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It's as if Disney has no ability or desire to create anything new. Yes...it's clearly a money grab based on nostalgia, regardless of whether they are going to tweak the story a bit this time around.

Take a look at a list of Disney movies from Snow White until today and remove Pixar from the mix. Then focus on 2000 or so and see how many sequels or remakes there have been since then versus what they did prior to 2000. It's hilarious to see how they've shifted from creativity and the creation of new stories and characters to mining old IP, or simply buying the IP of others and mining that.

work smarter, not harder

its cheap and easy to mine old IP and if it still makes money, why wouldn't you do it?

I get the frustration, but if people keep eating this stuff up, Disney isn't going to stop

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Posted by GeauxTigerTM

Member since Sep 2006

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Posted on 2/23/21 at 11:36 am to Salmon

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work smarter, not harder

its cheap and easy to mine old IP and if it still makes money, why wouldn't you do it?

I get the frustration, but if people keep eating this stuff up, Disney isn't going to stop

Again...I was responding directly to Belle who had written this:

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I do find the criticism funny when all we do is cry and complain for something more "original", they do something different, and then people like the OP melt all the way down over it.

There is nothing "different" about what Disney is doing with this character. This will now be the 5th time this character has been featured in a Disney movie and the third time it's been live action. Taking an already established character and potentially tweaking her is not different.

To be sure, it's obviously effective and it's why literally every studio has begun doing this for the past 20 years. But at least call it what it is...lazy and a blatant money grab. I'd agreed with your point earlier when you answered why...money.

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