Trailer Catch All

I love movies where it looks like the actors are having fun. I'm in.

I was expected they'd mix up who was who. They have already exceeded that.

Aetius wrote:

Oh yes. Yes indeed.

f*ck. Yes.

I can't figure out if this is a comedy, a drama, or just plain stupid...but I have a strong suspicion in is the last one.

farley3k wrote:

I can't figure out if this is a comedy, a drama, or just plain stupid...but I have a strong suspicion in is the last one.

Rian Johnson so all the above and it'll be fun!

It's Clue, what's so difficult to figure out? Where are you getting drama here?

kexx wrote:

It's Clue, what's so difficult to figure out? Where are you getting drama here?

Hey! Clue was a great movie! Don't compare it to whatever that was.

Great cast. A director I like. And it looks fun.

I'll watch it.

ubrakto wrote:

Great cast. A director I like. And it looks fun.

I'll watch it.

Different setting and adults this time, but it reminds me of Brick. So i'm definitely in!

Loved Brick. If its as you say ran, I am SO in!

Disney: “Hey, have we been wasting money all these years hiring writers?”

It has been awhile since I saw the original but did she spend that much time obviously not in disguise fighting people? And where is the dragon?

Since it's a teaser trailer, I think it might be possible that we might be seeing scenes from the climax where she has been found out already and is fighting openly as a woman. Or maybe they're going in a different direction. Strong female martial artists aren't exactly a rarity in Asian martial arts films (or even Dreamworks movies).

And Mushu the dragon is probably stuck offending the Chinese back in the 90's. Seriously, he went over about as well as Jar Jar did in the states.

farley3k wrote:

It has been awhile since I saw the original but did she spend that much time obviously not in disguise fighting people? And where is the dragon?

The dragon is being replaced, possibly by a Phoenix. It also isn’t going to include the songs - just as instrumentals apparently.

Now if I could find the link where I read all that......

Well that just sounds stupid.

farley3k wrote:

Well that just sounds stupid.

what sounds stupid? The further they get away from the animated version the better. I have these live action remakes.

It sounds stupid to take a musical and take out the songs. Part of the power of the storytelling was the music.

And I guess to each their own. I don't see an animated film as being instantly better than a live action one but I also don't see them as being better.

farley3k wrote:

I don't see an animated film as being instantly better than a live action one but I also don't see them as being better.

I can't parse this sentence.

The animated movie was great. Creatively, turning it into a nearly scene for scene live action remake is technical narcissism. There's no reason the live action movie telling of the story needs to be a musical as well.

I think we are agreeing but passing each other.

The remake doesn't need to happen in my view. But if they are doing it then dropping the songs is stupid because that was really important to the way the story worked.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Judy
*well that looks dark...

farley3k wrote:

It sounds stupid to take a musical and take out the songs.

It's a Chinese legend that they added songs to. If you take the songs out, you still have the original legend. I'm pretty sure "I'll Make a Man Out of You" isn't an ancient Chinese song.

"We really need to redirect all this money that goes to paying residuals to animation teams to where it really needs to go: executive bonuses."

iaintgotnopants wrote:
farley3k wrote:

It sounds stupid to take a musical and take out the songs.

It's a Chinese legend that they added songs to. If you take the songs out, you still have the original legend. I'm pretty sure "I'll Make a Man Out of You" isn't an ancient Chinese song.

But then again, the Chinese Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009) totally covered the nationalistic and realistic side of the story, so where is the point in making “Disney’s Mulan” look almost exactly like that movie?
If you’re not familiar with this “gem”, have a look:

I actually want the light-hearted aspects and the songs. Then again China is one of Disney’s most important markets today and they certainly don’t want Mulan to tank again over there like it did back in the 90s.

Brainsmith wrote:

But then again, the Chinese Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009) totally covered the nationalistic and realistic side of the story, so where is the point in making “Disney’s Mulan” look almost exactly like that movie?

I'm not defending the Disney cashgrab and don't particuarly care if they have songs or not. But the idea there's "no point in making" a movie if a different movie covered similar ground is a sh*tty take.

bnpederson wrote:
Brainsmith wrote:

But then again, the Chinese Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009) totally covered the nationalistic and realistic side of the story, so where is the point in making “Disney’s Mulan” look almost exactly like that movie?

I'm not defending the Disney cashgrab and don't particuarly care if they have songs or not. But the idea there's "no point in making" a movie if a different movie covered similar ground is a sh*tty take.

That is not my point. I primarily meant that visually it doesn’t LOOK distinctively different from the 2009 version. All the other real life versions of the Disney movies so far have immediately been recognisable as the Disney version.

I'm not sure that being recognisable as the Disney version is a good thing for a movie.

I thought Beauty and the Beast wasn't very good because it was to much like the cartoon.

Ode to Joy
*too worked up about the yarn.

Otherhood | Official Trailer | Netflix

*just so much directed at the older generation. Hollywood finally figured out an untapped market.