Disney's Live Action The Little Mermaid

[Angel Ariel]

Jurassic: Dominion was also poorly received and killed the franchise for now. But a good tv show can revitalize.

Camp Cretaceous on Netflix was fantastic, but then dominion was a definite let down. Loved seeing the OG characters, hated the plot. They could have done so much better.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Rotten Tomatoes statistics and critics reviews = worthless, again.

People's characterizations of a movie as if we all agree on that opinion with no data = less than worthless.

 

[LittleBuford]

Rotten Tomatoes statistics and critics reviews = worthless, again.

How so?

 

[matt9112]

I haven't heard plot-related complaints. IMO, it actually fleshes out the plot and expands on both Ariel and Eric's characters quite well. The lighting is also not nearly as dark as the trailers make it seem. That's a trailer fail.

I watched a pretty fair and unbiased review and he couldn’t stop talking about how dark every scene that’s not on the surface is. He also mentioned the plot you speak of and that it adds legitimately nothing to the actual story. Also lack of emotion across most actors. Those were the big take aways.

 

[Californian Elitist]

How so?

Not directly replying to this message, but I wanted to know which post of yours you wanted me to respond to in the spoiler thread. Let me know!

 

[Tha Realest]

You know, we thought of something. Next week we go to Universal for the first time. We can't wait, but what hits me is that most of the franchises represented there are either out of date or dying. So it occurred to us that the reason Disney keeps making remakes is to keep the "older" movies alive today to keep their parks and merchandize active and current. Yeah, there are differences, but maybe, just maybe, that while most have been successful on their own, they also revitalize interest in the classic animated versions at the same time which can generate more overall revenue.



Thanks for the fake news.

How many attractions does Disney have based on The Jungle Book, Pete’s Dragon, 101 Dalmatians/Cruella, Mulan, and Lady and the Tramp?

 

[Jedijax719]

Rotten Tomatoes statistics and critics reviews = worthless, again.

Good grief!!!

 

[Tha Realest]

If anyone dares mention the practically perfect and too-good-for-this-world Ms. Catherine O'Hara as a reason why Elemental flops, it's going to get ugly in that thread. Trust me.

Disney would NEVER waste the talents of the impeccable Catherine O’Hara

 

[Angel Ariel]

I watched a pretty fair and unbiased review and he couldn’t stop talking about how dark every scene that’s not on the surface is. He also mentioned the plot you speak of and that it adds legitimately nothing to the actual story. Also lack of emotion across most actors. Those were the big take aways.

The water being too dark is very subjective all around. It honestly wasn’t to me, but I won’t tell someone they saw it wrong either

As for the plot adding nothing to the story, I will vehemently disagree. It very much pushes back on the whole “she gave up her voice for a man” criticism to really show how these were two people, neither of whom felt fit in in their own worlds, who found that sense of belonging in each other (and brought the two worlds together in doing so).

Lack of emotion was a problem with Triton, but not really anyone else imo.

 

[Chi84]

The water being too dark is very subjective all around. It honestly wasn’t to me, but I won’t tell someone they saw it wrong either

As for the plot adding nothing to the story, I will vehemently disagree. It very much pushes back on the whole “she gave up her voice for a man” criticism to really show how these were two people, neither of whom felt fit in in their own worlds, who found that sense of belonging in each other (and brought the two worlds together in doing so).

Lack of emotion was a problem with Triton, but not really anyone else imo.

That’s good to hear. Thanks for your input.

 

[Disney Irish]

Spiderman is drowning the Little Mermaid. I will be even worst when Transformers opens.

Just like with all of Sony SpiderVerse films, Disney is actually rooting for ATSV to do well as they get 100% of all merchandise sales from the movies.

As for Transformers, that franchise just like the Fast franchise might have run out of gas. The last two Transformers films didn't light the box office on fire so we'll see.

 

[LittleBuford]

Not directly replying to this message, but I wanted to know which post of yours you wanted me to respond to in the spoiler thread. Let me know!

Thanks—here’s a link to it:

SPOILER: Live-Action The Little Mermaid

I originally posted my review on Saturday night in the other thread but have just been informed that it’s not appropriate reading for those who haven’t yet seen the film. Since I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone, I’ll stick to posting my thoughts here instead. —— I just got back from...

forums.wdwmagic.com

 

[Phroobar]

Just like with all of Sony SpiderVerse films, Disney is actually rooting for ATSV to do well as they get 100% of all merchandise sales from the movies.

As for Transformers, that franchise just like the Fast franchise might have run out of gas. The last two Transformers films didn't light the box office on fire so we'll see.

Merchandise sales doesn't always go with box office. See Wakanda Forever. That crap is still laying around even under clearance. Who knows how much merch sales Disney gets anyway. This is a Sony movie.

 

[erasure fan1]

As for Transformers, that franchise just like the Fast franchise might have run out of gas. The last two Transformers films didn't light the box office on fire so we'll see.

They should have shut down the Bay-verse after 3. Bumblebee was pretty well liked by most and was a great re-start. I'm not sure how rise of the beasts will do. On one hand it seems like they are starting over again. So will people care? On the other hand. There's a lot of G1 fans and a lot of beast wars fans, and this seems to be giving both sides what they want. I don't see it doing a billion, but it could do really well if the word of mouth is strong.

 

[MagicMouseFan]

 

[Phroobar]

They should have shut down the Bay-verse after 3. Bumblebee was pretty well liked by most and was a great re-start. I'm not sure how rise of the beasts will do. On one hand it seems like they are starting over again. So will people care? On the other hand. There's a lot of G1 fans and a lot of beast wars fans, and this seems to be giving both sides what they want. I don't see it doing a billion, but it could do really well if the word of mouth is strong.

Bumblebee isn't part of the Bay-verse neither is ROTB.

 

[doctornick]

Merchandise sales doesn't always go with box office. See Wakanda Forever. That crap is still laying around even under clearance. Who knows how much merch sales Disney gets anyway. This is a Sony movie.

The entire point of the previous post was that the contract between Disney/Marvel and Sony was amended in 2011 to give Disney/Marvel all of the merchandise sales related to Spider-Man films (and they gave up their share of the Spider-Man box office in return).

 

[FettFan]

Bumblebee isn't part of the Bay-verse neither is ROTB.

Yet the casual moviegoer would not know that RotB isn’t bay-verse as the characters are all visually similar.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

It's wild how identical the Domestic box office is to Aladdin. It's tracking step-for-step.

 

[DKampy]

They should have shut down the Bay-verse after 3. Bumblebee was pretty well liked by most and was a great re-start. I'm not sure how rise of the beasts will do. On one hand it seems like they are starting over again. So will people care? On the other hand. There's a lot of G1 fans and a lot of beast wars fans, and this seems to be giving both sides what they want. I don't see it doing a billion, but it could do really well if the word of mouth is strong.

I have a feeling it will not do well…I don’t feel any buzz…I know quite a few film fans in real life and no one is talking about Transformers… People mention The Flash, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, even Barbie, but there is no chatter about Transformers, but I could be wrong