Talk:Black Friday reel/@comment-1672596-20140823142106/@comment-1672596-20191007231754

Yeah, no kidding about that. Heck, I wouldn't even say he was ever in his right mind at ANY point (this was the same guy who cut literally 10 minutes of film from The Black Cauldron bare minimum and had the audacity to brag about it, thus single-handedly causing what would have been a modest success to become a notorious box office bomb, nearly ruined The Little Mermaid by trying to cut Part of Your World, demanded for two rewrites of Beauty and the Beast, despite Michael Eisner actually LIKING Jim Cox's rendition of the story, and then forcing in a feminist message that was completely divorced from the original tale just because some idiot critics who obviously hadn't seen the movie deemed Ariel to be "too cloyingly sexist" just for even WANTING to go for Prince Eric at all, oh, and gave them a poor budget which meant a lot of story elements got cut or else left with massive plot holes and poorly done characterizations, did a similar Black Friday for Aladdin where he demanded plot changes and didn't even bother giving them an extension, arrogantly dismissed The Lion King as a failure due to "talking animals", and made a far-left warping of a classic American historical event called Pocahontas which, despite doing everything for it, basically was the closest the Renaissance had to an outright bomb). That we even HAD a Disney Renaissance at all was in SPITE of, not because of Katzenberg. If I must be honest, I had more respect for Eisner than I did for Katzenberg.