(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.