#I don't even stan actors but editing her face and throwing offenses at her at their grown ass age is insane

[fayevalcntine]

Putting this on a separate note but the amount of discourse The Little Mermaid (2023) has gotten so far is ridiculous to me. I don't consider it an improvement or a replacement to the original (mainly because the original is WHY this movie exists, and I don't think the intent is to replace it either), but it's a solid enough film in the vein of Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella where I could definitely see kids and teenagers (even young adults) like it enough to revisit it. It's not a cinematic masterpiece, but why anyone expects that from Disney of all things, I'll never know.

But the obsessive amount of hate it's gotten from bizarro "anti-woke" youtubers is ridiculous, mostly because of the casting and now they're trying to use "Across The Spiderverse" as their way of 'fighting back' against Disney's "woke agenda" as if they aren't foaming in the mouth over Miles Morales being called Spider-man. Just an all-round insane sort of response to a film that for all it's supposedly big changes, is harmless overall.

#the little mermaid 2023 #the little mermaid #I don't think the changes are all bad btw; some I disagree with but it's generally fine? #it's really not worth *waves hands* all this #and sorry but adult men in their 30s/40s being gross towards Halle is ridiculous #all this hate and ridicule for a film whose original they likely never even watched or liked #I don't even stan actors but editing her face and throwing offenses at her at their grown ass age is insane #it's like a reviewer noted but this type of outrage being thrown at a kids movie from people who are way beyond the age range #for whom this movie is marketed for is bizarre #why are you doing all of this for a kids movie? #also not surprising to me that these are the same people who froth at the mouth any time Brie Larson has the 'audacity' to make a joke #just an obscene amount of hate; not even at this film existing much but more so at a black woman playing Ariel