I was wondering if they were going to shove in some human characters so the film wasn't shooting empty African landscapes for months didn't feel like a huge waste of time, but I guess not.
And people said Detective Pikachu was disturbing looking
Way less crappy than I expected, still reeks of rampants commercialism and 'cause we have to mine these porperties devoid every last drop of dollar potential', which will eventually bite them in the ass.
It's gorgeous but pointless. It's either going to be a shot for shot remake of something that already exists or utterly ruin the basic premise like the junglebook remake did.
Either way, this has no reason to exist.
Oh, sure it does, cause just like Dicktastic Pickachu kids are gonna eat this shit up.
Tbh I'm excited about that movie, but this one is pointless imo
I don't know what to say.
The Lion King holds a special place in my heart as being the first movie I saw that I can even remember. My parents even watched it twice while they were pregnant with me, solidifying the romanticism of it further.
I don't see much bad to point out about this small peek into it, but I'm sort of filled with uneasiness. Is that nostalgic worry in play?
well you know what i mean.
Also fucking seth rogan is in here. This is going to be a profitable trainwreck.
Even has James Earl Jones again
Looks good!
Just completely unnecessary!
The only thing that justifies this movie existence is James Oliver voicing Zazu.
WILL YOU FUCKING MORONS STOP
I don't see why he is when Rowan Atkinson is still active
Honestly I'm hyped, Jungle Book was fun to watch, I'll probably enjoy this one too
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on the web who liked the Jungle Book remake. Of course, that one wasn't a shot for shot remake of the original animated film. This Lion King movie probably will be though, because the original is so revered that they won't dare change much about it.
(Well, except they already made two changes, both for the worse: Scar isn't Mufasa's brother anymore - cause zoological accuracy apparently needs to take precedent in a movie about talking animals - and he's not going sing Be Prepared. So they've already fucked it beyond repair as far as I'm concerned.)
They broke the story beyond repair in junglebook. The original book was an archtypical story about maturing and becoming an adult, very similar to pinocchio. Mougli starts out as an untamed wild child, living a structured life with wolves, before rejecting that and roaming as he pleases, rejects baghera's attempts to civilize him, experiments with abandoning all responsibilites and living "free" with baloo, toys with vapid pursuits with the apes, and ultimately overcomes Sher Kahn by following Baghera's advice and assuming his mantle as a man, and only then can he go join society and assume his place in the human tribe. (As far as memory serves). And the original cartoon adaption got most of the book dead on, which is why remember it so well.
But the recent adaption, despite at a glance hitting all the same beats shot for shot, changes all the fundamental points of that. Primarily the ending, where instead of assuming his mantle and taking responsibility to defeat Kahn, suddenly the elephants show up and solve all the problems for everyone else, the end. You could say it was a sequel hook excuse, but it seems more to me that whoever wrote it was sort of a rousseauian type who unknowingly completely inverted the archtypes of the story to suit themselves., because there's plenty of possible sequel hooks you could have in there, but they instead flipped everything over and did the exact opposite of the original. There's far more wrong with it in the same vein as that, but i don't recall any of it specifically, and like fuck am i watching that dumpster fire again.
It was fucking gorgeous though.
https://youtu.be/e6yKWQ24rF8
MPC fucking slayed it. I was primarily watching it as a CG tech piece, and i was blown away. Half the time the kid wasn't even real, even when he was right in the camera. Just a shame it was wasted on a story ruined by the three people who decided that they knew better than everyone else.
Cub Simba is adorable
Did we watch the same movie? Cause Mowgli still took care of Sher Kahn by himself - by using the tools of man, just like in the original movie. (They were different tools, but the point is the same). And while my memory is sketchy, the wikipedia summary says that Mowgli directs the elephants to put out the fire. So he's ultimately in charge of fixing everything, even if he doesn't do all of it on his own, and he goes about it the way a responsible man would rather than a carefree animal - which is thematically true to the moral of the original story even though he ultimately chooses to stays with the wolves in this adaptation.
Well he does end up using fire but i think ultimately the elephants still came in to solve the problems, and him staying in the jungle is what really throws it over the edge.
I think that these live-action remakes wouldn't offend me as much if Disney hadn't completely killed their 2D output.
So instead of 20 live action remakes could we get like, 1 new original 2d animated film?
Please?
Damn ya'll really just can't enjoy a nice kids movie
I always thought Seth Rogan, John Oliver and Beyonce were the missing pieces from Lion King. Great work Disney!
I already did enjoy it.
24 years ago.
I'm only dunking on this because I don't think a live action version of a cartoon that have no live action elements beyond environments. I could give a damn about Aladdin, Dumbo and the other slated projects.
Yes you did and now children of this generation must watch the same thing from 24 years ago instead of a remake with current technology?
If you think 24 years is not a long enough time span to justify a remake then you need to get off your high horse.
I don't think a remake of anything is ever justified. Just make something new even if it's just a rehash. When you remake something you put limits on the material for no reason.
Can't really justify a remake when the original is still good almost 25 years later.
Not even that,
This remake is gonna age like shit within 5 years.
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