A trilogy of FAILED, virtue-signaling, woke crap that tanked at the Box Office over the past year.
All three films RUINED what had PREVIOUSLY been a beloved, iconic franchise, and went around patting themselves on the back for putting "people of color" in lead roles, hiring loudmouth SJW actors, showing same-sex kisses to kids, having "LGBTQ+ representation", etc., etc.
But which of them sucks THE MOST?
Discuss.
I've admittedly never heard of the films "Eternals" or "Lightyear", but I did see enough of the new 2021 film version of "West Side Story" to re-enforce my thought that I wouldn't care for the reboot/remake of the film version of West Side Story, which it did. "Eternals" and "Lightyear" don't sound like films that I'd care for either.
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The fact that the 2021 film version of West Side Story tanked at the box office made me feel vindicated and that my dislike for the WSS reboot/remake was justified.
Eternals is part of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" so it's set in the same world as the enormously successful Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man films, etc. Despite this, Eternals deals with a new group of superheroes NOBODY cared about it, and it bombed horribly. Like West Side Story, they decided to pander to the "LGBTQ" crowd and featured "Marvel's first gay superhero"... some gay Muslim superhero kissing his black superhero husband... apparently the studio didn't realize NEITHER ethnic group wanted to see that. It also had a ridiculously laughable cameo from Harry Styles as "Starfox", due to the film also trying to pander to the teenybopper demographic. The film did reasonably well in theaters over its opening weekend (grossing a respectable $71 million), but word of mouth quickly spread how awful it was, and soon thereafter it plummeted at the box office. It fact, Eternals ended its domestic run as the second-WORST performing movie in Marvel Studios' 14-year history! To humiliate it even further, Eternals was the FIRST and ONLY first “critical” flop because it is the first MCU movie to be Certified Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating a majority of critics and audiences alike didn't like it. Its Rotten Tomatoes score currently stands at 48 percent, the lowest rating ANY MCU film has ever received, breaking Marvel Studios’ streak of 25 consecutive “fresh” movies on the site.
share"Lightyear" is supposedly an "origin story" for the "Buzz Lightyear" character from Toy Story (even though Disney already did one in the early 2000s as animated film called "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command", which they are now ignoring). Despite this premise, it's basically Buzz Lightyear IN NAME ONLY. Disney didn't even bother to get back the REAL voice of Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), and they cast non-sound-alike Chris Evans in the title role instead. The film wants to pretend that it's set in the early 90s and claims it was "Andy's favorite movie on VHS growing up" (the kid from the Toy Story films), except it looks NOTHING like a kid's movie that would have been made during that time period, starting with the fact the story revolves around a long-term lesbian marriage involving Buzz's co-worker at "Space Command". It's been heavily criticized for being a boring film full of predictable "space adventure" cliches. It is Pixar's first film in three years to receive a theatrical release, as Covid shutdowns sent all the previous Pixar films during that period to streaming releases. Like Eternals, the film was killed by bad word-of-mouth, and declined by 64% in its second week, the second worst drop for a Pixar film ever. It got its butt kicked at the Box Office by both Jurassic World: Dominion AND Top Gun: Maverick.
shareWoke Side Story was the worst. Hollywood should never even thought about remaking it. Steven Spielberg should have just left it alone.
Not to mention what the hell was Disney thinking getting behind a project like that??? West Side Story is not a Disney type of movie.
Excellent point, StrongRex! I, too, have long agreed (and still do!) that the original 1961 film version of West Side Story should never, ever been rebooted/remade by ANYBODY, including Steven Speilberg. I wish that Hollywood were not only do so many re-makes/reboots of older classic films, but had left the original 1961 film version of West Side Story alone. Reboots and remakes of older classic films very seldom come out well, and Spielberg's film version of West Side Story is no exception, regardless of what most movie critics and movie audiences think.
The fact that Walt Disney even got involved in Spielberg's travesty of a reboot/remake of the film version of West Side Story is even more horrendous.