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Mickey Mouse horror film unveiled as copyright ends
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I don't care if it gets old, fuck copyrights and fuck Disney.
No one 'earned' this treatment more than Disney. More power to the artistic creators. Fuck the mouse.
Absolutely fuck Disney, but Disney got fucked (from their perspective) by copyright law, not this movie. Maybe you could say the movie thumbs its nose at Disney, but the "damage" has already been done because Steamboat Willie is already public domain. Now should be the time for people to look for interesting things to do with the material. Instead, we're getting whatever this is.
What? They got 95 years of publicly-funded protection. How is that getting fucked?
No. I absolutely will not gatekeep artwork that is used from the public domain. I don't care. Even if I don't like it doesn't mean I will stoop to saying people should or shouldn't be making it. This comment reeks of elitism.
Elitism? Because I don't think people should be making shitty movies and shitty video games? If I'm elitist because I don't want endless movies that would make Ed Wood cringe, guilty.
Believing people should stop making content just because it's not your personal choice is cringe.
That's absolutely not what I said.
Horror film fans want these kind of films.
Do they? Or do they want horror films made with time and thought?
They want both and the market is large enough to support it.
I don't know if it still holds true, but something like 50% of the entire North American independent film market that gets produced each year is horror and christmas films made for about $1.5 million dollars. Each one will sell for about $4-6 million.