The Unmagicking of Disney
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The Unmagicking of Disney
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#2Wow, this certainly has a… distinctive… turn of phrase. And I think makes several fair points.
I’m low-key disappointed they said “Ant-Mans” and not “Ants-Man”, though. ;)
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#3A lot of good points in here on degrading art for photorealism in the remakes. But we’ve really been loving the originals that keep coming and changing the formula from princesses and villains to families and growth. From Soul to Encanto to Coco, Onward, Turning Red, and Luca, just high quality, good wholesome stories that we can watch as a family and talk about afterwards.
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#4Wow, this certainly has a… distinctive… turn of phrase. And I think makes several fair points. I’m low-key disappointed they said “Ant-Mans” and not “Ants-Man”, though. ;)
> If you can’t enjoy Beauty and the Beast because the logic of the enchantress’s spell is inconsistent, I beseech you, go watch a documentary about printing user manuals or some shit.
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#5I think the trick with some of these debates is just stepping back from the media cycle. I really noticed this with Captain Marvel where for a few months any criticism was suddenly seized-upon as evidence of the person undermining the future of girls/women worldwide, but now, a few years later, nobody thinks that the movie needs defending so vigorously.
As an aside, I noticed a couple days ago that in the live-action Lion King, the person voicing Simba sings, "everywhere you look, I'm standing in the spotlight" in place of just "I'm standing spotlight" in the older version, which is almost a metaphor for the differences since that little verbal error in the animated version feels more humanistic
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#6A lot of good points in here on degrading art for photorealism in the remakes. But we’ve really been loving the originals that keep coming and changing the formula from princesses and villains to families and growth. From Soul to Encanto to Coco, Onward, Turning Red, and Luca, just high quality, good wholesome stories that we can watch as a family and talk about afterwards.
And yes, I recognize that most of those are Pixar, but Encanto from Walt Disney Animation is extraordinary in every way. Yet the worldwide box office was less than the Dumbo remake. I respect Disney bc they make money and art, even when art is less commercial than what the masses want. The author is dismissing the art that remains.
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#7Wow, this certainly has a… distinctive… turn of phrase. And I think makes several fair points. I’m low-key disappointed they said “Ant-Mans” and not “Ants-Man”, though. ;)
No, I think Ant-mans and Captains America is correct. Ants-man would be that thing from Rick and Morty.
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#8As a millennial who grew up watching the great Disney movies of the 90s, I just pretend the remakes don't exist.
Disney (classic Disney-Princess-Disney, excluding Pixar, Marvel, and all the "properties" they've acquired over the years) has made a great movie once every 3-8 years for the past few decades. In between, they've always made utter garbage to squeeze every dollar out of the great ones. Almost every Disney sequel has been a turd. Doesn't anyone remember how disappointing it was? This is just more of the same.
They're still making good ones: Frozen, Moana, Encanto. Just watch those and pretend the rest doesn't exist.
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#9The kicking and screaming won't slow aging.
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#10A lot of good points in here on degrading art for photorealism in the remakes. But we’ve really been loving the originals that keep coming and changing the formula from princesses and villains to families and growth. From Soul to Encanto to Coco, Onward, Turning Red, and Luca, just high quality, good wholesome stories that we can watch as a family and talk about afterwards.
And yes, I recognize that most of those are Pixar, but Encanto from Walt Disney Animation is extraordinary in every way. Yet the worldwide box office was less than the Dumbo remake. I respect Disney bc they make money and art, even when art is less commercial than what the masses want. The author is dismissing the art that remains.
2019 box office versus 2021 will never be comparable. COVID has to be factored into almost everything when doing time series analysis but movies more so than most as it was devastated by the one two punch of not wanting to go to theaters and streaming existing now.