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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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Somehow, every single new thing I see from this movie manages to be even worse than the last thing
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I'm impressed at how well Disney has been managing to strip out all expression and nuance from the original animated works these live-action and CGI films are direct inspiration from. I want to get 3 bottles of charles shaw and channel the spirit of lindsay ellis just watching this bullshit
I already commented on it elsewhere, but man... It's just not good. His held notes are flat, the orchestration sounds plain boring and lacks any kind of energy, no bombastic moments to the track to speak of. The shots they chose for this scene are also boring to look at.
Bonus: They keep in the jokey parts of the song where Robin Williams makes funny voices because he is supposed to be changing into different people in the crowd to hype them up. It's sung so straight.
Bonus: They keep in the jokey parts of the song where Robin Williams makes funny voices because he is supposed to be changing into different people in the crowd to hype them up. It's sung so straight.
In a just world, this will bomb so hard Disney thinks long and hard about future remakes and Guy Ritchie never gets to direct a blockbuster again.
Instead, it'll probably make a billion...
Instead, it'll probably make a billion...
That was my first thought as well. Will Smith hamming it up is borderline cringey for me. The gap in the RT score between this and Lion King is going to be massive lol.
Why does the new Lion King look so good, and this so shitty and unwatchable?
Like at no point, did anyone ask themselves "I think our movie is shaping up to be a massive turd."? It looks like it has a huge budget, yet somehow projects the feel of a STV sequel to a obscure 90s movie now starring a washed up wrestler or something.
Like at no point, did anyone ask themselves "I think our movie is shaping up to be a massive turd."? It looks like it has a huge budget, yet somehow projects the feel of a STV sequel to a obscure 90s movie now starring a washed up wrestler or something.
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WHERE IS THE CHOREOGRAPHY. THIS IS THE MOST BORING PARADE I'VE SEEN
whoa now let's not get carried away here
Smith can't sing. Weird expressions and poor acting from everyone else. Somehow the set looks really cheap. The directing is so static and bland, especially when this is supposed to be a song about Aladdin's richness and him showing off to the Jasmine
Yeah the vocals and music just seem to lack...maybe it's energy. Or maybe it's emotion. It feels flat.
Whenever I see footage of the movie it looks both cheap and expensive at the same time. I don't know how else to describe it.
Whenever I see footage of the movie it looks both cheap and expensive at the same time. I don't know how else to describe it.
because The Lion King is still "animated" technically, and Alladin is live action, thus losing all the charm the animated version had?
The sets and costume feel like they're straight out of that crappy Prince of Persia movie from a few years back.
Just bland and generic as hell.
Just bland and generic as hell.
Yeah I get that, but...like even if everything was stylized CG, it'd still come off as the living, breathing imbodiment of autotune but as a Disney film, you know? Like I can smell it's lack of soul. It's like staring into an empty peanut shell, except you realize there was never a peanut in there. Only greed, madness, and emptiness.
Yeah, essentially Aladdin's BIG moment to impress. So they go all out on the image that Aladdin is a highly respectable, highly trained warrior, very muscular despite appearance, very handsome, and a very rich Prince all rolled into one.
The original animated version
There are directors out there with a taste for the visual that could've made this film pop.
Instead, Disney hired Guy Ritchie...
This is definitely a good way to put it. There was almost no energy in the directing so you're really just looking at the equivalent of a marching band. I'd rather Will have shaken things up, stepped out of Robin Williams shadow and turned the song into a semi-rap so the comparison wasn't so stark.
