
Not trying to be a killjoy or anything, but the only thing these two trailers did for me emotionally was making me think: “Wow, I really need to re-watch those again!”
Amen, James!James wrote:Hate to be a Scrooge but other than the fact that they obviously make money, I just don't get these remakes. It feels exactly like that period where Disney was making sequels to all their animated classics and none of us were fans of that! Like that era, I'm hoping this will eventually come to an end sooner rather than later!
Even though it was actually Disney's attempt to salvage that Wes Craven horror-movie of the video game that was being bounced around studios, and probably got in a clearance sale from Dimension.droosan wrote:I've never understood the appeal of these, either.![]()
To this day, the only one I've seen was Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland (which itself really came across as more of a live-action 'sequel' to the original story).
Or, as their stake in the new Studio-franchise "Create five-year strategies out of whatever properties you have lying around!" competition, as studios figure out how to make leftover-hash movies with existing audience pre-identification, without new original screenwriters--As Ben has said elsewhere, these live-action adaptations seem to function more as ways for Disney to get the revenue that they otherwise used to get from theatrical re-releases of their classic animated feature library (which 'dried-up' for them, with the advent of home video).
We're starting to reach the saturation point where somebody in the studios comes down hard--Randall wrote:There's just no creative reason for a film like the new Aladdin to exist.
I am curious to see how it comes out, because I'm a curious guy, and I'm interested in how they achieve this (for better or worse); but it's not something I would have greenlit.
Yeah, "New" is definitely the...Ohh, it's...(sigh)...Be careful what you wish for.Randall wrote:(At least Dumbo promises something new.)
Yes, with Disney trying to find their own stake in the Franchise Game, it's more than just voodoo chicken-bones "Why Alice was a hit"/"Why Cinderella was a hit"/"Why Jungle Book was a hit":Ben wrote:But this new film will make Dumbo new again, just as Aladdin will, and Lion King will. Nostalgia for the originals will spike (as evidenced by this thread) and these properties will get shots in the arm for both the original and new versions, just as the older schedule of reissuing the classics used to before digital and streaming put an end to the vault.
My biggest surprise is actually how lazy these things have been, often being almost shot for shot, photorealistic versions of the animated films, as if those are now nothing more than elaborate storyboards. Look at Lion King. Look at Aladdin! I don’t see how the credited directors can really claim originality when such things as the Genie emerging from the lamp or the wide vistas of the African plains are the exact same shots.
But that’s all these things ultimately are.