Aladdin had Will Smith's infectious personality and charms carrying it the whole way through.
What does The Failin' King have?
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Aladdin had Will Smith's infectious personality and charms carrying it the whole way through.
What does The Failin' King have?
Well it has James Earl Jones magnificent voice.
For most of it at least.
Do I really need to create Spoiler Tags for The Lion King now for the next few weeks, this is like, a similar situation with Final Fantasy VII and Aerith.
Yeah, really curious at this point how audiences react.
I don't think this is going to bomb, but I'm having doubts on it getting into $1.5+ Billion territory.
We'll see how the next two weeks go.
I don't think this is going to bomb, but I'm having doubts on it getting into $1.5+ Billion territory.
We'll see how the next two weeks go.
I'm pretty sure Lion King's box office is about as review-proof as you can get. Aladdin had similar negative clip reactions (Genie for Aladdin, the recent Simba/Timon & Pumbaa clip for Lion King), similar Rotten Tomatoes score, less star power/nostalgia factor and STILL is gonna hit a billion.
Yep. I don't know what I expected. Tried not to judge after Aladdin turned out ok, but this is bad. Real bad
That's what you get for taking out Be Prepared.
Regardless, I still think it will reach a billion. It just needs to be at around 50% for people to consider watching. Aladdin's on it's way to a billion despite mediocre reviews and it's not nearly as beloved as The Lion King.
Regardless, I still think it will reach a billion. It just needs to be at around 50% for people to consider watching. Aladdin's on it's way to a billion despite mediocre reviews and it's not nearly as beloved as The Lion King.
Aladdin had a visual aspect going for it that seems to be missing in the Lion King though
Ouch at TLK reviews. This makes me really curious about how it's box office run will do. While it could do as well as Aladdin (since they have similar RT numbers) that movie had a LOT of charm while TLK doesn't seem to have any.
Nostalgia will give it a good Opening Weekend but I got a bad feeling about the legs.
Nostalgia will give it a good Opening Weekend but I got a bad feeling about the legs.
Live-action, or in this case a realistic art style, is more of an attention grabber than taking a stylized cartoon and turning it into another stylized cartoon.
Sure but it clearly is making the movies suffer from an aesthetic standpoint. At the very least, I think remaking the top-tier movies were a mistake only because the expectations are that much higher to reach.
If this were any other studio they wouldn't be able to catch a break. The expectations of a Disney remake, while at times high, is a lot lower compared to others. People are really drawn to their IP.
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Crawl will more than likely review better than Lion King. Not as many reviews and early buzz has been mostly positive.
With how positive the early buzz is, I'm really surprised they didn't screen it for critics.
Came out of my Midsommar showing and loved it. Liked it more than Hereditary. More people need to go watch it.
Also bought my tickets for The Lion King and Hobbs & Shaw today. I might get a return on TLK though and spent it on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood next month instead.
Low-key looking forward to Crawl.
Also bought my tickets for The Lion King and Hobbs & Shaw today. I might get a return on TLK though and spent it on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood next month instead.
Low-key looking forward to Crawl.
oh right
Horns
That one, and both the Chainsaw and Friday remakes I all remember being solid, but I haven't seen them since release
Downey is just waiting until the last moment to buy millions in tickets
Potentially only $14M away if the $400K estimate holds for Wednesday + OS.
I hope Stuber does well. I love Big Dave but listening to him talk on a podcast I don't think he has much hope for it doing well.
It's over.
(for Avatar)
Disney will make Endgame crawl its way over Avatar one way or another.
It's been a long, weird road.
It's certainly not as impressive that it took this long for Endgame to limp over the finish line, but I do still think it deserves that crown.
Avatar still deserves plenty of respect for climbing so high the way that it did. Same goes for Endgame though. They're just two very different success stories, rather than the "one pulverizes the other go team go" kind of saga that a lot of people wanted.
It's certainly not as impressive that it took this long for Endgame to limp over the finish line, but I do still think it deserves that crown.
Avatar still deserves plenty of respect for climbing so high the way that it did. Same goes for Endgame though. They're just two very different success stories, rather than the "one pulverizes the other go team go" kind of saga that a lot of people wanted.
I don't care for Avatar, but I completely agree.
Really lame tbh, but oh well. I guess another Avatar re-release is now fair play though. Hell, Endgame might even need the 3rd one to get itIt's over.
(for Avatar)
Disney will make Endgame crawl its way over Avatar one way or another.
People thought critics would fawn over Lion King?
Trust me, most film critics, at least the ones I follow on Twitter, have no love for these Disney remakes
Trust me, most film critics, at least the ones I follow on Twitter, have no love for these Disney remakes
After IM2 I know Jon Farveu would take all the wrong lesson after the success of TJB but I never expect its reviewed thid bad. Realism is not the selling point, try to make logic of lion pride is just strupid. There are so many beautiful jungle in africa, why did he have to make this so .... brown?
And whos the head of these remake, all new recent outputs are rotten. Although they made money but they have no quality control unlike Marvel, Pixar, Animated department...
Mulan will probably flop too, it's way too serious.
And whos the head of these remake, all new recent outputs are rotten. Although they made money but they have no quality control unlike Marvel, Pixar, Animated department...
Mulan will probably flop too, it's way too serious.
Avatar took 238 days to reach its mark. Endgame is on day 75. It'll reach $2.788b in less than half the time Avatar did.
yeah it definitely seems like a Cameron thing. No Star Wars or Avatar in December 2020 couldn't have been the initial plan.
2020 overall is fucking barren.
West Side Story.
But this time it wasn't a Cameron delay. The Avatar sequels have been delayed to service the release schedule of D&D's Star Wars movies of all things, to break them up from the yearly cycle that saw Disney oversaturate Star Wars with yearly releases.
The first film obviously wasn't gonna make 2021, so Avatar had to move into that spot.
Hell wait to counter the re-release of avatar
Dude gets 50m for every movie he can put it well out of reach
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