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I'll watch Ralph 2 eventually but my biggest fear is that it's full of "get this reference?" and nothing more. Yes, Ralph 1 had a lot of that with video games but it also had some heart to go along with it.
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Yeah, I’m a huge Wreck-It Ralph fan, but RBtI did nothing for me. Suffers the same issue as most Disney sequels where there isn’t a reason for the movie to exist, no story or idea that someone was dying to tell, just more time with some of the characters we like and reheated ideas that were cut from the first film. I still tear up at the climax of Wreck-It Ralph, but there was no emotional underpinning of this at all. The Disney Princesses steal the show, but they don’t really have anything tying their bit to this story in particular. I’m shocked (third act spoilers) sentient flesh mass Ralph made it into this film, one of the most terrifying, eldritch things I’ve seen on screen in recent memory, let alone in a kids animated movie. The two stingers were the biggest laughs of the movie for me, especially the first, if only because I had turned to my wife not thirty seconds before and lamented that the Bunny Pancake scene from the trailers wasn’t in the actual movie, only to have that little girl and the directors so expertly mock me as the manchild I am. Even more disappointing than Incredibles 2.
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I wonder if there was a script kicking around at Disney of “Inside Out, but it’s the internet” and they didn’t feel it was solid enough to hold its own so they slapped on WIR for brand recognition.
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Nov 22, 2018 06:34
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Dang, not a lot has come out that I've had any interest in so was just kind of considering it to kill time. Sounds like it'll be a bad idea then.
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dirksteadfast posted:I wonder if there was a script kicking around at Disney of “Inside Out, but it’s the internet” and they didn’t feel it was solid enough to hold its own so they slapped on WIR for brand recognition. That's more or less what already happened with Emoji Movie
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Nov 22, 2018 18:25
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Disney just dropped a Lion King teaser during the football game it looks pretty much like you'd expect: like The Lion King, but with the CG animals from The Jungle Book.
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Nov 22, 2018 23:35
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A trailer for The CGIon King just aired during the football game and literally every single shot in it was the same as its traditionally animated counterpart. [Edit: Found it online: https://twitter.com/disneylionking/status/1065734854778572800?s=19]
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Nov 22, 2018 23:35
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A CGI shot for shot remake of traditionally animated movie.
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Nov 22, 2018 23:40
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Ah good they have reduced the appeal and replaced it with muscle simulations and intricate fur.
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Nov 22, 2018 23:54
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It's a step-up from a rewatch, but I just rewatched it this year, so I'll probably watch it in 2028
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Nov 23, 2018 00:02
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the animals sure look CGI - and they should sell us on what makes this worth seeing instead of just pulling out the DVD/BD you already have.
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Nov 23, 2018 00:28
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Just completely artistically bancrupt. Edit: vvv Yeah I noticed that too. Bleugh Renoistic fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Nov 23, 2018 |
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Nov 23, 2018 00:31
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I appreciate that the last line of the trailer is just "Remember", to drive the point home that this is only a tool to trigger your nostalgia.
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Nov 23, 2018 00:34
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The optimist in me says that Favreau realized there was no way he could improve on the beginning so he shot-for-shot remade it, and the rest of the film won't be so slavish. After all, we know they cut some stuff (Be Prepared) so there has to be some changes.
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Nov 23, 2018 00:38
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But how will Scar be gay-coded lion???!?
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I doubt the whole movie is a shot-for-shot recreation like Circle of Life appears to be, but if it was, it’d at least be way better than the Beauty and the Beast remake
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Nov 23, 2018 01:27
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I just want to how what TImone and Pumba are like. I really didn't like them in the original.
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Senior Scarybagels posted:I just want to how what TImone and Pumba are like. I really didn't like them in the original. Spoilers: Exactly the same, but gross looking.
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Senior Scarybagels posted:I just want to how what TImone and Pumba are like. I really didn't like them in the original. What didn't you like about them?
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Nov 23, 2018 02:12
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The hula is being cut for sure.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:The hula is being cut for sure. …frick, like none of my favorite bits from the original are gonna make it in, are they? No "Be Prepared", most of the great Timon & Puumba moments are gonna get cut because they're too goofy, poo poo they're probably even gonna nix Zaazu singing "It's A Small World After All" after Scar demands he stop singing Nobody Knows. Ugh. I was actually planning on seeing CGIon King in theatres but the more I think about it the more I realize I'm just better off watching the original again. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Nov 23, 2018 |
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Nov 23, 2018 02:31
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I hadn't heard they're cutting Be Prepared. That's pretty dumb. I wonder if they'll re-re-re-add Morning Report. Fourth time, surely it'll stick now!
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asecondduck posted:The optimist in me says that Favreau realized there was no way he could improve on the beginning so he shot-for-shot remade it, and the rest of the film won't be so slavish. After all, we know they cut some stuff (Be Prepared) so there has to be some changes. Wait, they cut the best song of the movie? Welp.
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gmq posted:Wait, they cut the best song of the movie? Welp. yep since apparently Scar's going to be a very different character and Be Prepared no longer fits - least that's the official word.
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asecondduck posted:What didn't you like about them? I dunno, their sequence felt out of place with the rest of the film.
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Christ, even James Earl Jones' delivery of Mufasa's lines is exactly the same as in the original except with a word or two dropped.
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Did the original Lion King have a bit about Pumbaa not liking being called "pig"? Because when I rewatched it, him suddenly freaking out that the hyenas don't call him "Mr Pig" at the end felt a bit out of nowhere; of course, it's not something I'd have thought about at all when I was little, so it's no big deal. The way I look at it is that Lion King is basically Hamlet in the first place, but is this going to Mel Gibson's Hamlet, or is it going to be Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet? 
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Uh, the name is Mr. Pig.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Because when I rewatched it, him suddenly freaking out that the hyenas don't call him "Mr Pig" at the end felt a bit out of nowhere; of course, it's not something I'd have thought about at all when I was little, so it's no big deal. It’s a reference to the 1970 Sidney Poitier film They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
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Wheat Loaf posted:The way I look at it is that Lion King is basically Hamlet in the first place, but is this going to Mel Gibson's Hamlet, or is it going to be Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet? It's going to be Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hamlet.
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Phylodox posted:It’s a reference to the 1970 Sidney Poitier film They Call Me Mister Tibbs! In the pantheon of disappointing sequels to great movies, it's head and shoulders above the rest because it's got a scene where Tibbs finds his son smoking cigarettes and tells him, "If you're going to smoke, do it right," and shares a spliff with him.
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Robindaybird posted:yep since apparently Scar's going to be a very different character This is for sure going to be some dumb poo poo where they force a theme that wasn't in the original text and which doesn't fit naturally with the story. Senior Scarybagels posted:I dunno, their sequence felt out of place with the rest of the film. Well, The Lion King is kind of based on Hamlet. They are very much Shakespearean comic relief characters, but actually with a little more integration into the plot than just being like a random watchman or guard or something.
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Ccs posted:Ah good they have reduced the appeal and replaced it with muscle simulations and intricate fur. I can appreciate high quality muscle and fur but only on Das Boo posted:gay-coded lions???!? So if Be Prepared is cut and Scar changed then this is a hard pass even on free streaming.
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Nov 23, 2018 14:12
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They should have made a souped up version of the broadway show asthetic
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Moon Atari posted:This is for sure going to be some dumb poo poo where they force a theme that wasn't in the original text and which doesn't fit naturally with the story. Funny thing is there's even an equivalent to Rosencrantz And Gildenstern Are Dead, in The Lion King 1 1/2. Incidentally, I've always pictured R&GAD as a silly musical with the titular characters introducing themselves and that they are dead, and I'm probably never going to seek to remedy that misconception.
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I'm surprised there isn't a series of R&G stories where they travel the Shakespeare Universe taking part in stories and stuff. Or is there?
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They made a movie. It's called Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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Moon Atari posted:Well, The Lion King is kind of based on Hamlet. They are very much Shakespearean comic relief characters, but actually with a little more integration into the plot than just being like a random watchman or guard or something. I mean I get that, but I dunno, like I said, I never really liked them. Maybe it was the over saturation, maybe it was the sequels that did it, but I feel like I never really liked those characters.
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