Honestly I am feeling pretty scared for the new AtlA Live Action remake

Animation isn’t a genre nor is it just “For kids” it’s an entire medium. Stop with the live action remakes of classic animated stories, you don’t need to have them be real people to make them more believable. in the Case of The Lion King it was a horrible idea to make it all hyper realistic

because when I think of furry musical Hamlet, I think “Yep these cats are too expressive”  

when will people learn that live-action remakes will never be good as their original animated counterparts because the glory of animation is the colour, movement, and fantasy that's just untranslateable to live-action

live-action remakes or animated movies don't suck because live action is Inherently Less Magical And Awe-Inspiring or whatever other nonsense people like to spew. Guillermo del Toro doesn't turn out an absolutely breathtaking live-action sci-fi/fantasy/horror/thriller movie with incredible practical effects every few years for this anti-live-action ingratitude

no, they suck because the ones that currently exist are 99% soulless Disney cash-grabs with very little love or heart to them, where the geuninely talented artists working on them were hamstrung by the company's corner-cutting

It isn’t all the filmmaker’s fault that all we’re getting is second-rate remakes and sequels to franchises that should’ve been left alone a long time ago.

We don’t have a clear idea of why we like the things we like. So we don’t clearly communicate why we like the things we like. So it’s no wonder Hollywood keeps getting your favorite movies and their characters wrong. The fans don’t even know why they like what they like.

When Genie is set free in the original Aladdin, that moment was impactful, and you remembered it all through childhood. When Luke tosses the lightsaber away and says “I am a Jedi, like my father before me,” it was impactful, and you remembered it.

But did you stop and analyze why? What made those moments, and those stories, impactful?

Did you say, “Genie wished to be free for the whole movie, and he was always trying to tell Aladdin about how freedom only comes from trusting, and he was learning to trust Al himself, and Aladdin finally DID trust Jasmine to still want him even if he wasn’t rich, so he set Genie free in the most satisfying way!”

Did you say, “Luke spent all previous movies rushing into fights, and trying to control everything to save the ones he loves, but when he finally has his enemy at his mercy and is at the height of his power, he realizes that being a Jedi isn’t rushing and fighting and controlling; it’s having faith in the good and throwing your opportunity for control away.”

Did you think through and appreciate that stuff? The values? The point of the whole story, and how the characters act as pillars holding that point up? The good and the bad things that they embody?

No. Not out loud. Because we don’t think critically anymore. We just go “what’s this? Entertain me. Oooh, I felt something! Good! Next!”

The why behind what you like is the only value in liking anything.

But we don’t look objectively at the “why.” We don’t dwell on the “why.” If we dwell on anything, it’s to superimpose ourselves or whatever we like onto the characters.

You think Barbie was hyping feminism because you like feminism, and because you felt things during Barbie. You write fanfiction about Eddie Munson that has nothing to do with what Eddie Munson actually is as a character—because you like love stories, and you felt some compelling emotions when you saw Eddie Munson onscreen, so you’ve decided that those things should go together. You take something that made you feel emotions while you watched the canon material, then you don’t bother to process those emotions or what made the canon material compelling. You just slap whatever you already think you like onto something that made you feel, whether it had anything to do with what you like or not.

You eat the apple and benefit from it without knowing, at all, what nutrients are inside. Then when someone offers you crap and tells you it’s apple-flavored, you wonder why you’re not feeling the same way afterward.

Then you misdiagnose. You say “no, I don’t wonder why I’m not feeling the same—it’s because the CGI in live-action remakes suck!” Okay, great, so they’ll get better CGI. And it’ll still suck. Because that was never the problem, just like the reasons you liked the movie were never the reasons it actually impacted you in the first place.

Figure out. WHY. You like what you like. Figure out if it’s because the stories said what their creators objectively intended for them to say—or if you like the story in spite of that, not because of that.

Then open your mouth about it. It is worth it.

I have a wild suggestion everyone. What if companies just stopped trying to remake cartoons/anime in live-action? I think instead live-action movies should be remade with animation.

People, I know that the hype is huge for the upcoming live series "Avatar, the last airbender", even more with the release of the latest trailers. That makes perfect sense. And I’m no one to say which project should be validated or not, which project is a bad idea or not. My opinion will surely seem hypocritical since I do not like the basic series (lower the forks, I did not even scratch the problem). So if you’re looking forward to seeing the show, good for you and for all the people involved in the production. But please, please, please take a step back. A live-action remake of the first series ? Whith Korra doing a decent sequel and another cartoon about the next Avatar coming on 2025 ? They are so desperate to make nostalgia-based profits with little to no risk involved, it’s just depressing ! Because yes, it’s just the equivalent of a 2019 "Lion King" or a 2023 "Little Mermaid" : abland, uninspired, and demystifying corporate self-copycat laundry can parasitized by photo-realism that only serves to capitalize on a nostalgic fandom that tolerates no modification to the original. And which is praised by the same fandom who asks for exactly the same formula again and again.

So I ask you, who like the original series : do you want to be cash cows that much ? Don’t you and Aang’s story deserve better than this insult to animation ?

Again, I’m nobody to decide what interests you. But please, think about what I just wrote and ask yourself : what will this version bring me in terms of the cartoon?

Thank you for your attention and have a nice life.

The more I hear about live action remakes, the more I HATE them.

I wish I could do more than Not see them. I want to find a way to bankrupt the greedy executives that propose it.

man if we're talking about hyenas. they were Baby's First Villain Fave for me (alongside the changelings from MLP FIM, who were also just trying to eat the abundance of food the heroes didn't want to share for some reason). i just remember being like wait. these people wouldnt have followed scar if they just. had enough food? seems like a very easy solution to me

MLP started airing when I was in college (insert gif of timelapse rapid-aging Matt Damon from Saving Private Ryan here), so I didn't really watch it and I'm not familiar with the changelings, but yeah like... watching TLK even as a little kid I was like, wait, these characters just want food? They're agreeing to follow the villain because they're hungry? That's not evil, that's just being desperate and not seeing a better way out of a bad situation. Like, dang. If my people were starving and a guy showed up promising he'd turn things around if we helped install him as king in place of the guy who beats us up every time we try to hunt on his land, I might go along with it too.

Apparently the live-action movie (which I probably won't watch) tries to "fix" this by making it clear the hyenas live in a barren wasteland because they overhunted, so really it's their own fault they're hungry, which is... a choice. In his review of the movie, Big Joel said something like (paraphrased because it's been a minute), "so they're evil because they're... bad at being animals?" which is a good way of phrasing it. It's one of those choices Disney has been consistently making in these live-action remakes where they try to fix a "problem" in the original movie by over-explaining it and just making things worse and dumber.

it's been fascinating to reach the age where companies are starting to remake things from my childhood as nostalgia-bait. i'm seeing the whole phenomenon from a side i haven't before.

i think the shitty remake stems from a very genuine shift that happens in people's lives when they settle into adulthood (late 20s/early 30s) and start to become disconnected from mainstream pop culture and trends. that's often a good thing - it's a sign of maturity to know your own taste and build your life around that instead of chasing what you're told to want - HOWEVER if you didn't use being young and trendy to explore and develop your own taste, your "taste" may stagnate in what was trendy when you were 20 and now you don't know if you genuinely like it or if it just feels familiar. this, in turn, leads to:

resentment of other generations' trendy items bc you want to believe your "taste" is simply what's Normal and not also a product of its time. you're not uncool and out of date it's the children who are wrong

an unwillingness to understand when something may have aged poorly, where you keep wearing that threadbare shirt or watching that racist show because that's what you've always done and what people around you did and you didn't think about your decision any harder than that

still having the urge to buy and consume new things in order to fit in (no sense of self and personal taste) but also being afraid to explore anything new (craving familiarity and what you grew up with as Normal)

and point #3 is the toxic combo that produces corporate nostalgia-bait. the new but not actually new. safe and familiar but still Trending and Mainstream. they changed it but not in any meaningful interesting way bc doing that might threaten people's sense of comfort

i feel like i could've diagnosed this phenomenon as a young person, but the insight of hitting this age is that there's no clear line between someone who's gone through this shift in a healthy way and someone who hasn't. the pressures of consumerism and conformity don't just let up when you reach a certain age. you can do all the work to find your personal taste and not need The Newest Thing and you're still gonna be bombarded with ads, except this time the ads are trying to convince you that buying this New Thing is the way to show your love for the old thing and will make you feel just as comforted and it's totally aligned with your personal taste and the taste of people like you. sure, the Ideal consumer is the person who only likes what they like because it's popular and isn't thinking about it hard but they're ALSO trying to market to everyone who likes that thing genuinely. and being bombarded with the general pressure to participate in consumerism is not something you can shake so easily.

what i'm saying is that you can't assume you're immune to this. you think you're being an individual and that you like that thing that came out in your youth bc it's good not just because of nostalgia and you may even be right but that doesn't mean they won't try to get ya. stay on your toes my friends

Just to make things clear

If you despise The Little Mermaid because it's Disney's another cashgrab of a live-action remake, that doesn't make you a racist. If you accuse someone of racism simply because they don't like it, that makes you a dumbass.

If you're thinking of accusing me as such, allow me to share a quote from Luz Noceda. "You're not coming from a place of intellectual honesty, so debating you would be pointless!".

Hating the actress who portrayed Ariel because of her skin colour makes you a racist.

Not to be someone who has thoughts on the soundtrack of a Disney live action remake of all things but I just listened to the 'new' little mermaid soundtrack and I've concluded a) it is painfully obvious just from this that Halle is too good for this movie and b) THAT VERSION OF KISS THE GIRL IS SO WEAK SAUCE WHAT THE HELL. NO DRAMATIC BUILD UP OR EXCITING CLIMAX WHATSOEVER!!! also why is there no chorus on any of the group numbers. Why does under the sea and kiss the girl sound so empty (yess kiss the girl has fucking awkwafina and Jacob trembly on it but like. They're not exactly doing much for the track). New song slaps though! Actually sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack, which is a nice surprise. Good insight into the character. Rip daveed diggs though. You got payed to play an ugly crab with bad songs I'm so sorry they'd do that to you

seeing the internet fucking hate rachel ziegler for literally just talking about a movie she’s in is so fucking annoying

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so no ac1 remake? unsurprised.

I hate that Tom Holland is like the most popular Ben 10 fancast and it is 100% because of his Spider-Man. Like it's not Mr. Holland himself I have no beef with him on principle all my issues with his Spider-Man are entirely due to the writing. But regardless if they were ever to actually make a live-action Ben 10 reboot and cast him I would probably castrate the nearest living thing

btw the little mermaid remake is my lifeblood i know i didn’t talk about it but i saw it the day after opening and its SO good.