By Kristy Puchko | Film | October 14, 2019 |
By Kristy Puchko | Film | October 14, 2019 |
This morning Twitter was overrun by a brilliant and diabolical bit of social media marketing from Disney+. The soon-to-hit streaming service decided to show off its long, long, long list of titles culled from Disney and Fox slates in a Twitter thread. With each tweet, there was a new chance for this dominating force in TV and film to spread the word on Disney+. Because whether those retweeting were celebrating nostalgia or dragging Disney, a retweet is a retweet. Admittedly, there’s plenty of great titles from the MCU to Disney’s animated classics boasted in the Disney+ vault. Then there were the misfits, those weird movies you’d forgotten or somehow never heard of about to begin with.
Here are the most WTF titles to be offered on Disney+.
Let’s begin with a selection of “acclaimed actors in movies they hope you’ll forget.”
The same year of his Oscar-winning turn in Ordinary People, Timothy Hutton also headlined:
Sultan and the Rock Star (1980) pic.twitter.com/CoHZ6Fojs1
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Between Taxi Driver and Foxes, Jodi Foster starred in:
Candleshoe (1977) pic.twitter.com/rhL9XubY7W
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Before he was Bond, James Bond, Sean Connery was Michael McBride in:
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) pic.twitter.com/EZ296cgVav
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Long before she was an Academy Award winner or Captain Marvel, Brie Larson was:
Right on Track (2003) pic.twitter.com/Q9yHK0lTWg
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
We’d forgotten how much baby Kurt Russell owes to Disney.
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) pic.twitter.com/gTPlil506k
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
The Barefoot Executive (1971) pic.twitter.com/IeRULhsqxE
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
The Strongest Man in the World (1975) pic.twitter.com/9JT38vrG3x
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Let us never forget the Don Knotts collection.
Gus (1976) pic.twitter.com/Pyfsq9AdEi
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) pic.twitter.com/mKdLrzFnKY
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Or the negging animals cinematic universe.
The Ugly Dachshund (1966) pic.twitter.com/r1sfkr895P
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Bizarre Dinosaurs (2009) pic.twitter.com/XKboA8kaR0
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
And…whatever this is.
The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007) pic.twitter.com/UklTNPp7t3
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Last and maybe least, let’s file this one under “movies I thought were a weird childhood dream.”
Fuzzbucket (1986) pic.twitter.com/MCvUOqwqNm
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019
Fun fact, Fuzzbucket was written and directed by Mick Garris, the storied screenwriter behind Hocus Pocus, Critters 2, and the 1997 mini-series The Shining.