Disney's Live Action The Little Mermaid

CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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LittleBuford said:
It’s not great for him. It doesn’t mean his view his representative. Based on other reactions, it isn’t.
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I mean, obviously? For whom would a reviewer's comments be representative other than the reviewer himself?

Californian Elitist said:
I’ve never had the opposite reaction, where is at through a movie and thought to myself, this was necessary. Lol.

I either like it or don’t like it. I don’t think about necessity.
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It's a pretty common complaint about all of the live-action remakes, aside from Maleficent, which doesn't really count.
 
Tha Realest

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Phroobar said:
Where is all this media marketing for Elemental? It's all hands on deck for TLM while over at Pixar marketing went on vacation.
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This is why I think the crowded May/June calendar isn’t doing Disney any favors. They have to promote, sequentially, GOTG3 (which they’ll stop doing now that TLM is on the horizon), TLM (5/26), then shift gears suddenly to Elemental (6/16, which has had virtually no advertising yet and probably has terrible awareness), then ramp up for Indy 5 (6/30, and has already had a ton more marketing as compared to Elemental.

Disney has a finite amount of promotional dollars and employees (big hit in the layoffs). There’s also a finite amount of marketing space and box office dollars to compete with, especially when you have competition in the form of Fast X, Spider-Man, The Flash, Transformers, and Mission Impossible all coming in the same time frame.

Very crowded, finite resources, competing studios under Disney umbrella. Elemental is getting left out in the elements.
 
CaptainAmerica

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EPCOT-O.G. said:
This is why I think the crowded May/June calendar isn’t doing Disney any favors. They have to promote, sequentially, GOTG3 (which they’ll stop doing now that TLM is on the horizon), TLM (5/26), then shift gears suddenly to Elemental (6/16, which has had virtually no advertising yet and probably has terrible awareness), then ramp up for Indy 5 (6/30, and has already had a ton more marketing as compared to Elemental.

Disney has a finite amount of promotional dollars and employees (big hit in the layoffs). There’s also a finite amount of marketing space and box office dollars to compete with, especially when you have competition in the form of Fast X, Spider-Man, The Flash, Transformers, and Mission Impossible all coming in the same time frame.

Very crowded, finite resources, competing studios under Disney umbrella. Elemental is getting left out in the elements.
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I've seen more for Wish than Elemental and it's five months later.
 
Tha Realest

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LittleBuford said:
I disagree with this. It’s perfectly possible and fair to wonder if a film is necessary after having seen it. This was my reaction to the remake of The Lion King, which I found utterly pointless.
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I think this is especially true when the ”live action” “films” treat the undisputed classics as pre-viz storyboards and the final product is an uninspired mess.
 
LittleBuford

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EPCOT-O.G. said:
I think this is especially true when the ”live action” “films” treat the undisputed classics as pre-viz storyboards and the final product is an uninspired mess.
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To be clear, I’m not endorsing his assessment, nor do I agree with your characterisation. I dislike generalisations and prefer to assess each remake individually on its own merits. I’ve enjoyed some of them and disliked others. I am very excited for The Little Mermaid and hope I love it, though I’m prepared for the possibility that I may not.
 
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doctornick

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Not specific to TLM, but when people talk about the live action adaptations, I feel bad when they ignore The Jungle Book which is a great movie on its own and probably the only one I think is better than the original cartoon.
 
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CaptainAmerica

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doctornick said:
It specific to TLM, but when people talk about the live action adaptations, I feel bad when they ignore The Jungle Book which is a great movie on its own and probably the only one I think is better than the original cartoon.
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Jungle Book always struck me as Favreau doing a proof-of-concept for Lion King rather than a project they took on for its own sake.
 
Tha Realest

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CaptainAmerica said:
I've seen more for Wish than Elemental and it's five months later.
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Not to be conspiratorial, but if you as a company head harbored a true animosity for Pixar, it’s costs, and it’s independence, what would you do any differently than how they’ve been treated the last few years?
 
Phroobar

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EPCOT-O.G. said:
This is why I think the crowded May/June calendar isn’t doing Disney any favors. They have to promote, sequentially, GOTG3 (which they’ll stop doing now that TLM is on the horizon), TLM (5/26), then shift gears suddenly to Elemental (6/16, which has had virtually no advertising yet and probably has terrible awareness), then ramp up for Indy 5 (6/30, and has already had a ton more marketing as compared to Elemental.

Disney has a finite amount of promotional dollars and employees (big hit in the layoffs). There’s also a finite amount of marketing space and box office dollars to compete with, especially when you have competition in the form of Fast X, Spider-Man, The Flash, Transformers, and Mission Impossible all coming in the same time frame.

Very crowded, finite resources, competing studios under Disney umbrella. Elemental is getting left out in the elements.
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So the biggest media company in the world can't hire marketing people because of budget cuts? Disney is so doomed for a corporate takeover.
 
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Kirby86

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Postive reaction is a good thing. It's also pretty much saying what I expected Halle Baliey is great as Aeril, the cgi is not amazing but serviceable.
 
Magenta Panther

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EPCOT-O.G. said:
This is why I think the crowded May/June calendar isn’t doing Disney any favors. They have to promote, sequentially, GOTG3 (which they’ll stop doing now that TLM is on the horizon), TLM (5/26), then shift gears suddenly to Elemental (6/16, which has had virtually no advertising yet and probably has terrible awareness), then ramp up for Indy 5 (6/30, and has already had a ton more marketing as compared to Elemental.

Disney has a finite amount of promotional dollars and employees (big hit in the layoffs). There’s also a finite amount of marketing space and box office dollars to compete with, especially when you have competition in the form of Fast X, Spider-Man, The Flash, Transformers, and Mission Impossible all coming in the same time frame.

Very crowded, finite resources, competing studios under Disney umbrella. Elemental is getting left out in the elements.
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"Spiderman: Across The Spiderverse" is the film I'm looking forward to. The first Spiderverse film was fantastic. I loved it even though I have no interest in superheroes. BTW, Spiderman is blowing the Mermaid out of the water when it comes to presales. I can't predict what's going to happen box-office-wise, of course. Mermaid is a popular Disney IP. We'll see what happens...
 

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