Ok I won't watch it.
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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Hard pass. Who's got time to watch shit they know is going to suck?
Yeah life's too short to watch crap
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The trailer for Mickey's Mouse Trap dropped on Jan. 1, the same day the beloved Disney icon's earliest iteration entered the public domain.
"We actually love the negative feedback because, you know, it just draws more interest," the Toronto-based horror filmmaker told As It Happens guest host Megan Williams.
He and his crew shot their low-budget indie horror film in September so they could release the trailer the minute the copyright dried up for Steamboat Willie — the 1928 Disney animated short that officially debuted the characters of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
Only the Steamboat Willie iteration of Mickey is in the public domain — not the modern mouse who greets visitors with a warm hug at Disney's theme parks.
That didn't stop British director Rhys Frake-Waterfield from releasing his slasher movie, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, in 2023.
On Instagram, he described the plot as: "A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality."
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Hard pass. This emerging trend of taking public domain children's characters and inserting them into slasher movies was DOA for me.
Asked why he made Mickey's Mouse Trap, Canadian director Jamie Bailey said: 'The opportunity to take my childhood Mickey Mouse and turn him into a serial murderer? How can I resist?'
My dude, unless you were born in the '30s I highly doubt you grew up watching Steamboat Willie era Mickey Mouse. It's okay to say you're just seizing an opportunity to get your name out there and break into the industry. Drop the BS. I still wouldn't waste my time on this movie but at least I'd respect the honesty.
For everyone who replies in this thread that they won't watch it, I'll watch it twice.
(Not really. But I intend to hate-watch the fuck out of it once if/when I can do so for free or for my existing streaming subscription costs.)
Watch it once for me, friend.
I’m not watching it, enjoy your binge of a bad movie.