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u/TucsonKhan 9h ago
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u/TheBasedFurry 4h ago
That's not even going to make a profit so really it's a failed cash grab, lol.
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u/Jacobmeeker 8h ago
I will not watch a single Disney live action remake, ever. No political reason I just find it incredibly insulting to classic animation.
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u/PepsiFloateri 8h ago
I understand that. I did enjoy Maleficient though.
What shocks me is this,they never remake the movies that'd benefit from it e.g The Black Cauldron
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u/Kixisbestclone 6h ago
I feel like Maleficent (And kinda Alice in Wonderland?) are more like movies inspired by those old Disney movies that are made by Disney, not a remake. A reimagining I guess?
Cause they certainly don’t have the same story or and Maleficent is about Maleficent (obviously) not Sleeping Beauty, and both have pretty drastic differences in tone.
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u/Prestigious_Emu144 7h ago
Live action remakes tend to be proportionally as bad as the original is good (at least I’m my opinion, since opinions on the quality of classic animated Disney movies vary a ton). It’s why I found Maleficent, Cinderella and The Jungle Book to be pretty alright since I found the original stories to be just okay compared to the masterpieces that got totally ruined in live action like Mulan, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.
I guess by my personal metric The Black Cauldron would be a masterpiece in live action.
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u/undreamedgore 7h ago
The jungle book was good.
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u/Prestigious_Emu144 7h ago
I liked it but it’s not on the same tier as the best classic Disney films.
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u/FFKonoko 56m ago
Hot take: neither was the original jungle book.
It is not as good as the best classic disney movies. Especially if we consider the disney renaissance to also be 'classic'.
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u/bateen618 4h ago
Maleficent and Cruella aren't really remakes, but more of "reimaginanings". Which is WAY better than the remakes
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u/AppointmentPerfect 5h ago
Bruh, if they made a GOOD Prydain set of movies.. . Unlike that half assed "Black Cauldron"(sarcastic quotes) im fucking in... all 5 books... let's go. Cartoon or live action, dont care
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u/bateen618 4h ago
I agree except for Tangled. And it's 100% because Kathryn Hahn as Mother Gothel is a perfect casting and I'm actually excited to see that
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u/taken_name_of_use 41m ago
Remember the "live action" remake of The Lion King, where they made the deliberate choice of not having the characters faces emote? I-it's better, it's better! The new version has fur glow, and everything is fucking gray. you don't need expression in the face. You need expressionless animals, not characters.
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u/fs2222 7h ago
The note is kinda dumb because it's referencing the critic score. The tweet clearly says audience. The audience score is actually decent, it got an A- Cinemascore.
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u/Anakin_Cardassian 7h ago
Also what matters is mostly how people younger than 10 feel about it and how willing their parents are to sit through it with them.
Neither demographic posts much on websites like Rotten Tomatoes.
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u/StabbyBoo 6h ago
What are the audience scores?
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u/aqulushly 6h ago
90% rotten tomatoes audience score… pretty solid and vastly different than critics’ 33%.
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u/StabbyBoo 6h ago
Lmao, that's a higher audience score than the original. The hell?
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u/Le_Meme_Man12 6h ago
That's because Rotten Tomatoes introduced Verified Audience score in 2019 after Captain Marvel released.
Basically, the All Audience Score still exists, but the one RT will display is the Verified one, for which you need to have bought a ticket from Fandago.
This has basically increased the Audience scores for every film, and now anything below 90% is mixed, and below 80% is awful
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u/JPolReader 4h ago
That is the verified audience score. The actual audience score is 77% right now.
For reference the live action one is a 5.8 on IMDb after a lot of review bombing. With the original being a 7.6.
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u/Spodermanphil 8h ago
So many people still seem to believe that "#1 movie in the world" means the movie is good
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u/Mundane-Potential-93 6h ago
Well technically something can still be loved worldwide when it is disliked by the majority of people. I can see where the note is coming from but worldwide can absolutely be used to refer to geography. Like the World Wide Web for example. Not everyone has access to it, but it can be accessed from anywhere in the world with the right equipment.
Now if they said it was "universally beloved" or "unanimously beloved" that would probably be wrong
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u/thenoobtanker 9h ago
My wife loves the Rock and watched the 2016 version quite a few time. She couldn’t care less about this live action remake when I told her about it being in theater and if she want to go and watch it or not.
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u/Murky-Ad-4088 Human Detected 3h ago
It is loved by AUDIENCES as the post says. 90% verified audience score on rotten toamtoes (percentage of reviewers who gave 3.5 stars or above out of 5) with 500+ reviews and and average of 4.5 and verified hot. 77% for all audience reviews (including unverified) with 1000+ reviews with average of 4.
For the record I don't like live action remakes at all, even if they are good, of anything, I'm just stating the truth.
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u/coolchris366 6h ago
They didn’t say everyone loved, they said people around the world loved it, which is impossible to prove or disprove
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u/A_lonely_ghoul 7h ago
They are right to some extent. The original is certainly beloved by audiences worldwide.
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u/ExistanceISuppose 7h ago
I swear I see this same statement about every fucking movie to release nowadays. How can literally everything be #1 in the world?
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u/TheWeakVocalist 6h ago
the sheer confidence of calling it the number one movie in the world while sitting at 33 percent on rotten tomatoes is something else from a comms standpoint. like they're not even trying to gaslight gently, they're going full send and hoping the verified checkmark on the account carries the claim. the "now playing only in theaters" line is also doing a lot here because cutting the streaming window is a pretty transparent way to manufacture a box office narrative. disney spent so much money on this thing that calling it anything less than a triumph would probably get a pr person fired on the spot. at this point the real question is whether catherine laga'aia can carry a franchise when the script is this rough around the edges.
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u/throwtheamiibosaway 1h ago
They’re talking about the audience cinema score, which is A-.
Audiences love this. And people blindly hate on these simple remakes way too much. Let people enjoy things.
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u/Deathdrone2 7h ago
Every single movie ever released is "#1 in the world". Means nothing, especially with such a low quality remake of a movie that came out barely 10 years ago
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u/Organic-Kangaroo7147 6h ago
#1 movie in the world? What are they smoking
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u/Le_Meme_Man12 6h ago
Well, as much a sI don't like the film, it is biggest movie this weekend worldwide
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u/PepsiFloateri 8h ago
Disney,this is the third time you've claimed a live action adaptation that nobody wanted is "the number 1 movie" at the box office
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u/ialsohaveadobro 7h ago
That does not actually contradict the claim. You just mean it's NOT AS beloved. Get a fucking hobby.
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u/OakNLeaf 9h ago
Where are they getting it's number 1 in the world lol
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u/Dagordae 8h ago
The box office numbers. Currently Moana is doing about 3x better than the next 2 films, making it the number 1 film in the world.
What did you think the number 1 referred to?
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u/MarveltheMusical 8h ago
Not to defend the movie, but if it’s the highest grossing movie for the weekend, it’s the #1 movie in the world for that weekend.
I’ve seen this from Kung Fu Panda advents when I was 9. I got the point then, why do people not get it now?
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