re: 'The Lion King' Tomatometer - 58%

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Disney has a pretty sweet life when they can get their dick sucked so hard for releasing the exact same movie again.

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Pride Rock literally looks down upon all of society’s weaker groups — a kind of Trump Tower of the African savanna.

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Doubling down on Disney’s historical obsession with patriarchal monarchies

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With the lions standing in for the ruling class and the “good” herbivores embodying society’s decent, law-abiding citizens, the hyenas transparently represent the black, brown and disabled bodies that are forcefully excluded from this fascist society.

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This foul betrayal of tradition is predictably orchestrated by Scar, the misfit lion whose opportunistic desire to advance the status of minorities echoes the way conservatives speak of liberal politicians, when they act as if compassion is merely opportunism. Simultaneously, his effeminate gestures and lack of interest in heterosexual reproduction mark him as queer, like the vast majority of other villains in Disney’s exclusively heterosexual world. Adding insult to injury, the social outcasts’ rebellion against Mufasa’s autocratic regime is explicitly associated with the imagery of goose-stepping Nazis.

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Pride Rock literally looks down upon all of society’s weaker groups — a kind of Trump Tower of the African savanna.

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Been lucky to have attended a number of world premieres but not sure I've ever heard as much clapping during a movie as I did tonight at #TheLionKing . Was like being at a rock concert. Movie is going to make so much money.

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Never Say Never- Never would I think I'd say that spending $10 on my Never Say Never ticket was the best value for money of anything I bought this year, but here I am to say that. The movie itself is good. It's an interesting documentary on a kid who is trying to stay a kid in this big world. The music is great. The sequence and timing are superb. But what puts this movie over the top are the fans. That's right. By the end of the movie, 75% of the theater, consisting mostly of early and pre-teen girls were on the ground level with their hands up, screaming and touching the screen as if the movie were a concert. It was exhilarating to be in that number! I confess I too ran down to the floor and began dancing and screaming with the masses. What an awesome movie experience. Movie 6/10 Experience 10/10.

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In fact, it was fricking horrible. I have a feeling if Mulan shits the bed again, like Lion King/Aladdin bad, then Disney will start rethinking doing live action remakes, might even call off The Little Mermaid

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