, or maybe just the singular ass of the great Bobby Iger - the director isn't really capable to handle this film, she is cast for ESG checkboxes - she is not really that committed into the project, either due to constant executive sidelining, or maybe she really isn't that into superhero stuff in the first place, only for the money and fame like Waititi - the left thought Iger will save Disney, the right thinks he is course correcting, maybe he is just throwing everyone under the bus to keep his own good name (Iger for president 2028 anyone?)

Huh.....Isnt Spiderman marvel biggest super hero coded Jewish? Has not Storm of the X-men been marvels biggest name female super hero? Is not Doctor Doom half Roma? The Maximoff Twins? Magento also Jewish. Shadowcat seemingly ever Generation X (The Generation not the comic book series) writers biggest crush? Earnie from Blerd without fear has put together multiple all black superhero teams using X-book characters, do these reactionary talking heads read comics, or just the 1970's nostalgia stuff of the Bendis/Brevoort era?

Your work is great, thank you

None of these flops are really the failure of directors,considering how inexperienced some of em are,its a miracle they did their work fine.They are the failure of writers and corporate meddling,and cutting crucial jobs while still having huge budgets somehow!And some of these should have been shut down as ideas the second someone pitched em.In simple words, message or no message, make a damn good movie and people WILL watch it.Can I remind everyone of Modok in Antman?!

Yeah, he went to my school and I went to a talk with him a few days ago at my school and it just felt like he was talking shit

I love your channel and your positive messaging bro

Great video Pillar. Can you tell me what the music you’ve used at 7:35? I’ve been searching for that song for over a year. Thanks for all of your hard work and brilliant analysis.

neat vid as per

What Marvel doesn't want to admit is the existence of people like me who didn't see The Marvels because after Black Widow, The Eternal, Dr. Strange 2 and Thor 4, I'm OUT! As far as I know The Marvels is great, but it's part of a cinematic universe I don't care about any more. MCU: Live by the cinematic universe, die by the cinematic universe.

More Disney drama. Good thing I am not concerned

I've always disliked Iger. He was always a knockoff Eisner to me. This bullshit adds to that feeling. BTW, Eisner wrote a letter ages back to Paramount stating (and I'm paraphrasing) that Movie Producers have an obligation to make movies that entertain, art and messaging are ancillary (sounds familiar, huh).

People need to understand that a film can't be bad BECAUSE it has woman of colour or gay people in it. It has nothing to do with that, there are plenty of bad films staring white straight man.. good writing isn't linked to how diverse the casting is xOx

Well-done. Thank you.