I drove past a billboard today that told me that the live action Aladdin was already out in theaters. This was two minutes after I’d driven past a billboard that told me there was going to be a fourth Toy Story released in June.
That.
That sounded wrong. Because I knew we’d already gotten Dumbo in March and it seemed weird to get two big Disney movies so close to each other.
Then I looked up the release schedule for this year and I’m so tired.
Even if you exclude Marvel and Star Wars (March, April, December) there are two more big Disney flicks coming out this year - The Lion King and Frozen 2 are coming up in July and November.
There’s not even a full month between Toy Story and The Lion King.
There wasn’t even a full two months between Captain Marvel and Endgame.
I know it’s such an old person thing to say but do y’all remember when we weren’t constantly inundated with a media blitz advertising an unending conveyor belt of $200 million dollar movies that seem less like creative passion projects from their makers and more like huge companies struggling to maintain inertia by churning out poorly-constructed stories draped on a scaffold of toy licensing and copyright squatting?
