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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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  • [–] 84 points 1 day ago (3 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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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    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.

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    But the Disney World show was recently replaced with Zootopia.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 days ago (21 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days 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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  • [–] 6 points 2 days 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 day 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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    [–] 23 points 2 days 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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    [–] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    Exactly. We 100% can remove politicians.

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day 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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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    Perhaps because it stars a famous pedophile

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days 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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