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[–] 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"A Bug's Land" (stylized "a bug's land") was an area of Disney California Adventure themed after Pixar's 1998 film A Bug's Life. The land consisted of Flik's Fun Fair, which opened on October 7, 2002, and was set in a representation of the film's fictional universe with four rides targeted towards young children; Flik's Flyers, Francis' Ladybug Boogie, Tuck and Roll's Drive 'Em Buggies, and Heimlich's Chew Chew Train. The area also included a water play area targeted towards young children. An outside area contained the It's Tough to Be a Bug! theater, which was an original area of the park when it opened on February 8, 2001. The area closed on September 4, 2018 to make way for Avengers Campus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bug's_Land

they had A Bugs Life themed attractions at disney parks for almost 20 years, this weird conspiratorial crap is lingering in THEY dont want you to know! crao, hollywood movies arent going to save you.

The movie ends with the big bad grasshopper getting eaten by a bird, something totally out of the hands of the ants.

if you sincerely think A Bugs Life didnt have it's cultural moment you werent conscious in 1998.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Because individualism is pop, not collective action like whatever the ants are doing

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    But the Disney World show was recently replaced with Zootopia.

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  • [–] 82 points 1 month ago (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, but that was recently. It was A Bugs Life when I was a child, and it only recently changed. I want to guess it lasted around 20y, but I can't be bothered to look it up. Anyway, it's not like they tried to bury it.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago (20 children)

    More than one person has told me their class consciousness started with an Ant's Life.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago (14 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yes.

    (I only saw Antz but not A Bug's Life, and just sort of assumed Antz had the more subversive social message because it wasn't Disney.)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Definitely. The collective workers rise up against the militaristic ruling class, after, of course, those rulers attempt to murder them all for their 'glorious future'. Unfortunately, Antz and A Bug's Life also share something else in common. Both star sex pests in the leading role.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (10 children)

    Idk I didn't see these movies, it might be thanks for the correction if so.

    I am already very enthusiastic about, uh, nevermind.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    I find it neat from a psychological standpoint the way your brain merged the two titles into one.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    The way I merged two things i've never seen? You are a [redacted] clearly.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I don't understand. My comment wasn't meant to be an insult.

    If I stuck a nerve, it wasn't intentional. I'm just fascinated by how the brain works.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    It's also possible they were aware of both individual titles, and conflated them purposefully to elicit the response it got. Given the OCs responses to some of the comments, I'm inclined to lean into this explanation.

    Which is also fascinating in its own right.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Just using [redacted] doesn't mean your not an abelist asshole if you still think of using terms like that.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Give it a rest, nobody wants to ban words like stupid, moron, idiot, asshole, douchebag. No one, and you will harm us all in continuing to try.

    You are also grasping at straws for a criticism here. You have nothing,

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  • [+] -9 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    This is like saying you learned about the late Renaissance era of history, and marine biology, from watching The Little Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    or perhaps their interest started there as a child, causing them to study further later? that doesn't sound like a crazy statement

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I meant more so that learning about social issues from corporate children's entertainment might not be the highest-fidelity way to do that, and that combining the two names into one "story" means that it's like the lessons learned from "Disney-PIxar's Antz' Life" might be jumbled a bit.

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  • "Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things! And year after year, they manage to pick enough food for themselves, and you! So who's the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! We're a lot stronger than you say we are. And you know it... don't you?"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago*

    Uhhhh... if poopulism sold merchandise Disney will set up shop in your asshole.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I imagine they may one day make it more realistic like Lion King and absolutely trash the message.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Se also: seven samurai, samurai 7, the magnificent seven...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Exactly. We 100% can remove politicians.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I never liked movie tie-in games, but there was a version of A Bug's Life on PS1 that somehow ended up in my household growing up, and it was pretty darn good.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Everyone remembers this movie for the 'workers rise up'.

    I rememeber it for the shitty cliche 'liar revealed' story. I remember it for the nasty, mean spirited 'humour'.

    I remember it for the transphobic 'joke' that they just loved to use in all the trailers. ("Yikes! She's a guy!")

    I remember this movie for starring a fucking pedophile.

    This movie is ass and deserves to be forgotten.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    the ps1 remaster will be released next week alongside the toy story games

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Perhaps because it stars a famous pedophile

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Well before those accusations came out. At least take solace in the fact he played the bad guy, thus art imitating foreshadowing life again.

    (Assuming you're referring to Kevin Spacey.)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Sure, I’m just saying that might be one factor in why they’re not exactly eager to promote the movie these days.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Spacey's rapey ass tried to play the gay card when the allegations came out, like that would make it ok. He got buried, fuck that guy.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They didn't have to. All the princess movies created a generation of entitled simping incel princesses that nobody every rose up for anything ever after.

    Oh, but they did get a pedophile rapist in as president, though. So that's that.

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