Disney Live-Action Remakes Are Making Me Insane 

i was recently thinking about how cool it would be if high fantasy books were animated in like a god of war style instead of live actions when they turn them into tv or movies. i think it would give a lot more room to make the world look true to the books

when i say god of war style i mean animation style not turning them into a video game

@@lol-lb5pm That‘s such a great idea!! makes me think of how incredibly disappointed 11 y/o me was when I watched the movie adaptation of Eragon. The most treassured book series of my childhood could‘ve been so much more :,)

@@VinceMDT i haven’t read that series but im sure it’s great tho!

this is literally my favourite comment on why the medium of animation is constantly battling with these soulless remakes. I wish animation was more appreciated because the storytelling and art that goes into it is so incredible, yet so undervalued in the film industry. Animation is a medium that offers so much, it shouldn’t be treated as lesser in comparison to live-action remakes.

Exactly.😑

Thank you!! CGI is still animation, Christ.

👏realistic👏animation👏is👏still👏animation👏

This!!! I say Lion King Remake whenever I talk about it!!

REAL. YES. THANK YOU.

I'm starting to think they might do that

nah cause we're gonna be able to choose between 2 movies soon😭

I know right, Disney just want some quick money. It's Insult to the original moana.

That might actually be the only thing that puts to bed the live-action remakes. Disney would then see that the 'live-action' movie made half what the animated counterpart did and stop. Can I also take the chance to complain about 'live-action' as a term... EVERYTHING in Lion King was CG... every 3rd character in Pinocchio was CG, and 1/4th the characters in Bayformers are CG, where's the line?

What's weird to me is the older films like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty that potentially could use an update, but they're going with 90s films and much more recent for some reason?

There was an April Fools joke that Paramount+ was doing a live action CatDog 😂

That would be so cursed

This is unrelated but Saji’s music intro sounds/transitions sounds like they’re from Bojack Horseman lol

@@melanieschwarz2181 i have always thought that i wonder if that’s their intention

I could fit a ben afflick in the horse suit.

REAL!!!! its like how i hate seeing voice actors after seeing their animated form 😭

So

@@jelliekitty righttt it feels weird seeing uh let's say Anna's VA kiss some random guy. Now I can't stop thinking about Anna kissing some random guy

Oh God, if they make a live action Frozen.😨

@@aubiek3208 don't give them ideas😭

I love voice actors more than normal actors, they can do so much with just their voice and it’s incredible how many of them can completely change how they sound. I HATE when an animated movie’s cast is just a ton of celebrities.. There are so many AMAZING voice actors that could be so good in these big animated movies.. But no it’s big name Hollywood celebrities.. Like I get one or two to promote the movie but nowadays it seems to be only celebs.. Like for example the Mario movie with Crisp Rat (who seems to be voicing everything now and hate it) he didn’t fit the role at all. (Jack Black as Bowser was amazing though and the only good part of the movie)

THIS!!! it pisses me off so much. voice acting is such an under appreciated talent and it can really make or break a film. they would rather have a low quality performance from a big name than a high quality performance from a REAL TALENTED VOICE ACTOR. I hate this new trend I hate it I hate it I hate it. its so hard for me to enjoy a film when the voice acting is so bland and and lifeless like most celebrities give. or when it doesnt fit.

I never cared about celebrity voice acting. Listen to the old Disney films, their voices where so unique and beautiful.

This. I’m so fucking sick of voice actors not being appreciated enough.

Never mind the fact that a lot of the casting now is being done for the sake of ““ diversity, and then basically saying to heck with talent.

No they don’t:)

A lot of us think that, does Disney care is the question.

@@cyatram Simple no no they don’t.

"imagine all the people living without live action remakes ooohh"

Yeah, knowing Disney your theater teachers probably not wrong unfortunately

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Disney taking over the world is probably worse then the government ruining the world

Moana isn’t even old enough to be nostalgic 💀

@@KingOfGaymes You are remedial

FACTS. the star wars shows keep getting more nonsensical.

Andor is great tho

The rock is so in love with himself he thinks we all love him as much as he does.

I actually like Chris Pratt, but I agree, he is overused

This is what we would actually want to watch so Disney can'r do that.

Exactly! I think it could also be fun seeing a spin off with Maui since he does have plenty of legends that would be better than making a plain live action.

@@zaziaza A Maui show/movie would be frickin amazing.

this is actually a really good point, I feel like in an earlier "era" of disney the obvious next step would be a sequel! The fact that they're """remaking""" a movie that's not even a decade old, instead of bringing new ideas to the universe they already established, is honestly just such a strange move from an artistic standpoint, and that just makes it more glaringly obvious that it's a soulless cash grab.

They’re making a Moana tv series, so u might get what you want

Therapist immersion broken due to hatred of evil corporation

Me: *eyeballs Song of the South* 😒😬

I dread the day they make a live action of Wreck It Ralph 😬

Live action Onward would be unsettling af

Animated remakes of live action remakes of animated films.

even though the majority of them have gotten mixed to negative reviews (as far as I've seen)

I have a question, why Mulan? Like is there not other movies? Like Percy Jackson , Hercules etc. I’m not being mean but like is there a specific reason to watch the Milan movies?

yeah i agree w daij, mulan was a weird asf choice considering tons of chinese ppl have said the mythology is completely inaccurate to actual chinese culture. like the way chi works is bullshit, theres nothing like the mulan witch in chinese mythology, the phoenix rising from the ashes is a purely european thing etc

​​​​​@@Mars-dw2zc Mulan 2020 was the worst remake I ever saw, I would rather watch The Lion King 2019 instead. Because at least the lion king has STAKES and it's at least okay (sort of), meanwhile Mulan 2020, has no stakes or a reason to care about the protagonist at ALL. It's awful, it's boring, it's agonizing. 🤬😡 Also, the fact that Disney ia creatively bankrupt by making animated sequels, woke movies, and bad remakes is just laughingly terrible. Meanwhile other studios like universal, dreamworks, and even illumination are dominating the theaters.

@@daijahchristine I thought (and still do) that Mulan was a good candidate for live action, as long as it was an adaptation of the folk story and not a remake of the Disney movie.

@@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm Same. Apparently I expected too much from them, a Mulan remake could've been incredible if it had just made the effort to be something a little more than the original movie, done with care. Somehow they made it so MUCH WORSE with the changes that they did make, it's a shame.

Lol true and knowing how bad some cgi these days is, the tattoos moving will look like shit too. Also can you tattoo on nipples?

There are tons of new movies coming out...

@@piersnivans5983 i know, i misspoke, i just feel like there are plenty of disney movies coming out that have been remade into live action movies

@@piersnivans5983 Correction: There are tons of shitty new movies coming out.

Lmfao no wonder Vin Diesel hates the guy’s guts.

I think it’s more the they want both the rock and Aulii to portray these characters and time is ticking for both of them.

@@JuQui228 yeah I can understand that

no no i agree with you so much

Ryan Reynolds is definitely funnier than Dwayne Johnson and has way less of an ego than him too.

Ryan Reynolds is a good actor but he's one of the many actors who gets typecasted as the funny meta guy

Ryan Reynolds has more charisma and like ability than the rock by far. But I agree, he isn’t that funny and kind of just plays Deadpool in every movie. Someone tell the rock that you can actually be a large muscle man and still be a charismatic and engaging, like John cena

this. so glad someone is speaking up about this

Maleficent was so good and I think Disney is just constantly trying to recreate it but you can tell that the people that made Maleficent actually cared about it, like it was definitely a cash grab but a cash grab created with purpose and love

So true, they're the only ones that kept the whimsy and fairytale feel

The Maleficent and Cinderella reboot was atleast trying to do something original with its live action counterpart by adding extra details that doesn't break the immersion of the animated story

Cruella was really good too. And it was a different movie. It wasn’t a shot for shot remake. Same with Maleficent. It they did that it would be much better. God forbid they actually go into the writers room and create anything new.

especially since he's not being hired/ featured as much because almost ALL his movies starring him bomb!

But blackwashing is ok! What Disney did with Ariel is huge crime against og mermaid fans just some little girls can see thenseve and relate! Maybe they did same to Lilo. They are fictional characters too!

That does look identical to the spine of my copy of the lost hero, so probably! Good eye, dude damn.

Yeah that looks like The Lost Hero

Yeah and even then, they could’ve just made a new mermaid movie with poc as leads!

Cinderela was very good and the beauty and the beast was ok. The Lion King was also good.

That is narcissic af! And exclusive to the world fans of original kids and adults!

lol you know most of them whities are truly confused and asking "wait!! there's a difference?!?!"

That’s actually 100% true

DISNEY SHOULD RECORD JUST RECORD THEIR MUSICALS AND PUT THEM ON DISNEY PLUS!!!

None of them need to be made into a live action version. Cartoons are not supposed to be live action you lose too much of the story when you convert it over

Thanks jack

I read this comment before I heard the freestyle and was very confused. Now I get it 😂

You should check out the featurette and other teasers they’ve posted on RU-vid! They feature a lot more scenes with a lot more vibrant colors. Let’s not judge a film based on just a few clips of a trailer…let’s analyze it in whole. However, I see where you’re coming from. In post production, natural lighting in film will have a gray tone, as that’s how we see it in real life. Because this is a live action movie, the programs they’re using emulate natural lighting above and below water. Unfortunately, these mediums (air and water) will cast gray tones on the world around them. You can observe this with ALL live actions Disney has done, and the little mermaid is not exempt from that. Realistic lighting programs are not going to be the same as flat animated colors, and maybe that’s the issue at hand.

I think that is to resemble a painting,if you see the poster,you will understand,this is underwater,some places underwater,would not have many light. The movie looks more realistic. Tere is scene where things are colorful.

While i agree with you guys that the intent was for realism, people don't like realistic movies. For example, if you were to punch someone, it wouldn't sound the same as in a movie. Yt has a number of videos on foley artists and what they use instead of the real sound. Movies that use actual punching sounds feel weird because of this. Movies used to film in daylight then color it blue to signify night while still letting you see the movie. Theater does this, too. Good filmmakers add extra light to actors so their face is lit more evenly (i think they're called softlights and bouncelights) to prevent things like harsh shadows and bags around the eyes. It used to be in movies that actors had to project to be picked up by mics, but nowadays many actors are mic'd so well they basically just whisper on set. Talking very low or whispering comes across really differently tonally than speaking at a normal volume, but movie goers don't seem to want to listen to that. In the kiss the girl scene, ariel is very difficult to see against the background. It's just very dark in general. It's realistic that you can't see well in the dead of night, but that doesn't make for a good movie, just saying. Her hair is also much more brown than stark red, which i saw in the teaser and assumed meant they were dulling colors underwater since certain wavelengths can't be seen. So if we're a number of meters below the water (ie at the bottom of the ocean) since red the color is lost by 5 meters. So the blue scaling of the underwater scenes in the teaser make less sense when the official trailer (which i just glanced at) has the under the sea song very vibrant and colorful at the same depth as everything just being blue and dull.

@@catelynh1020 You should do further research on these scenes. Please watch the one minute featurette Disney put out on RU-vid, and you will see your points are contradictory. For example, the Kiss the Girl scene has bioluminescent ocean. Also, the Ursula’s grotto scenes make use of great red-blue color contrast. There’s a jellyfish scene with glowing jellyfish. There’s multiple clips of her swimming through a vibrant sea. We can’t assume everything just on a few clips. If you don’t want to watch the movie, great, but don’t flat out exaggerate. It’s not in good faith.

@@mcclancait You are correct that i had yet to see the ursula reveal cuz, ya know, i don't get ads since i want to have downloaded videos for the road. I also have no idea when featurettes became a thing, but i could only find one and it did not include bioluminescence in the water for the kiss the girl frames so maybe there's another one that i missed. There was some light in the trees but it was minimal and eric/k's face was a lot more lit than hers. In order to see her face more clearly i had to turn off my overhead lights and turn up my phone brightness. You also have to admit that half a year can have great changes done to cgi in a film. Just look back at what sonic used to look like before they changed his design for the movie. Just thinking of his old face still unnerves me. Disney saying "we're doing this for realism" then doing nothing realistic is about par for the course. The teaser trailer i saw half a year ago had mostly muted colors for "realism" but the month old official trailer really said "of course you can see the full color spectrum at the bottom of the ocean". This is the same thing they did for mulan. They took out the most realistic thing of people singing/chanting in the army and replaced it with straight up magic. If i can find it, there's a good video about cinematography and how movies keep getting darker and darker because they're made to be seen in a dark environment of a movie theater. And because dark and gritty is in. You can experience a bit of how it's meant to be by watching the trailer on a large tv hours after sunset with the lights all off in your house so the only light is coming from the tv and maybe your phone in your hand. But i still think it's too dark. As a good reference point, watch the trailers for the harry potter movies. As they got more gritty towards the end, they got darker in their lighting. Whichever one i just brought up to look at, shots of voldie's army were very much on the dark side, but even at night time there was plenty of light on the characters (probably a magic light source they were all looking up at, i dunno, i never finished watching the series). If you look at the trailer for greatest showman, the dance on the rooftop at night is fully lit and visible. _That_ is what is missing in these disney remakes; they got rid of the light and color. And lost the plot, but that's a whole other argument. I'm still shocked at what they did to Pinocchio.

Genuinely didnt think there would be a single movie id want a live action remake of, but you proved me wrong. I think no matter what the animated one would still be better, like the animation switch in Almost There. Though i think they could do something interesting and new with it in a live medium, knowing disney, even if they did remake it, they wouldnt do anything different. They have the formula that makes them money, and that's more important than creativity to them.

its just a frog. they don’t move their mouths. frogs just sitting there, occasionally hopping.

I'd be worried they would manage to fuck that up as much as I love the idea

@@basildoingthings819 make her a frog for less of the runtime

Like the term woke. It's a black American slang that simply means to be aware or alert but nowadays it has lost its meaning. Also that Cleopatra from Netflix... Bruh

​@@wrestlinganime4life288 They put a white actress and people said that was whitewashing,they do what people on Twitter wanted,and now suddenly they want a white actress.

We REALLY don’t want hand-me downs. I’m only going hard for the little mermaid because Halle reminds me of one due to her voice and features, but Disney really tries it thinking we want black characters to fill in already existing non-black characters. No Disney! We want our own characters, our own stories, our own everything.

oh good! i sometimes feel I'm the only one who hated Frozen! why are people so obsessed with that movie?!?

@@nihilismistheonlyway4680 Idk as kid I didn’t question it that much and was only like „hehe look a snowman💀“, but yeah, now it‘s weird. Especially the twist-villain thing with Hans… It doesn’t make sense at all

You have the right to enjoy it, but it was an objectively bad movie. The only reason it got praise was because of the visuals and the manipulative writing.