This looks awful, like that Pooh movie. These "make a horror story out of expired copyrights" trend is gonna get old, fast.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2024
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I don't care if it gets old, fuck copyrights and fuck Disney.
Absolutely fuck Disney, but Disney got fucked (from their perspective) by copyright law, not this movie. Maybe you could say the movie thumbs its nose at Disney, but the "damage" has already been done because Steamboat Willie is already public domain. Now should be the time for people to look for interesting things to do with the material. Instead, we're getting whatever this is.
What? They got 95 years of publicly-funded protection. How is that getting fucked?
No. I absolutely will not gatekeep artwork that is used from the public domain. I don't care. Even if I don't like it doesn't mean I will stoop to saying people should or shouldn't be making it. This comment reeks of elitism.
Elitism? Because I don't think people should be making shitty movies and shitty video games? If I'm elitist because I don't want endless movies that would make Ed Wood cringe, guilty.
Believing people should stop making content just because it's not your personal choice is cringe.
That's absolutely not what I said.
Horror film fans want these kind of films.
Do they? Or do they want horror films made with time and thought?
They want both and the market is large enough to support it.
I don't know if it still holds true, but something like 50% of the entire North American independent film market that gets produced each year is horror and christmas films made for about $1.5 million dollars. Each one will sell for about $4-6 million.
I mean, most movies are shit so what did you expect?
People will look back on this era and say, "just because they could have doesn't mean they should have."
Just because Disney could lobby to make copyright law insanely long doesn't mean they should have. It wouldn't have been s big event if Disney didn't make it one.
I'm not talking about copyright law, and if you read a tiny bit further down, you would see that I talked multiple times about the problem with modern copyright law and Disney's part in it.
Shitty copyright law doesn't mean we have to have shitty movies and shitty video games.
So is this just going to happen with every single character that goes into public domain? Someone just has to make a garbage horror movie about them?
Yeah.
Just like how people are more likely to want to stay standing up after having to sit for 8 hours for work/school.
There's a social rubberbanding effect, just gotta get it out of our collective system so the tension is released, and then better content will come after that release.
If it's the character thats the face of the organization that is the reason copyright law has been strengthened and enforced with iron rulings, then yes it damn well should happen. Disney is simply reaping what they sewed and they earend every last bit of it and more.
Did you expect anything less?
Fuck Disney, Fuck Copyright laws and all of that, but there has got to be something more interesting to do with Mickey than a schlocky horror movie with a budget of two paper clips and a pack of gum
Yes. But those things take time and don't farm clicks.
Yeah they did this with Winnie the Pooh and afaik it wasn't great. I get the idea, but lacks creativity if "it's just opposite" is your draw card.
It was apparently profitable enough they are making a sequel
Other people will do it. You think only 1 group is going to take advantage of this?
I'm glad you're going to watch it. Let us know how it is!
If they really want to make a good movie with some decisive social commentary it should be about mickey enslaved by a "nameless" corporation (because of course everything else is copyrighted and trademarked still) and escaping. Would make an interesting thriller, there's a lot that could be done to criticize copyright and the companies that abuse the system and their labor force.
Someone make this please, the idea is free (and so is the character)
It's so edgy. At first you're like "Hey that's Mickey Mouse! I know him!" And then he's doing horrible things and you're like "wait a minute - Mickey Mouse wouldn't kill people!"
That's what makes it artistic.
Really subverted my expectations
Waiting for a Mickey V Winnie movie
i was expecting some rival studio to have an AI ready to just blast out new mickey episodes hourly.
2020 - S05E03 - Mickey Mouse Horror Show
A trailer for a slasher film, featuring a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse, was released on 1 January, the day that Disney’s copyright on the earliest versions of the cartoon character expired in the US. A new Mickey-inspired horror game, showing the rodent covered with blood stains, also dropped on the same day. Steamboat Willie, a 1928 short film featuring early non-speaking versions of Mickey and Minnie, entered the public domain in the US on New Year’s Day. It means cartoonists, novelists and filmmakers can now rework and use the earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie. It’s Mickey, but not as you’ve ever seen him before. TV-MA, 47 mins
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S05E03 of what?
2020
That show only had one season though
Bingo!
Hahaha this is what I was waiting for after the copyright ended