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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

None of this would be a problem if Disney had made a good movie.

But Disney didn't.

Zegler is a talented young actress and singer, has had notable roles already, and will continue to have a great career.

Gal Godot has been a great Wonder Woman.

Both are good, regardless of what they post on social media.

The script, production and whole concept of this movie had far worse problems than Zegler and Godot.

Creepy dwarfs? Cheap looking plastic jewels? Boring script? Bad dance numbers? Bad music?

Were Zegler and Godot responsible for all of those?

Releasing the movie to influencers would NOT have helped the word-of-mouth. You have to make a good movie to begin with for that to work.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They had the chance to adapt the original movie they were too scared to the first time. Make it r-rated or something. i don't understand who's the movie is for.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago

Upon reflection, one of the concept mistakes was slavishly following the original plot.

The embellishments like the happy citizens, Evil Queen's love for cheap plastic jewels, apple pies, etc. just felt unnecessary and tacked on.

Disney already made Maleficent relatively recently in 2014 as a meta take on the original, so where could they go from there?

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