So far all their live remakes have flopped, why do they continue this shit
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So far all their live remakes have flopped
Aladdin, Lion King, and Lilo & Stitch have all been financial successes.
We. Don’t. Need. To. Live. Action. Every. FUCKING. Thing.
We need a live action Jetsons on ice.
If you want a live action Moana, go watch Whale Rider instead. It’s a heavy inspiration and a much more authentic and better movie.
- Makes an live-action version
- It's 90-95% CGI
What's the point?
From that studio that gave you "Live Action" Lion King.
Well, it seems Supergirl was way more popular in it's reportings of failure. Supergirl wins this one. I wonder if The Odyssey or Ulysses or whatever it's called will bring people back to the theater? I stopped going decades ago but I'll be going to see this one.
I mean...I already watched this movie like 10 years ago. I know what happens already.
OK, Maui is now The Rock in a muscle suit and a wig. But most of the new movie is CGI. The original movie was also animated. Why do I need to watch the new one?
At least with the lion king there was a 25 year gap between the two movies so the target audience would've been entirely different generations.
But Moana 2 came out 2 years ago. Anyone who watched it, probably watched the first one beforehand, even if we're talking about a 5 year old in 2024 who wasn't around in 2016 - the kid's parents would've probably pirated or streamed it to watch before going to the movies to see Moana 2.
Also, The Rock's acting in the trailers looked... stiff as a rock
But seriously, he doesn't have the charisma of the original Maui
Which is funny because he voiced the original Maui too. I guess the animators did a lot of work to sell his voice acting.
Honestly I didn't even realize it had been that long till you said it.
10 years is still to early for a "live action" (even though it's basically just animation) remake.
They would have made more money doing frozen
They would have made more money doing frozen
The CinemaSins video on the trailers suggested making a live action remake of Atlantis. That would sell like gangbusters, but Disney has spent the last 20 years pretending it didn't exist
I didn't even know it was coming out and even after seeing this post I still don't care enough to click the article
Feels fucking good leaving this nasty-ass comment though haha
There is a beautiful version of Moana already. I can't imagine needing to see this. I don't hate these remakes for existing, but I just don't see the point.
Studios don't like risks nowadays. So they'd rather remake successful past movies.
Ah yes, losing $100,000,000 seems very low-risk.
If they thought they had a good chance of losing that much money, they wouldn't have made the movie. The news here is more about how their risk calculations were off.
And now they realise it isn't risk free after all.
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No one does... any why should they? The classic disney films are great, they don't need remakes...
I wish someone re-mastered the Donald duck and Goofy driving instructional/documentary videos/movies
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My daughter loves the Moana movies. I've told her about this one - and the anti-excitement of "the same movie but with actual persons" is quite obvious. I can only conclude that no actual parents were involved in its inception.
Friend, I am positively obsessed with mermaid movies. I have watched some of the worst movies in existence, just to watch mermaids flop around in water and look pretty. I didn't even bother with the live action remake of the little mermaid. It looked so fucking shit, I couldn't even pretend to care. And I also didn't understand them casting Halle, because she's such a soft an gentle soul and not at all like Ariel. Her sister, Chloe would have been a better Ariel because she has that similar spark of defiance in her that Ariel needs (I used to watch their youtube channel back in the day because I liked their singing). But eh, I guess. I'm just glad that Halle had an overall good experience with the film and that her career appears to be going well.
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Feels pretty disrespectful to the audience of the original, like “you watched an animation but it’s a real movie now!”, except the real movie is just as much an animation.
Here's my pitch: Let's animate the live action Disney movies. They have these properties to draw from, and instead of making a live-action remake of them like Freaky Friday or Herbie, or a sequel like Hocus Pocus or Mary Poppins Returns, reinvent it as an animated feature.
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- The Shaggy Dog (1959)
- Pollyanna (1960)
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
- The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
- Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
- The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
- White Fang (1991)
- The Rocketeer (1991)
- Newsies (1992)
- The Mighty Ducks (1992)
- The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
- Cool Runnings (1993)
- Blank Check (1994)
- Heavyweights (1995)
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
- George of the Jungle (1997)
- Air Bud (1997)
- RocketMan (1997)
- Inspector Gadget (1999)
Newsies, please!
I feel like Sony Animation would knock this one outta the park.
Animation is now about as expensive as live-action, and Disney, like most studios, is still on "animation is for kids". They're trying to position these live-action remakes as somehow "more adult" because they're not animated.
The Rocketeer (1991)
As much as I love good animation, nothing can possibly replace 1991 Jennifer Connely.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks but the animated parts are live action…
Incidentally Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the better Mary Poppins, I know I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I stand by it.
Thats just because of how awesome Angela Lansbury is in everything she ever did.
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Honey I Shrunk the Kids would make a great animated movie, and Rick Morranis could reprise his role!
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The hierarchy of power in the live-action remake universe is about to change.
HA HA
Disney: Every one of our animated films requires a half-hearted live-action remake.
Everyone else: No.
Really proves how simple-minded these people were. They were creating cashgrab nostalgia remakes in a manner that snubs royalties to original crews who worked on the original films, but they couldn't even tell remaking a modern film with no nostalgia value was a bad idea.
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Let’s dump all the charm and character of the famously last major hand-drawn animation and cover it in slop.
Wait, why aren’t people fighting to give us their money?!?!
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