[Variety] Disney's Boy Trouble: Corp seeking ways to win back young men

[Soundwave]

If anything I think this is completely backwards.

Making movies for "nerds" (ie: boys) only is what's killing Hollywood.

No wonder box office is going down the toilet when you're trying to force feed this same audience 10000 superhero movies. You need to get back to bringing in people who like other freaking genres, most notably WOMEN.

All these studios have been chasing nothing but tent pole films for the same dork audience and it's starting to bite them in the ass because they've let other genres die.

Look at the top box office for a year like 1990:

1. Ghost
2. Pretty Woman
3. Home Alone (released late 1990)
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5. The Hunt For Red October
6. Total Recall
7. Die Hard 2
8. Driving Ms. Daisy
9. Dick Tracy
10. Back to the Future III

There's something for everyone there, drama, romantic comedy, family comedy, action, even some comic book stuff but not too much of it. Only two sequels in the top 10 and you have Pretty Woman making Julia Roberts into a massive movie star for the next decade+. 

Today it's just nothing but the same fucking comic book IP + animated kids films. Even that KPop Demon Hunters this weekend apparently had a good weekend ... I'm good with that. At least it's *something* different bringing in a different audience. I don't give a rat's ass about that movie, but at least it's something different. 

Less superheroes, less Star Wars, less Jurassic Park, Toy Story ended fine with 3 we didn't need 4 or 5, we need other IPs and even things for other audiences. Barbie + Oppenheimer was great for that, the movie industry needs more of *that*. As much as dorks will groan about it, the movie industry so badly needs a TITANIC type of movie to come along and dominate and have a huge run at the box office. It's needs that type of thing, not another fucking "3rd reboot of the X-Men!!!! Are you hyped!!!!" nonsense. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 24 August 2025