The sheer gall of these woke western journos to label us non-westerners, especially us in Africa, who hated this movie and didn't support it as review terrorists and racists is just......damn. Now you know why we hate western wokeness in our entertainment.
Hollywood is speedrunning how fast they can become hated around the world. Cleopatra was just the starting line. They think they are the moral pinnacles of the entire world.
It’s pretty much standard tactics by now though isn’t it. Indeed, we’re still repeatedly told by the usual suspects that Ghostbusters 2016 only flopped because everyone hated or else was too scared of wimmin, or something like that. I always get the impression that those spouting such fiction are trying to convince _themselves_ of their bs as much as anything. 😉
Americans make movies for themselves. Representation is american attempt to americanize the entire world by injecting their "diversity" to all countries and cultures
@@chasedownblocks1736 Ehhhh she was okay. She was unique ill give her that. Had some funny jokes. That's more her speed, comedic relief :3 at best. They do keep trying to "make" her happen in the industry and it isnt working tho with the people ahha - and this is a huge nail in a small coffin
To the best of my recollection Triton's exact words before wrecking her collection in the original movie were: "So help me Ariel, I am going to get through to you! And if this is the only way: So be it!" From that you can gather that he is very aware how much what he's about to do will hurt his daughter; and he is willing to become the villain of this part of the story if it means protecting his daughter from both the threat humans pose and, in a way; the threat Ariel's naivete on the subject poses to herself. His facial expression after the carnage isn't like he's coming down off of a rage high; it's like that of someone who "did what needed to be done." When he sees Ariel's reaction to it all; I believe he instantly knows he went too far; but doesn't think 1) this is something he can apologize for because of how drastic, and traumatic, the act was 2) given the issue in question, he can afford to be wishy-washy about no matter the emotional cost, and 3) that trying to further force this issue do anything but hurt them both further. That entire sequence lasted a few minutes and it did more to build Triton as a character than I'd bet all his appearances in the remake do.
Because I don't want to watch the remake (because I don't want to waste my money and tine for something I still have as a VHS), what does Triton do in the remake instead?
Even in the initial scene early in the movie where Flounder accidentally lets slip they talked to a seagull therefore she went to the surface, he starts yelling at her and forbids here to go to the surface again. But after she leaves in a huff his intimidating demeanour drops to a melancholy one and he confides in Sebastian asking if he is being too hard on her and just wants to keep her safe. While the live action Triton is just either stoic and angry through the whole movie.
All that scene did and pretty much the whole movie did was tell young girls that disobeying your parents is ok and even righteous. Why no one sees that has been in play in tv and movies for years is beyond me.
The funniest thing is Disney was pushing this movie HARD. Merch, commercials, promos, etc.... None of it sold and the movie is sinking like a stone that looks down. Good stuff 😀
@@fastlandcliffhanger6962 They actually had the audacity to have a replica of Ursula's famous shell necklace. The shell necklace in this look so awful. The shell is too big for the chain. I got lucky with getting the OG Disney necklace from Hot Topic. It still looks cute.
It's funny how Chinese people are called racist for disliking a Black Ariel when Fast X which is also a movie with a diverse cast is more successful than The Little Mermaid in China 😂
The Chinese have a specific term for idiotic Western Liberals: Baizuo (literally "White Left.") Shows how much they care about the race hustlers. =^[.]^=
Well some morons called the whole Country of Egypt racist, because they wanted a accurate design of one of their most famous history figures. The problem is: That racist card is burned
No, you don't. Not unless you're like a hundred. Disney movies have been primarily about propaganda since at least the 30s.Just watch those insufferable Davy Crockett movies if you dont'; believe me. I'm not even sure what I was thinking as a kid that I liked that dreck. If I could reach into my TV, I would slap him for being so insufferable.
Me to. Even just entertain. The kurt Russell movies, highly amusing. The barefoot executive, now you see him, the world's strongest man, the computer wore tennis shoes. The dean Jones movies, the horse in the gray flannel suit, the goose that laid golden eggs, (& yes I know that's not the exact title). The world's greatest athlete... Etc. The animated features- robin hood, fox and the hound, 101 Dalmatians... etc.
@@Pahoe77 I can't speak for any of those earlier titles but by robin hood and 101 firetruck doggos it's already le capitalism is bad. Aladdin for example everyone my age when we were children in the 1990s knew the movie was completely filled with penis imagery. They've been groomers for at least 30 years. I look at Cruella down there with the Captain Planet or Wild Kratts villians just polluting and killing because it's fun and they are bad. By the time a kid is ready for furry robin hood you might as well let them watch men in tights. I honestly think that one follows the story better then most other adaptations. It wasn't about the $. It was about Robin feeling disrespected.
The irony is that the original story had much of what you would think the activist crowd would want to see - it was a cautionary tale about how Ariel allowed infatuation to cloud her judgment and make a choice to surrender her voice and almost fully reaped the consequences of it - plus, as stated in the video, how Eric stepped up and defended Ariel and proved to her father that he was not an evil human and that King Triton's prejudice was not justified. But I guess the subtlety was lost on "Modern Audiences."
I mean that's the same audience complaining about Poor Unfortunate Souls that the BAD GUY said some mean things about woman the rest of the movie proved her wrong on. But nope, it had to be removed to protect those unfortunate souls. 😂
The only thing I want to say that's critical of this - and it's very minor - is this: with regards to 14:30, in the original movie, Ariel and Eric *tag team* Ursula. They BOTH fight her. Just to summarize the encounter: 1) Eric throws the harpoon at Ursula, inuring her. 2) Ursula is going to kill Eric with the trident, but Ariel pulls her hair, causing Ursula to miss. Ariel then 3) swims up to help Eric to the surface. Once 'mega Ursula' arises from the deep, Ariel and Eric are split up - Ariel 4) dodges bolts from the Trident to distract Ursula while Eric 5) boards a wreck and impales the sea witch. It's actually really nice. The two of them work as a couple to engage the threat. It isn't a one-sided fight at all. In fact, it's actually a microcosm of the message of the film - that two different people from different worlds can come together to be something greater than as separate pieces.
@@leahfernandez8902 It's just a symptom of modern misandry to belittle men to the point of making them useless in all media. Why bother making a couple with equal footing, when you can just make a girl boss that needs no man and is a strong, independent, woman?
Diversity quotas and affirmative action are straight up discrimination against whites. Imagine white people being favoured over black people by law all while calling black people privileged based on the colour of their skin.
And the _"modern audience"_ is just a gaslighting term for something *'THAT DOES NOT EXIST'.* But at this point the poor, poor selfproclaimed wannabe-rulers of the world who want to brainwash us into a _"New World Order"_ do not want to admit defeat. Even when their last message amplifier will be silenced they will still act as if they had been the good guys all along and the world is just too medieval to understand it. 😏 And it will be a glorious day.
For reference, The Little Mermaid (1989) grossed $235 million USD during its theatrical releases (once in 1989, again in 1997). That's equivalent to over $566 million USD today. That is also NOT counting the earnings it got for home media releases (VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, even digital purchases). And it did all that on a roughly $40 million USD budget (roughly $95-100 million USD budget today). Note that the budget doesn't account for marketing costs here. Meanwhile, this movie...$250 million USD budget (again, not accounting for marketing costs), and it is struggling to break $500 million USD? For it to have the same success, it would need to get over $1.4 billion USD in box office earnings (that's with a multiplier of about 5.6-5.65, which is what the 1989 feature earned in box office vs budget). And it would also have to have an equally strong performance in physical & digital sales as the 1989 feature, which doesn't look likely. Addendum: Consider that Little Mermaid's success back in 1989 and 1997 was done well before the internet was widespread enough to allow folks worldwide to connect to one another. That is how powerful the success of the movie resonates to this day, and truly earmarked the start of Disney's Renaissance period.
i got the little mermaid on VHS for Christmas over 30 years ago, i liked the Nintendo game more than the movie. My babysitter was so good at it, probably just not being a literal child.
Not to mention the original animated movie's merchandise sales, the sales of its sequels and cartoon series, and the ad revenue from when the cartoon series aired.
@@Eidolon1andOnly Good point, also per 'Wikipedia' and backup up by 'The numbers' stats all VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray sales of The Little Mermaid netted $565m (This is USA alone, and excludes inflation). If you add in the Rest of the World surely the physical sales were over $1bn (uninflated). You add in inflation this is probably c.$2bn at todays value. But at least TLM 2023 will draw in LOADS of subscribers on Disney+ 🤣
This pretty much confirms what I’ve been thinking about for a while regarding the live action remake: Disney’s writers have essentially lost all sense of wonder and fantasy when it comes to their craft.
Lost? They never had it: the Disney classics were written best part of a century ago. These are a whole new Gen of writers, that have never written anything good, and have no talent or imagination.
For those unaware, the studio will generally see 70% of domestic box office and 30% of foreign box office takes. Another thing people don't realize is to get the true budget of a movie, you double the "production budget" which doesn't include things like marketing. The Little Mermaid production budget: $250 million actual cost = $500 million Domestic take (as of this post): $138 million (x.7) = $96.6 million domestically Foreign take (as of this post): $79 million (x.3) = $23.7 million foreign Total take (as of this post): $120.3 million
Disparu said it best in another video; if that song were put in elevators, it would cure the world health crisis- for all the people that would take the stairs to avoid it...
There was a sound engineer who recorded multiple takes of each part of that song and then listened to it on loop while mixing it. Then animators had to listen to it repeatedly while putting it into sequence. Just, HOW???
11:09 MauLer "Modern film making takes so much fucking longer to say less" - I completely agree and all of the remakes in recent years are, like this one, prime examples of his point.
Hell yeah. The Little Platoon made a good video about that horrible Peter Pan and Wendy adaptation, and one of his points was, that there is so much filler... Running time expanded, and nothing of value added to the story etc.
The Little Mermaid original was 82 minutes. Shrek was 90 minutes. Bugsy Malone was 92 minutes. Hell, even the Wizard of Oz was less than 2 hours long. I thought that the Wizard of Oz was seriously testing the bladder capacity of small children. Keeping them in the cinema for 135 minutes is absurd.
The whole kiss the girl song change was crazy. She's the one who wants him to kiss her he's not consenting he doesnt want to, the song is pressuring him to, yet they spin it to make it in this remake like it's the other way around.
There has been a flood of articles that have falsely stated it grossed 117M in the first weekend but actually grossed 93M for the entire memorial day weekend in the states with garbage internationally. The break even is 4-500M. They're trying hard to tout it as a success already. The international number is flip flopped with domestic at only 30% gross.
The original Little Mermaid brought Disney back from the brink of financial ruin, and set off perhaps a series of the best animations and movies the world has ever seen. Wouldn't it be great, a complete circle if you will or a ying/yang thing, if this Little Mermaid took Disney back to the brink, then gave Disney a little nudge and down falls Disney into the abyss never to be heard from again. That would be sweet.
Films like The Little Mermaid led to the Lion King, which in turn led to Animal Soccer World. Animal Soccer World is worse than slavery. Now journalists are saying that critics of Mermaid 2023 are all racist. Coincidence? Wake up America!
Won't happen, when a company's that big/dominant in the market your best hope is that it gets infiltrated. It's the same in politics; no party will ever replace the Dems/Republicans in the US, or Tory/Labour in the UK, all you can hope for is that someone like Trump comes in and infiltrates them
I'm older, and I have a lot of fond memories of Disney content. I'm still waiting for someone to wake up and say it was all a bad dream. Maybe one day Disney will get back to telling good stories and give us the ground breaking animation. Till then, the Drinker and Co. are the best thing about Disney's content.
Watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks last night, found it for a dollar at a thrift store. One of the songs, "The Age of Not Believing," was written with the subtext that the songwriters were struggling to know how they were going to keep going on after Walt Disney's death. It was like the creative soul of the studio died with him. Even the movies I remember fondly from my childhood were produced on a conveyor belt by a zombie company. What does that make the remakes? Zombie zombies?
It's really fascinating how the Disney movies are turning into a psychological view into the traumatized past of the writers. From Mermaid we know that these were women who grew up with emotionally unstable fathers. Good for psychological analysis, I suppose, but shit as a movie.
@@hoos3014 In the original Little Mermaid, Triton sacrifices himself to free his daughter, and then afterwards realizes that he can give her what she wanted and does. It could be argued that he was even correct in the beginning in that Ariel's fascination with surface people is what nearly caused Ursula to take over.
This makes me think back to when I was in college. Student activists were always complaining that big megacorps like Disney could make low-quality garbage and people would watch it because marketing told them to, and like it because the corporate media told them to. Well, they may not have grown up, but those students are certainly older now, and they run the megacorps. They honestly believed that was how the world worked back then, and now they are trying to do the same thing: low quality propagandistic crap, backed by a wholly-owned media chorus. And yet, people are _not_ loving it. Rather than challenge their own worldview and ask themselves if maybe those classics were better than their ideology let them appreciate, and if maybe quality really does matter, instead they think it's because their dominance isn't total enough and they're victims of some evil capitalist conspiracy.
Well you see those people are morons and they where complaining about themselves even back then they where never intelligent they where always hypocritical also what’s funny is they cried when movies where still good but now they’re loving the movies loooooool
In the original film, Ariel saved the day on multiple occations. She saved Flounder from the shark at the beginning of the film, she saved Eric from drowning, ans then she saved him again from getting blasted by Ursula. So there really was no need for Ariel to be the one killing Ursula, she’s already proven herself times and times again as a competent and heroic character.
I live in Thailand, and I can tell you that the people here were booing and hissing at the previews when we went to go see Guardians 3. And as far as I can tell from Thailand/Disney/Hotstar social media comments no one here wants to see the race swap.
Video games and GPUs have the same problem. "More people are buying/playing than ever!" Yes, that's because more people have access to it. And the population is going way up in certain parts of the world too. Average people don't understand basic things like this so there's no chance that the braindead investors will. They'll continue to throw money at them and be lied to right back.
Movie ticket price inflation has also outpaced general inflation so if both films had actually made the same amount at the box office when inflation-adjusted, it would still mean that fewer people had gone to see the new one.
12:20: Disparu, I can tell you directly, it was made for the women who were kids at the time and are now moms. I have a coworker who directly stated that Disney was "clever" for their timing, because they waited for the generation that grew up on these films to become adults so that they, i.e. the moms, would take their kids to the cinema. She admitted she's fallen for Disney's ploy, not that I'm overwhelmingly surprised given that she apparently "loved" both the "Little Mermaid" AND "Peter Pan and Wendy".
I remember when filmmaking use to be an art form, something to taken seriously as you have to put your heart and soul into it and not to mention doing a great deal of research in order to understand the story that was from a mythical creature and your audience(which was children) and how you can make it work and that is what the 1989 one did in spades for they took pride in their work and they understood the audience they wanted and most of the people behind the 1989 flick had children of their own. The 2023 one is just a corpo product that they just vomited out in order to make whatever money the could and they took everything that made the 1989 one great and they just wanted to virtual signal.
They're the same people still insisting that Rings of Power was a massive success using those Parrot Analytics numbers despite the revelations that Amazon were cooking the viewership books using "social media engagement" to determine viewership rather than actual ratings, and the showrunners admitting that Amazon would never publicly admit to it underperforming regardless whether it did or not.
I legit don’t see why anyone cares. There are tons of shitty movies and shitty movie companies. Why are grown men so passionately criticizing a shitty musical for children? 😂😂
@@theelder4797 *couldn't care less Saying "could care less" implies there's at least some care to start with. Couldn't care less implies no care at all, therefore it's impossible to care less
I love how a movie like Avatar can be released in 2009 and have a budget of 237 million and look amazing. Then we get a movie like this with a higher budget and lower quality 14 years later. Haha, like, how does that happen?
computer games are the same. Look at Dead Space "remake" it managed to look worse in 4k than the original did maxed out in 1440p. They cannot even do sound right now
@@bigduphusaj162to be fair. The dead space remake had some good stuff in it. But, I’ll agree that some of the redone sound was sub par…it lacked weight and punchy was.
Well Cameron hired a bunch of talented people and gave them years to do it, now they are a conveyor belt and they are rushed to do it for as cheap as possible so the talent and time is gone. Just like with Avatar 2, the next two films are as far as I can tell already filmed and they are just waiting the X amount of years for them to finish the CGI.
Disney 1900s: fall in love with someone who cares about you and not the villain. Disney 2000s: don't bother finding love and sympathise with the bad guy
that last arguement recalling the plot and meaning of Eric saving Ariel from Ursula really hammers home how ignorant disney's become to the source material i guarantee not for a SECOND did they think about The king and his thoughts about the humans on land
I can’t wait to watch Awkwafina perform it live during the Oscars after it’s nominated for an academy award for best original song. ::gets popcorn ready::
I'm just so sad after Disparu talked about the father (I haven't watched the movie and don't plan to) that I was reminded of How to Train Your Dragon. With Hiccup's father Stoic after 'disowning' Hiccup and walking out, you get to what that meant to him. How much it hurt, but you could tell he likely steeled himself to act like a 'chief' and went to do what he thought he had to. God I miss subtlety in movies.
I'm telling you, the real reason Walter broke bad was because he received the world's shittiest handjob which made him reconsider his entire existence. Your wife yanking around your 50 year old half chub with 10% of her attention while simultaneously borderline orgasming at selling a girthy 8,5 inch vase on eBay for 56 dollars is an experience that people in the darkest bdsm dungeons would be shivering at. I swear to god Walter Jr. is probably having a wilder sex life on the other side of the wall with his sock than these two have had in the past five years. So when he received his cancer diagnosis the prolonged silence was not due to shock but because of pure bliss and relief because he knew that in a few years he'll likely be dead and won't have to live like that. That's why when he received the news of remission he was so goddamn angry. And I don't know why people see the Salamanca twins as villains, they were clearly just tryna help a homie out and spare him from this existence. Oh, but why did they go after Hank then, you might ask? Well, then you clearly don't remember Hank's handjob scene from season 4, they were trying to save him from that. Really they were the true heroes of this show trying to save people from fucking miserable, dick shriveling handjobs. And then, of course, shit starts happening, Skyler fucks Ted and Walt goes off the chain prolly thinking stuff like "bet she didn't give just a shitty handjob to Ted, oh no! My god, I wouldn't even be surprised if she agreed to do anal with him! While I've been pleading for years!". That right there's a thought progression enough to start a man crashing plants in random office buildings. And the way it can mess with your sexual thinking, Lord only knows what kind of cataclysmic insanities Walt was busting nuts to while living alone. But then Walt has a romantic dinner with Gus, realises there's at least someone who'd probably agree to have anal with him, meanwhile Ted gets paralyzed, no more anal for him, Walt calls up Skyler "I won". Now Walt can be smug for the entirety of season 5, he's back on top of the sex chain. So Breaking Bad is really about Walt's sexual transformation from a submissive forced-into-humiliation-kink middle aged man to a borderline sex offender to an off the rails cuck to a pure alpha male who's ascended past sex and at the end of season 5 we can see him die with bliss on his face because he's redeemed himself.
did you see their clown president fall on his face again after the rambling he made at the graduation yesterday 😂..that's their best and brightest imagine how dimwitted the rest of them are 😂
Disparu's comment on King Triton was an amazing observation. I have not seen the new version yet, but that was a key storytelling piece for the original, I find it interesting it was changed for the remake.
Drinker's "parents use this movie as daycare for two hours" is SPOT On accurate, a lot of parents admit thats why they go see these things, they can take a break and the kids can get lost in a movie for 2hrs
@@kaijusoshingeki7214 i agree. but his point was the people who are going to see this movie, aren’t doing it for the quality or content, just using it as daycare
Calling BS here as CD does NOT have children. Every parent in the world WILL always check the run time for their children BEFORE they go to a cinema with young children, even so the cost and the possibility their child will NOT sit still for that long will put most parents off from going. Even so two hours with one or two children is hard work, they want the toilet,food, drink and that's a COST. So NO most parents DO NOT go to the cinema with young children at all. Unless they do its rare they will finish the movie from start to finish.
The three big markets for Disney movies outside of the US are China, South Korea and Japan; All of them are rich, culturally conservative and highly educated. The Little Mermaid 2023 never had a chance and no amount of Twitter-guilt tripping is gonna pressure them to do something they don't want. Disney can pander to all of Africa and South America and it wouldn't even equal one of them in terms of value.
Here in Brazil we also dont care about this movie, i invited my wife who is a huge fan of the old movie and the animated TV series to watch this movie and she said: No, that is not the littlemermaid 😂😂😂 Raceswaping does not goes well here in South America mate, that is purelly a US extremelly racist far-left thing
They even hid Chadwick's face in the china poster considering how racist those people are. They don't take to black people at all anyone who is not them xD
I thought about why TLM flopped in Asia (Japan, South Korea and China) Because the main character girl is ugly. Children, in particular, distinguish between beauty and ugliness very directly. It doesn't matter if the main character is white or black. People just couldn't like it because she wasn't pretty. According to the reviews of most Asians, they criticized the movie for being dark and very scary overall. There seem to be a lot of people who felt like a horror movie, not a children's movie There were many parents who took their young children with them because it was a movie aimed at children. However, most parents left a lot of reviews that their child burst into tears in fear during the movie screening. And Asians hate American's PC culture and black-washing very much. An antipathy to it would also have contributed to the flopped box office
I agree, I remember seeing the casting for the first time and thinking 'couldn't they have at least made her pretty?' The actress isn't 'unattractive' but very ordinary-looking
Halle is absolutely gorgeous… I have no idea what y’all are talking about. Fair to say you don’t like the movie, I wasn’t super impressed with it either. But to say she’s UGLY?? 😂
Hot damn, Disparu. It's probably been 10+ years since I watched _The Little Mermaid,_ and I had never even considered your take on the interaction between Triton and Ariel in the cave scene. I've been a dad for nearly 18 years, now, and your take hits hard. I can't even estimate the number of times I've had to do something that pissed off one of my kids because it was what's best for them in the long run. Damn. Taking that away from Triton absolutely changes the tone of that scene. Well done.
My sister roasted this film for me. She's mad that they had her save the day alone when they bothered showing all those sisters and did nothing with them. Eric could've done what he did in the original and that could've only created an opening for the sisters to win. That's perfect for modern audiences.
I literally heard bits of the Awkwafina song played in a few videos making fun of the movie and it was so bad I just assumed it was some sort of meme parody. I couldn't believe that it was legitimately a song that was included in the film.
It's like being beaten with one of those thin aluminum pans you cater food in hahah. WAMP CHYKA WAMP WAMP - I|N TEH SWAMP SWAMP WAMP WAMP - jesus fucking christ. Apparently Lin Manuel Miranda's rep is taking huge hits on inside of the industry as wel for this one. I thought Hamilton was quite brilliant tbh. The man knows how to right really really good rap, this is not it.
Disney has never been more out of touch than they are right now. That's why their new movies aren't doing the numbers they used to. I think the only way out of it is to hire better, more experienced people and let them make the films they want to make without interference from "sensitivity experts". Hire people purely based on merit, regardless of which or any diversity boxes they check.
The live-action Cinderella, against all odds, is one of the most refreshingly perfect movies of all time. It is my second favorite, just below LOTR trilogy. Kenneth Branaugh made a masterpiece.
I'm just excited to see the incredible acclaim Spider Man Across The Spider Verse crushes The Little Mermaid at the box office especially in China. You know a blockbuster is in big trouble when it's not even well received in China too
Yes, because the idiots in Hollywood generally make decisions to avoid pissing off the government there in the hopes of being certified for those theaters. Meanwhile, the rest of us suffer as plot lines that might annoy the party there are dropped or modified.
It's a story where a black guy and a woman are the main characters, and people love it. The woke lot won't be able to say anything when it crushes it at the box office.
Why can spider man be a black boy but Ariel can't be a black girl? This signifies the reality of the Shenikah and how she is a Shulamite black woman that the world hates this is all spiritual. 😢
Something I find particularly harmful towards little girls specifically is that in these movies they show that the woman is always self-sufficient. She never relies on anyone else for anything. She never needs help. That's a horrible message to send to little girls who are going to be subjected to the real world one day and not realize that they are not only allowed to ask for help, they _need_ it. But they'll see it as some kind of mark of weakness or shame that they should ever rely on someone else because that's what their heroes taught them. It's disgusting.
Yeah. In the past decades we taught little boys to hide their feelings, now we teach little girls that being a team-player equals weakness. Can we just be NORMAL for a bit?
If that came to pass it'd be funny in a dark, ironic way that there's finally going to be a generation of women taught some of the same childhood lessons as men.
It reminds me of the message of Spiderman 3. "Everyone needs help at some point. Even Spiderman." Such a powerful and meaningful message. Now movies are teaching the opposite, lol.
Being independent is a good thing. Bossing people around to get your way isn't, and that's what they're going to do. What's worse is how it will affect families in the coming generation. Most people seem to forget that your flaws matter when you're the one who has to maintain a marriage and raise children someday. How many kids would want a selfish mom? How many men want a partner like that? I mean, can you imagine a mother who's so emotionally damaged and tells her kids about it? Nowadays women are obsessed with their traumas, actively putting them on picket signs and in their profiles. That makes them very poor choices for parents. If women wanted to raise a generation of strong kids this will have the opposite effect. They're spoiled, spiteful, bossy and hyper-reactive instead of capable, self-sufficient and emotionally stable.
I find it fitting that the animated '89 flick brought Disney from the brink of going out of business indefinitely whereas this CGI flick of the same name has explicitly shown its weakening grip on those big bucks. Comparatively with budget & box office numbers in addition to inflation adjustments, the CGI flick isn't even in the same ballpark as the higher-earning animated '89 flick in a similar time frame.
Well you're wrong there "The Thing" by John carpenter was a better movie than its original. There are others, but you are probably too young to have watched the originals.
@@GeryonM The thing was from a book mate and the original movie wasnt accurate to it at all. John Carpenter was more accurate and wasnt a remake of the original movie at all.
Paid no attention to this movie, but now.. thanks to you guys, I have discovered the 'rap'. "Aaaah, they're just roasting a crap film, it cant be that bad.." How I miss the innocence of 3 minutes ago...
I'd rather spend six hours watching The Drinker and his pals engage in smack talk than sit through two hours of anything made by the clown car at Disney in decades. (Then again, with no disrespect intended for The Drinker and his pals, I'd rather shave my balls with a cheese grater and squat in a bucket of gin than watch anything made by Disney in decades, but I still dig the dynamic between these guys.)
@@kateshiningdeer3334 All you need is some imagination. And you're here, so you probably have too much of it to watch anything by the Disney Company...
I am the biggest Bond fan but I had a really hard time sitting through No Time to Die. It's not just Disney movies that are overstaying their welcome. It's like film producers and directors have lost all ability and willingness to think about audiences. As Steve Martin once said in "PT&A..." You have to discriminate. You choose things that, that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You're a miracle. Your stories have none of that! They're not even amusing accidentally! "
Every modern Disney movie has burned the good will built from prior movies, and it speaks volumes to the quality of what Disney used to produce. But you can only come back to that well so many times, spit in it, def*cate into it, and expect people to come back for more. This is massive long term damage DIseny as inflicted on themselves. Whats even worse saving? The parks? The parks represent their content, which they now hate.
Disney did NOT make this version of The Little Mermaid for children as they KNOW about run times for children HAS to be short. They made this movie for young adults that are fans of the original TLM movie. They hoped to catch all with the title, but those Disney wanted to watch this have moved on from children's movies. This is why the audience did NOT show up. Every parent in the world WILL always check the run time for their children BEFORE they go with young children, even so the cost and the possibility their child will NOT sit still for that long will put most parents off from going. When this movie is released on streaming or hard copy DVD's, they will buy it. When the original Mermaid movie was released on DVD they sold out. Even so The Little Mermaid remake was too long and far too wordy for most people, including adults and teens. Disney and other studios have forgotten that most teens and adults will ONLY watch a very long movie when its been peer reviewed as worth the money and time.
Oh, so this is going to be another Space Jam 2 case where people presumed it was going to be one of the most successful movies of the year just because it did decently at the box office in its first week, but then it declined massively in its second week and at the end of its theatrical run, the film flopped worldwide.
I had avoided Space Jam 2 when it came out, I followed the hate like a sheep. I watched it last week. I honestly enjoyed it. It's faithful to the Looney Tunes, it's faithful to the original Space Jam, and they clearly put in a lot of effort in the art styles. Seriously, the movie goes through _three_ different art styles and they all look great. It's also not preachy at all, and actually mocks corporates instead of licking boots and insulting fanbases. The crowd during the match was also hilarious. It's full of cosplayers for many WB characters, it's fun to take a look at them.
@@Dante02d12 If this movie was faithful to the Looney Tunes, they would have known that the reason Penelope Pussycat is so afraid of Pepe Le Pew is because he's a skunk, a smelly animal that no one wants to be around. Chuck Jones must be rolling in his grave. (well, the mere existence of this movie would be enough to make him roll in his grave). The 2D animation, while not bad, its not as good as the first movie and Back in Action once you start looking closer at it. Winnie the Pooh 2011 has better 2D animation than that. Also the "mocking corporates" part is the equivalent of live action Grinch claiming consumerism is bad when there were a lot of merchandising tie-ins the year of the movie's release, or the Lorax saying polluting is bad while at the same promoting cars. Back in Action did a better job with the WB cameos and mocking corporates without being hypocritical. Anyway, I'm glad Space Jam 2 flopped and I hope they never make a third one. There are more things you can do with classic cartoon characters than more basketball games.
@@Sr.BulletBill 1: You're talking about a controversy SURROUNDING the movie, not the movie itself. So, out of topic. 2: Just because there is "better" doesn't mean it's bad. The visuals are clearly worth watching. It's of bad faith to say otherwise. 3: Self-criticism is still valid even when it's hypocrite. Also, the writers _aren't_ the corporate bosses, so no, it's not hypocrite. You can say it's hypocrite for the WB bosses to approve the project, but who cares about them? The fact is the movie itself criticizes corporations.
My 11 year old niece watched this. Her mother is obsessed with anything Little Mermaid, so of course they had to see this. I asked her if she liked it and you could see the cognitive dissonance going on inside her mind. She's already preprogrammed to like anything Disney and anything her mother loves, but she couldn't help but say, "Umm, well, yes, I like it... it was good...but they ruined Flounder and well..." Even an 11 year old girl who is programmed to love this stuff couldn't enjoy this movie.
The only live action Disney remake I liked was 101 Dalmatians. The casting was brilliant for every character, they kept the same plot beats but expanded things in a logical manner so it was similiar but different, and it wasnt disrespectful to the source material or its audience.
Nah, I hated that one too. The 1970s "101 dalmatians" was the first movie I had on VHS as a child and I knew it by heart. I read the book when I was 6. I saw the remake in a theater as a child when it came out, and heck no. It lacked the heart and the atmosphere of the old one.
The Spider-Verse movie is out today and is getting rave reviews from around the world. That should kill off any chance of the Little Mermaid clawing its money back. And looking at the Spider-Verse trailer the animation looks pretty cool and radical for a mainstream Sony movie.
I'm not even a Spider-Man fan, and *I* want to see it! That's saying something. I really liked the Tobey McGuire versions, but haven't seen any since then. The clips I've seen make me want to watch the Miles Morales arc!
@@kateshiningdeer3334 honestly I'm sooooo tired of all the Spidey movies/games, there's soooo many other characters being ignored, both in the Marvel and DC universe it's not even funny. What's next, baby Spiderman? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man, the cinderella movie. It feels like a lifetime ago - that was so good I had huge hopes for the remakes. I remember when JJ/CS gave it a B and thought it could only get better from there somehow. Lily James WAS Cinderell.
I remember when Disney movies were pure entertainment, when the people participating in the making of those movies really had fun coming up with ideas and make the ideas alive on screen, when they had fun doing the voices, acting for the expressions and scenes, now, all of that is gone.
70% minimum drop this weekend. If it doesn’t break 500 million it stands to loose 300 million dollars. 250 million production 140 marketing 390 all in, 750 million ish to break even!
Its still not enough they will look at the 1st week and say see it was successful when the actual film is dogshit. But it's Disney not the best company for quality .
That song hits on next level. It literally sounds like somebody recorded children's 1995 song on tape and gave it to a 11 years old boy to "freestyle rap song" on it. This literally might be the worst song i've heard in my life, including some of my friends 2008 "rap songs" recorded on some of worst mics & beats aveliable on free-trail programs from that era.
The animated version could be a shorter length as they didn't have a checklist to go through; they could adapt a straight-forward, concise story. Nowadays it's all adaptation by committee, steeped in grievance culture.
The problem is that Disney owns something like 2/3 of the back catalog of all modern films now. They control so much media that they have become a tyrant.
Female characters are not allowed to love anymore in movies because to love is to be vulnerable. Female characters now must be absolutely flawless in every detail. Such vulnerability is therefore, by the new standards, weakness and we can't have that. This is why all the Mary-Sues that are churned out by Hollywood today are either celibate, asexual loners (Rey, Captain Marvel, new-live-action-Mulan) or nymphomaniacs that cycle through men without any emotional connection (She-Hulk). Really, it's kind of amazing that they tired to remake this movie for "modern audiences" since the entire plot concept revolves around a woman's love for a man and what she tires to do to win him over. It's kind of like trying to remake Harry Potter but without the magic or Doctor Who but without the time traveling.
Only live action remake worth watching from Disney, Jungle Book. They really outdone themselves and improved the story. That child actor for Mowgli deserved an Oscar.
Maleficent isn’t a “live-action remake”, it’s its own movie. It literally makes no sense if you think of it as a Sleeping Beauty “remake”. It’s a reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty story. It reinterprets the most random evil villain (she literally curses an innocent child because she was snubbed at a party…) as someone sympathetic, and reimagines True Loves Kiss to include familial/maternal love in the same way Once Upon a Time did, and I’m a huge fan of that.
Even in Wakanda this film flopped!
AHAHAHAHAHA ...OOOO THE WOKE WILL COME A KNOCKING ON YOUR COMMENT SECTION WITH THEIR TARGET CLOTHES AND BUDLIGHTS 😂
My name is Ah Cuckoo Khan, but my enemies call me Ariel.
@@bradcarver8127 My name is peepeepoopoo.. but my enemies call me Sid.
It's because they're still holding a grudge towards all fish based people after they got invaded by The Sub Mariner and his crustaceans.
Lmaoooo
The sheer gall of these woke western journos to label us non-westerners, especially us in Africa, who hated this movie and didn't support it as review terrorists and racists is just......damn. Now you know why we hate western wokeness in our entertainment.
Hollywood is speedrunning how fast they can become hated around the world. Cleopatra was just the starting line. They think they are the moral pinnacles of the entire world.
We hate western wokeness too.
Damn, they’ve gone from review bombers to review terrorists
@Lone Wolf I suppose in hindsight, that leap should have been obvious.
It’s pretty much standard tactics by now though isn’t it. Indeed, we’re still repeatedly told by the usual suspects that Ghostbusters 2016 only flopped because everyone hated or else was too scared of wimmin, or something like that.
I always get the impression that those spouting such fiction are trying to convince _themselves_ of their bs as much as anything. 😉
Hollywood doesn't make movies for us, they make movies for themselves.
Truth
Now, perhaps. But back in the day, it was a mutual thing. They made good movies and we paid to watch good movies.
Especially when they make movies about making movies
Americans make movies for themselves. Representation is american attempt to americanize the entire world by injecting their "diversity" to all countries and cultures
Truer words never spoken. Totally self-absorbed, narcissistic culture. And completely unentertaining.
One of the greatest mysteries of mankind is how the hell Akwafina keeps getting roles.
She did a very good job in Shang Chi
In her defense, she could be great in acting if she's cast against type like she did in The Farewell
@@chasedownblocks1736 Ehhhh she was okay. She was unique ill give her that. Had some funny jokes.
That's more her speed, comedic relief :3 at best. They do keep trying to "make" her happen in the industry and it isnt working tho with the people ahha - and this is a huge nail in a small coffin
@@chasedownblocks1736 Every part of Shang Chi was trash.
@@nickhewes6860 fight choreography was better than most everything in phase 3 and 4
Don’t forget, Aladdin also had the star power of pre-slap Will Smith helping drive it
Lol pre-slap smith
The original Disney Aladdin was my favorite so for me that remake has been the worst one.
Lol, I saw a trailer where they use him in some new game as some badass. I can't take it serious because he's such a bitch in real life.
I miss pre-slap Will Smith.😆
Jesus Christ, that guy used to be cool.
Remember that?
Fresh Prince, Men in black, ID, the cool rap songs.
Dang time can be cruel.
Disney going broke is a necessity at this point. They are destroying everything they touch. everything we used to love.
At least the old films are still there.
So go watch the old ones? They still exist and you don’t have to watch any of their new movies. That simple, snowflake.
Maybe the probpem is loving media and being spiritually empty
Then stop watching everything they put out
They can't go broke. Some (((hedge fund))) will just pump a trillion into them.
To the best of my recollection Triton's exact words before wrecking her collection in the original movie were: "So help me Ariel, I am going to get through to you! And if this is the only way: So be it!" From that you can gather that he is very aware how much what he's about to do will hurt his daughter; and he is willing to become the villain of this part of the story if it means protecting his daughter from both the threat humans pose and, in a way; the threat Ariel's naivete on the subject poses to herself. His facial expression after the carnage isn't like he's coming down off of a rage high; it's like that of someone who "did what needed to be done." When he sees Ariel's reaction to it all; I believe he instantly knows he went too far; but doesn't think 1) this is something he can apologize for because of how drastic, and traumatic, the act was 2) given the issue in question, he can afford to be wishy-washy about no matter the emotional cost, and 3) that trying to further force this issue do anything but hurt them both further. That entire sequence lasted a few minutes and it did more to build Triton as a character than I'd bet all his appearances in the remake do.
Because I don't want to watch the remake (because I don't want to waste my money and tine for something I still have as a VHS), what does Triton do in the remake instead?
Even in the initial scene early in the movie where Flounder accidentally lets slip they talked to a seagull therefore she went to the surface, he starts yelling at her and forbids here to go to the surface again. But after she leaves in a huff his intimidating demeanour drops to a melancholy one and he confides in Sebastian asking if he is being too hard on her and just wants to keep her safe. While the live action Triton is just either stoic and angry through the whole movie.
This comment gave me chills. It should be pinned. :)
@@RedaDoodles Oh wow; thanks!
All that scene did and pretty much the whole movie did was tell young girls that disobeying your parents is ok and even righteous. Why no one sees that has been in play in tv and movies for years is beyond me.
The funniest thing is Disney was pushing this movie HARD. Merch, commercials, promos, etc.... None of it sold and the movie is sinking like a stone that looks down. Good stuff 😀
To think they spend 140 millions in marketing alone...
@@fastlandcliffhanger6962 They actually had the audacity to have a replica of Ursula's famous shell necklace. The shell necklace in this look so awful. The shell is too big for the chain. I got lucky with getting the OG Disney necklace from Hot Topic. It still looks cute.
It's funny how Chinese people are called racist for disliking a Black Ariel when Fast X which is also a movie with a diverse cast is more successful than The Little Mermaid in China 😂
It couldn’t possibly be because Fast is just a dumb action movie that’s fun to watch and doesn’t beat you over the head with….THE MESSAGE
The power of family
The Chinese have a specific term for idiotic Western Liberals: Baizuo (literally "White Left.") Shows how much they care about the race hustlers. =^[.]^=
Well some morons called the whole Country of Egypt racist, because they wanted a accurate design of one of their most famous history figures. The problem is: That racist card is burned
@@DarthEvilicusthat's where you're wrong, fast x is always has the message.
It's about FAMILY
I remember when Disney movies would just entertain and inspire...
No, you don't. Not unless you're like a hundred. Disney movies have been primarily about propaganda since at least the 30s.Just watch those insufferable Davy Crockett movies if you dont'; believe me. I'm not even sure what I was thinking as a kid that I liked that dreck. If I could reach into my TV, I would slap him for being so insufferable.
Me to. Even just entertain. The kurt Russell movies, highly amusing. The barefoot executive, now you see him, the world's strongest man, the computer wore tennis shoes.
The dean Jones movies, the horse in the gray flannel suit, the goose that laid golden eggs, (& yes I know that's not the exact title).
The world's greatest athlete... Etc.
The animated features- robin hood, fox and the hound, 101 Dalmatians... etc.
@@Pahoe77 I can't speak for any of those earlier titles but by robin hood and 101 firetruck doggos it's already le capitalism is bad. Aladdin for example everyone my age when we were children in the 1990s knew the movie was completely filled with penis imagery. They've been groomers for at least 30 years. I look at Cruella down there with the Captain Planet or Wild Kratts villians just polluting and killing because it's fun and they are bad.
By the time a kid is ready for furry robin hood you might as well let them watch men in tights. I honestly think that one follows the story better then most other adaptations. It wasn't about the $. It was about Robin feeling disrespected.
Bob Iger: Thanks Universal for The Super Mario Bros Movie success.
Also Bob Iger: "We're screwed."
Now it depresses and oppresses
The irony is that the original story had much of what you would think the activist crowd would want to see - it was a cautionary tale about how Ariel allowed infatuation to cloud her judgment and make a choice to surrender her voice and almost fully reaped the consequences of it - plus, as stated in the video, how Eric stepped up and defended Ariel and proved to her father that he was not an evil human and that King Triton's prejudice was not justified.
But I guess the subtlety was lost on "Modern Audiences."
I mean that's the same audience complaining about Poor Unfortunate Souls that the BAD GUY said some mean things about woman the rest of the movie proved her wrong on.
But nope, it had to be removed to protect those unfortunate souls. 😂
Yep, everything is so ham fisted these days.
The only thing I want to say that's critical of this - and it's very minor - is this: with regards to 14:30, in the original movie, Ariel and Eric *tag team* Ursula. They BOTH fight her. Just to summarize the encounter: 1) Eric throws the harpoon at Ursula, inuring her. 2) Ursula is going to kill Eric with the trident, but Ariel pulls her hair, causing Ursula to miss. Ariel then 3) swims up to help Eric to the surface. Once 'mega Ursula' arises from the deep, Ariel and Eric are split up - Ariel 4) dodges bolts from the Trident to distract Ursula while Eric 5) boards a wreck and impales the sea witch.
It's actually really nice. The two of them work as a couple to engage the threat. It isn't a one-sided fight at all. In fact, it's actually a microcosm of the message of the film - that two different people from different worlds can come together to be something greater than as separate pieces.
Great point.
It seems like they made Eric useless in battle against Ursula in the live action to make Ariel shine and look badass.
@@leahfernandez8902 It's just a symptom of modern misandry to belittle men to the point of making them useless in all media. Why bother making a couple with equal footing, when you can just make a girl boss that needs no man and is a strong, independent, woman?
Like they were equals
Team work makes the dream work.
Representation is just “justified” racism.
Diversity quotas and affirmative action are straight up discrimination against whites.
Imagine white people being favoured over black people by law all while calling black people privileged based on the colour of their skin.
Diversity is just chasing down the last white man
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 In the games, yes
And the _"modern audience"_ is just a gaslighting term for something *'THAT DOES NOT EXIST'.*
But at this point the poor, poor selfproclaimed wannabe-rulers of the world who want to brainwash us into a _"New World Order"_ do not want to admit defeat.
Even when their last message amplifier will be silenced they will still act as if they had been the good guys all along and the world is just too medieval to understand it. 😏
And it will be a glorious day.
Diversity = anti white.
For reference, The Little Mermaid (1989) grossed $235 million USD during its theatrical releases (once in 1989, again in 1997). That's equivalent to over $566 million USD today. That is also NOT counting the earnings it got for home media releases (VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, even digital purchases). And it did all that on a roughly $40 million USD budget (roughly $95-100 million USD budget today). Note that the budget doesn't account for marketing costs here.
Meanwhile, this movie...$250 million USD budget (again, not accounting for marketing costs), and it is struggling to break $500 million USD? For it to have the same success, it would need to get over $1.4 billion USD in box office earnings (that's with a multiplier of about 5.6-5.65, which is what the 1989 feature earned in box office vs budget). And it would also have to have an equally strong performance in physical & digital sales as the 1989 feature, which doesn't look likely.
Addendum: Consider that Little Mermaid's success back in 1989 and 1997 was done well before the internet was widespread enough to allow folks worldwide to connect to one another. That is how powerful the success of the movie resonates to this day, and truly earmarked the start of Disney's Renaissance period.
omg you're a cinephile I love you ❤️
i got the little mermaid on VHS for Christmas over 30 years ago, i liked the Nintendo game more than the movie. My babysitter was so good at it, probably just not being a literal child.
Not to mention the original animated movie's merchandise sales, the sales of its sequels and cartoon series, and the ad revenue from when the cartoon series aired.
@@Eidolon1andOnly Good point, also per 'Wikipedia' and backup up by 'The numbers' stats all VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray sales of The Little Mermaid netted $565m (This is USA alone, and excludes inflation). If you add in the Rest of the World surely the physical sales were over $1bn (uninflated). You add in inflation this is probably c.$2bn at todays value. But at least TLM 2023 will draw in LOADS of subscribers on Disney+ 🤣
The soundtrack topped the charts too
This pretty much confirms what I’ve been thinking about for a while regarding the live action remake: Disney’s writers have essentially lost all sense of wonder and fantasy when it comes to their craft.
Lost?
They never had it: the Disney classics were written best part of a century ago. These are a whole new Gen of writers, that have never written anything good, and have no talent or imagination.
For those unaware, the studio will generally see 70% of domestic box office and 30% of foreign box office takes. Another thing people don't realize is to get the true budget of a movie, you double the "production budget" which doesn't include things like marketing.
The Little Mermaid
production budget: $250 million
actual cost = $500 million
Domestic take (as of this post): $138 million (x.7) = $96.6 million domestically
Foreign take (as of this post): $79 million (x.3) = $23.7 million foreign
Total take (as of this post): $120.3 million
Thanks for this explanation 😂
Disparu said it best in another video; if that song were put in elevators, it would cure the world health crisis- for all the people that would take the stairs to avoid it...
There was a sound engineer who recorded multiple takes of each part of that song and then listened to it on loop while mixing it. Then animators had to listen to it repeatedly while putting it into sequence.
Just, HOW???
@@moresnacksplease526 That is called working to pay bills. Work is not always enjoyable :D
Or you’d just put your earbuds in and listen to actual music 🤷♂️
@@ReiShs They should file an OSHA complaint
@@moresnacksplease526 Surely that has to count as cruel and unusual punishment and a human rights violation? Poor guy.
11:09 MauLer "Modern film making takes so much fucking longer to say less" - I completely agree and all of the remakes in recent years are, like this one, prime examples of his point.
Hell yeah. The Little Platoon made a good video about that horrible Peter Pan and Wendy adaptation, and one of his points was, that there is so much filler... Running time expanded, and nothing of value added to the story etc.
The Little Mermaid original was 82 minutes. Shrek was 90 minutes. Bugsy Malone was 92 minutes. Hell, even the Wizard of Oz was less than 2 hours long. I thought that the Wizard of Oz was seriously testing the bladder capacity of small children. Keeping them in the cinema for 135 minutes is absurd.
People are increasingly stupid and need to be spoon-fed everything, it seems.
What a quote!
yeah the times on some of these movies these days are nuts.... give me 90-120 max. none of this 2:40 shit
The whole kiss the girl song change was crazy. She's the one who wants him to kiss her he's not consenting he doesnt want to, the song is pressuring him to, yet they spin it to make it in this remake like it's the other way around.
There has been a flood of articles that have falsely stated it grossed 117M in the first weekend but actually grossed 93M for the entire memorial day weekend in the states with garbage internationally. The break even is 4-500M. They're trying hard to tout it as a success already. The international number is flip flopped with domestic at only 30% gross.
The original Little Mermaid brought Disney back from the brink of financial ruin, and set off perhaps a series of the best animations and movies the world has ever seen.
Wouldn't it be great, a complete circle if you will or a ying/yang thing, if this Little Mermaid took Disney back to the brink, then gave Disney a little nudge and down falls Disney into the abyss never to be heard from again.
That would be sweet.
One can hope...
I want that more than anything
I want dysney to hurt and go back to being politically neutral rather than completely die and disappear
Films like The Little Mermaid led to the Lion King, which in turn led to Animal Soccer World. Animal Soccer World is worse than slavery.
Now journalists are saying that critics of Mermaid 2023 are all racist. Coincidence? Wake up America!
As long as disney has the MCU, it'll be a very slow burn into oblivion
I'm jaded to the point my bloods gone green but this brings a smile to my face. The sooner Disney goes bankrupt the better.
Won't happen, when a company's that big/dominant in the market your best hope is that it gets infiltrated. It's the same in politics; no party will ever replace the Dems/Republicans in the US, or Tory/Labour in the UK, all you can hope for is that someone like Trump comes in and infiltrates them
They will never go bankrupt. Only hit they will take is public opinion.
I'm older, and I have a lot of fond memories of Disney content. I'm still waiting for someone to wake up
and say it was all a bad dream. Maybe one day Disney will get back to telling good stories and give us
the ground breaking animation. Till then, the Drinker and Co. are the best thing about Disney's content.
And how do you imagine they'll go bankrupt when they're making billions in profit each year?
They're backed by Black Rock and JorgeSOROS - they won't be going bankrupt.
Watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks last night, found it for a dollar at a thrift store. One of the songs, "The Age of Not Believing," was written with the subtext that the songwriters were struggling to know how they were going to keep going on after Walt Disney's death. It was like the creative soul of the studio died with him. Even the movies I remember fondly from my childhood were produced on a conveyor belt by a zombie company. What does that make the remakes? Zombie zombies?
It's really fascinating how the Disney movies are turning into a psychological view into the traumatized past of the writers. From Mermaid we know that these were women who grew up with emotionally unstable fathers. Good for psychological analysis, I suppose, but shit as a movie.
I'm sure these writers' fathers were at worst too passive and not disciplinarians. I doubt these spiteful mutants aren't inherently like this.
Did you ever watch the original Little Mermaid? Triton was not exactly Ward Cleaver.
@@hoos3014 In the original Little Mermaid, Triton sacrifices himself to free his daughter, and then afterwards realizes that he can give her what she wanted and does. It could be argued that he was even correct in the beginning in that Ariel's fascination with surface people is what nearly caused Ursula to take over.
Us armchair psychologists have been getting so much practise analyzing their projection for years.
@@thatHARVguy sure. but I think all psychologist are armchair.
This makes me think back to when I was in college. Student activists were always complaining that big megacorps like Disney could make low-quality garbage and people would watch it because marketing told them to, and like it because the corporate media told them to. Well, they may not have grown up, but those students are certainly older now, and they run the megacorps. They honestly believed that was how the world worked back then, and now they are trying to do the same thing: low quality propagandistic crap, backed by a wholly-owned media chorus.
And yet, people are _not_ loving it. Rather than challenge their own worldview and ask themselves if maybe those classics were better than their ideology let them appreciate, and if maybe quality really does matter, instead they think it's because their dominance isn't total enough and they're victims of some evil capitalist conspiracy.
Ah the deadly sin of Arrogance.
it not capitalist tho, it is corporatist
capitalism is decentralized, corporatism is centeralized
Well you see those people are morons and they where complaining about themselves even back then they where never intelligent they where always hypocritical also what’s funny is they cried when movies where still good but now they’re loving the movies loooooool
Dig deeper.
It's the most toxic movement ever and it destroys everyone and everything it touches.
In the original film, Ariel saved the day on multiple occations. She saved Flounder from the shark at the beginning of the film, she saved Eric from drowning, ans then she saved him again from getting blasted by Ursula. So there really was no need for Ariel to be the one killing Ursula, she’s already proven herself times and times again as a competent and heroic character.
EXACTLY. These changes SUCK
I didnt believe that the song could be that bad, then I heard it. These guys arent overselling it at all, its truly terrible.
I live in Thailand, and I can tell you that the people here were booing and hissing at the previews when we went to go see Guardians 3. And as far as I can tell from Thailand/Disney/Hotstar social media comments no one here wants to see the race swap.
Based Thailand!!!
Course not, Thailand is homogenous.
@@fidelio9301 are you kidding? Tons of mixed race people in Thailand.
@@bauer9101 It’s mainly homogenous. Stop pretending it’s America.
@@bauer9101Mixed white?
The most hilarious thing I have read so far was 'the remake surpasses the original in money' - ever heard about inflation?
Funny thing is even without inflation its nowhere near true yet.
Video games and GPUs have the same problem. "More people are buying/playing than ever!" Yes, that's because more people have access to it. And the population is going way up in certain parts of the world too.
Average people don't understand basic things like this so there's no chance that the braindead investors will. They'll continue to throw money at them and be lied to right back.
The original was only shown in 2000 movie theatres in US. The remake was shown in something like 40,000 theatres in the US.
Movie ticket price inflation has also outpaced general inflation so if both films had actually made the same amount at the box office when inflation-adjusted, it would still mean that fewer people had gone to see the new one.
12:20: Disparu, I can tell you directly, it was made for the women who were kids at the time and are now moms. I have a coworker who directly stated that Disney was "clever" for their timing, because they waited for the generation that grew up on these films to become adults so that they, i.e. the moms, would take their kids to the cinema. She admitted she's fallen for Disney's ploy, not that I'm overwhelmingly surprised given that she apparently "loved" both the "Little Mermaid" AND "Peter Pan and Wendy".
As if we need more evidence for why voting should not be universal.
I remember when filmmaking use to be an art form, something to taken seriously as you have to put your heart and soul into it and not to mention doing a great deal of research in order to understand the story that was from a mythical creature and your audience(which was children) and how you can make it work and that is what the 1989 one did in spades for they took pride in their work and they understood the audience they wanted and most of the people behind the 1989 flick had children of their own.
The 2023 one is just a corpo product that they just vomited out in order to make whatever money the could and they took everything that made the 1989 one great and they just wanted to virtual signal.
All those delusional people on Twitter saying “and y’all said it would flop 😂 NOPE” is hilarious to me 💀
😂...the liberal media still saying it was the greatest movie ever made 😂
They're coping and seething
Reality and Truth are the sworn enemies of the wokies/commies/feminists/socialists.
To be fair most people don't go much beyond reading the title of an article from a media source that aligns with their political beliefs.
They're the same people still insisting that Rings of Power was a massive success using those Parrot Analytics numbers despite the revelations that Amazon were cooking the viewership books using "social media engagement" to determine viewership rather than actual ratings, and the showrunners admitting that Amazon would never publicly admit to it underperforming regardless whether it did or not.
Am I the only one who keeps thinking/hoping/praying "this will be the one that makes them realise..." lol?
They're more afraid of ESG Scores and the person behind them: JorgeSOROS. They could care less about the customers opinions.
I hope not, watching them shitting the bed time after time again and then summoning their journo cheer squad for cope is hilarious.
I legit don’t see why anyone cares. There are tons of shitty movies and shitty movie companies. Why are grown men so passionately criticizing a shitty musical for children? 😂😂
@@theelder4797 *couldn't care less
Saying "could care less" implies there's at least some care to start with. Couldn't care less implies no care at all, therefore it's impossible to care less
@@theelder4797 this is sinister as hell
Wasn't that guy tied to that pizzagate clutterfuck??
I love how a movie like Avatar can be released in 2009 and have a budget of 237 million and look amazing. Then we get a movie like this with a higher budget and lower quality 14 years later. Haha, like, how does that happen?
computer games are the same. Look at Dead Space "remake" it managed to look worse in 4k than the original did maxed out in 1440p. They cannot even do sound right now
not to mention LOTR trilogy which was even earlier and looked even better. we're going backwards! XD
The difference is the percentage the executives take.
@@bigduphusaj162to be fair. The dead space remake had some good stuff in it. But, I’ll agree that some of the redone sound was sub par…it lacked weight and punchy was.
Well Cameron hired a bunch of talented people and gave them years to do it, now they are a conveyor belt and they are rushed to do it for as cheap as possible so the talent and time is gone.
Just like with Avatar 2, the next two films are as far as I can tell already filmed and they are just waiting the X amount of years for them to finish the CGI.
Disney 1900s: fall in love with someone who cares about you and not the villain. Disney 2000s: don't bother finding love and sympathise with the bad guy
that last arguement recalling the plot and meaning of Eric saving Ariel from Ursula really hammers home how ignorant disney's become to the source material
i guarantee not for a SECOND did they think about The king and his thoughts about the humans on land
It was a convincing (if coded) anti-discrimination message, that Disney gutted in the interests of social justice and girlbossification.
@@DeflatingAtheism ugh. Ariel ALREADY saved Eric earlier in the movie
I can’t wait to watch Awkwafina perform it live during the Oscars after it’s nominated for an academy award for best original song. ::gets popcorn ready::
Can you imagine all those hacks having to pretend they like it ? :))) Oh it would be delicious.
@@gusty9053 the standing ovation. Flowers being thrown on the stage. Tears of pride and joy
_Finally,_ true, authentic black voices are being heard.
"And the winner is...literally no one."
🤣
The importance of Erik saving the day never crossed my mind. This act indepts Tridone and shows that humanity can be good.
I'm just so sad after Disparu talked about the father (I haven't watched the movie and don't plan to) that I was reminded of How to Train Your Dragon. With Hiccup's father Stoic after 'disowning' Hiccup and walking out, you get to what that meant to him. How much it hurt, but you could tell he likely steeled himself to act like a 'chief' and went to do what he thought he had to.
God I miss subtlety in movies.
Disney's mistake was adding _THE MESSAGE_ for _MODERN AUDIENCES_
I'm telling you, the real reason Walter broke bad was because he received the world's shittiest handjob which made him reconsider his entire existence. Your wife yanking around your 50 year old half chub with 10% of her attention while simultaneously borderline orgasming at selling a girthy 8,5 inch vase on eBay for 56 dollars is an experience that people in the darkest bdsm dungeons would be shivering at. I swear to god Walter Jr. is probably having a wilder sex life on the other side of the wall with his sock than these two have had in the past five years.
So when he received his cancer diagnosis the prolonged silence was not due to shock but because of pure bliss and relief because he knew that in a few years he'll likely be dead and won't have to live like that.
That's why when he received the news of remission he was so goddamn angry. And I don't know why people see the Salamanca twins as villains, they were clearly just tryna help a homie out and spare him from this existence. Oh, but why did they go after Hank then, you might ask? Well, then you clearly don't remember Hank's handjob scene from season 4, they were trying to save him from that. Really they were the true heroes of this show trying to save people from fucking miserable, dick shriveling handjobs.
And then, of course, shit starts happening, Skyler fucks Ted and Walt goes off the chain prolly thinking stuff like "bet she didn't give just a shitty handjob to Ted, oh no! My god, I wouldn't even be surprised if she agreed to do anal with him! While I've been pleading for years!". That right there's a thought progression enough to start a man crashing plants in random office buildings. And the way it can mess with your sexual thinking, Lord only knows what kind of cataclysmic insanities Walt was busting nuts to while living alone.
But then Walt has a romantic dinner with Gus, realises there's at least someone who'd probably agree to have anal with him, meanwhile Ted gets paralyzed, no more anal for him, Walt calls up Skyler "I won".
Now Walt can be smug for the entirety of season 5, he's back on top of the sex chain. So Breaking Bad is really about Walt's sexual transformation from a submissive forced-into-humiliation-kink middle aged man to a borderline sex offender to an off the rails cuck to a pure alpha male who's ascended past sex and at the end of season 5 we can see him die with bliss on his face because he's redeemed himself.
You don't say, Mr. Comment Bot...
There's really no modern audience, there's just audience
@@15Candles I dunno. I think comment bots like Heisenberg here just might be the modern audience.
"NOOOOOOOO!"
I'm from Australia and a few of my foreign friends are sick to death of Hollywood blackwashing America is just making themselves look foolish😂
did you see their clown president fall on his face again after the rambling he made at the graduation yesterday 😂..that's their best and brightest imagine how dimwitted the rest of them are 😂
George Soros loves it tho 🥴
Your education must be low black washing don't exist Ariel is a mermaid! A mythical creature! That can be anyrace
It’s not blackwashing, it’s ginger erasure.
I love being an American but while we export some amazing things, we also export some of the shittiest culture and morals imaginable.
Disparu's comment on King Triton was an amazing observation. I have not seen the new version yet, but that was a key storytelling piece for the original, I find it interesting it was changed for the remake.
Drinker's "parents use this movie as daycare for two hours" is SPOT On accurate, a lot of parents admit thats why they go see these things, they can take a break and the kids can get lost in a movie for 2hrs
There are more than enough existing movies I can show the kids in my family that are better than these remakes.
@@kaijusoshingeki7214 i agree. but his point was the people who are going to see this movie, aren’t doing it for the quality or content, just using it as daycare
Calling BS here as CD does NOT have children.
Every parent in the world WILL always check the run time for their children BEFORE they go to a cinema with young children, even so the cost and the possibility their child will NOT sit still for that long will put most parents off from going.
Even so two hours with one or two children is hard work, they want the toilet,food, drink and that's a COST. So NO most parents DO NOT go to the cinema with young children at all. Unless they do its rare they will finish the movie from start to finish.
The three big markets for Disney movies outside of the US are China, South Korea and Japan; All of them are rich, culturally conservative and highly educated. The Little Mermaid 2023 never had a chance and no amount of Twitter-guilt tripping is gonna pressure them to do something they don't want.
Disney can pander to all of Africa and South America and it wouldn't even equal one of them in terms of value.
Here in Brazil we also dont care about this movie, i invited my wife who is a huge fan of the old movie and the animated TV series to watch this movie and she said: No, that is not the littlemermaid 😂😂😂
Raceswaping does not goes well here in South America mate, that is purelly a US extremelly racist far-left thing
Even down here in Nigeria(africa)no one is going to see this in the cinema
They even hid Chadwick's face in the china poster considering how racist those people are. They don't take to black people at all anyone who is not them xD
You forgot about the UK, another big market for Disney.
Understandably China … but SK and Japan? Don’t think so
I thought about why TLM flopped in Asia (Japan, South Korea and China)
Because the main character girl is ugly.
Children, in particular, distinguish between beauty and ugliness very directly.
It doesn't matter if the main character is white or black. People just couldn't like it because she wasn't pretty.
According to the reviews of most Asians, they criticized the movie for being dark and very scary overall.
There seem to be a lot of people who felt like a horror movie, not a children's movie
There were many parents who took their young children with them because it was a movie aimed at children.
However, most parents left a lot of reviews that their child burst into tears in fear during the movie screening.
And Asians hate American's PC culture and black-washing very much.
An antipathy to it would also have contributed to the flopped box office
I agree, I remember seeing the casting for the first time and thinking 'couldn't they have at least made her pretty?' The actress isn't 'unattractive' but very ordinary-looking
We pirated this movie on Chinese Netflix
9/200 ratio
What is TML?
@@user-it2qm1pg3p I thought so. 谢谢你的答复
Halle is absolutely gorgeous… I have no idea what y’all are talking about. Fair to say you don’t like the movie, I wasn’t super impressed with it either. But to say she’s UGLY?? 😂
Disney used to make A LOT of money by rereleasing their classic animated films into theatres on a regular basis.
I loved the ending where Ariel said "look at me I am the Captain now" before driving the ship into Ursula. Certainly brought a tear to my eye.
Hot damn, Disparu. It's probably been 10+ years since I watched _The Little Mermaid,_ and I had never even considered your take on the interaction between Triton and Ariel in the cave scene. I've been a dad for nearly 18 years, now, and your take hits hard. I can't even estimate the number of times I've had to do something that pissed off one of my kids because it was what's best for them in the long run. Damn. Taking that away from Triton absolutely changes the tone of that scene.
Well done.
Believable parent figures require a certain amount of depth and nuance which modern writers are incapable of providing.
The movie that saved Disney is today the one that destroys it xD
it's apparently not even the same story line
You were the chosen one, Little Mermaid. You were supposed to save Disney, not destroy it.
From my point of view, Disney is the evil one.
@@floydlooney6837 Ariel steered the ship into Ursula, like lolwut?
BINGO
Full circle
Drinker says it like it is. The reason I love your content. No Bullshit
Yes.
Fuckin oath.
Exactly!
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Enjoy while it lasts; he'll get cancelled sooner or later
Headline: "Little Mermaid is banned at Atlantis."
“Unfortunately, no one can be told what ‘The Scuttlebutt’ is… You have to hear it for yourself…”
My sister roasted this film for me. She's mad that they had her save the day alone when they bothered showing all those sisters and did nothing with them. Eric could've done what he did in the original and that could've only created an opening for the sisters to win. That's perfect for modern audiences.
I literally heard bits of the Awkwafina song played in a few videos making fun of the movie and it was so bad I just assumed it was some sort of meme parody. I couldn't believe that it was legitimately a song that was included in the film.
Scuttlebutt? Yeah same, I actually had to look it up to see if it was legit
managed about ten seconds
I watched it today too. It felt like a joke... that kept going... and going.
It's like being beaten with one of those thin aluminum pans you cater food in hahah.
WAMP CHYKA WAMP WAMP - I|N TEH SWAMP SWAMP WAMP WAMP - jesus fucking christ. Apparently Lin Manuel Miranda's rep is taking huge hits on inside of the industry as wel for this one. I thought Hamilton was quite brilliant tbh. The man knows how to right really really good rap, this is not it.
CDs take on how modern films take twice as long to tell half as much is BRILLIANT!
yea its bullshit al this 2:30 and 2:45 minute run times come on. Cut the fat on these movies !
Disney has never been more out of touch than they are right now. That's why their new movies aren't doing the numbers they used to. I think the only way out of it is to hire better, more experienced people and let them make the films they want to make without interference from "sensitivity experts". Hire people purely based on merit, regardless of which or any diversity boxes they check.
Cinderella is indeed very well done. Cate Blanchett is great as the stepmom.
cate blanchett is great as everything
Lily James is also the perfect Cinderella.
First villainous role she's done to my knowledge.
@@jaredthehawk3870 she was the main villain in the last Indiana Jones film which came out long before the Cinderella remake.
@@redemissarium She'll always be my image of Elizabeth I🧐
Awkwafina's Scuttlebutt rap is so cringe and shoehorned.
Not her fault they hired her to play the role and wrote a rap song intentionally for her to deliver
@@chasedownblocks1736 Bruh she didnt have to record it like that lmao dont divorce her from a song she CHOSE to rap into a mic. Stop it.
@@DekkarJr at the end of the day is what the director and cinema team approves
@@chasedownblocks1736 im just saying i cant imagine being a sound engineer and not sabotaging this things master tapes somehow
I turned off the sound 5 seconds into the rap
You just know they want to nominate that song for an Oscar and probably give it to her.
The live-action Cinderella, against all odds, is one of the most refreshingly perfect movies of all time. It is my second favorite, just below LOTR trilogy. Kenneth Branaugh made a masterpiece.
Yes Cinderella is one of the FEW remakes that WORKED. I can almost call it a classic like the original
So basically now Rey has to steer the ship into Ursula…
I'm just excited to see the incredible acclaim Spider Man Across The Spider Verse crushes The Little Mermaid at the box office especially in China. You know a blockbuster is in big trouble when it's not even well received in China too
Yes, because the idiots in Hollywood generally make decisions to avoid pissing off the government there in the hopes of being certified for those theaters. Meanwhile, the rest of us suffer as plot lines that might annoy the party there are dropped or modified.
And considering that in both movies MC is black, which doesn't usually go well in China, that's more impressive...
It's a story where a black guy and a woman are the main characters, and people love it. The woke lot won't be able to say anything when it crushes it at the box office.
I just saw Spider-Man and there is NO WAY the little mermaid has got any chance against that masterpiece
Why can spider man be a black boy but Ariel can't be a black girl? This signifies the reality of the Shenikah and how she is a Shulamite black woman that the world hates this is all spiritual. 😢
Something I find particularly harmful towards little girls specifically is that in these movies they show that the woman is always self-sufficient. She never relies on anyone else for anything. She never needs help. That's a horrible message to send to little girls who are going to be subjected to the real world one day and not realize that they are not only allowed to ask for help, they _need_ it. But they'll see it as some kind of mark of weakness or shame that they should ever rely on someone else because that's what their heroes taught them. It's disgusting.
Yeah. In the past decades we taught little boys to hide their feelings, now we teach little girls that being a team-player equals weakness. Can we just be NORMAL for a bit?
If that came to pass it'd be funny in a dark, ironic way that there's finally going to be a generation of women taught some of the same childhood lessons as men.
It reminds me of the message of Spiderman 3. "Everyone needs help at some point. Even Spiderman." Such a powerful and meaningful message. Now movies are teaching the opposite, lol.
Being independent is a good thing. Bossing people around to get your way isn't, and that's what they're going to do.
What's worse is how it will affect families in the coming generation. Most people seem to forget that your flaws matter when you're the one who has to maintain a marriage and raise children someday. How many kids would want a selfish mom? How many men want a partner like that? I mean, can you imagine a mother who's so emotionally damaged and tells her kids about it? Nowadays women are obsessed with their traumas, actively putting them on picket signs and in their profiles. That makes them very poor choices for parents.
If women wanted to raise a generation of strong kids this will have the opposite effect. They're spoiled, spiteful, bossy and hyper-reactive instead of capable, self-sufficient and emotionally stable.
I find it fitting that the animated '89 flick brought Disney from the brink of going out of business indefinitely whereas this CGI flick of the same name has explicitly shown its weakening grip on those big bucks.
Comparatively with budget & box office numbers in addition to inflation adjustments, the CGI flick isn't even in the same ballpark as the higher-earning animated '89 flick in a similar time frame.
All remakes need to be purified by fire.
Well you're wrong there "The Thing" by John carpenter was a better movie than its original. There are others, but you are probably too young to have watched the originals.
@@GeryonM The thing was from a book mate and the original movie wasnt accurate to it at all. John Carpenter was more accurate and wasnt a remake of the original movie at all.
@@GeryonM All remakes made in this day and age need to be purified by fire. Better?
The state of Disney reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the movie snatch. “Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity”
I heard a 5 second clip, and that was more than enough.
The casting was spot on… They cast a lead who’s eyes are nearly on the side of her head like a fish… 🍺👍🏻
The Little Hammerhead
Paid no attention to this movie, but now.. thanks to you guys, I have discovered the 'rap'.
"Aaaah, they're just roasting a crap film, it cant be that bad.."
How I miss the innocence of 3 minutes ago...
I'd rather spend six hours watching The Drinker and his pals engage in smack talk than sit through two hours of anything made by the clown car at Disney in decades. (Then again, with no disrespect intended for The Drinker and his pals, I'd rather shave my balls with a cheese grater and squat in a bucket of gin than watch anything made by Disney in decades, but I still dig the dynamic between these guys.)
You paint with words sir.
I'm a woman, and that comment made me cringe with pain! And I don't even have the relevant equipment! Well said!
@@laurendearnley9595 And I blush with gratitude!
@@kateshiningdeer3334 All you need is some imagination. And you're here, so you probably have too much of it to watch anything by the Disney Company...
You realy have to watch it!Its amazing good!
I am the biggest Bond fan but I had a really hard time sitting through No Time to Die. It's not just Disney movies that are overstaying their welcome. It's like film producers and directors have lost all ability and willingness to think about audiences. As Steve Martin once said in "PT&A..." You have to discriminate. You choose things that, that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You're a miracle. Your stories have none of that! They're not even amusing accidentally! "
*I preferred the mermaid from The Lighthouse...*
Every modern Disney movie has burned the good will built from prior movies, and it speaks volumes to the quality of what Disney used to produce. But you can only come back to that well so many times, spit in it, def*cate into it, and expect people to come back for more. This is massive long term damage DIseny as inflicted on themselves. Whats even worse saving? The parks? The parks represent their content, which they now hate.
Disney did NOT make this version of The Little Mermaid for children as they KNOW about run times for children HAS to be short. They made this movie for young adults that are fans of the original TLM movie.
They hoped to catch all with the title, but those Disney wanted to watch this have moved on from children's movies. This is why the audience did NOT show up.
Every parent in the world WILL always check the run time for their children BEFORE they go with young children, even so the cost and the possibility their child will NOT sit still for that long will put most parents off from going. When this movie is released on streaming or hard copy DVD's, they will buy it.
When the original Mermaid movie was released on DVD they sold out.
Even so The Little Mermaid remake was too long and far too wordy for most people, including adults and teens. Disney and other studios have forgotten that most teens and adults will ONLY watch a very long movie when its been peer reviewed as worth the money and time.
7:03 "You could use that (Skuttlebutt) in Guantanamo Bay to extract confessions from terrorists." Made me spit up my energy drink.
I wonder what effect Turning Red had on this considering how vehemently parents despised it
Oh, so this is going to be another Space Jam 2 case where people presumed it was going to be one of the most successful movies of the year just because it did decently at the box office in its first week, but then it declined massively in its second week and at the end of its theatrical run, the film flopped worldwide.
Exactly. Nostalgia will get butts into seats for week 1, but word-of-mouth will kill it in week 2.
I had avoided Space Jam 2 when it came out, I followed the hate like a sheep. I watched it last week. I honestly enjoyed it. It's faithful to the Looney Tunes, it's faithful to the original Space Jam, and they clearly put in a lot of effort in the art styles. Seriously, the movie goes through _three_ different art styles and they all look great. It's also not preachy at all, and actually mocks corporates instead of licking boots and insulting fanbases.
The crowd during the match was also hilarious. It's full of cosplayers for many WB characters, it's fun to take a look at them.
@@DeflatingAtheism Thursday numbers had it drop below the Spiderverse movie
@@Dante02d12 If this movie was faithful to the Looney Tunes, they would have known that the reason Penelope Pussycat is so afraid of Pepe Le Pew is because he's a skunk, a smelly animal that no one wants to be around. Chuck Jones must be rolling in his grave. (well, the mere existence of this movie would be enough to make him roll in his grave). The 2D animation, while not bad, its not as good as the first movie and Back in Action once you start looking closer at it. Winnie the Pooh 2011 has better 2D animation than that. Also the "mocking corporates" part is the equivalent of live action Grinch claiming consumerism is bad when there were a lot of merchandising tie-ins the year of the movie's release, or the Lorax saying polluting is bad while at the same promoting cars. Back in Action did a better job with the WB cameos and mocking corporates without being hypocritical.
Anyway, I'm glad Space Jam 2 flopped and I hope they never make a third one. There are more things you can do with classic cartoon characters than more basketball games.
@@Sr.BulletBill
1: You're talking about a controversy SURROUNDING the movie, not the movie itself. So, out of topic.
2: Just because there is "better" doesn't mean it's bad. The visuals are clearly worth watching. It's of bad faith to say otherwise.
3: Self-criticism is still valid even when it's hypocrite. Also, the writers _aren't_ the corporate bosses, so no, it's not hypocrite. You can say it's hypocrite for the WB bosses to approve the project, but who cares about them? The fact is the movie itself criticizes corporations.
These are such incredibly smart panel discussions. btw when the rap was brought up I had to pause because I was laughing so hard.
My 11 year old niece watched this. Her mother is obsessed with anything Little Mermaid, so of course they had to see this. I asked her if she liked it and you could see the cognitive dissonance going on inside her mind. She's already preprogrammed to like anything Disney and anything her mother loves, but she couldn't help but say, "Umm, well, yes, I like it... it was good...but they ruined Flounder and well..."
Even an 11 year old girl who is programmed to love this stuff couldn't enjoy this movie.
The only live action Disney remake I liked was 101 Dalmatians. The casting was brilliant for every character, they kept the same plot beats but expanded things in a logical manner so it was similiar but different, and it wasnt disrespectful to the source material or its audience.
❤❤
It's that the one where Dr House is one of Cruella's sidekicks?
@Marbella Otaiza Hugh Laurie, yes. And Mark Williams, who was Arthur Weasley in Harry Potter, is Horace. As I said, stellar casting.
Glenn Close was a good pick for Cruella too
Nah, I hated that one too. The 1970s "101 dalmatians" was the first movie I had on VHS as a child and I knew it by heart. I read the book when I was 6. I saw the remake in a theater as a child when it came out, and heck no. It lacked the heart and the atmosphere of the old one.
The Spider-Verse movie is out today and is getting rave reviews from around the world. That should kill off any chance of the Little Mermaid clawing its money back. And looking at the Spider-Verse trailer the animation looks pretty cool and radical for a mainstream Sony movie.
i heard it is only part 1 of a 2 part movie lol
@@hardkore360 It is. A complete trilogy
I'm not even a Spider-Man fan, and *I* want to see it! That's saying something.
I really liked the Tobey McGuire versions, but haven't seen any since then. The clips I've seen make me want to watch the Miles Morales arc!
Saw it last night, easy 9/10
@@kateshiningdeer3334 honestly I'm sooooo tired of all the Spidey movies/games, there's soooo many other characters being ignored, both in the Marvel and DC universe it's not even funny. What's next, baby Spiderman? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2:03 - Despot's profile picture of Lizzo was unexpectedly hilarious!🤣
The Davos Media ..
‘It’s better than the original!’
Man, the cinderella movie. It feels like a lifetime ago - that was so good I had huge hopes for the remakes. I remember when JJ/CS gave it a B and thought it could only get better from there somehow. Lily James WAS Cinderell.
beauty and the beast wasnt bad either i dont think...
then again maybe i saw the world differently back t hen and just didnt notice D:
@@DekkarJrmany ppl didn’t think Emma was the best fit for Belle. She tried her best yah
But Lily WAS Cinderella that’s for sure
Yes Cinderella was one of the BEST ones!
Just checked the closest cinema, Mario has twice as much screenings today as the mermaid. :) Good.
As long as a Cristopher Nolan movie, but with less depth than an Adam Sandler comedy?
Bold Choice, Disney.
I remember when Disney movies were pure entertainment, when the people participating in the making of those movies really had fun coming up with ideas and make the ideas alive on screen, when they had fun doing the voices, acting for the expressions and scenes, now, all of that is gone.
70% minimum drop this weekend. If it doesn’t break 500 million it stands to loose 300 million dollars.
250 million production
140 marketing
390 all in, 750 million ish to break even!
*lose (not "loose") 300 million
Its still not enough they will look at the 1st week and say see it was successful when the actual film is dogshit. But it's Disney not the best company for quality .
That song hits on next level.
It literally sounds like somebody recorded children's 1995 song on tape and gave it to a 11 years old boy to "freestyle rap song" on it.
This literally might be the worst song i've heard in my life, including some of my friends 2008 "rap songs" recorded on some of worst mics & beats aveliable on free-trail programs from that era.
The animated version could be a shorter length as they didn't have a checklist to go through; they could adapt a straight-forward, concise story. Nowadays it's all adaptation by committee, steeped in grievance culture.
When I heard this movie has a rap song in it, that cemented my opinion of it. I'll be avoiding this film like the plague.
Lizzo should be nominated for the Razzie for Worst Acting by a Planet in a Television Series
That'd be a tough contest between her and Stacey Abrams.
@@KonekoneFukkatsu fair point, but I think Lizzo JUST might edge her out
😂😂😂
That's no moon
But the Death Star had range and emotion
The Disney bubble is gonna pop at some point. They need a reality check, the world doesn't revolve around America
Unfortunately it kind of does though
Yeah… for all their talk about global audiences, Hollywood has no idea other countries and cultures exist!
For that matter, America doesn't really revolve around what they're attempting to force America to be.
This isn't america.
The problem is that Disney owns something like 2/3 of the back catalog of all modern films now. They control so much media that they have become a tyrant.
I didnt even see the movie and yet still, somehow, the Awkwafina rap found me.
Female characters are not allowed to love anymore in movies because to love is to be vulnerable. Female characters now must be absolutely flawless in every detail. Such vulnerability is therefore, by the new standards, weakness and we can't have that. This is why all the Mary-Sues that are churned out by Hollywood today are either celibate, asexual loners (Rey, Captain Marvel, new-live-action-Mulan) or nymphomaniacs that cycle through men without any emotional connection (She-Hulk).
Really, it's kind of amazing that they tired to remake this movie for "modern audiences" since the entire plot concept revolves around a woman's love for a man and what she tires to do to win him over. It's kind of like trying to remake Harry Potter but without the magic or Doctor Who but without the time traveling.
I heard just enough of that Scuttlebutt song to be certain that fingernails on a chalkboard would be orders of magnitude better.
Only live action remake worth watching from Disney, Jungle Book. They really outdone themselves and improved the story. That child actor for Mowgli deserved an Oscar.
I’m personally a big fan of the Cinderella one
Still not as good as the early 90s live action with Lena Headey.
The live action Lion King was awesome, that guy is still in prison. #justiceforjoeexotic
He didn't get an Oscar, but he got a LOT of Richards while he was in HollyPedoWood.
2015 Cinderella live action is really beautiful ❤️
Maleficent isn’t a “live-action remake”, it’s its own movie. It literally makes no sense if you think of it as a Sleeping Beauty “remake”.
It’s a reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty story. It reinterprets the most random evil villain (she literally curses an innocent child because she was snubbed at a party…) as someone sympathetic, and reimagines True Loves Kiss to include familial/maternal love in the same way Once Upon a Time did, and I’m a huge fan of that.
yeah and maleificent is totally different character in the "remake" or w/e wewanna call it. It's like totes diff :3
It's no mystery, it's experience.
Once bitten, twice shy.
They are going to make the same mistakes with Snow White
If they make it to it that is