It's all in the wrist
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I suggest you go back and watch them.
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The little mermaid, chronicle of an established tragedy
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FeralEcho
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Great now I can't stop thinking about the batmobile having someone pump the tires...
I still remember them. Their quality is sub par but they kept the same characters.I suggest you go back and watch them.
karasu
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How do they maintain such melanin being so far under the sea and away from the sun's UV rays?
Probably the same way he does. Lemming.
DeepEnigma
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Fools idol
Banned
I'm in disneyland paris right now with my wife and kid and let me tell you normies do not give a fucking shit - this place is RAMMED packed with people, falling over each other to spend money on this shit.
I'm here for my kid, she loves disney as 99% of kids do..
I'm still pissed they ruined star wars
I'm here for my kid, she loves disney as 99% of kids do..
I'm still pissed they ruined star wars
JimmyRustler
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I’m not sure what Disneyland attendance has to do with anything. I was in Disneyland Hong Kong two weeks ago and the I could hardly believe so many people even fit in this place. Does that means Little Mermaid will be a hit in China? I somewhat doubt it.
Grildon Tundy
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Whats that on the left?You mean the one time Disney faithfully kept the skin color basically the same for "their" characters?
Lux R7
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Fushigi no umi no Nadia or Nadia the secret of blue water (i think this was the eng title, i'm italian)
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kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
That's not the case. A number of them were huge BO successes. Beaty and the Beast, The Jungle Book and Aladdin hit 1 billion dollars, The Lion King made a whopping 1.6 billion dollars, but movies like Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (491 mil), Alice Through the Looking Glass (299 mil), Cinderella (542 mil), Cruella (233 mil) and Dumbo (350 mil) underperformed. Pinocchio was so bad it wasn't even released theatrically. (Mulan is a special case because it got released during the pandemic).
Disney is hoping The Little Mermaid will turn into box office gold like Beauty and the Beast and not flounder like Cinderella, Cruella and Dumbo, but it remains to be seen if that's going to happen. The Beauty and the Beast trailers got thirty times more likes than dislikes, while The Little Mermaid gets ten times more dislikes than likes.
LaughingStock
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It's pretty simple really. Keep doing what was making you money for decades. Wholesome family friendly content. Stay away from politics.
Respect the target audiences. Give people what they want. Don't try to reach new hypothetical audiences in detriment of the existing ones.
Disney should hire me.
El Pistolero
Banned
Disney is on a mission to tarnish its own legacy. Turning animation classics into uglier looking live movies is a travesty. Aladdin, The Lion King, Beauty, Mulan, Beauty and The Beast (The least offensive of the four)...and now this...thing! 
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Fools idol
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I just mean that opinions on this forum about the movies etc have zero impact on success of disney movies. They will still make unpteen billions and legions of fans will lap it all up and spend billions on merch and park tickets.
I'm old enough to remember when Episode 1 came out and was absolutely declared as 'the end of star wars' and while it sucked, disney still bought the franchise and made obscene amounts of money from it.
Brands = powerful, movie quality quickly forgotten
Toons
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Youtube dislikes don't matter. I can dislikes the video ten times if I want to, it's very easy.
I'm pretty sure cinderella's didn't do that bad it just didn't do gangbusters, but ill be honest I forgot Dumbo existed. To be fair the original Dumbo is very old and most people today weren't alive when it released, same with Cinderella.
Pinocchio was never intended to relese in theaters and was made to be direct to Disney plus.
Alice through the looking glass isn't even really a remake, it's a sequel to the (also barely a remake) Alice in wonderland tim burton film with Johnny depp that somehow made a billion dollars.
It released well after the first movie though. Actually tim button was behind those and the Dumbo movie.
All the "renaissance" remakes(from Disney's prime era in the 90s) have been massive successes. Jungle book is an old movie but not as old as those other two.
TaylorSwiftFan
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You didn’t answer his question.
TaylorSwiftFan
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It indicates how the general population view the movie. And similarly, you can like a bideo ten times if you wanted to as well.
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Oh no.
A Disney movie remake that sucks.
Clearly this is unprecedented.
A Disney movie remake that sucks.
Clearly this is unprecedented.
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Fools idol
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if it will be a big hit in china? maybe, no idea. It wont matter though... people pay to see any new disney movies with their kids, mainly because kids see trailers and get sucked in
never under estimate the spending power of parents desperate to entertain kids lol
Alx
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Toots
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Do you really think with all the billions Bruce siphoned from Wayne entreprise to create the Batman and his tools, he forgot about putting an autonomous pumping station inside the Batcave ?
Well he did, so Robin is doing the pumping. He's also in charge of washing it on sundays, and changing the tires when needed.
Edit : "it" not being the batmobile (just to clarify)
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kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
I had a whale of a time with that movie. You just can't beat the love-hate relationship of the captain with the object of his dreams in that movie. Plus that ending! I shed a few tears when the captain's passion led to such a dramatic ending. That's the power of true love. (Although I was surprised there was no happy end at all. If Pinocchio could survive a similar attack, the surely the Captain could have survived, too?)
It's all in the wrist
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Yeah, they were direct sequels, not live action remakes.
Dirk Benedict
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He's come a long way from simp slap to bitch slap.
TaylorSwiftFan
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DeafTourette
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Not as far apart as Anya Taylor Joy's.It’s to show her as an ocean creature more than human. A bit like:
TaylorSwiftFan
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I would say much further than Anya Taylor Joy’s. And it’s compounded by the fact that her eyes are much smaller than Taylor Joy’s.
DeafTourette
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She just looks like an alien to me. I know HOLLYWOOD says she beautiful but I don't see it. I have to imagine her with someone else's face whenever I see her onscreen... Like in The Menu... I had to imagine she was Margot Robbie.
TaylorSwiftFan
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Hollywood talk up a lot of people as beautiful when in fact they’re just plain. George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Idris Elba, Beyonce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lupita N’Yongo, Kate Hudson. So many of them. That said, there are some people who aren’t classically good-looking who are pleasant to look at and I think Ana Taylor Joy is one of them.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I think Halle is a cutie. And Idris and ... The Canadian... Deadpool. I forget his name... Those two men are good looking men!
I agree with the rest.
DeepEnigma
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Disney's live action remake of 'The Little Mermaid' rewrites songs like 'Kiss the Girl' to teach consent
Alan Menken, the composer for Disney's original animated "The Little Mermaid," detailed how he updated the lyrics to his songs in the remake for sensitive audiences.
www.foxnews.com
DeafTourette
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So the mammals, shellfish and fish in the ocean are all translucent or have red "hair"?
LegendOfKage
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Imagine for a moment that they call the actor Jonah Hauer-King who got a role for a Disney movie and has to kiss a mermaid...
According to twitter's community notes feature, THIS IS NOT A REAL SCREEN SHOT. As the community note explains:
After posting this and taking a closer look, the image posted in the OP doesn't seem to be the exaggerated image seen in the tweet. Still, it's good to know that there are some fakes going around, so you don't fall for fake images.
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No, I was joking. Because a lot of those mammals in the ocean are all black. it's actually better to be darker skin colors in the ocean for camouflage purposes.
Dr. Claus
Banned
Lol, fuck Disney.
GymWolf
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Nah.
BlackTron
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They changed the lyrics of 'Poor Unfortunate Souls" because they had the message that men don't want you to talk or say anything anyway, and you should just look pretty. Oh no, what a terrible message!
But wasn't that Ursula's song, and the implication was that Ariel made a deal with the devil (a mistake) by trading away her voice? In other words, "I'm trying to deceive you right now, you don't need that voice anyway silly, so just hand it over". When I was 5 in the movie theater I can remember my small child brain saying "Ursula is trying to trick you into giving your voice away, don't do it!" She was obviously the villain and the animation/music itself made it obvious something dark and twisted was transpiring. Ursula used Ariel's voice while disguised as Vanessa to steal her love interest, so the reality vs. message from the villain are on full display.
The ironic part is that by receiving advice that men don't care what you have to say by a villain like Ursula, and the movie ending in defeating her and getting your voice back, you will walk away with an opposite message. But they take away the opportunity for Ursula's lyrics to be challenged by the story's payoff by bleaching the whole affair. Even your bad guys can't be bad anymore lol.
TBH I see this as Disney being worried about them being songs and therefore taken out of context of the story, but we made it this far on the existing version. Maybe they are scared any potential complainers never bothered to watch TLM.
Scotty W
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Disney is under no illusions as to her appearance. This is a dialectical attempt to deconstruct and reengineer western beauty standards. It is about as subtle as “Brawndo’s got what plants crave.”:People still asking why her eyes are so distant from each other in a movie about a fish woman...
Ariel is beautiful.
This actress is Ariel.
Therefore this actress is beautiful.
RoboFu
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What Disney is saying is that people are too dumb these days to put together that the villain would sing a song about bad things.
Billbofet
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Dumb move. This will annoy people that love the original enough to not go see the movie vs. the 17 blue-haired keyboard warriors that were not going to go see it anyway. Plus, Disney puts Lizzo in a Star Wars bounty hunter show, and doesn't cast her as Ursala??!!!
DeafTourette
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So... You don't think the actress is good looking? So any other wide eyed actor isn't good looking either, correct?
Heimdall_Xtreme
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Daneel Elijah
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She is. Just not in what we have seen of this film. I never saw Uma thurman as pretty until I saw her in a clip of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. The same is happening to me here.
TransTrender
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Now, for some reason, I want there to be a Kurosawa's Moby Dick
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