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The Lion King (2019) Review Thread
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Gotta make sure not a single person can possibly be offended including the fucking MAGAs nazis with these sterile as fuck remakes that have no message behind them so they can grab as much cash from the largest blanket audience possible.
It's a joke since the original Treasure Planet was reliant on how well the original Lion King did.
I don't understand why some people are using the goose-stepping imagery as an excuse for the entire sequence being left off the movie. Scar and the hyenas are supposed to be evil.
I'm loving this. Photo-realistic animation is fine and all, but using it to remake a silly tale like Lion King is bonkers. You remove the soul from the movie.
I want to see this mainly for the insane CG quality, but it sounds like pretty much exactly what I expected from the last several live-action Disney remakes they've done.
Disney cancels the Star Wars side stories because of Solo (which was actually really damn good) but keeps rehashing mediocre remakes.
Fuck this world.
Fuck this world.
Man Id fuck with that. Imagine into the spiderverse visuals and colour pallet for different songs and settings etc with solid voice casting, damn
Touche, but I should have clarified as I mainly meant these bullshit "live action" (this really doesn't even qualify as live action as it's all CG) remakes that are being made solely as nostalgia cash-grabs.
You're trying way too hard to break in to that Slayven/BronsonLee/Professor Beef hot take market.
The thing is that there was not a mainstream portion of the public in the 90s that actively identified with the imagery surrounding Nazism. Fascists back then were treated as impossible cartoon villains, not a prominent political group.
I've honestly never understood it myself. I never even related that sequence to Nazis specifically. Maybe it was just what my child mind implanted in my psyche on my viewings back then, but they just seemed like an evil army to me. More so because of the song itself and the imagery along with it, less about the march. Goose-stepping alone is not enough to directly evoke Nazis in my opinion.
But if there's even a chance that some piece of shit MAGA neo-nazi could be offended, well we gotta cut it you know. It goes against what this movie is meant to be. This movie is meant to be nothing but money, just like all the others.
You say this like Disney is one team. The team that works on Star Wars is not the same as the one that works on the remakes of classic stories.
Furthermore, it's ignoring that Solo had a very pathetic box office run relative to its marketing and production budgets. If they're still doing remakes, it's because they smell money in doing them.
You think people are gonna start hailing Scar as a neonazi hero or something? Come on man. The non-inclusion of the entire Be Prepared sequence as it was is just a sign of being weak and toothless.
Sadly.
this didnt need to exist
Lion King 1994 is still the greatest animation in human history, dont try to match it
Lion King 1994 is still the greatest animation in human history, dont try to match it
This should have been a knock out, otherwise why even bother.
Average is seen as pretty negative here. Disney needs to just stop.
This is not surprising. I'm an animation student and even to me there's something very offputting about the animals in this film (not even touching how awful and washed out the scenery is compared to the OG). Its weird to me that Aslan in Narnia looks totally fine to me but here its just kinda... eugh
Seems like they just filled in the scene when they saw th2 backlash of the song's absence.
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I don't know, I'm morbidly curious how the fuck this'll even work in photo-realism.
And it better have made it into the remake, or I'll riot.
What's th2? I do remember long ago a rumor that the song wouldn't be in. I disregarded, because I couldn't imagine they'd do such a silly thing.
These would be the studios I would want to be doing their original ideas, as Pixar will be in the next few years at least, not doing remakes.
I don't mind the remakes being made as they are now, I really don't think we are being robbed of great films that would have been made if they didn't exist.
That is a type. I suspected they put in the song at the last minute when they were thinking about cutting the song.
Oh I gotcha!
Edit : I see now that Elton John originally named only 4 Classic songs to be included, and Be Prepared wasnt one of them.
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Those realistic hyenas marching would've looked corny as hell lmao. Still should've went for it though.
Hey hey, I was clearly joking.
Live action Toy Story would be an awful idea.
The live action characters just look boring and with zero personality. It doesn't work.
I don't think that is the reason. In that sequence you had marching Hyena's by the hundreds in Nazi style. And I don't think that they could do this in this movie because they have gone for the realistic angle. So how would they do that sequence in this movie.It just would not work.
Still amazed by just how sluggish and bland this looks next to the original.
Most of younger kid aalready got introduced to TLK with The Lion Guard.
I have an interest coming from a similar place after the Jungle Book. It's basically if they still made movies about trained animals, like Homeward Bound or whatever, but the animals were able to do more impressive choreography, have have more realistic mouth syncing (like some of those types of movies would do, often to distracting effect), and a massive cast of animals with no concerns about ethical treatment of the animals or the behavior of the animal cast since they are all CG.
It seemed clear the approach that the movie would be going for after Jungle Book so I just can't understand the criticisms of the animals not being expressive enough or animated enough when usually those kinds of animations look even more out of place the more realistic it looks (see: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle).
But The Lion King is not accurate to real life animals so you better just watch a documentary
Thats cause these madiocre movies keep making bank. Aladdin is gonna hit a billion FFS.
You can bet your ass we'd still be getting a crapton of SW films if Solo did well, critic reviews be damned.