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Pick posted:The Ratigan transition is refined Keane goodness. The Ratigan thing rules because he quite literally looks like a gross savage rat. He goes on all fours, and hunches over and his hair is all messed up and his clothes get torn off. It's so good.
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Macaluso posted:The Ratigan thing rules because he quite literally looks like a gross savage rat. He goes on all fours, and hunches over and his hair is all messed up and his clothes get torn off. It's so good. It would have been hilarious if he also started peeing all over the clock tower.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425M4M3Opkk I hate this but at least they did one good thing and kept Jim Cummings as Pooh. Not something I would expect out of one of these live action ABOMINATIONS
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Pooh moves like the horrible bear from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIjoJkO5wyY
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I have no relation to Pooh. I’ll save my anger for the upcoming Lion King remake.
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Pick posted:The Ratigan transition is refined Keane goodness. Most ironic part of the whole "mice good, rats bad" thing the movie does is that in real life rats are intelligent and sweet and mice are dumb assholes. The Great Mouse Detective is still a great movie though, speciesism aside. BigglesSWE posted:I have no relation to Pooh. I’ll save my anger for the upcoming Lion King remake. That movie looks like it might be pretty good though.
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Macaluso posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425M4M3Opkk I always pictured the live action Winnie the Pooh movie being about Christopher Robin’s father shutting down his child’s foolish nonsense, with the various stuffed animals being projections of Christopher Robin’s emotional state. And of course by the end the father learns to love his son’s child-like games... ...though that’s sort of just Mary Poppins, isn’t it?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Pooh moves like the horrible bear from this: Pooh actually looks great, it's that they went with the classic cartoon voice and it's so asynchronous with this guy remembering his childhood bear. Unless they're going for some Alita: Battle Angel eye thing where they really play into these cartoon voices taking on a maddening dimension to the adult listener, I'm not sure what strength it plays to by giving a very much non-cartoonish bear a very cartoony voice. He should sound more like Teddy in A.I.
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That Christopher Robin trailer makes me want to watch Hook.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:That movie looks like it might be pretty good though. They apparently cut "Be Prepared" from it so gently caress that movie.
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dirksteadfast posted:...though that’s sort of just Mary Poppins, isn’t it? Don't worry, they're remaking that, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvt41MIelDE
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Talking about Penguins of Madagascar, I went back and watched some of the stuff from it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sggCMq-Nf9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-8wWLo_2gE This movie had just ridiculous action sequences, a bunch of stuff you can't really pull off in live action and the animators clearly had a ton of fun with it. That plane sequence is especially fun cause it's all one "shot" edit: And obviously the Venice chase scene that gets mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjMlCZf0MBc Macaluso fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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glam rock hamhock posted:They apparently cut "Be Prepared" from it so gently caress that movie. But it also has Beyonce which is a net gain in all contexts.
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glam rock hamhock posted:They apparently cut "Be Prepared" from it so gently caress that movie. They planned on keeping only four songs and redoing the rest of the soundtrack. While the good is it means "Morning Report" got cut, the bad is, given they're going to have different people composing the rest of the music, good chance they're not going to mesh very well. And they might do stupid bullcrap like they did in B&B where they break the flow of the music to add unnecessary flourish. And count me as one who thinks Beyonce is overhyped as an artist, she's good but she's not 'Oooh Mr. Darcy' good Robindaybird fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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glam rock hamhock posted:They apparently cut "Be Prepared" from it so gently caress that movie. What? No, why? Why would they do that? Robindaybird posted:They planned on keeping only four songs and redoing the rest of the soundtrack. While the good is it means "Morning Report" got cut, the bad is, given they're going to have different people composing the rest of the music, good chance they're not going to mesh very well. ....I am suddenly a little less optimistic about this movie. Still has a great cast though.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:What? No, why? Why would they do that? the literal answer I see for why Be Prepared got cut was to give an ending credit song for Beyonce.
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These remakes are terrible, all they're doing is recreating the original movie. What, the remake is doing something different from the original movie? Ffffffuck that!
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Guy Mann posted:These remakes are terrible, all they're doing is recreating the original movie. I've actually really liked most of the remakes, and only one I outright hated was "Maleficent" which is the one that was the most different from the original. And like, sure, I'm still going to see it and I'll reserve judgment on it until I do, but "Be Prepared" is such a great song and I would have loved to see a new spin on it.
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I think the only "remake" I've seen of the lot is Alice in Wonderland, which was less remake and more wholesale sequel. I actually kinda liked it. Not enough to care about Through the Looking Glass though.
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A co-worker today said a friend of his works on the new Lion King and that the reason Be Prepared got cut is that Scar's role in the film is changing. He's going to be a tragic figure and the way he ends up killing Mufasa is more convoluted, so it's not purely out of malice. But once he does, he takes advantage and becomes king. And there's apparently a new song where he struggles with the weight of his new power.. There was also something about how the film will address how crappy the hyenas are treated in the animal hierarchy, and Simba fixes things at the end so there's more equality between all the animals. I work in the entertainment industry so it's not unheard of that this could be true, but it could also just be someone peddling their idea of what the film could be and spreading it as fact.
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Ccs posted:A co-worker today said a friend of his works on the new Lion King and that the reason Be Prepared got cut is that Scar's role in the film is changing. He's going to be a tragic figure and the way he ends up killing Mufasa is more convoluted, so it's not purely out of malice. But once he does, he takes advantage and becomes king. And there's apparently a new song where he struggles with the weight of his new power.. That all sounds good to me
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Shadow Hog posted:I think the only "remake" I've seen of the lot is Alice in Wonderland, which was less remake and more wholesale sequel. After hating the first one, the sequel made for a surprisingly enjoyable hangover movie. Just fast forward through Depp’s scenes.
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The only thing I liked about Alice in Wonderland was Christopher Lee as the Jabberwocky and that portrayal of the Cheshire Cat is my favourite.
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I have a Very Advanced Headcanon for how bullshit it is people give Ratigan poo poo for being a rat, even though he’s a professor. A learnéd man.
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Macaluso posted:Talking about Penguins of Madagascar, I went back and watched some of the stuff from it on youtube: The movie is just a pure joy to watch. The only thing it does less-than-perfectly is the ham-fisted way it squashes in the moral. It's just so serious about it in a movie that takes literally nothing else seriously. I wish it had been 100% tongue-in-cheek the entire time, or just dropped the moral entirely.
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Ccs posted:A co-worker today said a friend of his works on the new Lion King and that the reason Be Prepared got cut is that Scar's role in the film is changing. He's going to be a tragic figure and the way he ends up killing Mufasa is more convoluted, so it's not purely out of malice. But once he does, he takes advantage and becomes king. And there's apparently a new song where he struggles with the weight of his new power.. That actually sounds amazing and I hope it's true. Like, I take back everything I said, as much as I love "Be Prepared" it's worth losing if they really did change the plot that much and in that way. As a kid I hated how the hyenas were portrayed as the "evil" species. I couldn't understand why one kind of carnivorous animal was "Noble and Just" while the other was "Wicked and Cruel" when essentially they both wanted the same thing: to be able to eat. I wonder if my childhood anger over that injustice was the start of me becoming a socialist as an adult....
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:That actually sounds amazing and I hope it's true. Like, I take back everything I said, as much as I love "Be Prepared" it's worth losing if they really did change the plot that much and in that way. Hyenas are kinda awful irl though. Whereas lions are pretty much housecats if housecats could eat you, i.e. a kind of awful people have come to romanticize, i.e. consummate royalty
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I've read that lions breed so well in captivity that zoos give them contraceptives.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:That actually sounds amazing and I hope it's true. Like, I take back everything I said, as much as I love "Be Prepared" it's worth losing if they really did change the plot that much and in that way. yeah honestly if they're dropping the "lion hitler" angle then Be Prepared kind of doesn't fit anymore, it's one of the more evil villain songs Disney has ever done
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Pick posted:I have a Very Advanced Headcanon for how bullshit it is people give Ratigan poo poo for being a rat, even though he’s a professor. A learnéd man. They should give him poo poo for drowning all those widows and orphans instead.
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I have made my view of hyenas as portrayed in Lion King clear so I like this direction. I guess scar will be like an actual Kenyan-born Obama
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I already saw the live action Lion King a couple of weeks back. Chadwick Boseman was great.
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The_Doctor posted:I already saw the live action Lion King a couple of weeks back. Chadwick Boseman was great.  I really hope this isn't the joke I'm reading it as, because jesus christ, dude
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:
The plots of Black Panther and Lion King are somewhat similar? What the hell are you reading into it? 
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The_Doctor posted:The plots of Black Panther and Lion King are somewhat similar? What the hell are you reading into it? There are some surface level things (relative of dead royalty unexpectedly seizes power, the rightful heir is inexperienced as a leader, both films take place in Africa) and the Spirit World in Black Panther is very visually similar to the scene Lion King where Simba sees Mufasa's ghost (which may be an intentional reference, or it could be that both films borrow it from an aspect of African spiritualism that I'm not personally familiar with). It's a not particularity nuanced take, but my wife did say something kinda similar walking out of Black Panther ("That was... kinda Lion King, right?"). asecondduck fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Why make a live action remake of a cartoon if in order to make it you'll have to have everything in it be a cartoon
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Well, I mean at that point it's not a live-action remake, it's just a remake remake.
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Its no longer a remaster or remake, but now a re-imagining. Which cool, lets do this.
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They probably want to have a second go at a technology that critics have admitted was fairly impressive in their first attempt - the blending of real-world sets with entirely-digital actors. Given their first attempt was friggin Dinosaur, sure, try again with the more-solid plot foundation that is four-legged Hamlet, probably won't do worse.
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I wasn't thrilled with the idea of a Lion King remake (or, heck, any of their remakes so far) but if that post earlier is accurate, then they are doing something different with the property. Lion King does deserve a more nuanced take on the story than the original children's film offered (it is, after all, Hamlet).
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