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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 23, 2018 12:52:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 12:58:39 GMT
Chills!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 13:12:25 GMT
Cats - The Movie.
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Post by Jon on Nov 23, 2018 13:38:17 GMT
It looks stunning. It’s is amazing how far CGI has come even in a decade.
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Post by johartuk on Nov 23, 2018 15:08:23 GMT
James Earl Jones as Mufasa! Excellent! So glad he's reprising the role.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 16:21:06 GMT
That was kinda the intention of my post @theatremonkey.com
Disney are going to be short of 'classics' to remake soon what with Aladdin, Mulan, Lion King all incoming following Jungle Book and Beauty & the Beast.
Does that leave just Little Mermaid and Hercules?
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Post by Jon on Nov 23, 2018 16:28:55 GMT
That was kinda the intention of my post @theatremonkey.com Disney are going to be short of 'classics' to remake soon what with Aladdin, Mulan, Lion King all incoming following Jungle Book and Beauty & the Beast. Does that leave just Little Mermaid and Hercules? Hunchback of Notre Dame would be amazing but I think it’d need to be closer to the novel similar to the stage adaptation If Dumbo does well, I could see them remaking Bambi |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 16:35:42 GMT
That was kinda the intention of my post @theatremonkey .com Disney are going to be short of 'classics' to remake soon what with Aladdin, Mulan, Lion King all incoming following Jungle Book and Beauty & the Beast. Does that leave just Little Mermaid and Hercules? Hunchback of Notre Dame would be amazing but I think it’d need to be closer to the novel similar to the stage adaptation If Dumbo does well, I could see them remaking Bambi Ah Yeah! Forgot Dumbo was in production also. Hunchback would be great. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 23, 2018 16:51:08 GMT
Funny you should say that. I was wondering how they would do "Cats" as an animation. Now I get it. And that trailer for Lion King is indeed stunning. I never liked the animated movie much, but this I may make an effort to see. Except that for Cats they have to dance. A lot. Having a cat represented by a human who is dancing is fine (if you like that sort of thing) but having a cat that looks like a real cat dancing like a human is just bizarre and wrong. No doubt for this reason the animals in the 2016 Jungle Book don’t dance. I can’t see Cats working at all unless I’ve totally misunderstood how they’re going to do it. |
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Post by anthony40 on Nov 23, 2018 17:36:28 GMT
I think this trainer just looks AMAZING! I'm more excited for this than Dumbo.
if they can make then look this good, why not remake The Aristocats?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 19:23:48 GMT
I thought they were doing a live action Lion King and I have ended up very confused by this trailer. I was expecting something more like a movie version of the play.
That said, I still think this looks good.
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Post by poster J on Nov 23, 2018 20:37:14 GMT
I have to admit the trailer left me cold - the original was my childhood favourite and I'm not sure it can be beaten. Nothing about that trailer made me want to see this remake.
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Post by jgblunners on Nov 23, 2018 22:43:04 GMT
It left me cold too - from this teaser, it looks like they’ve basically just re-created the original film shot-for-shot but using CGI instead of animation. I also don’t think ‘Live Action’ should be synonymous with ‘Motion Capture/CGI’ and it’s false advertising if they were saying it would be the former.
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 24, 2018 7:38:42 GMT
Yes, trailer looks great but I find it very odd this is being described as a "live action remake" when it's actually just a different form of animation!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 8:04:54 GMT
I'm in the underwhelmed camp I'm afraid. It's ok until the characters come into it at the end and they (Rafiki, Simba) just don't realistic enough to be believable as anything other than cgi.
The originals visuals were more striking in that opening scene, the realism adds a slight drabness to it.
Not a fan that they've cut one of the best songs either.
agreed it shouldn't be advertised as live action as it's obviously not
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Post by kathryn on Nov 24, 2018 10:57:53 GMT
I agree - it’s seriously unfair to the animators to describe it as live-action!
And I’m not sure I see the point in re-making it - from the trailer seemingly shot-for-shot! - in a different form of animation. Other than Disney making a tonne of money of course! (But haven’t they got enough?!)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 11:03:17 GMT
I imagine it will include more songs, especially one or two newly written in order to make it eligable at the Oscars. They'd be crazy to not give Beyonce a big ballad.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 11:06:12 GMT
Let's hope it does well and Disney can get on with remaking 'Basil the Great Mouse Detective'.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 11:08:27 GMT
They've already announced the songs.
"There's going to be four of our songs in the film, from the original: 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight', 'Hakuna Matata', 'I Just Can't Wait To Be King' and 'Circle of Life'.
"And then there will be an end, closing song, and we've been speaking to Beyoncé's people and hopefully Tim and I and her can cook up something."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 11:11:07 GMT
They've already announced the songs. "There's going to be four of our songs in the film, from the original: 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight', 'Hakuna Matata', 'I Just Can't Wait To Be King' and 'Circle of Life'. "And then there will be an end, closing song, and we've been speaking to Beyoncé's people and hopefully Tim and I and her can cook up something." Oh great! So the songs we all really wanna hear and a Beyonce number, fabulous!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 11:14:07 GMT
not quite. disappointing they cut be prepared. one of the best villain songs for one of the best Disney villains.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 11:16:15 GMT
not quite. disappointing they cut be prepared. one of the best villain songs for one of the best Disney villains. Oooo yeah I forgot that one, that's strange it's not on that list! |
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Post by asfound on Nov 24, 2018 14:39:57 GMT
I'm not sure if it's just me getting older but I really feel the heart has gone from Disney in the last few years. Their films used to always seem to punch above their weight - there were things going on below the surface, so I can watch the films I watched as a kid and pick up on serious themes, little details and darker undercurrents that were initially just on the periphery of consciousness and beyond my understanding.
Now it seems more like a corporate machine than ever, churning out endless unimaginative and sanitised remakes and sequels that just feel superficial and dull. This trailer looked like it was put together by an algorithm being fed marketing data. I'm looking forward to How to Train your Dragon 3 more than any of these soulless regurgitations.
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 24, 2018 16:05:33 GMT
I think the recent Disney animations are among the best work they've ever produced but I could really do without this remaking of films with CGI. When Disney embraced the new technology for films like Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen they created something beautiful and wonderful and original. This stuff is more of a technology sales pitch: "Hey, everyone. Isn't this so much better than a travelling matte? And just listen to what we can achieve with autotune!"
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Post by 49thand8th on Nov 24, 2018 17:30:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 17:56:16 GMT
I think the recent Disney animations are among the best work they've ever produced but I could really do without this remaking of films with CGI. When Disney embraced the new technology for films like Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen they created something beautiful and wonderful and original. This stuff is more of a technology sales pitch: "Hey, everyone. Isn't this so much better than a travelling matte? And just listen to what we can achieve with autotune!" Tangled I agree but not so much frozen. Story wise it's fresh but animation is quite basic compared to Tangled or even the original classics like Pinocchio or Sleeping beauty. When you look at the background characters and scenery (especially in the palace) it's quite basic compared to what they could do. Rewatching the original classics you realise how genius and whattrue artists the early animators were.The level of detail is incredible |
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Post by Marwood on Nov 24, 2018 19:34:41 GMT
Can’t see the point in a photo-realistic Lion King, might as well watch old clips of Johnny Morris for free online if you want to see animals talking (although last thing I heard, the snowflake brigade were trying to get him banned for ‘demeaning’ animals) 😐
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 19:57:41 GMT
I think the recent Disney animations are among the best work they've ever produced but I could really do without this remaking of films with CGI. When Disney embraced the new technology for films like Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen they created something beautiful and wonderful and original. This stuff is more of a technology sales pitch: "Hey, everyone. Isn't this so much better than a travelling matte? And just listen to what we can achieve with autotune!" Tangled I agree but not so much frozen. Story wise it's fresh but animation is quite basic compared to Tangled or even the original classics like Pinocchio or Sleeping beauty. When you look at the background characters and scenery (especially in the palace) it's quite basic compared to what they could do. Rewatching the original classics you realise how genius and whattrue artists the early animators were.The level of detail is incredible I read an interesting article about the software they created to do Elsa’s hair during her ice transformation. It allowed them give her something like three times as many individual hairs as any character’s hair before (I believe it was 300,000) and the software has since become the de facto hair amination programme. |
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Post by basdfg on Jul 11, 2019 16:11:09 GMT
First reviews out. The Guardian 3 stars (Didn't read the rest). Several other negative ones published as well. Do wonder if Disney is damaging it's legacy with all the live action ones - even if profit wise they extremely successful - the reputation hit in the long term could be damaging.
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Post by basdfg on Jul 11, 2019 18:34:56 GMT
And if more and more of them are of poorer quality Disney could have a 1980's style drop in reputation.
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