Disney's crime

Disney don't ruin the IPs that they inherit from other companies. Most of what they buy has been ruined already: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Predator, Alien Covenant, X-Men Dark Phoenix and the Star Wars prequels were all low points for their respective series. What Disney did was follow all of these up with additions that were no better. Disney's crime is that, given the opportunity to reinvigorate all of those IPs with fresh creative teams and visions, they instead carried on making them to the previous low standard.

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