Travesty...spoiler alert

Marijil

Marijil

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"MALEFICENT' SPOILER ALERT
Dear Angelina Jolie
You have enough kids of your own, stay away from mine...
Are you kidding me...just got back from Maleficent, beyond a disappointment, its going to keep me up tonight...and I regret taking my 9 year old
If you are a true Disney fan and not a "Once Upon a Time", Disney meets Vampire Diaries, lets change the stories around just for s**** and giggles person, stay away from this...
Little did we know, Maleficent is really a fairy queen heroine, King Stefan is evil and its Maleficent's kiss, not that of Phillip that awakens Aurora
Is nothing sacred?
Can I have my 68 dollars back
Im scared to see what they will do with Cinderella....is Druzilla really the princess? Is the Fairy Godmother evil, should we have Sarah Silverman play Cinderella as a Gen X potty mouth....
What a joke
 
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Marijil

Marijil

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RandomPrincess said:
How did she try to take your kid?
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Ha ha...just trying to make a point
let me clarify
she is the executive producer as well as the star of this mess
it upsets me that Disney turns over a creative control of a classic to someone just for the sake of box office appeal...
I like my kids being brought up on the classics, not the version presented by a woman who not so long ago was making out with her brother and wearing her husbands blood in a vial around her neck...
 
tirian

tirian

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I saw it last night. "Maleficent" was overwrought, overproduced, silly, and worst of all—boring. It's a mess.

Disney animation has been enjoying great storytelling for a few years now, but their live-action division has been awful since the third "Pirates."
 
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eddieh

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I also think it was a travesty. From the moment I heard Maleficent say "could be broken by true love's kiss" we all looked at each other and said "Maleficent is going to kiss her, that's going to be true love's kiss". They just used this same plot for Frozen.

I also would have liked the story to follow the previous Disney animated feature.
  • Did they really need to rename the three fairies?
  • Wasn't he "Good King Stephen"?
  • Philip's father is King Hubert, not John".
  • What happened to Briar Rose?
  • When did the role of the villain switch?
  • What happened to all the music (I enjoyed that the animated feature used the music from the ballet)
  • I didn't mine Aurora seeing the Moors, but wish it seemed to Aurora that it was a dream.
  • Diablo is now Diaval?
  • Diablo was the dragon, not Meleficent?
Although I think Angelina did a good job, I feel like Disney has softened one of our most favorite villains. We love her because she IS evil - we don't want to pity her.

I would have loved this movie if there was no classic animated feature that has lore embedded within our culture. Now they're going to play around with Cinderella too? Disney, please stop! The almighty dollar is not worth the bastardization of the classics we love!
 
Magenta Panther

Magenta Panther

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Disney is really in the grip of a guilt complex, it seems. It demonized the role of the Prince in Frozen, and now...

SPOILER

...in Maleficent, it seems that a weak ol' man wasn't enough to wake Aurora.

God help us all if the same warped "feminist" perspective takes on Snow White. We'd have the Wicked Queen the heroine, while Snow would be a bratty spoiled teenybopper princess with a daddy complex.

I don't think the way to deal with the "problems" of past Disney princess films is to inject new versions with an overdose of misandry. Bashing men doesn't empower women. And vice-versa.

I'll still go see this, but not with a lot of enthusiasm...
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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Magenta Panther said:
SPOILER

...in Maleficent, it seems that a weak ol' man wasn't enough to wake Aurora.
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SPOLIER...

Phillip isnt "weak", just someone who barely knows Aurora. The point is that true love doesn't happen over the course of 5 minutes. If you see such logic as "anti-men" then your opinion is warped at best.

Magenta Panther said:
I'll still go see this, but not with a lot of enthusiasm...
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And then you'll complain about how much you didn't like it. How predictable.
 
GiveMeTheMusic

GiveMeTheMusic

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I don't see how anyone could have possibly expected this movie to just stick to the animated film - what would be the point of making a movie called "Maleficent" if that was the case? The trailers and commercials made the overall plot abundantly clear.

And no, the story of Sleeping Beauty isn't sacred - it ain't the Bible. I enjoy both Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent on their own merits. I know, right?
 
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eddieh

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Considering how much Disney is supposedly focused on lore and story, for them to negate their own lore and story is appalling.
There are ways to work around the original story and tell the behind-the-scenes story to make the original not what it seemed (at least two sides to every story). I would've been fine with this. But to go against the original classic that came out of your own studio and is the story supported at your theme parks is just ridiculous.
 
RandomPrincess

RandomPrincess

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If we take real history into account - someone like Alexander the Great, he came in conquered vast lands that already had their own laws and leaders. His own followers thought he was great, amazing etc. How do you think all those conquered people felt? Super fun being conquered, enslaved etc? Bet they didn't think he was so "great"

Sleeping Beauty is from the "good guys" point of view. Melicent from the "bad guys". Doesn't make either more true or right. The Japanese thought they were just fine and dandy bombing Pearl Harbor and there flyers were heroes. The US sees it a different way.
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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eddieh said:
There are ways to work around the original story and tell the behind-the-scenes story to make the original not what it seemed (at least two sides to every story). I would've been fine with this.
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That's what they did. Based on your posts, I doubt anything would have satisfied you with this approach.
 

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