Here’s some more details:
http://fortune.com/2018/08/27/disney-st ... netflix-2/
My thoughts:
Rip off, rip off, and more rip off. I don’t care if it costs less than Netflix. It’s still another subscription to have to pay for...what on earth was so wrong with showing their older animated titles on Flix (Pocahontas, Hercules) and newer ones (even classic Pixar like Inside Out and WALL-E) on Starz? I guess their plan to print money for the next one hundred years or so by buying every single entertainment conglomerate out there just wouldn’t be complete without this extra category of “gouge”.
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_new_eyeroll.png)
I guess it goes without saying that I looked for classic Walt-era Disney animated features, shorts, live-action films and television shows. Couldn’t find any, of course. I guess to Iger and his pals, ripping off customers monthly for a copycat version of the Disney Channel (and not when it was good of course!) is a much more profitable move than actually providing classic Disney entertainment, the kind that the executives in charge would rather shrug off than make available to the masses. Who knows if the audience even cares about Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck anymore, ten Star Wars sequels and another Deadpool movie is where it’s at!
![Neutral :|](./images/smilies/icon_new_neutral.png)
About their specific “programming”: it’s mostly either original Disney TV shows made for the service, old Disney films like Honey, I shrunk the kids and Three Men and a baby. (Hmm, I didn’t realize it was still 1989.), High School Musical Films, the Clone Wars series, basically stuff everyone has already seen and many no doubt own! .
One more thing: I pasted this in the DuckTales thread..it’s basically contemporary kids, most of them under 10, reacting to the opening titles. (From classic DT) At first, it really shocked me how cynical, closed-minded and unimaginative they seemed when expressing their feelings on it. (One six-year-old actually says: “Mickey Mouse is getting old.”) But the good thing was that even with this initial reaction, they eventually seemed very curious about it, and almost all of them expressed a desire to watch it if it became available. That’s hope right there: kids STILL need innocence, playtime and imagination to be happy, even in this age. Walt’s entertainment was geared towards children and the child in all of us, and Iger has discarded that notion so he can make Disney into a money-making machine. Our kids need Walt/era stuff, stat! And so do we.
![Happy :)](./images/smilies/icon_new_smile.png)
https://youtu.be/_y9qGngsyA4
(EDIT: The service will be made available at the end of 2019, not 2018. Fixed now.)