@mrbojangles25 said:
@jaydan said:
Why Disney keeps milking their classics with "live-action" remakes/prequels/sequels is beyond me, and then the audacity to make them vastly inferior to the originals.
These "live-action" movies represent everything wrong with modern cinema.
It's the nostalgia/next-gen double-whammy.
Appeal to millennials with kids; appeal to the millennials' sense of nostalgia by making the film as familiar as possible to what they saw as children, and appeal to the kids by making it all CGI and stuff.
Save money because apparently CGI is cheaper than traditional animation these days.
Disney doesn't make art any more, they make products. A cynic would say that about a lot of places, but with Disney I feel it is especially true.
I was more or less being sarcastic about that. Of course I know "why" they do it, and still yet, it represents everything wrong with modern cinema.
Disney is capable of making a good movie still. Most recently, Encanto was was brilliant and peak Disney.
Problem is: Disney also chooses to be lazy most of the time and it's catching up to the company as 2023 was one of the worst years in the entire history of Disney. Worse than the Black Cauldren era of creative bankruptcy and cheapness.
It will be unfortunate if Disney completely loses their top market: the multi-generational family. Disney always had the benefit of parents growing up to show Disney to their kids, and their kids showing their kids. But nowadays if more people say they're done with Disney over their cheap and malicious tactics to the film industry, tourism and what other industries they're in, and it breaks the multi-generational chain, Disney as a company will be in tough waters ahead (they already are).
But let's keep making these lazy "live-action" factory movies. That'll win audiences back.
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