Tyranny of the Marketplace

| January 1, 2023

All is not well in Wokeville. What began as inclusion and diversification, don’t get me started, has metastasized into an Orwellian wet dream of Newspeak and the Ministry of Truth. Woke permeates the media and is The Narrative. Major companies began marketing strategies around a social justice agenda, hoping to find favor with a woke mob. This is relatively easily achieved with pandering to the latest outrage. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Real people are tired of it.

Go Woke, Go Broke? Liberal movies, books, TV that bombed in 2022

Disney’s ‘Lightyear,’ ‘Strange World’ and ‘Bros’ among 2022’s flops

By Kristine Parks | Fox News

A swath of films, books and other media projects with far-left messages failed with audiences and consumers this year, according to box office numbers and sales.

Disney’s first animated film with an openly LGBT character “Strange World,” tanked at the box office last month. The film had a whopping $180 million budget but only took in $24 million when it opened during the Thanksgiving holiday week, according to Variety. Pixar’s latest installment in the popular Toy Story franchise, “Lightyear,” failed to meet expectations, earning $51 million at the box office. The family-friendly series owned by Disney attracted headlines for having a same-sex kiss.

Another film focused on LGBT characters, “Bros,” didn’t move the needle at the box office, either. Star Billy Eichner furiously warned “homophobes” on Twitter to not come see the movie. It grossed $14.8 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. The New York Times suggested “homophobia” could be the reason the gay romantic comedy was unsuccessful.

Movies with overtly political themes like the star-studded “Amsterdam” also failed to attract audiences this year. The film about friends who uncover a plot to overthrow the government, featured Robert De Niro’s character giving a “thinly veiled speech telling off Trump.”

Fox News

The Court of Public Opinion. Disney stock has tanked- down 44% this year costing shareholders billions, directly attributable to woke policy. The rest are cherry-picked for the article, but are high-viz instances of what woke really brings. Mentioned are AOC’s climate change video scold and Jon Stewart’s flop on Apple TV+, of which I was blissfully unaware until some 30 minutes ago.

A sea-change? Maybe- a start certainly. Happy new year.

Category: Diversity, Get woke, Points-and-Laughs

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Blaster

Worst of the wokeness dive bombs has been the US Military

Graybeard

Self-inflicted wound.
Due to accepting insanity as rational.

11B-Mailclerk

Have they finally found something worse than “Pentomic”?

(Grin)

QMC

And they wonder why so many of us retired over the past two years.

And why they can’t hit their recruiting goals.

Green Thumb

Word.

Deckie

I’ve long believed that our government knows that no true Patriot wearing the uniform would ever attack revolting citizens, regardless who gives the order. They just won’t. They’d sooner turn on their commanders than attack their own. So…. attract and recruit allies to your perverted cause and change the way they think from the inside. A silent coup.

KoB

Don’t piss off 80+% of your potential customers. Marketing 101.

Anonymous

So they went for 90+%!

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HT3

So glad that some of the top performers were Old School style entertainment
Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise
The Terminal List with Chriss Pratt
Eff all that mamby pamby weak-ass men shit.

MustangCPT

Oh shit…you mentioned The Movie That Shall Not Be Named. You may be entering a danger zone. Be careful that you don’t get put on ice, man. If I were a betting man, I’d say your goose was cooked!🤣

KoB

Gonna be some Payback! 😜

MustangCPT

Well, seeing as I’m a few spots down from you on The List, what else do I have to worry about?🙃

Anonymous

The pattern is full, eh?

MustangCPT

Yeah, and if we don’t stop with the jokes, we’re going to be on a transport flying rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong.

Anonymous

Aww 🙁

SFC D

I hate it when that happens

11B-Mailclerk

How stupid can you be to choose a Marxist customer pool over a largely free-market pool?

Epic stupid.

Wow. Embrace Marxism and crash/burn.

Every time.

But this time it works!

Anonymous

Their hipster Business “thought leader” told ’em it would!

poetrooper

Remember how the gay folks are always telling us that their numbers are much higher than are being reported?

These marketing failures would appear to refute those claims… 😏 

MustangCPT

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously, though, a gay rom-com? Who thought that there would be a market for that? It could work as a low-budget art house project, probably even garner an award or two. But as a major motion picture showing in the local multiplex? I don’t know if they noticed, but theatres are having a hard time getting butts in seats ever since COVID. They’re looking for sure things and that “Bros” movie looks like something that would run with one or two people per showing. Plus, the filmmaker telling people NOT to watch it? Sheer marketing genius!!👍👌

SFC D

Apparently, even the gay community thought the movie sucked. Easier to blame homophobia for its bad box office.

MustangCPT

That makes the movie’s failure at the box office even funnier. The intended audience thought it sucked and Eichner insulted everyone else. Beautiful, fucking beautiful. 🤣

poetrooper

Ol’ Poe finds the descriptive “sucked” to be a bit ironic but particularly appropriate in this discussion… 😜 

SFC D

Purely intentional, Poe!

NHSparky

Heh heh heh…he said, “sucked”….

MustangCPT

Hell, my wife and I rented an ENTIRE screen at the local multiplex for her birthday in 2021. We had a menu of movies to choose from so we watched “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” It was somewhere around $100 to do that. We also recently went to the same theatre and saw “Jaws” on the big screen which was cool since I’ve only ever seen it on TV (I was 2 when it was released). These multiplexes are doing whatever they can to get people in the building and these new woke-fests are only going to make them do more of these promotions that will allow people to watch the kind of stuff they actually WANT to see.

David

they DO. however, seem to be 10% of the stoopid…

Stacy0311

Could be people want entertainment not a lecture about how they’re racist, homophobic, transphobic and several other ists and phobics

MustangCPT

Naaaah, that’s crazy talk. These knuckleheads are more stubborn than Bernath arguing with the control tower during his epic final flight.

Side note: As funny as that was, and considering that it happened to someone who well and truly deserved it, I’m thankful that no bystanders were hurt as a result of the crash.

Graybeard

I think that was the optimal outcome – Bernath argued himself to death and didn’t hurt anyone else in the process.

MustangCPT

Yep, kinda like how John Gotti talked himself into prison, ol’ Dan talked himself into a grave.

Hack Stone

Not an Honorary Chief Petty Officer Daniel Bernath made a lasting impression in Florida.

11B-Mailclerk

His last comments were all over the place.

Last thing through his mind was probably his ass.

NHSparky

What’s the last thing that went through Bernath’s mind?
His asshole.
He offed himself because he knew what his long-term situation was going to be (just ask MCPO RET if he passes through anytime soon.)

CWORet

Yea, I was around here well before all that drama (interesting reads of course). I flip flop on thinking if it was intentional or not. On one hand if he had substantial insurance it would be better to make sure it looked like an accident, but I don’t see how his narcissism would have allow allowed him that option. On another topic, there hasn’t been a decent fight or sock-puppet dance around here in a long time. What’s up with that?

HTTR4LIFE

+1

If a movie includes a BIPOC / LGBT character, that is fine with me. It’s when the fans of that movie get preachy about it, or accuse me of bigotry when I critique it in good faith, that they lose me. Yes, we do have a history of racism and genocide against BIPOC that we must address. However, wokeism is not the way.

As a Christian of the United Methodist tradition, I won’t compromise on my values. I get that the LGBT community exists and deserves full equality before secular law, as dictated by our Fourteenth Amendment. I also get that there’s nothing in the Bible requiring that we turn the nations that we live in into earthly theocracies, but there is a verse where Christ says that hus kingdom is not of this world. (St John XVIII:36-37) However, when it comes to my moral compass, there are things which will always be wrong; sodomy and transgenderism being but two. The Sacrament of Matrimony is between a man and a woman for life. Transwomen are men; transmen are women.

USMC Steve

When someone’s identity revolves around their particular sexual deviancy, They are a very substandard example of humanity. When they screech and shriek demanding I kiss their ass and treat them in some preferential manner because of their particular variety of sexual deviancy, I will actively oppose, ridicule and discriminate against them every chance I get. And they will deserve every bit of it.

rgr769

For the most part, I agree with your comment, but I take exception to the claim of “genocide.” There has never been a government policy of exterminating people because of their race or sexual orientation. And government policy against racism has existed for at least 70 years.

Sparks

Speaking of movies, Disney’s purchase of the Marvel franchise has hit new lows in content and viewers. I read comics in the ’60s. They have taken the original characters and storylines and added so much inclusive wokeness they are no longer in the same galaxy as the originals. Even if Marvel were not owned by Disney, I’d never watch another Marvel movie if they were doing this same insane woke gay culture, diversity, and inclusion. An example was a post I read that they did not want to make another Batman film. Why you may ask? Because they said Bruce Wayne was a rich, white man. I kid you not. Sooner or later though, shareholders will be pounding on the Board of Director’s doors for more return on their investments.

Anonymous

J. Jonah Jameson would not be happy.

MustangCPT

Triple-J would be fucking people up.

QMC

I remember hearing the same reasoning for the Disney folks pushing for a new direction for the MCU post Avengers:Endgame.

Besides the fact that RDJ was pulling in an insane amount for each of these flicks, there was an issue with the overall character. Tony Stark? A pro-American Weapons Manufacturer for the Military? Uses his own ingenuity to build and make anything. Refuses to accept limitations. Oh, and he’s filthy rich.

Now, once the deal was done with the Disney takeover, this simply could not stand.

Steve Rogers Captain America? Nah, get rid of him and replace him the Falcon as the new Captain America. Much more progressive.

Tony Stark Iron Man? Nah, get rid of him and replace him with IronFart. A character that was so poorly received that they couldn’t even keep the comic series going.

Anybody watch the last Thor movie? They were practically spewing rainbows every other scene.

I used to love going with my kids to see these movies. Not anymore.

QMC

The Marvel movies are just another example of anything good that the radical lefties get control of. As soon as Stan Lee died, we knew it was just going to go no where but down.

MustangCPT

Funny thing is that Stan Lee was a die-hard liberal. However, he understood the human condition and knew how to create characters that had super powers but also had human flaws. Kind of a Greek tragedy in a comic book format. That kind of subtlety is lost on the current idiots running the franchise.

Anonymous

Like ol’ Robert Downey said for ’em:

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NHSparky

Now do Wakanda Forever. Talk about wokeness on steroids.

QMC

Yeah, a Black Panther movie without the Black Panther.

I knew that was going to be nothing but a bunch of woke garbage as soon as Chadwick Boseman died and they announced it soon after.

Didn’t even bother to see it. That movie and the Eternals were the only two Marvel movies we didn’t even bother seeing in theater.

We might see the new Antman and/or Guardians of the Galaxy 3 this Spring. Disney screws either of these up and that’s it for me.

And Disney needs the comic geeks like me that grew up on this stuff in the 80’s to mid 90’s. We helped kick this off. Not the insane nutcases that these idiot writers and executives from Burbank, California are making this crazy appeal to now.

That same idiocy in the comic book writings over the past 10-20 years is the reason why no one buys that trash anymore either.

SFC D

Tony Stark probably voted for Trump. Oh, the horror of it all!

QMC

Well, Tony Stark is a pro-Capitalist white male Weapons Manufacturer that fights America’s enemies.

The first Iron Man appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 (1963) was Tony Stark building a suit in a cave (somewhat similar to the 2008 movie) to fight Communist terrorists in Vietnam and help the US Army. Not exactly a typical Democrat voter, amiright?

Now you know why the woke execs in Disney had to phase that character out as soon as the takeover of Marvel Studios was completed (around 2012 iirc).

From what I understand, they’ve recently introduced the woke progressive replacement character in the Wakanda Forever movie. A garbage knockoff character that was recently released over the past 10 years and couldn’t even sell enough comics to keep the series going.

But this isn’t about the money at this point. They have to keep pushing this narrative to make YOU change what you like and want.

Harry

Oops! I misread the title; I thought it read “Tranny of the Marketplace”. My bad.

Jason

I misread it like that too

David

Was talking to a relatively young lady tonight and introduced her to “They’re Coming To Take Me Away” by Napoleon XIV. Told her it was probably one of the earliest “I’m offended so you can’t play it” wokeness examples I could think of… plus since then it has become a cult classic – because it is funny as hell.
Anyone able to think of anything earlier?

Hate_me

The Great Dictator was banned in many pro-Nazi nations when it first came out.

Not a perfect example, but the woke and the Nazi share more than a few characteristics.

Commissioner Wretched

Amazingly, The Great Dictator was one of Hitler’s favorite movies. He had it privately screened on at least two occasions for himself and his cohorts.

Sapper3307

Like a boss!

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Green Thumb

Charles Bronson would waste these motherfuckers in the movies.

A Proud Infidel®™

Gee whiz, woke-ism being rejected? Heheheheheheheheheheheh…

poetrooper

Here’s a pioneer of this tranny movement who confirms what most of us at TAH say, that they’re all mentally ill… 😏 

Early transgender pioneer who transitioned back to male rejects today’s gender ideology | Just The News

Thunderstixx

Go figger…