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i have no desire to see these halfassed live action remakes of classics


It looks like hot garbage.

And if anyone is appalled by how bad Disney's live action remake of Aladdin looks? Don't just boycott that film. Boycott all of Disney's live action remakes. That includes The Lion King and Lady and the Tramp.

Because if you contribute to The Lion King being hit, you are not showing Disney anything other than you want more of this horseshit. Bad reviews won't mean a thing. Disney cares only about the bottom line and pure profit. Aladdin could completely tank and lose hundreds of millions of dollars and Disney would not bat an eye if The Lion King makes over a billion.

Aladdin looks like crap, the CGI that was crapped on the original film on the enterance to the cave looks just as fake as the teaser and doesn't have any of the style or flare the CGI one did, this has none and feeling not of the cast members even Will Smith as Genie. The CGI of him is atrocious and Disney is getting raked over the coals on how poor this is and looks bland/boring and none of it is making me go "Oh it looks like an event film", same for Lion King. Can't we just re-issue the original films with some updated animation because they still hold up really good to this day, both Aladdin and Lion King and two of them in my opinion are the best animated films of the 90s among others. We don't need an update, we don't need a live-action remake of Lion King which isn't even live-action, it's CGI, don't need a live-action remake of Aladdin as it's already been made, i mean maybe do a new adaptation of Aladdin and his wonderful life than do a remake of the Disney film.

I hope the people who saw the trailer and didn't like what they saw then speak with your wallet, and if your tired of Disney's lazy halfassed cashgrab remakes of their classics, don't pay to see them and that's how your gonna send your message. So if you are sick of this lazy shit as much as I am, do not pay to see any of their live action remakes and just contribute to diminishing returns. I have yet to give them a single cent for these casghrab efforts and I will continue to do so. That is the only way they will consider stopping. Because if they keep making money, no matter how bad the word of mouth and reviews are, Disney will not give a damn and keep making them. And if any film of live-action bombs which has happened to Dumbo then Disney will be like "oh wow, i guess people are tired of this! i guess audiences doesn't want this!" and that's how your gonna send your message. And if they are hits and make a billion dollars, all it takes is just one of them and one be saying "Oh i wanna see Lion King" and if your like "Aladdin looks like crap but the other ones i wanna go see" then it defeats the purpose, cause if Aladdin underperforms then it doesn't mean cause Disney can absorb that hit in the face, no problem. But if Lion King is a big hit then they are gonna keep these remakes, i guarantee it, no matter how bad the reviews are for Aladdin, no matter how many people don't go to see it, no matter how big of a flop it is, it doesn't matter cause if Lion King makes a billion dollars that just shows them you still want more of that, just watch, watch this all unfold.


I mean your gonna get live-action remakes of Little Mermaid or Pocahontas, it's going to happen, i guarantee it and all but eventually the bottom will completely fall out and they are just gonna get diminishing returns, because they are no longer about the ideals that Walt Disney built his company around. They are about greed, power and manipulation of your nostalgia.

If not? That what is the point? There is no need for lazy live action Disney remakes and it is a shame that films like this get the pass and make millions. Like i said, eventually your just gonna get diminishing returns and soon the bottom will eventually fall.

I want the Disney that made the original and was a genuine trendsetter back in the good old days. Not the current version which is just pumping out reheated left overs, bad Pirates sequels with a upcoming reboot, sequels to Pixar films (except Incredibles 2 which i wanted a sequel since 2004 and Toy Story 4 is not needed when the story ended with 3 as your just beating a dad horse after 3) and failed adaptations of parts of their park like Tomorrowland. I want them to do creative things like Zootopia and some others.

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So all the sequels and regurgitated, IP-driven garbage from Warner Bros. And Universal escapes your wrath, huh?

Already have your tickets for WB's Godzilla 2 and Universal's Secret Life of Pets 2? Support those! That'll teach Disney not to do "lazy remakes".

smh

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Godzilla 2 looks better than the disappointing 2014 film and still haven't seen Secret Life of Pets.

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You're not missing much.

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SLoP (which I've seen) ain't no remake of 2d animation from long aog. It's a sequel to a recent (2016) CGI fliclk.THat answer your question?

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"SLoP(which I've seen)"

Ahh yes..."THat answers my question" about who you are and your general taste.

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Yeah...SLOP2 "ain't no remake" it's just a sequel to a film that was, itself, a (bad) rip-off of Toy Story.

But you keep doing you.

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Actually, you both make a great point about lazy cash grabs. If it weren't for my brother buying me a ticket, I wouldn't have watched Hellboy. If it weren't for my Soldiers dragging me to the theater, I wouldn't have watched Avengers infinity war. I'm happy I havent seen a Star Wars flick since my friends dragged me to revenge of the sith. It's like watching Friday the 13th movies. In the end, it's all the same story with the same effects. The only reason people go back is to recapture a feeling of nostalgia.

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Or because they’re stupid, easily manipulated by advertising in its myriad forms, completely unimaginative, receptive to peer pressure, hate themselves, think their girlfriends will put out after the movie because the gfs are now bored out of their minds, or some combination thereof.

I could see the “live” version of Beauty and the Beast whenever I want on Netflix, at no additional cost to me, but the film actually repulses me, so, no.

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Are you being serious?

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Aside from the membership fee, I agree. The animated film was really good. The update looked silly.

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That boycott of Captain Marvel was a great success!

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And she was never heard from again!

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These live action remakes have all been crap, I have no desire to see any of the upcoming ones.

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