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I find it a bit funny how many people in here think Disney sucks now. The tech/developer crowd clearly is not their audience (which is fine). I personally think Disney has done a good job with the Marvel acquisition by taking some pretty unknown characters and turning them into heroes on par with Spiderman which 10-15 years ago would be unbelievable. The Last Jedi on the other hand I thought was meh. Leia floating through space? That's pushing it.

Anecdotally, I was just at Disneyland on a weekday recently and it was as packed as can be, and among my friends who aren't at in tech many of them are diehard Disney fans and are super excited for Disney+ (especially their new show Mandalorian). Considering Disney's track record at the box office the last 5 years I expect Disney+ to do well.



Disney did one thing well with Marvel: they kept out of it and let Marvelstudios do their thing.

Well they almost fucked up Guardians of the Galaxy 3 with the firing of Gunn.


I am not sure this is true. The latest Spiderman is basically Hanna Montana with superpowers.

Compare with the previous two versions or even Spiderman: into the spiderverse.


FYI: Into the Spiderverse is a Sony movie - Disney/Marvel wasn't involved. Sony has owned Spiderman movie rights since the Tobey Maguire trilogy


I know, I meant it's not the only way the character and movies could have been done.




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