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FlamingLiberal posted:I’m pretty sure the Mulan remake was a failure yes Wasn’t that one released during COVID with the weird Disney+ Premium thing as well? Who knows how much it made that way, and Disney’s probably not going to spill the beans on that.
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Mulan had some weird stuff about appeasing the Chinese government and filming in Xinjiang going against it too. Both good reasons to not see it but then it gets mixed up with actual anti-Asian racism.
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May 11, 2023 18:09
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Casimir Radon posted:Mulan had some weird stuff about appeasing the Chinese government and filming in Xinjiang going against it too. Both good reasons to not see it but then it gets mixed up with actual anti-Asian racism. Got bad news about "anti-Asian racism", hope you're sitting down.
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May 11, 2023 18:21
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Lid posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RLVSnMARQQ Affleck stopped being Batman only to end up starring in movies with Batman villains.
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mycot posted:The Mulan movie systemically removed every bit of comedy and whimsy I guess because foreign movies don't have those, but looking at the numbers, it seems to have lost a lot of money. 200 million budget and 70 million box office seems...bad. Didn't they make it Disney+ exclusive for a bit first? I remember word of mouth on the flick was pretty bad right away so probably killed its chances in theaters right then and there.
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mycot posted:The Mulan movie systemically removed every bit of comedy and whimsy I guess because foreign movies don't have those, but looking at the numbers, it seems to have lost a lot of money. 200 million budget and 70 million box office seems...bad. Turns out Chinese audiences don't like being pandered to by Hollywood, whoda thought.
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Chairman Capone posted:Do any of the live-action remakes... not necessarily improve on the original, but do anything interesting or innovative with them instead of just adding a ton of CGI? Alice in Wonderland was the earliest modern attempt and it wasn't a remake, but more like an alt-universe sequel set in a Tim Burton fever dream. It's aesthetically closer to American McGee than to the original Disney animation. Maleficent straight up made the title character the hero of Sleeping Beauty, including making sure we know that this whole thing was told from Aurora's viewpoint. Cinderella was the first actual remake that did not really change the original story but I recall it being quite good.
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I remember liking Malificent quite a bit thanks to the cast and the different perspective making the story so different. Is Malificent 2 any good?
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Neo Rasa posted:I remember liking Malificent quite a bit thanks to the cast and the different perspective making the story so different. Is Malificent 2 any good? The villain believes her lineage rightfully owns Maleficent's fairy kingdom, so she tries to genocide its native people with a chemical weapon. Sounds familiar?
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mycot posted:The Mulan movie systemically removed every bit of comedy and whimsy I guess because foreign movies don't have those, but looking at the numbers, it seems to have lost a lot of money. 200 million budget and 70 million box office seems...bad. no matter how much money these live action remakes make, they're all creatively bankrupt 
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May 12, 2023 22:29
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The Jungle Book and Dumbo remakes both did enough of their own thing for me to consider them to be good. But I don’t see them learning any positive lessons there. They’re just going to plow ahead with these until they stop making money.
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After Fast X we will get Fast XI and then, maybe Fast XII?!? The actors ran away instead of confirming so lol https://gizmodo.com/fast-x-fast-furious-final-trilogy-vin-diesel-universal-1850433364
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Casimir Radon posted:The Jungle Book and Dumbo remakes both did enough of their own thing for me to consider them to be good. But I don’t see them learning any positive lessons there. They’re just going to plow ahead with these until they stop making money. I'm with you inasmuch as Dumbo did a lot of its own thing.
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I've heard the theory (possibly from Yesterworld) that the live action remakes are essentially serving as new versions of the "Disney Vault" releases. It used to be that Disney periodically re-released their animated features into theaters, and were really hesitant to release them on home video because that would make theatrical re-releases unnecessary. Eventually they caved, but did the "Disney Vault" thing to make each home video release a limited time thing, to entice parents into impulse-buying the comparatively expensive tapes. They could get away with this each time a new format popped up - VHS, DVD, and Blu Ray, but after Blu Ray there hasn't been another format that's taken over to the same extent, so the well of re-releases had run dry. Disney briefly tried to pivot to 3D re-releases in the early 2010's, but that kind of fell flat, so now instead of re-releasing the same movie and getting diminishing returns, they can remake it and release it as a "new" product, and rake in a billion dollars.
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That's certainly possible. I think it's also just a general decision to use a popular IP again that you know is going to make money.
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Tars Tarkas posted:After Fast X we will get Fast XI and then, maybe Fast XII?!? The actors ran away instead of confirming so lol Is F&F XII going to have a mini game where the new cast member runs around loudly yelling that they're Dominic Turetto?
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Aquaman sets off a nuclear apocalypse It was a Furiosa prequel the whole time
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The endgame villain has to be Kurt Russell's CIA guy who they've been retrieving increasingly overpowered surveillance/cyber warfare widgets for since film 6
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i thought fast 9 was the first of the trilogy
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The third movie is Fast XXX a stealth attempt by vin diesel to reboot the franchise
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Alan Smithee posted:The third movie is Fast XXX a stealth attempt by vin diesel to reboot the franchise Stealthing is a crime in some places
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https://twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/1657252731969769472?t=Ak75fzEaNxmYbms-_J__DQ&s=19
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i love how all kojima does now is watch poo poo and go "what an exquisite good time!"
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/1657252731969769472?t=Ak75fzEaNxmYbms-_J__DQ&s=19 He would know things about head transplants
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Alan Smithee posted:i love how all kojima does now is watch poo poo and go "what an exquisite good time!" His one sentence reviews of "Just watched (blank)" with just an image of him in the theater and the movie poster have become infamously , instantly damning for a movie. Like people saw his Super Mario Bros tweet and turned on the movie.
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Young Freud posted:His one sentence reviews of "Just watched (blank)" with just an image of him in the theater and the movie poster have become infamously , instantly damning for a movie. Like people saw his Super Mario Bros tweet and turned on the movie. Can love bloom at the box office?
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/1657252731969769472?t=Ak75fzEaNxmYbms-_J__DQ&s=19 LOL he noticed the logo too.
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What am I missing?
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P.T. was a demo for a horror game that Kojima Productions, under pseudonym, developed back in 2014 in collaboration with Del Toro. On top of that it also served as a teaser for Silent Hills, before it was cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.T._(video_game)
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whydirt posted:What am I missing? Pideo Tojima
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Still mad the movies not named Fast X Furious.
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galagazombie posted:Still mad the movies not named Fast X Furious. 'FAS-TEN YOUR SEATBELTS' DAMMIT IT WAS RIGHT THERE
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The Mulan remake also tried to be faux-wuxia and came off as an incredibly bad and tone-deaf lovely knockoff of it, I've seen the final fight on youtube and it's impossibly bad. It's not just pandering, it's really bad pandering that seems to have no actual Chinese people involved at the production level or even asking what they might like.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Mulan remake also tried to be faux-wuxia and came off as an incredibly bad and tone-deaf lovely knockoff of it, I've seen the final fight on youtube and it's impossibly bad.
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Martman posted:They gave Mulan exactly one move (kicking arrows/projectiles back at the person who fired them) and it's the only notable thing she does in any of her fights. That movie sucked so hard, drat Who is this DM that allowed Mulan to have infinity ki points?
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Martman posted:They gave Mulan exactly one move (kicking arrows/projectiles back at the person who fired them) and it's the only notable thing she does in any of her fights. That movie sucked so hard, drat This made me look up some clips of the movie on YouTube and on top of the weird bad action scenes it just looks really bad in general, like drat.
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The MSJ posted:Who is this DM that allowed Mulan to have infinity ki points? Monks are an underpowered class, let them Deflect Missiles all they want 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Monks are an underpowered class, let them Deflect Missiles all they want Pick a better class next time!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Mulan remake also tried to be faux-wuxia and came off as an incredibly bad and tone-deaf lovely knockoff of it, I've seen the final fight on youtube and it's impossibly bad. Turns out, wuxia and martial arts movies in general are hard if you don’t know what you’re doing. Hong Kong studios were able to turn out so many because they had a lot of very experienced actors, directors, choreographers, and stunt performers making them for decades and passing on knowledge from one generation to the next. Disney’s killed any semblance of that they ever had.
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“Why spend money to train and nurture talent when I can just poach it from another studio who has?” Says every studio standing in a big circle looking at the studio to their right.
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