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So far Disney has been mostly misses on the live action remakes...

As a child I grew up with a lot of the animated movies.
And in the remake age, they tweak a little too much with these new movies.

Jungle Book was solid

Beauty and the Beast was good (despite some questionable moves with Gaston's friend/partner/sidekick)

Maleficent was a decent retelling of Sleeping Beauty

Lion King was almost awful. Started out solid but they butchered Scar's Be Prepared, the gave certain female lionesses speaking parts that were unnecessary dialogue. Also, the lionesses kept calling themselves lions, which kinda irked some hidden OCD nerve of mine.
They replace the "he's a big pig" song with a snippet of "Be Our Guest"... which... I guess was to avoid body shaming?

Wasn't super excited about the Aladdin remake and less so after reviews.
And from what I've read they are hard at work ruining The Little Mermaid.
But Maleficent 2 looks pretty good actually, kind of like a Disney version of LotR or something.

(08-07-2019, 02:45 PM)Kane Wrote: [ -> ]So far Disney has been mostly misses on the live action remakes...

As a child I grew up with a lot of the animated movies.
And in the remake age, they tweak a little too much with these new movies.

Jungle Book was solid

Beauty and the Beast was good (despite some questionable moves with Gaston's friend/partner/sidekick)

Maleficent was a decent retelling of Sleeping Beauty

Lion King was almost awful. Started out solid but they butchered Scar's Be Prepared, the gave certain female lionesses speaking parts that were unnecessary dialogue. Also, the lionesses kept calling themselves lions, which kinda irked some hidden OCD nerve of mine.
They replace the "he's a big pig" song with a snippet of "Be Our Guest"... which... I guess was to avoid body shaming?

Wasn't super excited about the Aladdin remake and less so after reviews.
And from what I've read they are hard at work ruining The Little Mermaid.
But Maleficent 2 looks pretty good actually, kind of like a Disney version of LotR or something.

I think you'd like live-action Aladdin if you gave it a chance.  The new Jasmine song is a snoozer that doesn't fit at all, but, the storyline they added for her is good.  Having Jafar be subtle and handsome rather than a mustache twirling caricature also made him more interesting.

I thought the live lion king was great. i loved it. i really love a couple of the new songs. i thought the addentions,and some changes were neat. I'm wanting to go see it again,and again,and again,and again. the entire movie isn't cgi. there is one scene that was shot for real. that was the sun riseing in afrcia.

I heard the Mufasa and stampede scene was real too, not CGI. That's what my sources have told me.