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.
"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.
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.
Unfortunately, the conspiratorial crap is how you get dumb people in a political movement.
It's easier to see individuals as evil than a system putting the wrong people in power.
Yeah - and the movie is available for streaming on Disney+. You can still buy new DVDs and Blu-Rays. They are still selling merchandising for it. The most recent apperance of those characters was in a Disney videogame in 2024. This is a 28 year old movie that never got the cult status like toy story or lion king and that is exactly the thing you would expect.
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.
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.
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.
"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?"
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.
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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Not so much
There were theme park rides and merchandise
https://facts.net/movie/38-facts-about-the-movie-a-bugs-life/
But the Disney World show was recently replaced with Zootopia.
So furry copaganda
The movie about how the crack epidemic was manufactured by the state?
The second film is pro israeli shit too, so gross
Care to explain? I'm quite intrigued.
Uh... How?
I mean that’s less a conspiracy and more the march of time.
Obviously they’re pushing the newer stuff more.
Oh shit, Zootopia is already 10 years old
They also replaced Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Pretty sure that's because it was decades old rather than some political commentary
Aw, weak. The Wind in the Willows and The Hobbit really fueled my lifelong dream of living in a well-appointed hole.
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.
Bruh… never stand in the way of a meme meant to manufacture outrage. Rookie mistake. The kids get super mad when nuance enters the chat.
There was a whole bugs life area of Disney land in California around 2015 I think.
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.
Yeah seriously. A Bugs Life is generally considered one of the big Pixar classics. It was huge and it’s societal lasting was decades.
Unfortunately, the conspiratorial crap is how you get dumb people in a political movement. It's easier to see individuals as evil than a system putting the wrong people in power.
Yeah - and the movie is available for streaming on Disney+. You can still buy new DVDs and Blu-Rays. They are still selling merchandising for it. The most recent apperance of those characters was in a Disney videogame in 2024. This is a 28 year old movie that never got the cult status like toy story or lion king and that is exactly the thing you would expect.
More than one person has told me their class consciousness started with an Ant's Life.
Antz or A Bug’s Life?
Idk I didn't see these movies, it might be thanks for the correction if so.
I am already very enthusiastic about, uh, nevermind.
They came out close together and both featured ants as main protagonists. A Bug’s Life is the one pictured.
Antz was the "copycat" movie that was rushed out to beat A Bug's Life into the theaters. Back when animation studios even bothered with that shit.
I find it neat from a psychological standpoint the way your brain merged the two titles into one.
The way I merged two things i've never seen? You are a [redacted] clearly.
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.
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.
Nah don't worry about it, they're just an ass.
Just using [redacted] doesn't mean your not an abelist asshole if you still think of using terms like that.
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,
Woah. Don't cut yourself on that edge haha. You may need to ask your mum for a bandage.
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.)
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.
Also because of their cool spellingz
Bugz
"First rule of leadership, princess: everything is your fault!"
This is like saying you learned about the late Renaissance era of history, and marine biology, from watching The Little Hunchback of Notre Dame.
or perhaps their interest started there as a child, causing them to study further later? that doesn't sound like a crazy statement
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.
Found the hexbear douche! Troll me bitch.
Because individualism is pop, not collective action like whatever the ants are doing
Ants are only allowed when they push a pro-conformist capitalist message, such as with The Ant and the Grasshopper
Ironic you say this because the plot of A Bug’s Life was initially inspired by Aesop’s The Ant and the Grasshopper.
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.
I thought you were mixing up this movie with Antz, because the pedo Woody Allen is in that movie. I didn’t realize Kevin Spacey is in Bug’s Life.
The message of this image is the same regardless.
"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?"
https://www.disneystore.com/movies-shows/pixar/a-bugs-life/
There's a whole PS1 game
Uhhhh... if poopulism sold merchandise Disney will set up shop in your asshole.
Perhaps because it stars a famous pedophile
Well before those accusations came out. At least take solace in the fact he played the bad guy, thus art
imitatingforeshadowing life again.(Assuming you're referring to Kevin Spacey.)
Sure, I’m just saying that might be one factor in why they’re not exactly eager to promote the movie these days.
This sequence of comments is giving me deja vu, for some reason.
A glitch in the matrix
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.
Wonder if he'll make a comeback. Louis CK is putting out specials on nflix again...
He just pulls the "c'mon, I'm just a schlub" card and it somehow works.
I imagine they may one day make it more realistic like Lion King and absolutely trash the message.
Disney seem to only do such treatment for its own movies, so this Disney-Pixar animation might be safe.
Exactly. We 100% can remove politicians.
Se also: seven samurai, samurai 7, the magnificent seven...
Ahh, seven samurai. So damn long but so damn good.
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.
🐙 Reeeeeeeeeee
https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/oxford-scientist-says-octopuses-could-rule-earth-after-humans-go-extinct-may-build-underwater-atlantis-hunt-deer-on-land/articleshow/131273423.cms
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the ps1 remaster will be released next week alongside the toy story games
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.
Hang on, he rapes paedophiles as well?! This guy, you just never fucking know what's next.