Disney is ruining the entire medium of film
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/ecuxmd/disney_is_ruining_the_entire_medium_of_film/
With the mixed reception of Rise of Skywalker out now, I want to rant on how the Disney monopoly is destroying cinema.share
It all starts with Bob Iger: an incompetent TV executive that Michael Eisner pushed onto Disney shareholders under duress just before he retired in 2006. The Iger buys Marvel a few years later because he is creatively bankrupt, and it actually pays off with the MCU. So he decides to buy Star Wars from George Lucas attempting to replicate MCU’s success, which eventually is slowly run into the ground by Kathleen Kennedy. But both franchises make enough money to embolden him to buy 20th century Fox, thus creating one of the greatest tragedies to happen to American cinema since Heaven’s Gate bankrupted UA (ending the New Hollywood era).
I haven’t even mentioned the horrible trend of live action remakes of their animated films, which just exposes how creatively bankrupt Disney truly is, and is nothing more than naked exploitation of people’s nostalgia.
Now we are in a landscape where one studio controls what is seen in movie theaters, and what kind of genre gets produced, and anyone outside of this system is either dumped into streaming services or worse. It’s an environment where auteurs like Martin Scorsese can’t get their films in wide releases anymore. He’s absolutely right when he said the marvel films are turning movie theaters into theme parks.
It’s only going to get worse in the coming decade, because any monopoly is going to reduce your choices as a consumer and charge you more for inferior products. not to mention the transition from physical media to streaming, where the studios can control what you can watch with much more power than ever before. All because of one mediocre ABC executive.