The Little Mermaid - Live Action

I know not every director is as crazy as James Cameron but it definitely doesn't look like they shot underwater, like he did for the new Avatar. I'm sure the movie will be fine but the shot with Halle singing looks so flat.

Disney keep churning these out. All just content to fill Disney+ at this stage. They will run out of classics soon at this rate.

Oh God.

What about the Aristocats ?

FFS Nooooooooooooooo

You say that but they just announced a prequel to that Lion King abomination and I think they're planning an Aladdin sequel. If their remakes are big enough they'll spin them off.

Not that I give a toss as Disney wouldn't be my cup of tea, but it seems they are just remaking everything so they can have black actors/leads in the movies and nothing else.

Now I'm curious. Don't tell me instead of wanting to be a real boy, he was given a choice of how he would identify.

As for this, seeing the image of her and cheking photos of the actress, I was wondering are those scars above her eyes and are they Ariel's as couldn't see any on Halle's photos.

Is this on Disney + same time as cinema release?

its looking like the movie wont make a profit , not doing well internationally and projected 60% drop this weekend, after that there are lots of movies coming out in the next few weeks. Their next movie up Elemental is being poorly reviewed so looks like it wont be a big film either.

Elemental trailer did nothing for me. Nothing. It didn't even look that groundbreaking technically. Luca and Coco trailers didn't do much for me either but I found them pleasant movies but that's it. Now not every movie can be the Toys Story trilogy or Wall-E but I can't even remember Onward or Soul (Soul would have been MUCH better as a 30 min short. I remember thinking that at the time). I quite enjoyed Turning Red but didn't even finish Lightyear. I don't believe every animated movie should be Spiderverse (Discussed elsewhere) but, dare I say it, Pixar fare is looking a bit stale? I really enjoyed Zootopia. Raya was very derivative but had its moments and looked amazing. And Moana was quite traditional but fun and again looked fantastic. But again, they need a bit of a shakeup. They are beginning to look at bit old fashioned.

Apparently The Little Mermaid is only quite mediocre. For obvious reasons we won't get into here it was review-bombed but ignoring the perma-outraged, apparently it was only meh. Bailey is supposed to be fantastic in it but surrounded by a sea of mediocrity (Pun intended). Which is a pity for her.

And as for the "live action" remakes in general: I could understand Beauty and The Beast remake. I mean it's not a new story. You have the technology, Emma Watson is extremely popular (They could also have chosen any other young popstar too). Why not bring the songs to a Disney "Live action" version. But the rest? Why? What are they going to bring to the table? The Lion King? Apparently the fish in The Little Mermaid are horrifying 'cos they are "photorealistic" yet still attempting humanlike emoting/communicating. A live action Moana? Why? It could have been made live action initially but intentionally was not. Same with Lilo and Stitch. Could have been live action initially but wasn't.

And who then gets the blame if something doesn't work? Usually the extremely talented animation teams working on tighter deadlines with less and less creative control or opportunity to experiment: "Oh those fish look weird trying to talk and sing. That just looks stupid and fake" Yes, it is fake. Lobsters don't generally burst into versions of "Under the sea" but Lobsters aren't generally cute like Sebastian either. You wanna "live action" lobster that can sing: This is what you get. Just look at that bland Pinocchio movie and compare it to Del Toro's version.

Remakes/reimaginings have their place but only if they bring something NEW.

$250m. Jesus. That's insane.I would rate these almost as Straight-to-Video lower-cost sequels of the 80s/early 90s (Except now Straight-to-Disney+) but that's insane money.

I haven't seen it so I can't comment on the quality of the effects. As it's more fantastical affair I wouldn't be put off if the water effects didn't match Avatar. Would take it more of a stylistic choice. But that's mental money. Especially when you add advertisement/promotion. I haven't seen ANY Little Mermaid promotion. I don't think I saw a single ad. Mario brothers and Spiderverse were heavily promoted.

200M for Elemental? For what looks like yet another Romeo & Juliet/starcrossed lovers movie? I mean one of the jokes in that Elemental was ripped straight out of Spongebob about 10 years ago

I mean remember when everyone was saying: Hey, Dreamworks is the sassy-animals-on-a-mission-with-the-eyebrow-thing. And at the same time Pixar were giving us movies about what toys do when we are not around. Or where monsters are bluecollar workers working in an energy plant. Or a robot with only 3 words falls in love. Or the Magnificent Seven with bugs.

Luca was fine but owed a huge amount to Studio Ghibli. The Good Dinosaur world looked amazing but the story was disjointed and episodic. Onward was bland. Finding Dory, Cars 3 and Toy Story 4 were sequels nobody asked for or wanted.

It's always tempting to "Play it safe" in a crowded marketplace but those are HUGE budgets for "Playing it safe"