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2 hours ago, Deej said:

wow

I’ve got a cousin from Wisconsin who is mostly Polish and half his t-shirts and caps make sure you know he’s a Polack. If you search for Polak or Polack on Amazon, he’s probably responsible for half the sales of that stuff.

Imagine somebody wearing something this to a large 100+ family reunion in North Texas where half the attendees are Southern Baptists from Oklahoma and Arkansas.  And he’s built like and sounds just like Mike Ditka (I have a theory he doesn’t sound like Ditka normally and does that accent for the reunions).

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On 3/29/2025 at 5:59 PM, Michael Knight said:

Really this movie was doomed from the start because A) Snow White is a shitty story maybe the worst of the Disney IPs B) omg they cast a latina to play snow white even tho she looks fucking exactly like the character C) dwarves. B and C wouldn't matter if A didn't exist but compounded with the current political climate the advertising campaign had no shot at generating any buzz to boost opening day box office. 

Whether you agree with her or not, telling 1/2 of your audience that you hope they never find peace isn't a way to drive attendance.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’ve got a cousin from Wisconsin who is mostly Polish and half his t-shirts and caps make sure you know he’s a Polack. If you search for Polak or Polack on Amazon, he’s probably responsible for half the sales of that stuff.

Imagine somebody wearing something this to a large 100+ family reunion in North Texas where half the attendees are Southern Baptists from Oklahoma and Arkansas.  And he’s built like and sounds just like Mike Ditka (I have a theory he doesn’t sound like Ditka normally and does that accent for the reunions).

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marlon brando eating GIF by FilmStruck

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5 hours ago, smuggs said:

My daughter saw it this weekend and said there is a crossbow-wielding character played by a real dwarf. Along with the 7 CGI dwarves. So, both real and virtual dwarves have representation. 

I'd love to hear the reasoning behind casting 1 dwarf and having the rest CGI.  

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On 3/24/2025 at 3:55 PM, Stringer said:


I think this gets lost in all of the other controversies. It’s an almost 90 year old movie and is not that great anyway.
 

The original made like 1 billion dollars adjusted for inflation and made Disney.  If they had just stuck to the script and stuck a hottie like Sydney Sweeney in the role they would have made another billion instead of losing 100s of millions.

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I think the number of people who refused to watch this movie on account of politics can be counted on one hand, if you're missing a finger.

It's the kinda social media ragebait nonsense that foreign troll farms love to create and stoke, because that's their job - finding ways to make Americans hate other Americans, so that we're too busy arguing among ourselves to realize what losers the Russians and Chinese are.

The reason the movie failed is because no parent wants to blow the kind of money they need to go to a theater to watch some half-assed Snow White update when they can plop their spawn in front of the TV and see the original at home in 4k surround with their existing Disney Plus subscription. Not that the kids want to put up with that, either. The kids are stoked about the Wild Robot and Minecraft.

Politics? Nobody gives a shit that matters.

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Don't have girls, and can't imagine any scenario where I would watch this.  But its been hard not to see this disaster coming.  Not the greatest marketing campaign.
1.  They pissed off dwarfs by making a movie with dwarfs living in a cave (Dinklage)
2.  They pissed off dwarfs by deciding to CGI the dwarfs rather than give acting jobs to dwarfs
3.  Ziegler pissed off people who liked the original story.
4.  Gadot pissed off people by taking a Pro-Israeli stance
5.  Zegler pissed off people by taking a Pro-Palestinian stance.
6.  Zegler pissed off MAGA by saying "may Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace."
 
And Mine Train is a B- roller coaster with too long of a line.  Just go do Thunder Mountain in half the time.

LOTR successful depicted mythical dwarves, but this seemed more like Speedy Gonzales territory. They needed to retire this story.

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