I feel so bad for Rachel Zegler. She's clearly quite a talent, and she had success with that Hunger Games prequel and Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. But her film career otherwise has been West Side Story (hobbled by the pandemic, her costar got MeTooed), Shazam 2 (flopped, costar is Zachary Levi), Y2K (flopped), Spellbound (a Netflix animated movie I learned about fifteen seconds ago), and now, this. On the other hand, I do not feel bad for Gal Gadot, who has never given a good performance and her politics are YIKES. I'm very ready for this movie to come out, so we can forget it by Memorial Day.
A big part of OG Lilo & Stitch's appeal was the watercolor backgrounds, so I'm glad to see they replaced it with nothing.
The only thing more cash grabby than these Disney remakes are the movies turned Broadway musicals turned back into musical movies. It's like the entertainment industry equivalent of the hell-mares that come out of early test runs for Seth Brundle's teleport machine.
Almost died laughing increasingly harder at each of these sentences: “Yes, they eliminated seven jobs for LPs using CGI, because of wokeness or whatever. Great work! Didn’t even need AI to do away with those jobs. Hope some exec got a raise for that. And if it was actually an algorithm… promote that algorithm! Botty needs a new pair of screws.”
Speaking of screws, I think you nailed it on why “go woke go broke” is a thing. Not because being culturally sensitive is wrong or an horrendous business move, but because too often it’s a transparently half-assed and craven PR move that ends up satisfying no one and being counter to art.
I have two nieces that were born after 2005 so I have had to endure most of these live action remakes. The only one I enjoyed seeing was Cruella. All the others were just torture.
Cruella fucking ruled. The first Maleficent was decent too. Both used the original movies as a jumping-off point for a new-ish story, rather than slavishly recreating them. What a concept!
I don't think I've seen Maleficent. My mind kept trying to put Kristin Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in that movie but apparently that was Snow White and the Huntsman. Maybe I'll check it out.
What would Gal Gadot apologize for?
I feel so bad for Rachel Zegler. She's clearly quite a talent, and she had success with that Hunger Games prequel and Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. But her film career otherwise has been West Side Story (hobbled by the pandemic, her costar got MeTooed), Shazam 2 (flopped, costar is Zachary Levi), Y2K (flopped), Spellbound (a Netflix animated movie I learned about fifteen seconds ago), and now, this. On the other hand, I do not feel bad for Gal Gadot, who has never given a good performance and her politics are YIKES. I'm very ready for this movie to come out, so we can forget it by Memorial Day.
A big part of OG Lilo & Stitch's appeal was the watercolor backgrounds, so I'm glad to see they replaced it with nothing.
"Botty needs a new pair of screws."
Is this a Mancini original? If so, chef's fucking kiss.
Yes, the classic kind, where an internal debate between “this is too stupid to post” and “ah fuck it” ends 49/51.
It’s the kind of wordplay that keeps me coming back to you because I was literally shaking at my desk holding in laughter at work
I LOLed. (L’ed OL?)
Snow White feels like the perfect example of how if you set out to make art for everyone you end up making it for no one.
The only thing more cash grabby than these Disney remakes are the movies turned Broadway musicals turned back into musical movies. It's like the entertainment industry equivalent of the hell-mares that come out of early test runs for Seth Brundle's teleport machine.
members of the dwarfism community
Almost died laughing increasingly harder at each of these sentences: “Yes, they eliminated seven jobs for LPs using CGI, because of wokeness or whatever. Great work! Didn’t even need AI to do away with those jobs. Hope some exec got a raise for that. And if it was actually an algorithm… promote that algorithm! Botty needs a new pair of screws.”
Speaking of screws, I think you nailed it on why “go woke go broke” is a thing. Not because being culturally sensitive is wrong or an horrendous business move, but because too often it’s a transparently half-assed and craven PR move that ends up satisfying no one and being counter to art.
I have two nieces that were born after 2005 so I have had to endure most of these live action remakes. The only one I enjoyed seeing was Cruella. All the others were just torture.
Cruella fucking ruled. The first Maleficent was decent too. Both used the original movies as a jumping-off point for a new-ish story, rather than slavishly recreating them. What a concept!
I can't wrap my head around Cruella. The woman who famously later wanted to wear dog hides is... the good guy?
I don't think I've seen Maleficent. My mind kept trying to put Kristin Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in that movie but apparently that was Snow White and the Huntsman. Maybe I'll check it out.
I'd rather watch Legend again.
Something about seeing Disney fail over and over again just warms my heart. And, in a way, isn’t that what ol’ Walty was setting out to do?