What Are Your Thoughts On Disney Doing Live Action Remakes of Its Animated Films ?

[Teresa Edgerton]

Really, if there is an audience for the live-action remakes, if there are people who go to see them and enjoy them, I don't see why it should matter to me. I don't have to enjoy (or watch) a thing myself to think it is a worthwhile endeavor. If it brings joy to some and harms none, what is wrong with that?

Would I like to see them putting their time and money into something original that I might like? Most certainly. But I ask myself would Disney be doing that instead, if they weren't doing the live action remakes? And I think it very likely that they wouldn't. These days movie studios have other ways of milking an idea, such as sequels, endless sequels.

 

[KGeo777]

Disney fired some staff this week--Buzz Lightyear or something was the stated reason.
I think they are just shuffling chairs. The parent company is loaded with cash--they could burn 10 billion and not even feel it.
If they were in financial trouble they would not be so hell-bent on preaching.
Their only concern seems to be maximizing podium access and the ballyhoo factor. "Pay attention to us, stupid!" seems to be their marketing posture.

 

[BAYLOR]

Disney fired some staff this week--Buzz Lightyear or something was the stated reason.
I think they are just shuffling chairs. The parent company is loaded with cash--they could burn 10 billion and not even feel it.
If they were in financial trouble they would not be so hell-bent on preaching.
Their only concern seems to be maximizing podium access and the ballyhoo factor. "Pay attention to us, stupid!" seems to be their marketing posture.

In the long run , that's not going to prove to be not a winning strategy for them.

 

[CupofJoe]

From what I've read Disney is in trouble [but when isn't it].
The Theme Parks are keeping it afloat but the stream service and films are loosing money hand over fist.

 

[BAYLOR]

From what I've read Disney is in trouble [but when isn't it].
The Theme Parks are keeping it afloat but the stream service and films are loosing money hand over fist.

Yes, but the cost of going to the theme parks is going up and up. That could prove problematic especially if the economy goes into recession.

 

[Justin Swanton]

I find the remakes stunning and brave, especially in that they are adapted to reflect the world we live in today.

 

[CupofJoe]

A recent Disney [well sort of, it was made by 20C but released by Disney] remake that I think did it well was Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story.
It gave a modern take on the plot but kept the music [I think they move a few of the songs about]. Along with addressing things that were okay in 1961 but not so much to modern audiences.

 

[BAYLOR]

A recent Disney [well sort of, it was made by 20C but released by Disney] remake that I think did it well was Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story.
It gave a modern take on the plot but kept the music [I think they move a few of the songs about]. Along with addressing things that were okay in 1961 but not so much to modern audiences.

It flopped at the box office.

 

[Danny McG]

but they did at least keep the best songs [even if it wasn't Robin Williams singing]

He went downhill fast after he left Take That

 

[BAYLOR]

Yep, Disney is doing a live action remake of Bambi

 

[Justin Swanton]

Yep, Disney is doing a live action remake of Bambi

 

[BAYLOR]

If they going to do a Bambi live action , It aught be a live action remake of one the shortest animated shorts in history Bambi Meets Godzilla . The beauty of remaking this one is that it will have an equally short running time of 1 minute 38 seconds .

 

[Justin Swanton]

If they going to do a Bambi live action , It aught be a live action remake of one the shortest animated shorts in history Bambi Meets Godzilla . The beauty of remaking this one is that it will have an equally short running time of 1 minute 38 seconds .

Great movie. Can't say as much for the 2020 remake.

 

[Toby Frost]

Really, if there is an audience for the live-action remakes, if there are people who go to see them and enjoy them, I don't see why it should matter to me. I don't have to enjoy (or watch) a thing myself to think it is a worthwhile endeavor. If it brings joy to some and harms none, what is wrong with that?

Really Teresa, this sort of sensible, non-conspiratorial, apolitical commenting is just not how we deal with these things anymore. Please go back and suggest that the Disney corporation is just a small part of a gigantic conspiracy against you and Western Civilisation, preferably including the phrase "the world's gone maaaaaad!".

 

[BAYLOR]

The Little Mermaid is not meeting Box office expectations.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Really Teresa, this sort of sensible, non-conspiratorial, apolitical commenting is just not how we deal with these things anymore. Please go back and suggest that the Disney corporation is just a small part of a gigantic conspiracy against you and Western Civilisation, preferably including the phrase "the world's gone maaaaaad!".

I think part of the issue with inconsequential reboots/reworkings etc is that people (especially those who haven't seen the original) will only ever know the newer (often weaker) version. And if some of the greatest animated classics get lost to memory, to be replaced with inferior versions only made because they were an easy source of income, then that is a real shame, and makes the world (if only only infinitesimally) that bit poorer.

 

[BAYLOR]

I think part of the issue with inconsequential reboots/reworkings etc is that people (especially those who haven't seen the original) will only ever know the newer (often weaker) version. And if some of the greatest animated classics get lost to memory, to be replaced with inferior versions only made because they were an easy source of income, then that is a real shame, and makes the world (if only only infinitesimally) that bit poorer.

More often then not Rebots tend to be inferior to the original , though there some exceptions
Invasion Of Body Snatchers 1956 is a classic and , so it the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland which, takes the story down a far darker path. Kevin McCarthy the lead in the 1956 film had cameo in the that film.

 

[paranoid marvin]

More often then not Rebots tend to be inferior to the original , though there some exceptions
Invasion Of Body Snatchers 1956 is a classic and , so it the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland which, takes the story down a far darker path. Kevin McCarthy the lead in the 1956 film had cameo in the that film.

Yes, there have definitely been some better versions of movies than the original. The Wizard of Oz, The Thing (although the original is a very good movie itself) Scarface, Brendan Fraser's The Mummy etc. Invasion is (for me) very much in the same frame as The Thing; both were 50s movies made at the height of the Cold War, and heavily influenced by it. Both of the originally movies are thrillers that carry an existentialist threat that viewers of the time would have been more than aware of, whilst the remakes are more concerned with horror.

 

[BAYLOR]

They're doing a live action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , reimagined.

 

[CupofJoe]

Over the summer [in the UK] Disney are releasing to the cinema, the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937], Bambi [1940] and Cinderella [1950].
It looks like Dumbo [1941] and Pinocchio [1940] are being missed out... at least for now.