I HATE 'LIVE ACTION' DISNEY REMAKES 

*live action Ratatouille starring Gordon Ramsay*

Walt Disney once said “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make movies.” Oh, how Disney has completely thrown THAT out the window!

They're not even kids movies anymore. As a kid I hated live action movies, I thought they were so boring. Cartoons are so much nicer to look at, even regular cgi. But when you make your movie look like the animal channel...no kids wanna watch that.

What they should do is put the originals back in theatres. I would definitely pay to watch Disney classics on a big screen.

I feel like the reasoning behind these films being made can be summed up in one quote from a Mr. Eugene Krabs “Hello, I like money”

Disney: Am I going to defile this grave to get money? Disney: of course I am!

I swear to god if they make a toy story live action remake I'm done with life.

I remember crying so hard when I watched the animated Lion King and I was so afraid to watch the remake because I would cry the same way. I was so bored and walked out feeling fine - there was no emotional connection. I get more emotional connection from narrated lion documentaries than I did with the Lion King remake lol

I seriously miss 2D animation. There’s so much more magic behind it. I know when I was a child, I was inspired by the fact I could try and draw these characters. 2D animation feels like such a lost art now, and I truly miss it.

*Old animated movie exists* Disney: it’s free real estate.

And now the "Live action" Lion King has made more money in the box office than any animated movie in history. _This truly is the darkest timeline..._

Everyone: Why did you decide to remake these classic disney movies? Disney: *money!*

Simba: What's that shadowy place? Mufasa: That's the 2019 remake. You must never go there Simba.

When you run out of ideas so you make HD versions of your ideas

Okay think of it this way: You're a child with lovingly parents, but one day your parents get replaced by robot parents. The robot parents look the same, act the same as your real parents, but your real parents are slowly getting forgotten. It's the same with the reboots against the classics

I once saw a comment defending live action remakes saying “Walt Disney wanted to introduce his films to new generations”. Yeah, he did that by re-releasing his films in theaters, and years after his death on video/DVD. A few years ago Disney actually DID do that, by releasing Lion King and Little Mermaid in 3D. If you want younger people to experience old Disney movies, just show them the movies! Bambi came out in 1942 and I watched it when I was 5 in 2006, and I still enjoyed it despite how old the movie was. I also agree with Alex’s idea to remaster old Pixar movies and re release them, because the only thing going against them is some aspects of the animation (especially the humans in Toy Story)

The classics are beautiful. If it ain't broke. Don't fix it.

Next thing you know: "live action" emoji movie.

The Lion King actually totally proves your point about emotions. Simba looked heartbreaking in the cartoon and everyone felt sorry for him. In this new version he looks.. well.. idk, how am I supposed to know how a lion feels?

As an aspiring film maker, I feel sorry for those creators who actually have original ideas for new stuff that Disney rejects to make these remakes. The movies seem like such money grabs and when I try to convince others about this, they just think I'm some film student obsessed with perfection. :(

I will only allow for Hercules, that is if they let Danny DeVito wear horns and hairy legs

Disney fans: this is the new live action Lion King remake? Disney: yep Disney fans: but all the characters are CGI Disney: yep Disney fan: and the backgrounds are CGI too so if that’s the case then this is an animated movie Disney: that sounds right to me Disney fan: then it’s an animated movie Disney: it’s a live action remake

The new lion king sucked in my opinion

now whenever I look up "Lion King" I get only the remake and barely the original so now I have to say it's from 1994.

There is no point of remaking popular movies like Aladdin and The Lion King. Now if they remade underrated movies like Treasure Planet and Atlantis now I would go watch that.

Where the blue blazes of heck is my The Brave Little Toaster live action remake, so I can see a real air conditioner shoot sparks and violently explode?

I'd agree on you with this one. Apart from being cash grabs they're just flexing their "animation" skills. The New Lion King was just a 2 hour tech demo.

for every remake that comes out this video ages a little bit better

“Lady and the Tramp” is going to be rebooted? My god. We’re going to have to watch two dogs eat spaghetti together in “live-action”? With CGI?

Finally someone brings up how bland the Lion King trailer colours look compared next to the original 2D animation.

Imagine if pixar made a live action cars movie 😂😂😂

People give the excuse of Lion King 2019 being emotion less and bland: WeLL TheY'Re TrYinG to BE REALISTIC. Okay then, why is there no lion genitals? No lion balls?? Why are lions talking? Why are lions friend with a BIRD??And a Mandrill?? Why does animals worship lions? You know REALISTICALLY they don't right? And lions don't sing, either does meerkat, and bird, and boar? And why is this meerkat staying with a boar? In the animates version these are fine details because they're NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE, but when you make CGI animals that can't even emote any emotions, with no soul, and stale movements, then there is no excuse. No facial expressions means it's very hard for the audience to relate to the characters, why not just watch a animal documentary right?? Aslan from Chronicles of Narnia in 2005 did it gazillion times better. It looks real, it has emotion, and you can relate because even subtle movements with his eyebrows are him communicating with the audience. Disney has the ability to make this look both real and full of life and emotion, but they chose not to do that, because people will see it no matter what, and in the end, they will still have all the money.

They need to remake Hercules Why? DANNY DEVITO AS PHIL LETS GO

Live action lion king? It's 100 % cgi

I will never give Disney my money anymore. I wish other people felt that way too, then maybe they would stop making them

Christopher Robin and Malificent are the only acceptable "remakes." They just tell a whole different story.

Just wait for the live-action remakes of the "Not Disney" collection

I hate how people are like “oohh lets go see lion king live action!” “Why?” “well because its lion king!” If thats the case, JUST GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL LION KING!

I wish people would stop going to see these movies they are giving Disney the incentive to make.more

"if it ain't broke, don't fiddle with it." you know it's a problem when you have to quote something from teen titans.

I just hate how gloomy and boring the live actions look. Where's the color? The energy? It's just so dull and depressing to look at. IHE made some great points.

I literally just finished editing a video about this, glad to know that I'm not alone on this one lol

I can’t wait for the reanimated remakes of the remakes they made.

"How am I supposed to empathize with a real lion" :D

The biggest problem is that with these "live action" movies, the animals or objects are strictly realistic. The thing about the Disney animations is that they were *anthropomorphic,* having HUMAN qualities. You can't be super realistic with the animals AND still have them have human like qualities with facial expressions, it can't mix. The whole point of having human like qualities in these characters is so the audience can get emotionally connected to a character's human traits. That's what Disney isn't understanding. A lion drawn with similar qualities to a human mouth laughing and an actual lion "laughing" are completely different and elicit a different response from the audience.

"How am I supposed to empathise with a real lion?" They did a pretty good job of it with Aslan in the Narnia films. Now, their lions look lifeless despite the technology being more advanced.

Image making a live action little mermaid. *wait*

That edit at 6:45 had me in laughing hysterically, I had to pause the video to regain composure. A perfect 'WTF' moment if I ever saw one.

Can we get a finding nemo live action where it’s just two hours of fish in a tank?

Now we need animated remakes of the live action remakes

I'm not even angry at Disney and the whole situation makes me just laugh. I can really only fault Disney for their heartless greed in making the first remake like this and they would have learned their lesson the first time had it bombed. But the thing is, it didn't bomb - it instead made them a lot of money so the greedy cash grabs will continue so long as fools keep rewarding Disney for making them. Perhaps the only thing Disney may be losing out on in this recent remake fad they've got going is that they *might* be selling away their reputation to customers at the expense of being less reputable and trustworthy in the future. But their profits do not seem to be diminishing from these so-called remakes (and don't get me started on their terrible new Star Wars movies).

3:49 - WOW! Dude, PRIDE ROCK!

In 2030: Disney buys Sony 2031: *live action remake for into the spider-verse*

Damn. I thought the Dumbo remake was unnecessary, but Lady and the Tramp? Really?

It’s essentially like repainting Starry Night realistically. Like yea, impressive, but it’s no longer magical, original, or captivating

If Walt Disney himself was still alive today, he'd be ashamed to see how Corporate Greed has corrupted the very same company he's built from the ground up, *"Money doesn't excite me, my ideas excite me"*

Why is Lion King even considered live action? It's just photorealistic CGI

6:50 Hands with googly eyes, my favorite Jungle Book character.

Update: All 3 of these remakes discussed in 2019 were all poorly rated, below 60%

2D and 3D animation are still widely regarded for children. Ignorant adults are too stubborn to see that animation isn’t a genre but a medium. Yes , I cried at Coco and I cried at The Lion King, and any sad moment in a live action movie brought me tears by how it shows minimal emotion. the general public needs to acknowledge animation as an art form.

so if the entire movie is CGI is it really "live action "

I mean nothing wrong watching child abandonment in 4K right?

"I don't wanna hug this thing. I am terrified(Cracks in his voice) of this."

Finally, someone who sees past nostalgia bullshit everyone keeps saying.

Disney 2050: THE LION KING 4D REMAKE *WITH 3D GLASSES*

As someone who wants to work in the animation industry, seeing a company I grew up with go down this path makes me incredibly sad. The whole point of animation from the beginning was to do what 'live-action' movies couldn't- they pushed the boundaries of what was possible. If you're making an animated movie as realistic and fancy as possible, why not just make it using real actors? Movies like 'Into the Spider-verse' really capture the essence of what animation could be. The blend of completely different animation styles and effects that wouldn't be possible with real actors is what makes that movie so appealing to look at. Heck, Fantasia was revolutionary because of how unique the animation was. Sure, you could do any of that stuff with computers now but what would be the point? It's already been done beautifully.

I never understood the appeal of Disney and Anime/Manga live-action adaptations. There’s too much live action already. They should have used the money for more experimental and interesting long form animation both as series and movies.

Disney: Hello I like money Reporter: What inspired you to make all these Disney remakes. Disney: Money

The idea of a live-action Lilo & Stitch terrifies me, honestly, and that’s my favorite Disney movie.

Old classic movie: Exists Disney: *_OH BOY HERE WE GO_*

"I hate live action Disney remakes" Who wouldn't?

Simba looks like an inexpressive kitten in the remake.

in summary: why would you ever watch the remake when you can just watch the original

This is not just a problem with Disney but the movie industry as a whole. There are so few truly original movies that are free from any ties to a previously successful franchise nowadays and honestly it is sad to see.

im glad to hear someone explain how much different and sometimes better animation is than realistic looking things. animation is probably the type of thing i watch the most and i dont care to say that i watch cartoon/anime bc cartoons/anime is awesome. love yourself and thanks for appreciating this art form.

Actually, *5* remakes in 2019. Remember Maleficent 2, the sequel to that remake?

We already got a live action remake of "The Lion King", it was called "Black Panther".

When we getting a live action Goofy Movie.... actually, no, don't do that Disney.

7:06 He, low-key, predicted live-action Mulan.

5:00 i like how you randomly sound like you're about to cry

Aladdin won't be the same without Robin Williams, and its odd that Disney doesn't realize that

Not to mention the Lion King live action apparently removed Be Prepared from the film, which is the best song in the damn movie.

I told my friends that if they spoiled live action Lion King I'd steal all their pringles. *Then I realized that it's the Lion King. I know how it ends.*

"Stop making them" is what Disney needs to do.

Remember 101 Dalmatians from the 90s? That was a true "live action" remake

As a Supervising Animator on a number of the original versions of the films you discuss here, I agree with you on nearly all counts. You make some very good points in you analysis. Hollywood seems to have forgotten that animation is not the replication of reality it is the caricature of same. It is sad to have to sit and watch the films and characters we toiled so hard on be reduced to mediocre film graphics. But look at the BO (that’s box office not body odor), on these things. People get huge bonus’ for bringing in that kind of money and the profits tell them that what they are doing is wanted and needed. As for respect for what has come before, for the most part, yes, I know my work will outlive me. But having taught animation for over 30 years, in studio and in colleges, I have to say that in very recent years the lord and master of many future animators is, indeed, technology. What we did is looked down upon as old and irrelevant by some of today’s students. They want ease and repetition and arch characters in random situations because it’s easier to create and builds upon known vernacular over creating new. Attention to detail, likable characters, warmth, depth, life, it’s all just to hard to do and requires thought and commitment so it is being dismissed as out of fashion. Of course there are many talented young people studying animation today who do not fit this mold and I pray they will succeed and be given the opportunity to give their best on something slightly more challenging and rewarding that Stephen Universe, Gravity Falls or Rick and Morty. Time will tell, I guess. Thank you for you post and I’m sure you don’t REALLY hate EVERYthing 😉.

To sum up my one of my biggest issues with these remakes, as we all know, every medium of entertainment has its advantages in disadvantages. Disney’s “bread and butter” as u put was clearly their 2D animation, their area of expertise, where they produced their best, most unmatched work. So much so that it’d be almost impossible to imagine a 2D Disney movie, with their lovely color, art direction, animation, etc. to be replicated in any other medium. And whenever they try putting these films in the different (and much cheaper) medium of live action, they are losing all those advantages they flexed in the originals. Live-action is not Disney’s bread and butter (in terms of quality, not income), but now they are trying to make it that. They have the money, time and talent to do anything they want, but they don’t want to do anything “magical” anymore.

People keep trying to make me see these movies by saying "they're pretty good" why the fuck would I see them if I've already seen something that is pretty much identical and IS INFINITLEY BETTER

I'd just like to state for the record that The Lion King is gonna have almost entirely computer generated animals and they're still calling it a live action film. And yet at the same time Disney treats Dinosaur as one of their animated films

Disney was originally against 3d and CGI, and fired that guy who wanted to try to convince them to try it. That guy later turned to make pixar what it is today. Disney remained against 3d untli they saw Pixar's success. And now these two companies have merged... So

Holy shit, this is from 2018? Still feels very relevant almost 3 years later.

8:27, my god dumbo with that face paint scared to shit out of my pants...

Imagine Pixar running out of ideas and making A “live action” toy story

I can see why Disney would remake some of their more flawed films like Pete’s Dragon (1977) among other select Disney films. But yeah, remaking Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and literally almost every other Disney classic... Doesn’t add anything to the original experience, and as you mentioned, just results in a film with a lot less heart purely made for cashing in on the animated counterpart’s legacy. Hell in a few decades, I’ll bet nobody’s even going to remember these live action remakes.

2018 IHE: Disney can you stop with these remakes 2020 Disney: haha! WE DO MORE

I think the only time we should be remaking something is when the original was bad or poorly executed. Basically, what I'm saying is remake The Black Cauldron.

The biggest part of it: the original writers, storyboard artists and other people who worked on the original will never see a CENT of the millions Disney makes off the remake.

What's next? Dumbo assembled cinematic universe?

The fact my parents and my brother loved these live action remakes more than the classic makes me more angry,,

I'm not watching The Lion King remake and the Little Mermaid remake.