Thread 149842248

>Lilo & Stitch grossed 145 million domestically just 5 months before
>Treasure Planet only grossed 38 million domestically

What went so wrong?

>>149842248 (OP)
I can only talk for myself but it reminded me of my drunk dad, lol no

Of pirates of dark water

>>149842248 (OP)
Disney is shit for girls. And Lilo & Stitch is the female fantasy of figuratively girls fucking animals.

>>149842248 (OP)
>another why did treasure planet fail? thread
simplest reason: nobody wanted it

>>149842282
I looked at this movies like pure adventure, animators trying new characters and taking classic books completely out of context treasure island is a book by the way

This 90's don bluth even chicken little, at a time disney seemed to be dying and pixar reigned supreme this movies were magical in their fancy animation and disfunctional character development

>>149842248 (OP)
girl captain

>>149842282
I watched it.

>>149842248 (OP)
Treasure Planet came too soon after Muppet Treasure Island

>>149842248 (OP)
There's been a lot of discussion youtube vidya essays about this, but NGL the reason I didn't care to go watch it when it came out was because the robot annoyed me in the ads. I think we eventually bought it on VHS and I loved it though, and the movie's still great on rewatch after all these years (minus the robot).
IIRC a big hitching point for sales in general though was that Disney (animation) didn't really do that many "serious" movies at the time, so both Treasure Planet and Atlantis had all their prospects dashed since kids weren't really attracted by the ads, and adults didn't watch ""kids movies"" without their kids.

Also fuck, Atlantis is NOT a kids movie, I sure as fuck hope kids weren't taken to that, I remember a screaming crystal man haunting my nightmares for at least a year after that, ha.

>>149843023
I loved atlantis as a kid.

>>149843102
Is good

I even find it less cruel and scary than hunchback even disneyfied to the limits victor hugo is an emotional purgatory

>>149843023
The robot absolutely fucked the movie. Instead of marketing towards tweens and teens they marketed towards children, alienating the actual demographic.

Unless its Star Wars or Star Trek sci-fi targeted towards kids and teens always flop hard. There is something about sci-fi and space epics that just turn people off. Even when targeted towards older audiences sci-fi films tend to bomb.

>>149842282
>simplest reason:
they put it up to die against harry potter

>>149842248 (OP)
They thought it could take on Harry Potter.

>>149842248 (OP)
>What went so wrong?

People standing out in space without any astronaut gear.

Passing off a supernova as just some storm

Fart alien

>>149843023
>Also fuck, Atlantis is NOT a kids movie, I sure as fuck hope kids weren't taken to that, I remember a screaming crystal man haunting my nightmares for at least a year after that, ha.

>>149842248 (OP)
I'll tell you step by step why nobody showed up
>The 70/30 rule was difficult to explain to general masses
>Disney spoiled the big twist concerning Silver in the fucking TV ads
>Disney wanted to move on from 2D because the technology behind Tarzan and Treasure Planet's Legacy Ship was too expensive because they had to pay artists more
>Went against Harry Potter and died, on purpose.
All of that was enough for Disney to call this movie a loss and decide to 86 2D Animation after the cow movie with two other exceptions.
Treasure Planet even had a sequel planned ith Willem Dafoe voicing the villain but Disney cancelled all plans to make this a franchise.

They released it 14 days after the new Harry Potter movie and 7 days after the new James Bond movie

>>149843023
Man, you missed out.
I went to see Treasure planet twice when it was in theaters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuEjGSF-Jz4
Imagine this scene in a theater, it felt awesome as fuck.

>>149842248 (OP)
Not enough lolis

>>149842265
>Lilo & Stitch is the female fantasy of figuratively girls fucking animals.
What?

>>149842282
The only thing good about it was the animation
And cat pussy
But other than that
>old story just maks treasure islans sci fi
>robin williams robot wasnt funny
>robot took up too much screen time
>slow pacing in a time when everyone wanted fast animation
>Lilo and stitch was fast.
>you could cut half of treasure planet and no one would notice

>>149842248 (OP)
i dunno, i loved that movie

>>149846099
>robin williams robot
Martin Short robot, that was the problem.
Robin could usually pull his shtick back from being obnoxious by being endearing.

They need to make a Captain Flint prequel, that dude was cool as fuck

>>149846240
Really?