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Was there even a "message" in "Wish" ?? I enjoyed the movie, but it was terrible from a plot perspective and almost entirely vapid. I don't think there were ma

Was there even a "message" in "Wish" ?? I enjoyed the movie, but it was terrible from a plot perspective and almost entirely vapid. I don't think there were many messages in other recent Disney movies I enjoyed (ex: Little Mermaid live action, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) either. Its more like, Disney's Phase4 / Phase5 of Marvel was just poorly written. They ran out of creative juice for the movies after they spent it all on the TV Series. Disney oversaturated us with Marvel and needs to cut back down to stories we can actually follow. ------------ Star Wars didn't seem to have much "messaging" either in my view. It was just two directors arguing over the plot with the audience getting confused in the middle. Is Ray a nobody? Or is she the grand-daughter of someone important? Well, both, because the directors / creative team behind Episodes 7/8/9 couldn't decide and didn't have the heart to make a decision. That's just crappy storytelling. "Messaging" isn't the issue as much as the writers just suddenly started to suck recently. ------------ As far as I'm aware, the best recent Disney movie, critically, was the one with "obvious messaging". Elemental, which was about how to think about immigrants and how their culture/strength/weaknesses play a role in cities.

orwin 3y ago
Retrospectively, although I kinda disliked it the first time I watched it, Star Wars 8 was the best Disney movie of recent years. If he had just killed Leila in space and spent a bit of time exposing 'interdictors' (prevent ships from going into hyperspace in Legends), making the 'hyperspace suicide' feel less ex machina, it would have been their best since Ironman.
- dragontamer 3y ago
  Any hopes of anything coming interesting out of Episode 8 were dashed when Episode 9 basically erased all of the buildup though. Someone needed to unify the story and not just have different directors/writing teams changing the story from movie-to-movie.

orwin 3y ago

Retrospectively, although I kinda disliked it the first time I watched it, Star Wars 8 was the best Disney movie of recent years. If he had just killed Leila in space and spent a bit of time exposing 'interdictors' (prevent ships from going into hyperspace in Legends), making the 'hyperspace suicide' feel less ex machina, it would have been their best since Ironman.

dragontamer 3y ago
Any hopes of anything coming interesting out of Episode 8 were dashed when Episode 9 basically erased all of the buildup though. Someone needed to unify the story and not just have different directors/writing teams changing the story from movie-to-movie.