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you couldn't strap me in a chair to watch Disney flay another corpse from the vault.
Aladdin (live action directed by Guy Ritchie)
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LOL I don't mind these movies but that comment was funny
I sat through a few minutes of The Jungle Book
And I agree. Unless its good. Which I am certain this won't be based on Guy Ritchie alone.
I don’t think the formula of making live action from a cartoon classic works anymore, not that it ever did for Disney. Going all the way back to Malelificent, I don’t think any live film that stood out as memorable.
Brace yourself, I heard Disney wants to redo The Little Mermaid with Zendaya
Brace yourself, I heard Disney wants to redo The Little Mermaid with Zendaya
Didn't Cinderella do well?
Lion King will probably be huge. Little Mermaid might also do well because of all the underwater fantasy stuff. Beyond that, not much. Hercules could do better than the cartoon in live-action with lots of kaiju/monsters.
I just don't see the draw to Aladdin. Nor to Princess and the Frog.
Wait 'til they start doing live-action Pixar movies. Toy Story: Live Action.
Lion King will probably be huge. Little Mermaid might also do well because of all the underwater fantasy stuff. Beyond that, not much. Hercules could do better than the cartoon in live-action with lots of kaiju/monsters.
I just don't see the draw to Aladdin. Nor to Princess and the Frog.
Wait 'til they start doing live-action Pixar movies. Toy Story: Live Action.
Aladdin was a great animated classic with a great story
The Genie was the entertainment, but Aladdin was the true star of the film
What worries me, I know nothing about this guy that’s playing Aladdin or his acting credentials, so what can make the film flop is the acting
The Genie was the entertainment, but Aladdin was the true star of the film
What worries me, I know nothing about this guy that’s playing Aladdin or his acting credentials, so what can make the film flop is the acting
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I actually thought the Beauty and the Beast one was decent enough, though it's the only one I've seen. This looks just ok. Will Smith throws it off completely. What the footage hasn't shown us is how much Smith phones in this role.
Another cool animated film about to be destroyed by a really bad re-write/reimagining by the brainless idiots currently running Disney; saw the latest preview — my God does this look horrible.
The latest trailer is pretty bad
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The Brainless idiots currently running Disney? You mean Bob Iger and Alan Horn?
The Original Animated Classic isn't being destroyed. It will be repackaged and sold you to over and over and over again on different platforms till the end of time.
Hahah yeah idiots....
Who did the MCU, Frozen, etc etc.
Sent from the inside of a giant slug in outer space.....
Except what they’re doing is not going back to the original story and telling that. They’re going back to THEIR versions of those stories, and destroying them with updated, and unnecessary, live-action movies...
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Over the many years there have been plenty of versions of Aladdin both Live Action and Animated done by different studios.
Disney should and will only do their versions of these old stories, Music and all. Like I said before, the Animated movies aren't destroyed and will always be there if you want to revisit them.
Destroyed....
LOL.
Unless Disney is taking all known copies of the animated classic out of circulation, and going to peoples houses and stomping in their physical format copies?
I had not heard that?
I get the sentiment, but I still love the original BatB and I did see the live action one. (Which I discarded as rubbish)
I also saw the play several times( which is brilliant).
None of that sullies the animated one.
Now younger generations, they may feel the animated ones are dated, and like the new ones more, but the will never view either the way we do.
Sent from the inside of a giant slug in outer space.....
LOL.
Unless Disney is taking all known copies of the animated classic out of circulation, and going to peoples houses and stomping in their physical format copies?
I had not heard that?
I get the sentiment, but I still love the original BatB and I did see the live action one. (Which I discarded as rubbish)
I also saw the play several times( which is brilliant).
None of that sullies the animated one.
Now younger generations, they may feel the animated ones are dated, and like the new ones more, but the will never view either the way we do.
Sent from the inside of a giant slug in outer space.....
This is my point.
Just because it’s new, doesn’t make it better — and they haven’t been. I think some are taking my “destroy” statement far too literally ... which is funny (in a sad way, not a truly funny way).
The overall point this misses is that every time Disney (and others) chooses to remake/reboot/serialize these movies, a possibly great/classic original story or adaptation is passed over.
So in 50 years we end up with seven versions of BATB instead of seven new adaptations of classic fairy tales, or original family fantasy films. And you can multiply that by many hundreds when you get your arms around all the branded/familiar remakes/reboots that have flooded the marketplace in the past 10-15 years.
It's the familiarity that they mine with these decisions - we like it because we know it - but it robs audiences of a new story, and robs film of being the artform it was. Movies have been reduced to a format to deliver branded, familiar content - the number of original films or "fresh" adaptations (ie that haven't been adapted before) have dwindled a lot in the past 15 years. Lion King, SW, BTTF, GB, E.T., Matrix, Raiders, Terminator, Robocop, Rocky, Alien, Mad Max, Predator, Gremlins etc etc all were created first as films.
There have always been remakes, sequels and adapted content but as a movie fan - who likes to discover something new onscreen (the opening shot of SW being a good example) - its sad to see what movies have become. Maybe for me familiarity breeds contempt. Meanwhile, off to Pet Sematary I go...
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