The Problems with the 'Live Action' Disney Remakes | The Backdrop
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Good work on the edit Darren!
Guglop
2024-05-07 21:28:16 +0000 UTC“Cultural fracking” is an amazing phrase
Steve
2024-05-07 21:26:37 +0000 UTC"They become a little less... animated." Great ending point there Darren, one that I completely agree with
Lil' Cass
2024-05-07 20:30:29 +0000 UTCI can understand Disney wanting to make a "live-action" remake of Aladdin in a historical revisionism sense given how much they screwed over Robbin Williams, but in spite of all that history Robin Williams still ended up being a better Genie than Will Smith because Robin Williams was doing his own thing whereas Will Smith was doing a mixture of copying Will Smith and doing his own thing which ended up being more uncanny than if Will Smith just did his own thing throughout the entire movie instead of trying to copy Robin Williams.
Lil' Cass
2024-05-07 20:25:43 +0000 UTC"The result is a lot of dead air." *farts* "And yes, that was a Second Wind joke."😆
Lil' Cass
2024-05-07 20:11:13 +0000 UTCCruella had some genuinely compelling moments where it significantly diverged from its source material, only to be dragged back down into a non-functional mess by the need to make Cruella a villain at the end. And yes, the dog attacks were some of the lowest points of that backslide.
Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell
2024-05-07 20:07:54 +0000 UTCI don't believe that I am sticking up for the move, but I do think that is a reductive take. The problem, well, one of them, is that the movie can't decide between making Cruella true evil or making her a sympathetic villain, so the dalmatians are both object of revenge (in which case it is closer to I hate that specific dalmatian, whose mom killed my mom) and the sort of Force lighting to prove that she has fully commit to evil (like who killed her mom with the dalmatian). So while it is factually correct the context it means different things in context. Honestly, Cruella's problem is somewhat the opposite. The stuff it adds is at least visual fever dream level, but the points when it feels the need to copy or rhyme with the original it becomes nonsense.
J.S. Majer
2024-05-07 20:07:39 +0000 UTCTo me what indicts these movies the most is how they didn't even bother with the Be Prepared segment of the Lion King. When I saw it in the theater it felt like they just hung out a sign that said "we gave up" at the mid point of it then moved on. Also, I havent seen Cruella, but is 8:39 for real?!! That's on the level of "singing killed my grandma!" what the hell!
Wally Hackenslacker
2024-05-07 18:02:36 +0000 UTCOk so this is definitely a topic worthy of further discussion. I will have that on discord. But for sure, an excellent piece on interesting topic,good work!
Pete3.141
2024-05-07 17:45:56 +0000 UTCI was like Leo pointing at the screen when I saw that cutaway to True Detective. I hope that there is a running gag here where you will have critiqued true detective indirectly through all these backdrops like how the McBain snippets from the Simpsons actually add up to a film plot.
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2024-05-07 16:58:38 +0000 UTCThis was your best yet Darren. Absolutely great edit also. Your using of Alice in wonderland and the guards painting the roses red made me Ah-ha as it's something I think about every single time I see roses, despite not having seen that cartoon in maybe 30 years! Animation just sticks in the brain in way photo realism does not.
Snakeinthegarden
2024-05-07 16:53:09 +0000 UTC
