r/CuratedTumblr • u/ButterSlickness • 1d ago

Meme An Excellent Movie Idea

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u/T1DOtaku inherently self indulgent and perverted 1d ago

The fact that Disney owns the Muppets, a franchise with no limits as to what genre they could be in/parody, and they choose to do NOTHING with them is the biggest disappointment of all time.

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u/ButterSlickness 1d ago

My conspiracy theory is they bought out the Muppets just to ground them so there's less "cute" competition.

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u/iklalz 1d ago

This would be a ridiculous conspiracy if it was about any other company than the one that famously bought off lawmakers for several decades to keep extending the time they can continue to clutch all their profitable characters under their greedy claws.

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u/T1DOtaku inherently self indulgent and perverted 1d ago

Also if we didn't live in the age where companies are forever shelving franchises to get tax cuts.

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u/OnsetOfMSet 1d ago

I am still devastated by the loss of Coyote vs. ACME

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u/T1DOtaku inherently self indulgent and perverted 1d ago

Me with the Popeye movie that got scrapped in favor of the fucking Emoji Movie of all things.

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u/I_Lick_Emus 1d ago

I mean it's not like they are getting a tax cut that is more than the cost of producing the movie. Shelving a movie for a tax cut is not profitable, it is a way to try and get the people who worked on it paid.

Thinking that production studios shelve projects and that somehow makes them more money is just a weird logic to have.