Beauty and the Beast 2017 Disney remake

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

Seems to me that these are gonna be a pretty mixed bag. I don't think it's a good idea to do as many remakes as they plan to. The Cinderella one was boring, Maleficent had a very mixed reaction, and stories like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King don't seem like they're the types that have much wiggle room in terms of changing things up. I think those should've been left alone. While The Jungle Book was similar to the original in many aspects, I think it was everything these movies should be. The visuals were great, the lead and the animals were well cast. It wasn't too nostalgia heavy, but just enough, and they were able to add things to the story while still making it feel authentic.

That being said, if they screw up the Mulan remake, i'm gonna hurt someone.

 

[mr3urious]

That being said, if they screw up the Mulan remake, i'm gonna hurt someone.

From what I've heard, they're not going to try to whitewash the casting, which you can at least get away with in animation. Live-action, not so much.

 

[D'Snowth]

Yeah, remember the backlash over whitewashing Tiger Lily in that recent PAN prequel? Even Rooney Mara regrets taking on that role.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

From what I've heard, they're not going to try to whitewash the casting, which you can at least get away with in animation. Live-action, not so much.

I know, it's exciting! I just hope they cast the right people.
I also heard there might not be songs in it. I hope that means they're trying to go in a slightly different direction story wise. This is one of the few times where I wouldn't mind them doing a darker, grittier reboot; after all, this is a movie about war.

 

[JJandJanice]

Because Disney has just simply run out of ideas for their movies now.

It's because they're making money off of it and making quite good money as well. The problem isn't so much Disney or really all of Hollywood is "running out of ideas." The honest truth is there is no good reason why they should. We're on an INSANE nostalgia kick right now, grown adults still want to hold on to their childhood (and I don't mean that in an insulting manner cause, I'm TOTALLY guilty of it myself) as well as introduced their children to something they loved as a kid. People are willing to spend money on remakes and reboots, so why wouldn't a company like Disney take total advantage of that?

With that being said, I haven't been too crazy about these live action remakes. I'm honestly shocked that they get a lot of love from critics and I don't understand why. Take Cinderella for example, I heard so many people say this new Cinderella was so "strong and more independent." So much so than when I watched the film, I was honestly surprised that she was actually a total idiot that did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!. When her step mother locked her in her room to prevent her from trying on the glass slipper, she just started humming and dancing, totally expecting her fate. At least the original cartoon Cinderella put up something of a fight and showed emotion, when unfairly locked. I could go on with the problems I've had with all these films, especially since I'm honestly a pretty big Disney fan, but that can take up too much time.

 

[D'Snowth]

The honest truth is there is no good reason why they should. We're on an INSANE nostalgia kick right now, grown adults still want to hold on to their childhood (and I don't mean that in an insulting manner cause, I'm TOTALLY guilty of it myself) as well as introduced their children to something they loved as a kid.

Too be fair, everybody is always going through a nostalgia kick at any given time - it just seems more prelevant right now because many of us are now at an age where we have something to be nostalgic for right now. Right now, 90s nostalgia is really big because 90s kids are now in their twenties and thirties (the age bracket most of Hollywood goes after anywa), so that's something they can look back fondly of right now. Nostalgia always seems to come in twenty-year cycles anyway: the 2000s were all about being nostalgic for the 80s, the 80s were all about being nostalgic for the 60s. There's even specific examples: what was big in the 90s? THAT 70s SHOW. What was big in the 70s? HAPPY DAYS - a show that was nostalgic for the 50s. A big seller in the 80s was Richard Simmons's SWEATIN' TO THE OLDIES workout videos.

Just wait - by this time next decade, everybody will be talking about how great the Turn of the Millennium was.