‘Elemental’ Gets Hosed At The Box Office, Has Worst Opening Weekend For A Pixar Film Ever
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The movie had a gender fluid character and it tackled "racism" but I did not know it from the trailers. My kids simply did not care about it in the least and neither did I.
And here lies the problem with the movie, it was just a medium for propaganda with no interesting plot. If you looked at the trailers you get a setup of a city full of elementals and that there is some romance between pathetic water dude and the fiery girl, that is it.
Damn Disney and their push for element blending! Steam kids? Mud babies? The madness has to stop before they breed the beautiful brownness out of the earth people! 4 elements, 4 combinations, 4 our future!
I'm not so sure. I've hardly seen any advertising for this movie, and I feel like elemental concept was kind of dumb in the first place. They also already have Zootopia, which judging by the trailers was the exact same movie already but with animals.
Zootopia was at least clever enough to make everyone the bad guy instead of pinning all of society's ills on one faction.
It was actually the sheep who were behind everything though.
Sure, but they weren't responsible for the predator/prey divide. They were just stoking and taking advantage of it.
Zootopia is crypto-based. Animal species that were historically oppressed are conspiring to fake hate crimes to frame
whitespredators.That will only work once, maybe twice. After that then you will see people stop going to the movies altogether
Baffles me it took this long for them to come up with it, really.
Shark Boy and Lava Girl did this to better effect like 15 years ago, lol…
And that is saying something, given how shit that movie was…
Weren’t Shark Boy and Lava Girl brother and sister, or am I thinking of Spy Kids?
Spy Kids. Same director, production team, and general vibe, though (albeit with less Latinos), so your confusion is understandable!
Head canon: but I’m gonna say they exist in the same universe (as does Machete, confusingly), lol…
Side note: Alexa PenaVega, the sister from Spy Kids you are thinking of, ended up both extremely attractive and pretty “based”, I believe. So there’s that.
Spy Kids
Bah-dah TSS
Bud Light is not an element.
"Coors isn't either, Patrick"
Racism is the low-hanging fruit for the modern day twitter-priests of the bi-coastal elite. There is no real racism, you have all the institutions supporting you, the general populace has similar sentiments, the media, the entertainment industry, Big Tech, the universities, the school systems, the publishing industry, the Pentagon, Wall Street and the boardroom executives are all with you.
It's preaching to the choir.
Yet somehow it's a matter of life or death. :') "Say no to white supremacy, guys!"
There is real racism. All of this exposure to other people is reminding us why we shunned them. Meanwhile the elites are overjoyed that we're fighting each other and if we object to them importing MORE foreigners they just deplatform us.
This is what happens when modern writers write what they know. Elementals can be cool, but not when you stick them into a procedurally generated urban Californian story. It's like if The Incredibles was just the first part, with a superhero family living an unfulfilling suburban life.
The movie is supposedly an allegory of writer Peter Sohn's experience of being a second-generation Korean immigrant, with the fire girl being his self-insert. Which would be fine, if the story went anywhere other than, "Boo hoo, I don't fit in."
Even the Mario movie did multi-generational immigration better with Mario's very Italian family and Mario admitting he was faking the accent because he's third-generation. That's relatable, at least.
Which would be fine if the budget wasn't $200 million. Between this and Turning Red, Disney has spent $400 million plus marketing on that niche topic.
"How did this movie fail?!"
"Elementally, my dear Watson."
(Rocky Road to Dublin starts playing in background...)
(Whiskey in the Jar starts softly but quickly overpowers it…)
You didn't get the reference.
Maybe you should have made a film that actually had something interesting to look at. You could animate the most fluid and detailed depiction of paint drying ever, but it's not going to change the fact that it's paint drying. Kids don't want to watch a rom-com that typically only appeals to bored and lonely single women. They want to see something big, adventurous, and fantastical that's so unlike the things they see and deal with in their boring and mundane lives (and what all those boring adults around them do). Far, far, far more than they ever want to see themselves "represented."
Speaking of which, I have a feeling that's the excuse Disney's going to use to explain why this film bombed. Because they cast the entire film with elemental people rather than humans, pee-oh-sees and the global audience didn't see themselves represented, so they didn't come see the movie.
Speaking as someone who generally prefers non-human characters in most things, the designs just aren't appealing. They're all so samey and generic looking. And they're all constantly fluctuating, making it hard to really nail down anyone's design.
An extremely obvious allegory for race mixing wasn't good? I'm shooked to the core.
I just need to know if this before the Fire Nation attacks, which I hear will change everything.
Even without (((the message))) it just looked like the most generic shit
Around fires never relax
“This is fine.”
Completely forgot this existed.
When did Pixar peak? I got to looking at a list of their films and it seems like it was more than a decade ago.
Brave I don't really remember much about it beyond girl power. Monsters University I watched once, I was never into the college or sorority genre. Inside Out wasn't bad but wasn't great and I could see hints of The Message in it. No one remembers The Good Dinosaur.
Cars 2 was the last good Bond flick. Toy Story 3 was the perfect ending to that series. The intro to Up is a top tier film moment.
I only have Inside Out and Incredibles 2 from anything released after 2015. Nothing else merited acquiring.
I remember Soul because of some youtuber whining that people had a duty to go see it and support good art. Obviously this struck a chord with me and I saw it 10 times.
Brave did OK and it had a few fans at one point. Nowhere near juggernaut status though.
WALL-E still had a very clever subplot, IF you'd already seen Hello, Dolly!
I'll stand by Luca as a wholesome classic that had no business coming out in the current year. Inside Out was pretty good too. I'd have no qualms putting it on for family night.
As for the rest, they were either mediocre or I didn't even bother watching them. And that's not even getting into the mediocre-to-bad sequels like Incredibles 2 or Toy Story 4.
Brave, Inside Out and Coco were all pretty good, though not up to the levels of Pixar's earlier movies. The good Dinosaur stood out as being Pixar's first genuine flop. After that, yeah, things went downhill fast.
Pixar is really having a string of flops. First they had Turning Red, then Lightyear, and now this. Luca was probably their last decent film.
I knew the movie would be a mess when I watched the earth elemental Simp for the fire one by offering it a chunk of what is the equivalent of its armpit hair in the comercial. (It was a flower, but man it looked weird)