Honestly, I don’t feel bad for Hollywood at all. They made these poor decisions. They are the ones who are out of touch with their audience. And they are the ones who can’t seem to learn the proper lesson.

"Does Hollywood know you can grow old and be happy and surrounded by loved ones?" A perfect quote to sum up a lot of what's wrong with recent movies. The belittling of established heroes so the new hero, who is always less interesting, is elevated. Folks have caught on to this game and are thankfully rejecting it.

Who else agree that films should have a smaller budget so they can get more creative with their film projects

I ended up seeing Indiana Jones with a friend. It was profoundly sad, as you said. Also, like Hans Solo his son is also dead. I don't know why we have to eliminate even any trace of heroic/ classic characters bloodline from their universe. That's so miserable. I actually like my heroes to mostly end up happy. Not everything has to be a tragedy.

I actually feel sorry for Ruby Gillman. I did want to see the movie succeed.

What you mentioned about Indiana Jones being depressing was exactly how I felt. I always liked the Indy films (yes, even the 4th one!) because they show him standing up against impossible odds, and the fact that he keeps going even when he's afraid or in danger. They're pretty inspiring. So seeing him old and washed-up was just sad, and yes, even cliche. An 80-year-old Indy kicking butt maybe wouldn't be entirely realistic, but seeing him doing his best and not even letting age pull him down would have been inspiring storytelling, not to mention respectful to Ford himself. And Helena was horrible. At first she seemed great - I thought they were going the route of Pixar's 'Up' by having an excited young character drag the older one on adventure and helping them realize their life isn't over and they can still do great things. But nope, her likeable first impression was a lie, and she was an unrepentant jerk for most of the movie. I don't know why the writers thought she would leave a good impression on audiences. If they were going for 'strong female character,' I think they forgot kindness and compassion are key aspects of strength too, for any gender.

Ruby Gillman is weird one. I wanted it to succeed after Puss in Boots 2 earned Dreamworks so much goodwill, saw it, liked fine, observed its shortcomings, and then forgot a lot of it. All this in five days! It's fun enough, but it feels like entire scenes and subplots were cut from it. The prom plot they introduce early on is forgotten almost immediately when the Kraken plot begins. Ruby's friends feel betrayed that she stops spending time with them after meeting Chelsea, but this is shown once in a quick montage and is handwaved away in two lines during the last five minutes, when the prom plot suddenly reemerges. She's a "mathlete" and tutor for her crush, yet Ruby sure never spends time doing math or tutoring on-screen. A sea captain with a vendetta against the kraken makes the town turn against it (unknowingly putting pressure on Ruby) and almost kills Kraken-Ruby, but he doesn't stay as much of an antagonist--he should've been either more villainous or less threatening but funnier. Honestly, the film can be alright if you turn your brain off and laugh at some decent jokes, but I found that criticizing it gave me more to chew on. Better than Indy 5 or Elemental, that's for sure.

I like that Nimona is getting alot of praise, especially when comparing it to all these big budget movies.

I just saw Ruby Gillman today and while not on the same level as Puss in Boots I thought it was enjoyable. I agree wholeheartedly that the trailers revealed too much and I think that definitely played a part in the poor box office. And yes it was a bit cliched but I also think there’s potential in the idea. Maybe it’ll do well enough on streaming to convince Dreamworks to experiment with the story.

Am I the only who thinks movie advertisements are also getting worse? I didn't even know Elementals and Teenage Kraken were out until I saw how they flopped on the news

For real though the whole movie industry is taking Ls I miss the good old days of good movies

I really think Ruby Gillman would've been more entertaining if it was just them being friends. Like, no ulterior motives. Just a straight up cute story about a preppy mermaid and a dorky kraken developing an unlikely friendship and surviving human school.

I have seen both movies. Ruby Gillman was a fairly generic but fun movie. It reminded me a lot of Turning Red, but I enjoyed Ruby Gillman way more. Indiana Jones 5 was just a miserable experience. Aside from the dodgy de-aging, the first 20 minutes were pretty fun, but once it got to old and miserable Indy, the fun stopped and never recovered. Say what you will about Crystal Skull, but at least the original team was still around, and had way more fun with itself. Great video. It’ll be interesting to see what lessons will be learned when the year is over.

It's honestly sad that Ruby Gillman flopped. I thought it looked interesting. But, like you said, it showed too much in the trailer

As much as I’d like to believe that Hollywood will learn from there mistakes with all these box office flops. I can’t help but feel doubtful about it. Especially with them getting on this mentality that if a film fails it wasn’t because of their own faults. It was because the audience is just full of haters.

Minions looks like a movie I would take my grandkids to (and we have watched them together). Ruby Gilman looks like something I might take my grandkids to in _eight years_ when they're teenagers. It's not a kids movie - and too many people in America still think of animated movies as things only for little kids. Yes, animated movies from Japan can make some money in the American box office, but even highly successful anime movies, like Demon Slayer and Dragonball only made $30 - $50 million in the US market. The "I'm in my teens and I like animated stuff" audience is still a niche audience. This isn't a new "problem". Disney movies like Treasure Planet and Atlantis or the Don Bluth movie Titan A.E. that were made more for a teen-ish (hey, ain't all those kids watchin' that Japanimation stuff nowadays!) market, also flopped in the movie theaters, even though they're good to great movies - and certainly better than Disney movies like Home on the Range and Brother Bear (and all their direct-to-VHS-sequels) from that time.

The original director for Ruby Gillman was going to be Paul Tibbitt, the man behind some of the best SpongeBob episodes, he probably would have made a much better movie than what we got.

I work at a theater so I’ve seen every recent movie for free. Some were not worth it even when it cost nothing to see it

Hollywood is full of hateful people who think they're good because they hate the right kind of people, whereas everyone with an iota of sense knows that's just not how it works. These hateful people can't tell good stories because they can't identify with the characteristics of heroism, rather they create characters who are fundamentally awful people, because the people creating them are fundamentally awful. These characters are author/producer self-inserts because their own twisted perspectives are all that these people are able to understand and when audiences reject it and call out these characters for being awful people the authors/producers take it personally because for them it is personal, they are being personally rejected via their self-insert characters.

I agree that the trailers for Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken gave away too much. Before watching Ruby Gillman, I was thinking that after Ruby and Chelsea/Nerissa's fight, they would team up to defeat a common enemy and after that, Ruby and Chelsea/Nerissa become true friends and so do the rest of the krakens and mermaids. What they went with was a little shallow.

I saw Ruby Gillman twice in the theater. And I liked it betterthe second time. I found the lead to be adorable and thought the visuals looked pretty. Yes, the trailers were spoiler-heavy, but I tried not to let it bother me. Hopefully I can support it by buying the Blu-Ray and not JUST through streaming.

Perhaps if they made some good films they can turn things around.

You know, one one hand I feel sorry for Elemental and Ruby Gillman. They weren't amazing, but their worse crimes were just being kinda safe, so I kind of enjoyed them. And honestly, it seems like their studios wanted them to fail. Flash and Indiana I don't because 1. the stuff with Ezra Miller and how Warner just didn't say anything about it, and 2. For WHAT POSSIBLE REASON did Disney look at their 300 MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (keep in mind, that doesn't count marketing) that NO ONE was really looking forward to, and think "yeah, this is a good idea."

Hollywood will probably learn the wrong lessons from all of this.

Maybe all the stuff about heros ending up old and alone is because the creators are afraid of that fate lol

Nostalgia tends not to work, when you muck around with what makes them "nostalgic." So if they're banking on that solely, modern day political inserts for no reason was not the way to go about it. You'd think they'd have learned from the Sequel Trilogy's profit trajectory... but no. Only way I even heard about the Ruby Kraken movie was from streaming sites... so that doesn't exactly surprise me. It's also a fairly niche hoped for audience. (What kid is going to know what a kraken even is these days?) But then again, if you wanna break a few eggs, ya gotta get Kraken- I'll show myself out now... * Also, they did send Indy out with a bang... it was just from Bon Jovi, rather than celebratory. : /

I wish Dreamworks had tried a little harder making the story for Ruby Gillman interesting because the character designs are great.

My simple theory, Hollywood fails and will continue to fail for two simple reasons: 1) Those responsible for these films are extremely incompetent at their work. 2) These idiots make movies to please themselves and not the public, and it seems that many have already realized this.

I could be wrong but I personally feel like it's just theatres that are dying, I think people have realized that they don't really enjoy the movie-going experience and so they don't. I don't think theatres will just disappear but I think they will become a very less common thing and just devolve into something smaller. And only block busters like spider verse or End game will get any attention when it comes to grossing

I’m honestly suprised that Ruby Gilman didn’t do so well, especially when *that* part of the internet made boat loads (no pun intended) of “fan art” of the characters.

Fun fact: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the woman behind killing off James Bond in No Time To Die and since moved on to killing off Indiana Jones and soon Lara Croft for the Tomb Raider Amazon TV show 😱🙄😞

the only Ws they been getting are Video Game Adaptations, Tom Cruz, Spiderman, and the Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar got lucky

Honestly, I've just been avoiding going to the movies as much as I can for pretty much all the things you're describing and more. These days, I just concentrate on anime, Tokusatsu shows (i.e., Super Sentai, Gridman etc.) and classic video games and cartoons

Meanwhile a small movie like Sound of Freedom that discusses an important and sensetive subject like human trafficking managed to go toe to toe with Indy 5 on release day, showing that people are fed up with the Hollywood agenda, narcissism and laziness.

Disney Probably: "I say we blame the fans for our failure, do the exact same thing again, and expect different results".

Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken had a lot potential I thought it would be one of the greats up there with How to train your dragon, when I saw the real reviews I was shocked to find out it flopped really bad. I don’t blame Dreamworks for the bad marketing I mostly blame Universal for the poor marketing because they were too focused on the Super Mario Bros. movie. As much as I mentioned that liked Ruby Gillman, it has potential, I am hoping they make a animated series on Netflix, Peacock or Hulu to repair the problems the movie had. So making a TV show would help make up for the movie. The tv series would show more of Ruby Gillman’s abilities as a kraken, and I would like see more interactions between Ruby Gillman’s family and her friends, the show would be a comedy, slice of life, and adventure with some episodes with certain themes and morals the audience can relate too and the show would introduce a new main villain into the world who would be a secret Men in black like government organization that are willing to capture Ruby Gillman and take her to a facility where they study Krakens and other sea creatures and their ultimate evil plan is to use mostly the kraken’s power and energy source as the weapon, milking the kraken’s health and energy.

Look, times are tough. I was willing to spend all that money on Spiderverse but many other movies just didn’t seem worth it

In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Disaster, you can tell they had to do reshoots to change the story last minute. This wasn't meant to be a send-off as it was meant to be putting down the character of Indy, and allow Phoebe to Rey --Palpatine-- Skywalker of the series moving forward. What is with Hollywood not letting old characters being happy and going out with one last hurrah? They should have just kept it Indy's son takes over, just hire a new actor, no one would have cared they recast Shia, but Kathleen wouldn't like that.

I don't care what anybody says Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken is an absolute treat and I'm glad to see DreamWorks is doing original movies

Speaking of Toy Story 5, I do wonder how well that movie will do financially. Will people actually flock to the theaters to watch it because it’s more Toy Story? Or will it bomb because of people getting sick of more Toy Story? I think it could go either way, but we’ll have to wait and see…

20 buck and snacks ? Here in Australia your looking at 25 bucks a ticket plus double that if you get a drink , pop corn and choc top or lollies A family of 4 can easily top.out at over 200 dollars all included Gone are the 10 dollars ticket or half price Tuesdays cinemas use to have So if your going to spend 200 dollars or more for a family of 4 to see a movie Your better off waiting til mission impossible comes out in a week and giving Indiana 5 a very wide berth indeed

Yes I absolutely agree, it comes down to writing. I'm always willing to accept so-so CGI if you at least give me a good story with decent characters. And as poorly as Disney and WB have been doing, I noticed Universal seems to get it. They released Puss in Boots and Super Mario Bros, and nailed it. I've been saying for a while, we NEED new ideas! I'm still frustrated Alita Battle Angel didn't do better, because it's everything we need. I really hope Hollywood figures it out soon and starts to understand that you need a good story, or they'll just lose more money.

Hopefully the studio will recalibrate some of their efforts, I’d love to see another new renaissance from Disney.

I saw Ruby Gillman, it was cute and charming but it didn't make the waves it could have. I suppose as a 35 year old male, I wasn't really the target demographic anyway. Indy 5 on the other hand, I refuse to go see, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is my favorite movie of all time, and I'm just not interested in seeing one of my favorite movie characters be violated.

Let’s hope Mission Impossible, Oppenheimer and Barbie don’t disappoint

A while back a KZfaqr by the name of DJ peachcobler did a video on how games budgets have become bloated and it's killing it and hus argument is during his time in the military when you got a big budget you effectively felt forced to use everything , to go bigger than before and how Doom Eternal fixed the issue by using it's budget to refine the quality of it's product rather than just making it longer or "Bigger" and honestly Hollywood NEED to learn this lower your budgets and focus on quality as remember the 3 sides of business Time , Ambition and Funds

Its a shame. I loved ruby gillman 😔 it was a really cute and fun movie. Not a masterpiece by any means but still a good movie

Indiana Jones and the adult diaper is definitely a miss. These new "writers" lack the ability to create.

As for Indiana Jones, they should've gone and tried to establish a likable legacy character, but as you pointed out Helena is anything but likable (or memorable).

Maybe I see this a little different from many Indiana Jones fans, but simply go for the James Bond method and recast the main character. Indiana Jones is a bigger version of old adventure serials anyways. Keep the budget low, the story in the early 20th century, the cast fresh and the story in the hands of a single writer whose job is to write and not tick off boxes from a list that a committee has designed. The adventures of Henry Jones are simply not fit for a company like Disney, but for the kind that Lucasfilm once was. Give a hungry, new crew a small budget and the license to Fate of Atlantis and the audience will swarm to the cinemas.

I love the semi analytical but also viewer based perspective of your analysis. Hollywood is indeed crazy but it's one fun ride for us viewers.

All these L's are giving character development

I feel like Disney has been losing their way as of late. They need to re-evaluate and re-orient themselves and get themselves back on track again. I think learning from successes like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is something they must do Hopefully Disney's Wish will be a success when it releases in November.

_Box office flop?_ I didn't even know Ruby Gillman was out in theaters before _KZfaq recommended me this video._

3:06 Ruby Gillman reminds me of Disney's Luca (2021), fish people that hide their identity in order to live in the human world. Very derivative.

They keep wanting to push movies out after 1-2 years of production, including story-boarding, recording etc, when really well thought out movies and stories require much more time, probably 3-7 years, to make a great movie. This is what happens when companies choose quantity over quality

Funny cuz Mission Impossible everyone wants to see. So its just mostly Disney sucking.. and poor dreamworks who people mistake for disney.

I feel bad for Ruby Gillman and Elemental because i really enjoyed those movies. They deserved better. I didn’t watched The Flash, Indy 5 and The Little Mermaid live-action because i wasn’t excited and didn’t care.

I don't like the idea of watching a children's film that rags on another children's film Is there a reason to attack Ariel?

Work at a place with a movie theater attached to it, so I got to see Indiana Jones 5 for free, and it was the WORST Indiana Jones thing i've ever seen and I do *NOT* accept it as canon.

I will agree movies need to get the budgets under control.

I great video uploaded on my birthday win. But seriously I was expecting Ruby Gillman, teenage Kraken to do way better. I also thought the Last Crusade to be the better ending for Indiana Jones and I will always feel that way.

I saw Ruby Gilman Teenage Kraken. It was fine to pretty good.

Streaming killed theaters. I'm not going to pay to watch a movie that I know is going to be on streaming in a couple of weeks.

Aren’t Kraken related to Octopus? Couldn’t they changed their skin color to human colors?

films have been going downhill for a long time now

most entertainment is just hollow on all points is a big problem

They will never touch gigantic

Should not have bad mouthed made of Ariel (ala shrek 2) in Ruby maybe THAT was a factor

My dad fell asleep during the new Indiana Jones

It's a shame because I went to see Ruby Gillman and thought it was a genuinely fun movie. Nothing super amazing, but certainly not the worst Dreamworks has ever stirred up (That dishonor goes to either Trollhunters Rise of the Titans or Shrek the Third in my opinion)

Tell that to Maverick and Mario Bros. 😂

I told you, J. I told you. *FLOP! ERA!!!!*

I only watched "Transformers Rise of the Beasts" and it was really good - this franchise might see a comeback and fill the void, that is only growing bigger, smaller sure but I think Transformers is back.

Do you have any thoughts on the new movie, Nimona? It's done by the same person that brought us the She-Ra reboot.

I was really hoping Ruby Gillman would subvert expectations by having Ruby and Chelsea fight against a common enemy, even if it started with them fighting each other maybe it could've ended with Ruby convincing Chelsea to stop fighting so that they could actually stop the war between Krakens and Mermaids. Oh well

With lack of creativity and storytelling, the overinflated budgets and the copious amounts of moral grandstanding, Hollywood is in a dive. Puss in Boots, Peter Parker and Tom Cruise can only do so much with successes and if those three can't help you, nothing short of the divine can.

Well at least Disney isn’t the only one suffering.

6:23 Here me out: Journey to the west. It has all the og anime tropes, Sun Wukong’s literally the Chinese version of Sun Goku’s name, and it was a pretty good novel. Don’t take my word though, I’m just a middle schooler who reads too much for my own good.

I don't like how much Disney is trying to cash in on nostalgia without doing anything really interesting with it. Like maybe they can do remakes Alice in Wonderland style where it's the same source material in a new way. I think that'd be more interesting.

I mean they are spending WAY too much on movies now and movie theatres are likewise charging way too much to get us to come to see them. They keep acting like everything can go back to the way it was before the pandemic when the reality is that it can’t ever go back to the way it was. Until they accept that reality, they’re going to continue to fail at the box office like Little Mermaid, Indy, Elemental and so on and so forth.

Interesting how in order for people to spend money on product they have to have money to spend- off how that works isn’t it? And when people no longer have my bey to spend on product, PEOPLE ARE LESS LIKELY TO SPEND ONTHE THEATRE.

Seeing Disney fail with all its trash is satisfying. But I like Transforners and I bet Ruby Gillman is better than anything The mouse house has made in years. That the Sound of Freedom is the Box Office winner this week is fitting justice.

Maybe with all these failures, that means they’ll be more thirst for great Contant and that means when hazbin hotel, people will rush to see it when it comes to TV

Disney has reverted back to their early 1980s Dark Age. Poor decisions and costly flops.

6:37 What I really love about Encanto and Zootopia is that they both show that Disney, and any studio who is just as good at making similar films, can make a financially successful movie with a female lead character without exclusively marketing to female audience to sell princess merchandise. This proves that Disney's Lucasfilm never had to waste new installments of Star Wars and Indiana Jones on Daisy Ridley and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and write new undeveloped female lead characters for them, when they could have been as compelling as Mirabel Madrigal or Judy Hopps in the hands of better writers who had more than a political agenda to sell us.😉 Besides, who needs untalented writers like the ones who made Loki and She-Hulk, when modern Disney Channel animation is great at taking unsafe bets on diverse female characters with Amphibia, The Owl House, and a superhero show starring Dan Povenmire's daughter in her first acting credit?

there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies. period.

I have seen both The acting of Indiana Jones was a flop Unfortunately Ruby Gillman as well

Ruby Gilman was just turning red

I’m gonna be real, I literally didn’t even know Ruby Gillman existed. Maybe marketing is to blame?

I didn't know Ruby Gillman was out in theaters. Mainly cause I haven't seen this film being advertised.

Hollywood is dead. It's time for something better. Something everybody can get behind. Something new but familiar. Something good. Something decent. Something pure.

Kathleen Kennedy did another self-insert with IJ 5 and you can’t tell me any different.

Disparu did a decent examination of the 'cost cutting' argument today with a scathing cut at Amazon. Summary of it is that you can cut costs a lot anywhere in the budget but if the film/show is a stinker it'll still be a flop. The people in charge at these places need to be removed as they're all still making crap movies and horrible additions, only that'll fix things but I'm of the opinion that its over now, let the Hollywood monster die.

Crazy times we life in right. Think of how much money has been lost. And not because the people working on the movies were bad, not all of them, but enough BS from above has made it box office poison. I hope that the animators in some of these projects find other jobs...

I didn't know Indiana jones was released

I saw Indy 5 and Teenage Kraken. I found them enjoyable but not spectacular.

For those blaming 'wokeness", I disagree. While pandering in lieu of good storytelling is not great, politically or with nostalgia bait, lots of good movies and shows out there that could be considered woke. Last of Us, Spiderverse, that Netflix Sandman series. And there have been some other nostalgia bait movies that have succeeded because they're fun, like D&D or Mario. Streaming makes it so that smaller movies and mid looking blockbusters can be see at home within a few weeks though, so that's why I'm not going out as much as I did before COVID.

Ruby Gillman has a really unappealing animation-style and its name is VERY boring and unappealing as well. I think a lot of people saw the animation and immediately decided it didn't interest them.

I just know DW is going to get the wrong idea from this.... "the audience didn't care for Ruby but loved puss in boots two? Time for more sequels then!"