BagOfGroceries
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I am going to this movie solely to put more money in the Howard Ashman estate.
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Disney's Live Action The Little Mermaid
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Brer Panther
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Apologies for taking so long to reply to this, but A) apology accepted and B) yes, this is what I was referring to. I'm still pretty sure I saw the people doing the Beauty and the Beast remake claiming that Belle wasn't a strong enough female character, but I could be misremembering.I must apologise to @Brer Panther, because he wasn’t referring to what I thought he was. These are the words he must have had in mind (spoken by the remake’s producer):
In the original movie, it felt like Jasmine didn't have as compelling a goal. Her main aim was to find the love of her life.
In this case, the romance is important, but she also wants to see more of Agrabah, and take more of a leadership role in ruling the city. Her character has a much stronger journey.
Princess Jasmine has stronger role in 'Aladin' remake: Producer
Producer Dan Lin, who is backing the reboot of the animated 1992 classic 'Aladdin', says the film will have a 'much stronger journey' for Princess Jasmine. In an interview to Empire, Dan spoke about the film and transformation of Jasmine's character, reports femalefirst.com.uk. He said: 'In...news.abplive.com
Apart from the bolded, this is indeed a very unfair and inaccurate way to talk about the animated Jasmine, and @Brer Panther was right to call it out as “put[ting] down the original”, though I don’t agree with his claim that such disparagement is a usual feature of Disney’s promotion of the remakes.
Word. The Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Lion King remakes all did extremely well despite how crappy they were. I see no reason to think this won't do well. I suppose there's a small chance it might not do AS well as those three what with all the people giving it a hard time just for having a black Ariel (people freaking out over the same-sex kiss is a good chunk of the reason why Lightyear flopped, right?), but I wouldn't count on it.
doctornick
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In terms of belovedness, I’d probably peg The Little Mermaid between Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast so I think that it would fall somewhere between the two in terms of pre-pandemic box (so say $1 to 1.3B WW). And that’s assuming the racial swap doesn’t deter people’s nostalgia.
Captain Marvel did $1.1B WW so it was right in that same range. I know there’s an argument that it got that high because of its placement between and in relation to the Avengers movies but it had a lot of repeat viewing so I’m not really convinced. And Ant-man & The Wasp was similarly placed and only did $622M.
Now post pandemic, both of these films will be depressed compared to pre pandemic box office. But I think it could go either way in terms of which one does better.
I’d peg them both for somewhere around $800M WW +/- $100M. Honestly my gut feeling is that the audience for TLM is going to be more apt to wait for D+ than the MCU/The Marvels crowd which is more likely to go to the theaters and avoid spoilers so I actually think The Marvels will do better but we’ll see.
Captain Marvel did $1.1B WW so it was right in that same range. I know there’s an argument that it got that high because of its placement between and in relation to the Avengers movies but it had a lot of repeat viewing so I’m not really convinced. And Ant-man & The Wasp was similarly placed and only did $622M.
Now post pandemic, both of these films will be depressed compared to pre pandemic box office. But I think it could go either way in terms of which one does better.
I’d peg them both for somewhere around $800M WW +/- $100M. Honestly my gut feeling is that the audience for TLM is going to be more apt to wait for D+ than the MCU/The Marvels crowd which is more likely to go to the theaters and avoid spoilers so I actually think The Marvels will do better but we’ll see.
So... it's not beat by beat, but beat by half-beat? Will everything be in slow motion? Is that added song an hour long?
MoonRakerSCM
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I'm excited to hear her sing because she has a stellar voice, but I'm extremely concerned of what they've done to the songs.
erasure fan1
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That's just it. Why bother going to the theater and spending all that money for something that's just, meh. I know streaming has changed my viewing habits. Something that I might have been on the fence about seeing, I would just go see it. Now, I can see it on stream in a month or two.
Phroobar
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That's my argument against The Little Mermaid. The trailers don't wow me enough to see it in the theater. I am a Disney fan but I really don't need to see a copy of a movie I can see anytime via streaming. However, Transformers Rise of the Beasts does wow me enough to see it in a theater. I might even buy the DVD. There is no way I'm buying the TLM DVD.
Californian Elitist
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Once again, Halle’s vocals…
Californian Elitist
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Very tempted to get these.
Phroobar
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That sounds much better.
BuddyThomas
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MoonRakerSCM
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Ok? I changed my hot dog topping from mustard to ketchup the other day too... doesn't change the fact that Disney is changing things for idiotic reasons.
LittleBuford
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What specifically do you find extremely concerning? From what Menken has said, it seems the changes are limited in scope and affect only two songs.
Ghost93
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My favorite part of "Poor Unfortunate Souls" when Ursula says, "Don't underestimate the importance of BODY LANGUAGE, HA!" will probably be cut. It's probably her most drag queen-like moment.
That being said, it's nothing to get too upset over. The original movie still exists.
LittleBuford
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BuddyThomas
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Who cares? They are two different movies made at two different periods in time. I am not the same person now that I was in the 1980’s. Neither are you. Why should it be exactly the same? Free answer - it shouldn’t.