Stop being so easily manipulated you retarded conservacuck.
I'm not even convinced half the homophobes and transphobes hold any actual hatred they're just so deep in the meme they can't see out their own asshole.
"Lego Movie 2 is about toxic masculinity!"
Daniel Jenkins
Jayden Morgan
>It's not about toxic masculinity.
>The only way not being yourself is not being masculine.
It was and thank God it bombed.
Michael Jackson
>Why are great movies being sabotaged with fake wokeness?
You are cherry picking and reaching
Matthew Campbell
What does this even mean? I have no hatred in my heart, user. I just plain believe it's wrong to be a tranny or a homosexual. Doesn't mean I'm scared or have hatred for anyone.
I disagree. I saw it more as "there's value in being yourself, regardless of how many you are"
Wow, thanks for elaborating on that, user. Really changed my perspective.
Ethan Ramirez
Those are NOT the reasons those movies flopped. These are kid movies.
LEGO 2 flopped because it strayed too far from the original setting and the Wacky Space Queeeeen didn't attract as much attention as the first movie did with its Lego-City settings.
Onward failed because it was a trite fantasy world. "What if the world was just the same it is now, but with a few magical creatures?"
The protagonists were a couple of boring twenty-something smurfs.
What both movies have in common is bad settings that were obvious to kids.
Connor Howard
Isn't that the OP's point though? You can't really separate the PR from the impression people are going to get ahead of time, and they're not just misrepresenting the movies by highlighting aspects that aren't actually important to the plot, they're highlighting things that actively deter people from seeing them. There's a sense of disconnect where they think appealing to a minority audience will give the movie mass appeal. If the movies were being sold purely on whether they looked interesting, the issue wouldn't exist.
More than that I think it's because social commentary often gets preachy and not fun. People have learned to stay clear of it. Same way people make fun of Christian rock music, for example. It comes off as insincere.
Good God, those are some ugly character designs. I know this is off-topic, but that probably has something to do with it too. You know it's trouble when they can't even make the promotional materials look tolerable.
Ayden Young
>I have no hatred in my heart, user. I just plain believe it's wrong to be a tranny or a homosexual. Doesn't mean I'm scared or have hatred for anyone.
That's exactly what it means. If you accepted that the love lives and bodies of strangers are no business of yours, you wouldn't care. You care because you fear what you cannot comprehend. That's why you "just plain believe it's wrong".
Jace Diaz
so what you took from this was NOT that you were sold a bill of goods by fake outrage merchants over non issues, but instead that the movies failed at achieving the lies you'd been told and its... their fault?
Henry Jackson
I think it is more of poor timing. Lego Movie 2 was a February release. Wasn't Lego Ninjago movie released a couple of months beforehand? Onward suffered from the COVID-19 outbreak.
WDAS is guilty of woke writing. Ralph Breaks the Internet was stated by the director to be a feminist movie while Frozen II managed to check off half a dozen SJW talking points.
Matthew James
No, I care because I'm going to have children one day and I don't want destructive lies normalized. Doesn't mean I hate anyone, buddy.