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Disney Finds 'Little Mermaid' Star in Singer Halle Bailey (THR)
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The actress fits the part. She looks great.
My rant, however, has nothing to do with the casting but rather why Disney continues to make these "real life" copies of their classic animated movies. Have ideas stalled that much to where you have to remake every single one of your classic films into a live action one? I have yet to see a single one that comes anywhere near topping the original animated versions. These are lazy cash grabs. How about they go back to the drawing board (literally) and give us an original hand drawn animated film. You know, the reason you exist as a company to begin with.
My rant, however, has nothing to do with the casting but rather why Disney continues to make these "real life" copies of their classic animated movies. Have ideas stalled that much to where you have to remake every single one of your classic films into a live action one? I have yet to see a single one that comes anywhere near topping the original animated versions. These are lazy cash grabs. How about they go back to the drawing board (literally) and give us an original hand drawn animated film. You know, the reason you exist as a company to begin with.
Have you seen Aquaman? That movie reminded me of TLM at several points, it was gorgeous underwater. Mera pretty much looked like a real life version of Ariel in that film as well.
Have not, actually that's a good point should watch that to get an idea of it.
She's cute, think it would be a fit.
Also STOKED at the thought of some people getting pissed over it.
Also STOKED at the thought of some people getting pissed over it.
It was a pretty good movie, with a good soundtrack and gorgeous visuals. Looked pretty cool how they handled the underwater stuff, including the hair. Disney should be very afraid of this film, it needs to look at least as gorgeous.
Indeed. Hollywood is creatively bankrupt across the board. Too afraid to do anything original now and it's sad to see the trend accelerating.
It's a nostalgia cash grab and a lot of people like it, including me. It's pretty cool to see cartoons translated to real life and seeing the small changes in the story and what they add to it.
You'd have a point if this was all they did. But they've been making plenty of new IPs like Frozen, Moana, Wreck it Ralph, etc.
Complaining about these things just always struck me as complaining for the sake of it.
Why are we expecting originality from a company that made its name off the back of the public domain and small-time children's books? Seriously, the original Little Mermaid is based off a Hans Christian Andersen fable. =/
When I say "Hollywood" I'm referring to the big studios like WB, Universal, etc. Those movies you listed are distributed from A24, Annapurna, and Amazon, all of which operate pretty far outside the traditional Hollywood system. I support nearly everything A24 and Annapurna put out and they've been two very bright spots in a sea of crap.
I wasn't trying to imply there's nothing original out there anymore, but it's fewer and farther between nowadays than it was in the past. Particularly when it comes to backing from the big studios. Amazon and Netflix gaining prominence is good news for more original content and I hope they can produce a steady output as time goes on.
Come on, we all know the only suitable person for Triton should be this handsome brother:
Edit: And yeah, add me to the list of people who also thought it was Halle Berry who had been cast.
Edit: And yeah, add me to the list of people who also thought it was Halle Berry who had been cast.
all the disney live action remakes have been pretty mediocre - Beauty and The Beast, Dumbo, Pete's Dragon, Aladdin - so not really expecting greatness here. They mostly make good money though so not a real surprise and I'd expect them to continue to crank these out and 90% of them just to be meh average.
In a decade or so I'd be more interested to hear what kids love to rewatch over and over, the live actions or the cartoons. I know my daughters growing up loved to watch Frozen like every freaking day.
In a decade or so I'd be more interested to hear what kids love to rewatch over and over, the live actions or the cartoons. I know my daughters growing up loved to watch Frozen like every freaking day.
It's the summer? This is the season where big studios traditionally release crowdpleasers. Anyways, next week we have Crawl and Stuber.
Come on, we all know the only suitable person for Triton should be this handsome brother:
Edit: And yeah, add me to the list of people who also thought it was Halle Berry who had been cast.
Nah fuck this dude. He was cool until his remarks about same sex couples raising kids.
It's completely reasonable that the largest budgets are going to be attached to the surest bets. And the fresh, original movies that come out of the independent space wouldn't even benefit from the things that an Endgame-level budget buys you. Bong Joon-ho doesn't need a $300 million budget or a wide release. He gets the money he needs and the audience that would like his work finds it.
I hope she cuts the heart out of the prince's chest so she doesn't have to turn to sea foam. Your 8 year old won't see that coming.
Racists trying to use cinematic analysis to hide their racism:
She's already playing Mary Jane on the Marvel side with one more on the way. She good lol
Honestly, my wife and I didn't get half way through Beauty and the Beast. Lion king and Aladdin trailers did nothing for me at all. I can only imagine they are doing it because its guaranteed money.
User banned (1 week): Trolling, Inflammatory false equivalency, account still in its junior phase.
You make one of those easy cash movies focusing on nostalgia to one generation and then you don't even try to be faithful to the main character. What message are you passing to the target audience?
I mean, you're Disney. You can make new inclusive stuff and people will love it as they already do. As a Ghost in the Shell fan I can empathize with people being mad about changing Ariel ethnicity. Except for the mob of outrageous people on internet.
That Ariel's ethnicity has zero impact on the character and story and, as such, well known classic characters can be represented by people of different colors, which can be much more powerful representation wise than creating a new character.
Aquaman was a white cartoon character and now he's played by a mixed race character and does an absolutely fantastic job at it.
There is no rule that a character has to stay the same when getting a remake or reimagining.
Lol, the blu-ray.com thread got locked because the mods over there let the racist loons run wild.
It used to be a great place to discuss movies, but now it's all about click-throughs so no one gets banned for anything short of screaming the N-word. They just close threads instead of eliminating the trolls.
Place is as toxic as G*f now.
Halle's a great choice, but I'm sure it won't be long until the neckbeards drive her off social media.
It used to be a great place to discuss movies, but now it's all about click-throughs so no one gets banned for anything short of screaming the N-word. They just close threads instead of eliminating the trolls.
Place is as toxic as G*f now.
Halle's a great choice, but I'm sure it won't be long until the neckbeards drive her off social media.
The situation would be equally bad in a world without context but we do not live in that world.
I do have sympathy for redheads with this casting; anecdotally my sister growing up was pretty badly bullied over her red-hair and she liked Ariel because she had a very similar hair-color. It does seem like Hollywood likes to re-cast female red-heads as POC for some reason. Although, I admit; I can't think of too many classic movies with non-red-head female leads that are not rom-coms or horror movies, aside from Disney movies.
And Of course, I'm pretty sure that most people complaining are dog-whistling. (I tried to google it to see if it's just me or not, and oh-dear-god the racism.)
Side Note:
Since I'm thinking about it, I'd like to see Aurora or Snow White cast as POC.
And Of course, I'm pretty sure that most people complaining are dog-whistling. (I tried to google it to see if it's just me or not, and oh-dear-god the racism.)
Side Note:
Since I'm thinking about it, I'd like to see Aurora or Snow White cast as POC.
I mean, it would be weird to have a character named Snow White who isn't pale as fuck.
I don't know that Disney would bother with that one anyway, since Universal did two live action Snow White movies in the past decade.
I'm fine with this Ariel. Just give us a great movie already Disney.
I agree completely. Give us quality. These remakes are decent to bad. Pretty movies with ok acting/poor singing. Lion king looks to be the next victim. Great original movies like inside out, come every 5-10 years now.
I agree completely. Give us quality. These remakes are decent to bad. Pretty movies with ok acting/poor singing. Lion king looks to be the next victim. Great original movies like inside out, come every 5-10 years now.
Tell that to the member who got banned for calling out their racist BS without resorting to slurs. You're right, though, that more and more that place in starting to resemble G*f. If it wasn't so damn difficult to find a dedicated blu ray/movie discussion forum anymore that isn't dominated by incel scum, I'd stop giving them clicks.
