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what do you hope to see in the little mermaid?

posted 2 years ago by Kingoftheupside (13)
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What are your hopes for the little mermaid what do you want to see that's new and what do you hope they keep from the Disney version here's my wish list:
more references to the Anderson version for instance Ariel could step on something causing her feel hurt every time she walks or she could get a dagger and be tricked into killing Eric
more scenes of Ariel's sisters show hem interacting with Ariel give them some personality have them sing her own song also appear in the climax
more interaction between Triton and Ursula this version can explain their rivalry more accurately.
We find out what Ursula did get banished from Alantica
That Triton creates a ring of fire even if it's before the climax
reveal some backstory on Eric
that Ariel interacts with queen Selena even if she can't talk to her
That Selena is against Eric's relationship with Ariel but eventually accepts it.
That Scuttle finds out that Vanessa is Ursula like n the animated version.
Eric sings his own song
They keep Ursula hypnotizing Erc
They keep the sea creatures sabotaging the wedding
Ursula will grow giant and create a whirlpool.
They keep under the sea the way it is
Ariel will say more to Eric when she gets her voice back
They add the deleted song silence is golden from the Disney version Ursula can always sing later in the remake
Flotsam and Jetsam tipping the boat over after kiss the girl
Ariel being a human longer then 3 days.
They change the ending so that Ariel stays a mermaid and realize that she belongs in the sea though she and Eric still see each other when they can.

[–] Ranb (9616) 2 years ago

I want to see the Little Mermaid's sisters give her the enchanted knife they got from the Sea Witch in exchange for their hair.

Watching her stand over the prince, contemplating his murder, while he sleeps with his new bride in bed on the wedding barge, is the climax the 1989 cartoon and this film should have had.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14411) 2 years ago

I hope to see it fail so spectacularly that the bad review number could sink an aircraft carrier (battleship is too small). It'll prove once again that virtue signaling and unimaginative live-action remakes are not Disney's specialty.

[–] Kowalski (75537) 2 years ago

🤣

[–] Mustang (5421) 2 years ago

I just noticed Melissa McCarthy is in it, that if nothing else will ensure a flop! Even if Mermaid was white it would still flop for Melissa's presence.

But from what I am reading the film is flopping. It has not been successful in China where they don't really like American's let alone black ones.

"Meanwhile in #China’s #BoxOffice, ticket pre-sales for #TheLittleMermaid show no signs of reaction.
#Disney liveaction finished SUN with a scary $13k total after 3 days of pre-sales, for the whole MAY 25-28 period.
Could be the worst opening ever for Hollywood tentpole in China."

$13k in a massive market like China? The same market that Hollyweird has been chasing for over a decade now. Hollyweird has to learn that China don't do Woke!

https://insidethemagic.net/2023/05/the-little-mermaid-box-office-fail-ea1/

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14411) 2 years ago

A lot of other countries were onto the woke scam almost immediately. They don't like it anymore than anybody with an IQ higher than 60 does here in the States.

Plus, a complaint I've been hearing from both parents and people who don't have kids, but observed the kids in the theaters; is that the new movie is way too long. The best movie length for kids is 90 minutes, and this film is over 2 hours long. Observations revealed that the kids got bored, restless, and some even fell asleep during the show. I'll bet you that the kids in '89 certainly weren't doing that when the original "Little Mermaid" was showing in theaters.

What particularly makes me sad is how many kids being brought to see this trash never actually got to see the cartoon version, and that makes you wonder; what the hell are people letting their kids watch these days? Are parts of Gen Y parents really so divorced from Disney stuff that they don't bother sharing their childhood films with their kids anymore? I thought it would be rare to find a child, even in today's generation, who hadn't seen the cartoon version of "Little Mermaid." Evidently there are more of them than I thought.

[–] Mustang (5421) 2 years ago

2 hours and 15 mins is a long film for anyone, most films that run that long really don't need to. Lots of unnecessary scenes and dialogue. For a kid that is an even longer haul for what should just be a fun 90 minute film.

I never saw the 1989 version but I am sure it would be better than this Woke one. Something I have noticed for quite a while is that kids not just of the current generation but previous ones really don't want anything to do with things that are "before their time". I grew up on old westerns, war movies, history in general, all sorts of stuff that was "before my time". I don't get the attitude really but it is common.

Anyway, going by box office results it seems not many at all are seeing the film. I doubt Hollyweird will ever learn that Go Woke means Go Broke.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14411) 2 years ago

One of the perks of having Baby Boomer parents was, I got to see all the great stuff made in the 60s and old-school sci-fi stuff :D We of course, laughed at the cheesy special-effects, but the older films have a certain charm about them, from the way people behaved and talked, to the way the story was told. You can tell people actually cared about making a quality story back then, and they actually cared as recently as the early 2010s. The tragedy is how quickly things changed in the mid-2010s, and it's scary how fast it happened.

On one of the Youtube Channels I watch, one of the guys on there was a dad with a ton of kids (Catholic dude) and his kids had never seen the original "Little Mermaid," so he got a chance to see how they reacted to the new one, and they were bored and restless for most of the film. He then said that the next evening, he sat them all down in front of the tv and watched the original "Little Mermaid," and his kids loved it! They were dancing to the music, they were singing along, and even talking about it hours after it was over.

I mean, you know a film is good when, even after a few decades, it still delights people from younger generations :) I think that talent has been lost in Hollyweird, and probably won't be seen again unless someone starts a new set of studios far away from CA and starts letting good ideas and scripts get a chance to be greenlit.

[–] Mustang (5421) a year ago

I love Film Noir the black white grain, the moodiness it creates. The way the women look, dress and act. The women in modern films are weak compared to those women. The dialogue is much more intelligent too.

Something else that is missing in current films is subtext, everything is spelled out then spelled out again and if that wasn't enough they will show it to you. In old films they rarely show you the dead body, but you know it's terrible, you can feel it based on how whoever finds it reacts, the camera angles. You know they found a dead body but you never see it, hell, you never even see how they get killed! Same with sex, in a film like Waterloo Bridge you never see her prostitute herself but that is exactly what she is doing. They never even say it, but you know.

I used to watch The Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night as a kid. I would always get a little upset when it was a live action program. I wanted cartoons from Disney and I wonder if that is another factor with these recent live action remakes? If you got McDonald's you want burgers not pizza. When people see Disney they want animation?

Or maybe this film just sucks. I haven't seen it but just from the pics I have seen it looks serious.

Maybe Disney and Hollyweird in general need to go back to their roots and just entertain and tell stories. Trying to sell corrupt Western values to Asia isn't going to work.

[–] seagal72 (1962) 2 years ago

A white lead

[–] ChipDouglas (1607) 2 years ago

Ursula tentacle porn

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14411) 2 years ago

You know what's weird? I heard that the Melissa McCarthy version is thinner than the one in the cartoon! Hard to believe, right?

[–] tom8 (3119) 2 years ago

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