Talk:Giants/@comment-24418300-20140307005009

I'm gonna be kind of cautious about this, for a number of reasons.


 * 1) 1.The plot of "you give me food, I'll give you protection" has been done already by Disney...twice (Bolt and A Bug's Life. If you want to count Pixar films)


 * 1) 2.The whole "unlikely friends" thing seems a bit over used by Disney nowadays. I mean,Bolt, Meet the Robinsons, Planes, Tangled, Frozen, Wreck it Ralph and The Princess and the Frog all have two people who couldn't care less about each other at first team up on some condition, and then the friendship becomes genuine as the movie progresses, and eventually it's like they were joined at birth.


 * 1) 3.This is Disney's second rendition of this, which if you think about it, makes it a reboot. And reboots are hard to pull off.


 * 1) 4.(And this is the biggest one) Is the title. Disney, I get that you're trying to re-work your reputation into a gender-neutral studio and everything, but Jack and the Beanstalk doesn't exactly scream "No girls allowed". It screams "Awesome, a fairytale that everyone knows and can enjoy reguardless of gender."

Now, with Tangled and Frozen it works, because with titles like "Rapunzel" and "The Snow Queen" guys today are gonna be like "Uh, no thanks. Where's the brony convention? I think you missed it." and they're gonna wanna see the movie probably a whole lot less than if they had cool names like "Tangled" and "Frozen". Also, I think with "The Princess and the Frog" getting great reviews from what, like, six year old girls maybe? I think the biggest male and older audience repellant was the title. I'm a guy, and if I weren't a die hard obedient Disney fan, and I heard about "The Princess and the Frog" I'd be like "Yeah, no. Wake me up when the Avengers comes out."

If they'd changed the title to something like "Cursed" or "Jinxed" then guys would be like "OK, sounds a little interesting. I might wanna see where this goes." But, they didn't, and I think that's when they realized "We gotta change our marketing tactics." Like I said, for the seemingly more girl-oriented fairy tales, it works, cause you think "OK, this is something guys and girls can both enjoy." But the thing is, Jack and the Beanstalk doesn't need that modification because guys know that that's a guy centered film, and girls are gonna want to go see it anyway, because heck, it's Disney. Now, I'm not trying to be sexist or anything, so I guess I really shouldn't speak for the girls, but as a guy,I know how guys think, and the clever titles are a good tactic to use, bravo to Disney for that.

I guess the only other real issure I have with it is, after a while, it just seems like the one word title is gonna be the trend for Disney fairy tales now. All I'm saying Disney, is it's a good ad tactic, but don't over use it, or it might go to your head that "We don't need for it to be good. Just put a catchy single word title, and they'll eat out of our hands." Not that I think they'd ever do that, I mean come on, they're not DreamWorks. Just sayin, be careful. But in the end, I just have to say "Hey, it's Disney, alright? Chillax, they can pull this off, no problem."

OOOOOOOKAY, then. That's my very very wordy thoughts on the subject. Anyone disagrees, that's alright with me. I'm good...I'm good.