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Aladdin (2019) - Grammys Teaser Trailer
- Thread starter TheAbsolution
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Can they also erase the previous remakes from existence while they're at it?
Yikes.
YES PLEASE! Can you imagine? Just think about a gay genie...
Maybe handsome and nasally Jafar is the illusion. Right when you think you've got Jafar figured out, BAM!...
Ghassan Massoud reveals himself as the actual Jafar, and now you're sacred for Aladdin because this Jafar does not fuck around. Seriously, how is he not Jafar Disney?
He really didn't need to be blue. Put Big Willie in some blue clothing and keep the smoke, but he himself didn't need to be blue.
Genie doesn't bother me as much as Jafar. That absolutely flat reading of 'Bring me the lamp.' like Jafar is reading from a teleprompter on top of the cave of wonders. Are we serious right now that he's supposed to be the villain? This Jafar sounds like his three wishes would include a cup of tea, some biscuits and a nap.
I don't think we can fundamentally agree that the jarring juxtaposition is charming. In my opinion, it's not even minimally interesting or appealing; it simply looks bad and distracting. I don't think the design works on any level but one of comedy. If this movie were a parody, I'd agree with you, but as far as I know, it's not.
Beauty and the Beast hyped the hell out of me, and was a huge disappointment.
This does nothing to me. Either it's because I know better, or because somehow I just know this movie will surprise me and will be so much better than I ever expected!
.... yeah it's gonna suck.
This does nothing to me. Either it's because I know better, or because somehow I just know this movie will surprise me and will be so much better than I ever expected!
.... yeah it's gonna suck.
I actually agree with this. I have huge issues with the genie design, but the line delivery from Jafar is just embarrassingly bad.
We've already had that and people were super pissed he wasn't blue in that thread.
Now he's blue and people are mad again. Fact is, the Genie is too iconic and nostalgic for people to ever be okay with anything than what we had before.
Not saying he looks brilliant in blue either mind, but the way people are going at what is obviously early CG after kicking up a fuss about a lack of blue before is a little eye-rolly. People are actually straightface comparing it to The Scorpian King, it's cringey as all hell.
We've already had that and people were super pissed he wasn't blue in that thread.
Now he's blue and people are mad again. Fact is, the Genie is too iconic and nostalgic for people to ever be okay with anything than what we had before.
Not saying he looks brilliant in blue either mind, but the way people are going at what is obviously early CG after kicking up a fuss about a lack of blue before is a little eye-rolly. People are actually straightface comparing it to The Scorpian King, it's cringey as all hell.
I honestly would have just preferred Will himself compared to what we ended up getting, and I didn't originally want him to be himself.
I think Will Smith is the best choice for genie. But that is kind of underwhelming visually. Maybe my expectations were too high.
I think it would have been better if they just went with something more practical like painting Will blue.
Or not.
Or not.
Yes it took me some time to put my finger on it but it's how Will Smith's normal face looks totally cropped onto a CGI character, and that they didn't get the ratio of head space the face should take up completely right. Or the way the eyes and mouth should be stretching or moving in relation to the way the rest of the face seems like the rest of his head is paralysed...?
We look at human faces every day so when it doesn't look right we instinctively know it's wrong.
We've already had that and people were super pissed he wasn't blue in that thread.
Now he's blue and people are mad again. Fact is, the Genie is too iconic and nostalgic for people to ever be okay with anything than what we had before.
Not saying he looks brilliant in blue either mind, but the way people are going at what is obviously early CG after kicking up a fuss about a lack of blue before is a little eye-rolly. People are actually straightface comparing it to The Scorpian King, it's cringey as all hell.
I think most people would prefer him to just look like that now lol.
I would have preferred Will Smith was not cast on this. Or this movie was not made until they could have reused WIlliams' lines and CGId Genie all the way like Thanos in IW, but here we are. And if they are gonna put a Genie in this movie he better be goddamn blue.
Wtf is this Haunted Mansion lookin Disneyland shit. This is embarrassing.
Maybe handsome and nasally Jafar is the illusion. Right when you think you've got Jafar figured out, BAM!...
Ghassan Massoud reveals himself as the actual Jafar, and now you're sacred for Aladdin because this Jafar does not fuck around. Seriously, how is he not Jafar Disney?
Bless. We are not worthy. Kidding aside, that would have been a great casting choice tbh.
Yes, this is baffling to me because Squash and Stretch is one of the 12 basic animation principles outlined by Disney animators (coincidentally, it's something I'll be covering in an upcoming video production) and has been used for traditional hand drawn facial animation for decades. With live action human actors, their natural visible musculature should sufficiently convey flexibility, but the genie has neither natural facial movement nor squashed and stretched animations, so it just looks completely off.
I remember that thread now. I actually liked the way he looked on the cover and that would've been the perfect look for this type of film.
Could've had him look like this and just have his shape shifting result in blue creatures/items or whatever.
Nah, he looks good in the photo released tonight. He just needed to look like that in the trailer.
And why does Aladdin's shirt look so much like a modern long sleeved button up shirt I'd wear in 2019 to work? It looks so out of place.
Aladdin is one of my favourite movies and I was happy enough with the trailer. There is a lot of nostalgia to get over but I think it will be okay.
The CGI could use work. I don't know why Sony cheaps out on it . I am not happy with Jafars line and the fact he should be disguised as a begger at the Cave of Wonders.
The CGI could use work. I don't know why Sony cheaps out on it . I am not happy with Jafars line and the fact he should be disguised as a begger at the Cave of Wonders.
Genie outside the face looks good, sadly they made it too closely to resemble the actor.
Disney has amazing face rig tech, so they could have gone further from the source and look good.. Now it looks scarily like Smith's face composed on top of the CGI body.
There is still time to make things work better though.
Disney has amazing face rig tech, so they could have gone further from the source and look good.. Now it looks scarily like Smith's face composed on top of the CGI body.
There is still time to make things work better though.
Yeah, it would be fine if it didn't look so half-assed, but no. It really does look like they just stuck his face on a CGI character.
That scene with the lava and the cave collapsing around Aladdin didn't look so hot either.
I'm really not feeling the look, like at all. The still they released later is slightly better.
Williams was being Williams... Will is being Will.
If Will tried being Williams it would be much MUCH worse.
Williams was being Williams... Will is being Will.
If Will tried being Williams it would be much MUCH worse.
I'll admit it, I shit on this look when I first saw it, and I'm willing to admit I was wrong. That is far from good, but a million times better than this blue monstrocityWe've already had that and people were super pissed he wasn't blue in that thread.
Now he's blue and people are mad again. Fact is, the Genie is too iconic and nostalgic for people to ever be okay with anything than what we had before.
Not saying he looks brilliant in blue either mind, but the way people are going at what is obviously early CG after kicking up a fuss about a lack of blue before is a little eye-rolly. People are actually straightface comparing it to The Scorpian King, it's cringey as all hell.
I'm willing to give this a chance but.......fucking hell Genie Will looks bad. Like 00's CG BAD!
If the CG isn't ready yet, don't let this be the first look at him in his blue form.
If the CG isn't ready yet, don't let this be the first look at him in his blue form.
Genie looks bad and Will Smith just isn't doing it for me.
These live action Disney remakes need to stop.
These live action Disney remakes need to stop.
it looks good
although I don't think Will Smith will do great because it's just Will Smith being Will Smith
although I don't think Will Smith will do great because it's just Will Smith being Will Smith
This looks terrible but, as a reminder, the live action remake of Beauty and the Beast had a production budget of $160m and pulled in $1.2b (overseas accounted for the bulk of it, as with most big movies these days. See: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beautyandthebeast2017.htm).
I'm sure this will do well, whatever the film's quality. Which, to be clear, it looks awful.
I'm sure this will do well, whatever the film's quality. Which, to be clear, it looks awful.
Yikes, that's not looking great. It looks like their weird mix of looking really cheap but also looking really expensive at the same time.
Jafar's voice ain't got no raspy charm or fire to it.
That's probably the biggest disappointment for me.
That's probably the biggest disappointment for me.
