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masteroffakesmiles · 5 months
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Lion King 2019 (spoilers/mentions bodily gross stuff here 🤢)
I remembered in the movie where they did a close up of a piece of poop in the film, but I vaguely remembered it (didn’t watch the movie I saw a movie review). I kinda thought the poop shot happened at the beginning.
I watched the film through a movie commentary on YouTube and the film focuses like a minute and a half on the mouse (like the mouse you see after circle of life in the 94 version and he got stuck between Scar’s paw) running around before Scar captures it.
And then I reached the poop thing. After we see Simba’s tuft of hair being blown against the wind, it goes to various parts throughout the Savanna, then a giraffe eats it. I had the feeling that we were still gonna see the hair at some point but I was afraid that they were gonna make the giraffe sneeze or spit the hair out. But nah. The giraffe pooped it out that that’s how we get the infamous poop scene with the dung beetle. And yeah, this whole sequence with the hair lasted for 2.5 minutes to pad out the longer running time.
What were they thinking?
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dareduffie · 6 months
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when will people learn that live-action remakes will never be good as their original animated counterparts because the glory of animation is the colour, movement, and fantasy that's just untranslateable to live-action
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pftones3482 · 1 year
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I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly
The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe
(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)
My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!
Compare this image from the trailer
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To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):
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You can see the details of the scales in the second image
The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake
The difference?
H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand
Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:
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This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.
This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.
(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)
And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)
Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.
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hjbender · 3 months
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“Good news! That cartoon show you loved as a kid is set to become the latest live-action movie!”
Kitten, I’ll be honest, Daddy’s about to start killing people.
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angelosearch · 3 months
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It's an oddly specific gender... (technically Razer has facial tattoos but that's a form of scarring!)
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Sequel Movies Grand Finale: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest v The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
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life-in-toontown · 21 days
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Hey look it’s Simba, I mean Nala, I mean Mufasa, I mean Kiara, I mean…
Man, if only there was an easier way to be able to tell the characters apart…like 2D animation or something 🤔
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velvet4510 · 1 month
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Note: I’m not including “Lavender’s Blue” from Cinderella (2015) because it was not written for the movie. It’s a 17th century English folk song.
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writebackatya · 10 months
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Whenever I see people compare the “live-action” Lion King to the original, I always see Simba’s reaction to the stampeding wildebeests
Which is a great example but I think they should also compare it to the Kingdom Hearts 2 cutscene because yeah it looks goofy as hell compared to the original, but it’s still showing more emotion than the remake’s scene
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cyberkiller125 · 6 months
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At this point, what is even the point of making new animated movies? Why bother if they’re just going to be remade in live-action less than a decade later? Not to mention that remaking classic animated films devalues those classics and makes it less likely that future generations will see and enjoy them because they’ll watch the live-actions instead. Corporations are prioritizing money over telling meaningful and creative stories, and it shows.
So anyway, capitalism is killing art.
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missamerican-pie · 11 months
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artist-issues · 9 months
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If you actually hate how Rachel Zegler disrespects the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, do not go see or stream the remake.
If you actually hate how Disney has turned the Lilo & Stitch live-action into a bad statement about race, do not go see or stream it.
If you actually believe that the original The Little Mermaid was perfect and needed no adjustments, and Eric was not a bland prince, do not go see or stream the remake.
If you actually thought that Emma Watson misread and mishandled the role of Belle, who, in the original, was expertly characterized, do not go see or stream the remake.
If you actually believe that the Genie wanted to be free, and Aladdin learned to trust, and Jasmine taught them both how, while the Live Action version ruined that, do not go see or stream the remake.
If you actually believe that the original Lion King movie was perfect and needed no bland NatGeoWild embellishment, do not go see or stream the remake.
If you actually believe that the Cinderella (2015) movie was a good remake, go out and buy the DVD—and then don’t go see and stream the other remakes.
Don’t do it. They don’t read our tumblr rants or watch our rage reels, but they count how many of us go see the new stuff. And they count our money as it goes into their bank account to fund the next one. And they count the time we spend on their streaming services. Teach them that we have standards, and the standards aren’t spectacle, and you can’t just buy us with soulless puppets of our favorite movies.
When you’re tempted to go hear the soundtrack play and listen to the dialogue you miss, just go watch the original. That’s what you really love.
#NotMyDisney alienated me with these last few movies, so I’m not playing the games anymore. Make movies for me, as if I’m the smart child you raised on good movies, or else I won’t go see them. If you guys want me, I’ll be waiting for the day that the Live Action Remake comes out, and then immediately streaming the original on Disney+.
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Let ‘em measure how many seats are filled in their theaters, versus how many streams of the originals are playing on the same day.
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incorrect-hs-quotes · 9 months
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Nepeta: :33< your honour, i admit that i do have a supurriority complex over not watching disney "live action" remakes, but in my defense, i am right
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bluebird167 · 2 years
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Forget the Disney Live Action Remakes. They should just record the Broadway Shows and make them available for purchase or on Disney Plus. Who’s with me?
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