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Disney’s Mufasa - the lion king

BrianLo

BrianLo

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What the former made is a disappointment, I’m sure. But we’re getting fairly fixated on a singular (and pretty much only) metric that the company would be disappointed about. The company is sitting on not just recent follow up misses, but has a long baked in Through the Looking glass comp. Certainly not an impossibility no one considered as it was approved and certainly increasingly top of their mind after 2023.

Overall, one negative doesn’t negate the laundry list of positives. I suspect we’ll get an answer in the next quarterly when it is specifically called out as a positive. The movie will probably hit hot on D+ given the leggy halo it has. I actually suspect “Brother“ will have some mild protracted shelf life in the parks. Which “technically” the 1.6B one never did. Of course the movie still made more than just breaking even, this forum always minimizes the back end. Not to mention I think there’s a lot of consensus people really, really don’t think positively of the one that made more money. It didn’t leave a good lasting impression on the zeitgeist.

These are all things that move us beyond neutral. And if this wasn’t a Disney company production, sequels 3/4/5 would be approved with these numbers.

Said a final way, there’s a lot of variety in linguistics I’d use between neutral and blew the doors off that the first one did.
 
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Tony the Tigger

Tony the Tigger

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Question: do you think if the 2019 story had been done with the slightly improved 2024 cgi, it would have been more highly regarded?

Or was the problem more with other things - the little additions/adjustments?

I only sat down to watch it once, and fell asleep shortly after Mufasa died (not because it was boring, but because it was late.)
 
Agent H

Agent H

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Tony the Tigger said:
Question: do you think if the 2019 story had been done with the slightly improved 2024 cgi, it would have been more highly regarded?

Or was the problem more with other things - the little additions/adjustments?

I only sat down to watch it once, and fell asleep shortly after Mufasa died (not because it was boring, but because it was late.)
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Nah I don’t think so the movie just sucked. I mean look at what they did to “be prepared”. honestly out of all the live action remakes it’s my least favorite.
 
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Moka

Moka

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Tony the Tigger said:
Question: do you think if the 2019 story had been done with the slightly improved 2024 cgi, it would have been more highly regarded?

Or was the problem more with other things - the little additions/adjustments?

I only sat down to watch it once, and fell asleep shortly after Mufasa died (not because it was boring, but because it was late.)
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I think the online hate would be slightly less, for sure. But in general it's just an inferior version still, even with the minor additions it attempted. It needed to change up more with the story, not add useless scenes (extra scenes with Simba/Timon/Pumbaa and grubs) and remove important ones (like Rafiki's talk with Simba about confronting his past - hello???). The only half decent addition is Nala leaving the Pride Lands, but it's held back by the rest of the film and the Broadway production does it 100x better with Shadowland.
 
Baloo124

Baloo124

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Tony the Tigger said:
Question: do you think if the 2019 story had been done with the slightly improved 2024 cgi, it would have been more highly regarded?

Or was the problem more with other things - the little additions/adjustments?

I only sat down to watch it once, and fell asleep shortly after Mufasa died (not because it was boring, but because it was late.)
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My main problems with the 2019 story involved:
1. The emotionless expressions of the characters faces. Yes, I get they were going for "realism" in this, but it just didn't work for me with the film.
2. As others have mentioned, the complete dumbing down of "Be Prepared". The epic villain song from 1994 was severely melted down into a highly forgettable mess.
3. "Can You Feel The Love TONIGHT" occurring in the afternoon made zero sense.
4. Unnecessary additions (the insect pushing around a ball of poop), and pacing issues.
5. Too much of a play-by-play in many areas.

Compared to my favorite Disney remake, the Jungle Book, which felt new and fresh many times while paying tribute to the original, it all seemed necessary and worth being made. TLK felt more or less like "Why not, it'll make money. Let's just slap fresh paint and resell the product.."
 
Moka

Moka

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It has crossed $715M worldwide and has now surpassed ‘Dune: Part Two’ to become the 6th highest grossing film of 2024. What a run for a film with such a sluggish opening.

Stumbled across this yesterday. It’s well known TLK is #1, but TLK 2 being on this list without a theatrical release is nuts. #1 direct to video release of all time, and making it on the list period with films that were theatrical is a testament to the fact that this IP has a chokehold. Makes me wonder what took them so long to make this a theatrical IP. The next film being an original story is still the correct choice, but wowie.
 

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