re: Disney's About To Take Yet Another Multi-Million Dollar Loss With Snow White

Everyone who didn't go see this movie and love it are all the -ist/phobes

---the same 4 posters on this board

I wasnt being sarcastic. The 1937 movie is a legit classic. U disagree?

So why did u quote me in bold where i said it was a pretty damn good movie? I figured u were hinting that u didnt agree

You understated it.

Political pandering aside, why are they so obsessed with these live action remakes? Those movies were great as cartoons, we don't need a live action remake and nobody asked for that. Musicals are hit or miss. So now you have these musical movie/cartoons with computer effects. Gross.

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Yeah the trolls and incels have ruined the rating system.

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These posts always fail to acknowledge that this goes both ways and there are undoubtedly armies of Disney loyalists propping it up to the best of their abilities

You can survive having an insufferable actress...but you cant survive the word of mouth that your movie is boring

Tangled and the follow-up cartoon series are really well done. My kids enjoy both. Non-political, cute, and a decent story line. I hope they don’t destroy Rapunzel.

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You can survive having an insufferable actress...but you cant survive the word of mouth that your movie is boring

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The ironic part is that most reviewers are saying Zegler did ok, and her singing was terrific. Gadot is being criticized for being wooden, and the story and cinematography are awful.

Regarding why is Disney doing live action remakes? It’s because they’re lazy and there’s not much good writing left in Hollywood.

Pretty long post, but interesting insight I saw on LinkedIn earlier from a Hollywood entertainment lawyer:

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Unsurprisingly soft box office for Snow White, and it could get worse if admissions drop off from here. With a reported budget of $270m and a reasonably heavy P&A spend, the movie will probably need to make $600m to break even. Five observations:

1. Disney will be happy to cut losses and move past this. This is old development, greenlit during the bizarre cultural era of 2020-21, mired in controversy. It’s about loss mitigation at this point.

2. With that said, Disney needs to stop making these live action remakes. They are tarnishing its brand. I don’t care how much the Lilo and Stitch remake makes at the box office. Disney has traded its reputation as the preeminent home of creativity and “magic” for this regurgitated nonsense. Disney is relying on diminishing assets, and if it continues exclusively producing Marvel movies and live action remakes, it is facing an eventual crisis.

3. This movie is the best argument for generative AI I’ve ever seen. Everything about it, from the grotesque CGI dwarfs, to the costume design and color palettes, to Gal Gadot’s line delivery seems like it was spit out by a semi-intelligent computer. Again, this is dangerous territory for Hollywood. When your creative output resembles the constituent elements of an IP being fed into a computer, remixed and spit out, you are susceptible to teenagers in their bedrooms doing the same at lower cost and with closer proximity to the target audience (albeit without the marketing power).

4. Rachel Zegler is talented and surely has a solid Broadway career ahead of her. However, this presumably spells the end of her career as a commercial movie actor. A substantial part of an actor’s job is to sell movie tickets, and you simply cannot recklessly antagonize and alienate 50%+ of the domestic audience. Zegler’s brand is so toxic, and she is so disliked at this point, that absent a major reversal, any mainstream project she acts in will be collateral damage. Disney is not to blame - she was cast several years ago after being anointed by Steven Spielberg, and nobody could have predicted that she would be so indiscreet or polarizing.

5. Zegler is arguably not to blame either. She is a product of an echo chamber. If you watch back her infamous D23 interview where she labeled the beloved original movie as “weird” (which may live with her for the remainder of her career), there is a level of assuredness in her statements approaching hubris. Why? Because she can’t imagine anyone disagreeing with her. In her bubble nobody does. The entertainment business needs to find a solution to this, because as long as the internet exists, the ideological chasm will only grow.

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