The recent success of “Top Gun: Maverick,” the sequel to the 1980s blockbuster original starring Tom Cruise, has presented a golden opportunity for Hollywood to reset and start producing non-woke, non-divisive films people actually want to see.
Do they want to take the chance? They probably won’t. Depending on where you watched the new “Top Gun,” the previews prior to the massive box office hit were filled with exactly what you’d expect. Three superhero films and an awfully ugly Jordan Peele movie were the highlights of my experience.
Then there’s what was released after it. Having gone to see the latest “Jurassic Park” offering on Friday evening, it was full of the typical leftwing narratives, from “Big business is evil” to “Global warming is going to kill us all.” Every film is trying to preach to a choir that probably isn’t even in the theater, and it’s tiring for those who just want to go be entertained.
Enter the latest “Toy Story” movie, simply titled “Lightyear.” Disney (which owns Pixar), a company with a long-woke history, decided to shove a lesbian kiss back into a film meant for small children to own Ron DeSantis in Florida. It was called historic and transcendent by the media. You were probably a bigot if you didn’t agree.
So how’s the movie doing?
It’s astonishing that a movie in Toy Story franchise would do so badly. Almost as if family audiences decided to reject Pixar’s new agenda. https://t.co/a0MItayx8l
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) June 19, 2022
It is changing. Stay the course. pic.twitter.com/sG5YNeMbMx
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) June 19, 2022
These types of movies, which are aimed at children and are part of long-standing blockbuster franchises that have been around for decades, should be able to make money. They are the safest bets in Hollywood, and that “Lightyear” hasn’t done well is genuinely surprising. It still managed to earn good numbers, despite the cultural controversy.
That’s not happening, though, and there’s every reason to believe the in-your-face actions of Disney culturally have everything to do with it. They have the power to select what to show their children. The parents have the right of instilling their values including religious ones, which many choose to do.
Further, Disney’s choice to alienate the lion’s share of its audience in favor of woke signaling isn’t even earning them praise from those they seek it from. The LGBT activist community threw a fit over Pixar’s last offering, “Turning Red,” a children’s movie about a girl starting her period, because the LGBT themes were only “hinted” at. You can’t win with the left, and that major corporations keep trying is an exercise in beating one’s head against the wall.
Disney is at a crossroads. They can learn the lesson that “Top Gun: Maverick” is so expertly teaching the movie industry, or they can keep going down the road of calling their audience bigots while pandering to those who will pan them anyway. Their smart business decision is in front of them. They will make it. That is what I know already:
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