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re: ‘Moana’ live action remake tracking to be a gigantic bomb for Disney

Posted on 6/24/26 at 11:51 am to
Posted by Lsut81
Member since Jun 2005
85388 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 11:51 am to
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Maybe don’t remake 10-year-old movies?


How to Train Your Dragon didn't get the memo.... blew it out of the water. Think it did 250m/650m and they are doing the second one for a release next year.
Posted by Purple Spoon
Hoth
Member since Feb 2005
21007 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 11:52 am to
I don’t understand remaking an animated film and using 95% CGI.

It’s basically just another animated film.

I mean I know why but artistically it’s just funny.
Posted by 1999
Where I be
Member since Oct 2009
33705 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 11:52 am to
rock looks like he's in an snl skit. this was totally unnecessary.
Posted by Bert Macklin FBI
Quantico
Member since May 2013
12340 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 12:05 pm to
Do people really buy their tickets to see a movie weeks/months in advance? I’m sure we will take the kids to see it but we won’t buy tickets until the day of.
Posted by jp4lsu
Member since Sep 2016
6939 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 12:21 pm to
I thought it was really weird to do a remake of this and frozen. They aren't that old, especially Moana and you have to use so much CGI for the scenes, it's kind of like whats the point. It's all CGI and animated anyway, then you plop some actors front of a green screen. Seems stupid.

Now Snow White or Cinderella translate well to a live action because it doesn't need the CGI like the others do.
Posted by LouisianaLonghorn
Austin, Texas
Member since Jan 2006
15909 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 12:29 pm to
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I liked the Cinderella live action that they did.


Cinderella was easily Disney’s best live action adaptation. They’ve gotten steadily worse since then.

Cruella and the two Maleficent movies weren’t bad, but they were basically reimaginings of the original animated films. They took the villains and made them the heroes.

I didn’t see the Lilo & Stitch remake. Apparently live action retreads of Tangled and Hercules are up next.
Posted by The Cow Goes Moo Moo
Bucktown
Member since Nov 2012
4361 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 12:41 pm to
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"How about we make the same exact movie but remove all the parts that make it good?"



Genuinely asking cause I haven't kept up with this, but what are they removing from the original?
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
14956 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 1:00 pm to
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I don’t understand remaking an animated film and using 95% CGI.


It worked spectacularly for The Jungle Book (2016) and they have been chasing that high ever since.
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
65986 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 1:02 pm to
They thought they needed The Rock to make people see it, and now what's his name is a weirdly old dude. And Moana isn't a kid. She's a teenager. The whole thing is just kind of off-putting on its face.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
66349 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 1:07 pm to
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I don’t understand remaking an animated film and using 95% CGI.

It’s basically just another animated film.

I mean I know why but artistically it’s just funny.


If they made money, it would make sense to me. Have these been making money? After the disaster that was Emma Watson's Belle ruining the entirety of the Beauty & The Beast remake, I stopped going to see them.
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
17491 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 1:13 pm to
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Do people really buy their tickets to see a movie weeks/months in advance?



I bought the tickets to see Toy Story 5 with my grandkids a few days ahead of time to be sure I had good seats but it wound up not being necessary because there wasn't very many people there. Which surprised me some because it was the opening weekend
Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
28352 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 1:17 pm to
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They don't ever intend to lose money, but breaking even and getting other revenue jump started is a good outcome for Disney.


It might be an acceptable outcome for Disney but it's not remotely close to what they were aiming for. Acceptable <> good.
Posted by GeauxOn
Texas
Member since Mar 2014
396 posts
Posted on 6/24/26 at 1:17 pm to
Yet they refuse to give the people what we really want, the Atlantis live action remake
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