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Grand Duke Snowfall said:
God, I heard a little bit about him bitching about that. “Oh, so you think it’s okay to portray dwarves living in a cave? Do you realize how fucked up that is?”
They live in a cottage and work in a mine, did we even watch the same cartoon?
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His point was that it was a stereotype. I get what he was trying to say but it's striking how un-self aware it was because Dinklage would have known his form of dwarfism is unusually well proportioned.

Also I just found out the budget is now being reported at an eye watering $240 million, not including marketing. If they do reshoots or reanimating due to the trailer reaction
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which they have time to do because it's in March, they'll probably have thrown away a billion dollars when it's all over.
 
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Doctor of Autism said:
- Anti-Animation Sentiment: This is a kind of specific point but it definitely appeals to normies who dismiss animation as a children's medium and gives the appearance of this being more "adult" than the original animation.
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Sorry to post again, but also wanted to comment on this. I think a big part of it is less anti-animation, and more an “I’m not going back“ mentality.

A lot of this comes from the older generations who at this point are Boomers and Gen X, two generations that grew up in a pretty massive period for films and more importantly technology and effects. They lived through seeing Star Wars, which at the time was a technical marvel, then going into Jurassic Park and later films such as Transformers. They had a continuous build up of technology and graphics getting better, so now they don’t want to watch a cartoon when they know Hollywood is capable of turning their childhood comics and cartoons real.

This mentality is also why 2D animation died out. Why make a 2D film when you can continuously push things with CGI.

In many ways, animation is like video games. An entire gen grew up with an ever increasing push to make graphics as close to realism as possible. Many may claim new games worse, but no one really wants to go back to the PS1 either, they just want the new tech of the PS5 to emulate those experiences.
 
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Betonhaus said:
It's just frustrating seeing my childhood whored out and trampled on. I would've loved to have shared some of these cherished memories with my kids but I might as well just let them watch Skibidi toilet or whatever the latest thing is.
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The old classic movies still exist, you can still watch them and since they're animated a lot of them really hold up even in the eyes of children. Where as trying to get a child to watch something like Tron when current day cgi exists is a much harder ask.
 
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Coo Coo Bird said:
What are the actual odds of Disney acknowledging that they used to have a robust original live action movie department?
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The only ones I see them regularly acknowledge are Mary Poppins and Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Man, that reminds me of Dragonslayer. Haven’t seen the full movie, but those practical effects for the dragon have aged real well. It’s just a shame that Disney’s pushed it under the rug for reasons that probably have to do with it being a PG-13 movie before that rating existed. Imagine taking your kid to a Disney movie, and then you have a scene where a princess’s corpse is being eaten by baby dragons among other things. Still awesome though.
 
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Vect said:
Also I just found out the budged is now being reported at an eye watering $240 million, not including marketing. If they do reshoots or reanimating due to the trailer reaction
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With a budget like that, it would need around $600 million to make a profit. The little Coonmaid couldn't reach that number and that was a remake of a much more iconic film and had a smaller budget.
 
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Sorry if I'm late with this, but Wish has a cut, partially rendered scene that, somehow, made it into the credits as a pop song.
Even little things like this would've helped the movie a lot. We're not just told that a wish is an important part of a person, we get to see that it's a source of happiness and purpose. We get to see what "inspiring people" means. Moments like these also give characters reasons to exist. They make them feel more human and, well, memorable.
 
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Sinner's Sandwich said:
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The dwarfs look terrifying. The reason for this is that their features are exaggerated while the eyes are human sized and that makes them look creepy. They should have make the eyes fit the rest of the head and body.
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They look like the killer klowns without makeup on
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Nitro! said:
The looting of collective childhood memories and the Disney corporation as a whole aside, it is bizarre how casting goes for the ugliest mutt for lead actress. At every angle it's like her face has been stretched horizontally in Photoshop.
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I think it's part of the looting. Disney (the man) had a lot of wacky utopian visions for America, but he ultimately loved his country and had a lot of faith in it. Why not spit on him by turning his ideas* and visions upside down, and get some money** for the trouble?

*Obviously Snow White wasn't his idea, but he still chose it to push animation as a storytelling medium.
**It'll likely be a net loss but that won't stop them.
 
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Looseleaf Paper said:
The old classic movies still exist, you can still watch them and since they're animated a lot of them really hold up even in the eyes of children.
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They're simply beautiful cartoons, made with incredible vision and attention to detail. Disney could simply have remastered them, maybe done some recordings with a new cast of voice actors and re-release it into the cinema. Make it a package for a few of the shorter ones, I think people would pay to see that, and it would be fairly cheap.

I'mma real anime gurl said:
Peter Dinklage failed to kill Snow White, thus he shall kneecap every actor until all the Disney remakes are canceled.
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I think of the landmark ones there's only Bambi left. I'd really actually like to see Disney remake Bambi with CGI, a really simple story of a deer and a fat rabbit, just to marvel at the sheer incompetence that will have to be involved in fucking it up.

Wodanaz said:
>a jew wants you to think that THIS is the fairest of them all
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Despite being the lesser actress, the girl who played Ariel was capable of looking innocent and curious and not like she'd just seen Chris Hemsworth take Viagra.
 
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