Sounded alright to me.
Still....most likely going to skip this movie in the theater.
I'm just hoping Lion King is great
Still....most likely going to skip this movie in the theater.
I'm just hoping Lion King is great
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IGN shows off an atrocious sneak peek of the new Aladdin movie on Twitter (about a minute of the Prince Ali song)
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if anything that makes the state of this new version even more embarrassing
half ass robin williams absolutely destroys will smith
That wasn't horrible, but it wasn't good, and thats the problem. Will can't sing, and there is a ton of autotune going on. And like someone else said it looks cheap yet its not. There is no energy in this film at all.
FUCK thats bad. And yeah just bring back dubbing in singers.
FUCK thats bad. And yeah just bring back dubbing in singers.
To me personally the Will Smithisms or modern filler in the song like, "where you at ladies," weren't welcome. Will's Singing itself was not good and sounded flat and emotionless. The spectacle that was Prince Ali's parade was lacking, like when all Will Smith did when singing the lyric about Ali's strength was a lame little flex. The good news is this clearly isnt for me. I was never throwing money at this to begin with.
I've been trying to think of what it was reminding me of then I I just remembered.
It looks like a Carnival Cruise commercial
It looks like a Carnival Cruise commercial
It's not just that this has none of the energy of the animated version, but that the choreography and editing themselves are so. Fucking. Boring.
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Rewatched it:
To start, the big "Prince Ali! Fabulous, he!" start is a medium shot of Will Smith throwing some green glitter, then a wide cut where the action is in the distant background, and it's nothing special except a small tapestry unfurling. Then, the camera barely moves except for a slow panning in where Will Smith barely moves, and maybe I'm having audio/sync issues, but the cutting isn't even on actions or beats. In fact, Will Smith barely moves at all and the camera barely moves at all. This is just boring, and that's the clip, a big sequences of a big song, and nothing much happens. Again, eh. It's not incompetent, it's just there.
To start, the big "Prince Ali! Fabulous, he!" start is a medium shot of Will Smith throwing some green glitter, then a wide cut where the action is in the distant background, and it's nothing special except a small tapestry unfurling. Then, the camera barely moves except for a slow panning in where Will Smith barely moves, and maybe I'm having audio/sync issues, but the cutting isn't even on actions or beats. In fact, Will Smith barely moves at all and the camera barely moves at all. This is just boring, and that's the clip, a big sequences of a big song, and nothing much happens. Again, eh. It's not incompetent, it's just there.
It looks like they're in a movie set. I mean, yeah they are in a movie set but it shouldn't look that way!
Weak energy
Poor singing
Uninspired costuming
Weak choreography (people just standing around or quick shots showing one movement or person's face)
Looks as boring, milquetoast, and forgettable as the live action versions of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.
These things play like high school productions with a budget. They lack the personality of the source material.
Poor singing
Uninspired costuming
Weak choreography (people just standing around or quick shots showing one movement or person's face)
Looks as boring, milquetoast, and forgettable as the live action versions of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.
These things play like high school productions with a budget. They lack the personality of the source material.
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It's so true. Like, the actual Broadway performance is both a lot more technical and you can actually see it because there aren't as many obnoxious camera cuts. I have no idea what they're trying to do here.
Imo, boring static camera angles. Theres no dynamism to the scene. It just...happens.
It's shot and edited like a TV-broadcasted parade from a World Cup inauguration... Not very interesting to look at.
The whole things seems like a bollywood movie or a very expensive stage play. The camera is so static.
This is offensive to the actual handicraft involved in making Bollywood dance sequences.
Agree. Will Smith singing seems off like he is trying to sing in an r&b joint. "Whoooo!" "Uh huh uh huh" , "hey ladies" ... like this shit doesn't belong in friggin Aladdin no offense to Will. Love Big Will Style album. This though, this ain't it man.
No one element stood out as being awful, but all the lackluster stuff just adds up into a big unappealing sum of a movie.
Sure it'll make Disney lots of money though.
Sure it'll make Disney lots of money though.
Holy fucking shit that's bad. Maybe even worse than I expected, and I expected horrible. The explosive energy from the original is completely gone. Just sounds like Will Smith singing Price Ali but didn't actually understand why it was being sung. And the whole set piece is unbelievably flat. It looks like a big number in a lame broadway show. And it's filmed like that, as the camera work is as boring as they come too.
God everything about this movie makes me so angry. I rightly assumed it would be pointless and terrible just like Beauty and the Beast, but I still wouldn't have stuck completely in my bias if they showed me something, fucking ANYTHING, that looked good or at least felt like it had purpose for existing besides making money. Aladdin is probably my favorite Disney 2d animated film, so if they could translate some of in a neat way so I could see it from another perspective, I wouldn't be completely opposed to maybe having at least a scene or two of some fun.
Fucking nothing about any of this movie that they've shown shows any promise.
God everything about this movie makes me so angry. I rightly assumed it would be pointless and terrible just like Beauty and the Beast, but I still wouldn't have stuck completely in my bias if they showed me something, fucking ANYTHING, that looked good or at least felt like it had purpose for existing besides making money. Aladdin is probably my favorite Disney 2d animated film, so if they could translate some of in a neat way so I could see it from another perspective, I wouldn't be completely opposed to maybe having at least a scene or two of some fun.
Fucking nothing about any of this movie that they've shown shows any promise.
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The Will Smith genie has no right to reference famous Will Smith rap stylings in the remake of Aladdin where the Robin Williams genie traditionally referenced famous Robin Williams impressions of Jack Nicholson, the Marx Bros, Peter Lorre, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, Cab Calloway, Travis Bickle, Arsenio Hall, Pinocchio, Ed Sullivan and ... Robin Williams.
They are corrupting the integrity and spirit of this film!
They are corrupting the integrity and spirit of this film!
If anything, a good director would have and should have tailored the number to Smith's specific strengths far more. Those "uhs" weren't cutting it.
Heh rewatching Aladdin just noticed this is probably a reference to thatlol
So this:
But in CGI? :V
That's what I'd like to know? It looks good enough me. It just seems like people are looking for excuses to hate on the movie.
Interesting post. The responses I've seen from people of Middle-Eastern and South-Asian heritage seems quite positive so far. Whereas most of the negative responses are from people who aren't from those backgrounds.
I can see why Aladdin would mean a lot to people of Arab heritage, since they don't really have any other positive representation in Hollywood. Besides Aladdin, over 90% of Arabs in Hollywood are bad guys.
I'm thinking Aladdin could potentially have a similar effect as Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, with a high turnout of Middle-Eastern and South-Asian audiences at the box office.
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Technically, it's a fictional place called Agrabah. But it seems to be mainly inspired by classical Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age. Classical Baghdad was a large, diverse, multicultural city in its heyday, with over a million people, including Arabs, Persians, Turks, Indians, Africans, Greeks, Chinese, etc. They might be trying to capture some of that diversity in the movie.
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Thanks for posting this. I feel the same way, but wasn't sure if it was worth posting that thought or opinion, but I'm glad you did.
He's not a singer. He's a rapper. But it sounds like he was trying to do some kind of rap-singing in that scene. I actually would've preferred if he just went all-out rapping.
Some of the animated stuff shouldn't be too hard to translate to live action but its like they didn't push at all.
I mean
its just so underwhelming
For Genie/Will its really missing the energy of stuff like
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I don't understand. Isn't this being directed by Guy Richie? He makes kinda bad movies a lot of the time, but they are bad movies with fucking energy. This is just static as hell and nowhere near his style.
Cinderella actually had decent choreography and camerawork, and excellent costume design, thanks to Kenneth Branagh directing it. It doesnt deserve to be lumped in with the other two.
How are they so bad at this? It's like The Aristocrats lol
Dude's gotta be financially in bad shape or he's doing someone a favour. King Arthur was a bad movie but you could tell Ritchie was passionate about the material. Third option is they ran out of money.
Its weird,
Friend Like Me actually looks like they are making an expensive movie while Prince Ali looks looks like a cheap musical or something
Yeah those really stuck out to me. It was a big problem I had with Beauty and The Beast too, songs had these odd minor changes throughout that added nothing for no reason.
Many of the live action remakes are becoming just a cash in by Disney and it shows. They've been progressing lower in quality (with a few surprises). This one in particular looks like it may be a mess.
It feels like a made for tv event you used to see over a decade ago.... and I hate saying that because some of the fantasy made for TV movies were pretty good given the budget and resources.
It feels like a made for tv event you used to see over a decade ago.... and I hate saying that because some of the fantasy made for TV movies were pretty good given the budget and resources.
It feels all over the place. And I just don't know how it got to this point considering the source material, the amazing cover songs on Disney's own We Love Disney YouTube channel, and the broadway musicals.
Also funnily, watching the video at 1.25x helps bring some energy back into the song. I don't know why they slowed the song down when it's meant to be very upbeat, festive. I mean, a prince is rolling into town looking to impress the princess of the sultan, you go big or go home. BPM is one thing though, it's still missing so much more.
