Like, it is still largely The Lion King, just in a less visually interesting package and The Lion King is pretty good even without beautiful visuals
This is what my incredibly cynical friend, who constantly gripes about the state of mainstream cinema in light of Disney's takeover, said when he saw it a couple nights ago. Despite all of the legitimate issues with the visuals, the story itself is still an awesome story, and one that he said he hopes a lot of kids will see and learn from.
Like, it is still largely The Lion King, just in a less visually interesting package and The Lion King is pretty good even without beautiful visuals
honestlyyyyyyy i'd kinda question that
You don't have to like it one bit. People need to stop with this "no one could ever like it!" crap though. It's gatekeeping for a cartoon about lions...
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Bloods EndBlade of TyshallePunch dimensionRegistered Userregular
Listen its 2019. Not only can we not enjoy anything we also have to ensure that other people cant enjoy anything. Not even the concept of joy must exist.
#releasethesynderofhanovercut
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so re: blade, there's a very short list of people they could have cast without me immediately losing interest and Mahershala Ali is one of them
Like, it is still largely The Lion King, just in a less visually interesting package and The Lion King is pretty good even without beautiful visuals
The movie looks really, really good, it's just kind of low energy next to the original because the original is a cartoon and they leaned hard into "realism" for some reason.
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I'm all for realism in the lion king. Can't wait to see the hyenas chowing down on Mufasa's carcass after chasing Simba away.
the disney remakes legitimately bum me the fuck out. animation constantly gets treated as a "less than" art form. Even now, aside from maybe a couple studio ghibli movies, animated films are seen as childish in the mainstream, and sure maybe you can appreciate the craft of something like Spiderverse, but at the end of the day it's still "just a cartoon." That attitude's changing, slowly, but it's still very much alive, and i find it deeply, deeply obnoxious. The Disney remakes feel very much like they're cynically pandering to that mindset, creating "more legitimate" versions of classic movies that end up being soulless and hollow because ultimately all those films were triumphs of animation, and if you remove the animation without replacing it with something equally impressive then all you're left with is a dull grey lump of nothing. But, because people have this shitty notion that live action is inherently superior to animation, they still make bucketloads of money (and that's not the only reason they're successful, but it is a reason).
To me, Lion King 2019 is the absolute shittiest example because it's an animated movie. It's not "live action" in any meaningful sense of the term. Scores of extremely talented animators worked really hard to animate something without playing to any of animation's strengths, to give the average viewer the impression that it's "real." And the result is something that's uglier, less expressive, and less fun than the thing they were remaking. Everything I've read has said that the highest points in the movie are when they directly lift things out of the original, like specific shots or lines, and that pretty much every new thing they brought to the table makes it worse. Everything about it feels deeply cynical and lame, so, yeah i'm gonna be grumpy that it's doing well, just like I was grumpy when Beauty and the Beast did well. I mean, if you enjoy it, god bless, life's short and you should spend your leisure time how you want. but also i think it fuckin' sucks that these disney remakes are so consistently popular.
Saw The Last Black Man In San Francisco last night. Beautiful, beautiful movie. I think it fumbles in some small ways toward the end of the movie, but not enough to take away from what makes it special. It manages to build such a specific sense of place that’s both heightened stylistically, but feels completely real and lived-in. Wonderful cast, best score I’ve heard this year, and some stunning cinematography. This shot, this moment, will stick with me for a long time:
I am basically immune to musicals as a concept since I don't listen to lyrics and I'm very glad of this fact tbh
How do you do this, surely you must absorb the contents of words in the English language by accident
I know multiple people who don't hear the words when they listen to songs and it blows my mind.
Fortunately I can blow them right back just by explaining what the song is about.
One of my friends loves Josh Ritter but had no idea that The Curse is about mummies.
??????????????
I’ve also never seen anyone else mention josh Ritter, I assumed I was his only fan!
This whole forum is a stealth Ritter fanzone.
I love Josh Ritter. The Temptation of Adam is one of my favorite songs ever.
I’m excited for the Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness as it will contain Scarlet Witch and will apparently be a horror movie?
And Thor’s Jane Foster will become Lady Thor?
And What If? episode 1 will be “What if Peggy Carter took the supersoldier serum instead of Steve Rogers”. I’m really looking forward to buff Hayley Atwell and tiny Chris Evans...
Also I haven't seen the lion king 2019 so I don't want to lean too hard into any specific opinion there until I do (if I do) but I watched The Beauty and the Beast some months ago and I was saddened by it. It sucked! Really bad! It had some pretty parts, but overall I was just really let down by the vocals. Why, oh why when there are so many young and amazing female vocal talents for the role did they need to grab Emma Watson. She can't sing well enough for it, and it showed. I know she's a big name and a big draw but it's fucking beauty and the beast, it was going to draw a crowd anyways so why not get someone with the VOICE for it.
Ugh. I wanted to love it, too. I'd avoided seeing or reading anything about it at all so I didn't even go into it with a bias against the movie. It was just bad. A bad movie.
Belruel on
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Also I haven't seen the lion king 2019 so I don't want to lean too hard into any specific opinion there until I do (if I do) but I watched The Beauty and the Beast some months ago and I was saddened by it. It sucked! Really bad! It had some pretty parts, but overall I was just really let down by the vocals. Why, oh why when there are so many young and amazing female vocal talents for the role did they need to grab Emma Watson. She can't sing well enough for it, and it showed. I know she's a big name and a big draw but it's fucking beauty and the beast, it was going to draw a crowd anyways so why not get someone with the VOICE for it.
Ugh. I wanted to love it, too. I'd avoided seeing or reading anything about it at all so I didn't even go into it with a bias against the movie. It was just bad. A bad movie.
Well you see, her best known role was a girl who likes books, so that lone quality seems to have secured her spot in book-loving Belle!
"A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
today, at @zonugal's behest, i will be beginning my run the series of superman
but i am thorough
so, it'll be
superman
superman ii
superman iii
supergirl
superman iv: the quest for peace
superman returns
man of steel
batman v superman: dawn of justice
justice league
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@Rorshach Kringle, I'm going to need your definitive, cinematic actor for Clark Kent/Superman, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, & Perry White when you are all finished.
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honestlyyyyyyy i'd kinda question that
http://www.audioentropy.com/
This is what my incredibly cynical friend, who constantly gripes about the state of mainstream cinema in light of Disney's takeover, said when he saw it a couple nights ago. Despite all of the legitimate issues with the visuals, the story itself is still an awesome story, and one that he said he hopes a lot of kids will see and learn from.
it's... not really "basically hamlet." it has a few plot parallels and some characters with similar roles
like i think the plot of the lion king is "pretty alright," and then the music and the visuals elevate it
so to me at least the new version kicks one of its two legs out from under it
obviously people's mileage will vary
http://www.audioentropy.com/
You don't have to like it one bit. People need to stop with this "no one could ever like it!" crap though. It's gatekeeping for a cartoon about lions...
#releasethesynderofhanovercut
The movie looks really, really good, it's just kind of low energy next to the original because the original is a cartoon and they leaned hard into "realism" for some reason.
remake it with just documentary footage of real animals cut together to look like they're acting out the plot, no dialogue or musical numbers
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I mean, there is some of that, yeah, but Disney movie so it’s shot so you can see much.
... I'm listening
He has just reprised the role, technically, for
But there wasn't much ass kicking, sadly.
Depends on if they keep it pg-13 or use it as a venue to start producing rated r mcu films.
I was really hoping they'd fall short again.
And this is coming from somebody who really duslikes Avatar.
To me, Lion King 2019 is the absolute shittiest example because it's an animated movie. It's not "live action" in any meaningful sense of the term. Scores of extremely talented animators worked really hard to animate something without playing to any of animation's strengths, to give the average viewer the impression that it's "real." And the result is something that's uglier, less expressive, and less fun than the thing they were remaking. Everything I've read has said that the highest points in the movie are when they directly lift things out of the original, like specific shots or lines, and that pretty much every new thing they brought to the table makes it worse. Everything about it feels deeply cynical and lame, so, yeah i'm gonna be grumpy that it's doing well, just like I was grumpy when Beauty and the Beast did well. I mean, if you enjoy it, god bless, life's short and you should spend your leisure time how you want. but also i think it fuckin' sucks that these disney remakes are so consistently popular.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
God, that was great.
Dark greetings.
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I love Josh Ritter. The Temptation of Adam is one of my favorite songs ever.
And Thor’s Jane Foster will become Lady Thor?
And What If? episode 1 will be “What if Peggy Carter took the supersoldier serum instead of Steve Rogers”. I’m really looking forward to buff Hayley Atwell and tiny Chris Evans...
Ugh. I wanted to love it, too. I'd avoided seeing or reading anything about it at all so I didn't even go into it with a bias against the movie. It was just bad. A bad movie.
Well you see, her best known role was a girl who likes books, so that lone quality seems to have secured her spot in book-loving Belle!
That would be incredibly upsetting to see!
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
...we are totally going to get a XXX parody called Doctor Strange in the MoMs, aren’t we?
but i am thorough
so, it'll be
superman
superman ii
superman iii
supergirl
superman iv: the quest for peace
superman returns
man of steel
batman v superman: dawn of justice
justice league
But one of Superman's weaknesses is magic
Supergirl is a messy movie
I did not know who that was before I looked it up after I heard about the blade news