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Does the failure of Disney’s ‘solarpunk movie’ mean our genre is doomed to remain niche?

With its strong environmental message, diverse representation and multimillion-dollar budget, many thought Disney’s 2022 film Strange World would take solarpunk mainstream. That hope was short-lived.

This film did so poorly it is estimated to have lost Disney $197 million. This made it the worst performing film of 2022 and one of the biggest box office flops of all time.

Does this disastrous commercial performance mean that solarpunk will never reach a wider audience? Will it always be fringe? We explore the film and look at some of the explanations for why it did so badly to find out.

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[–] Icarus@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

I did have a similar reading of it, though mine tends towards justifying the security robot as justified as very clearly the survival of the settlement is immediately at stake there - in other words my reading is that humans have not been able to survive in this world outside of self-contained pockets and are very afraid of going out of them for fear of messing up with something that will terminate them. Techno-fragile might be the right word.