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Disney made a movie in the mid-90s that was exactly that:
The general consensus is that it's the worst of the Renaissance. Funny that, eh?
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The general consensus is that it's the worst of the Renaissance. Funny that, eh?
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Remember watching it as a kid and feeling ripped off by how short and meh it was.
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Personally I never quite understood why they decided to make this a hodgepodge semi-historical/fantasy movie. (Let me use the colors of the wind as a Star Trek Universal Translator, also here is a talking tree .... what?!) Perhaps it was in vogue at the time to pay lip service to "Native Americans" (God I hate that term because it is so low resolution and inaccurate it is but I digress). Why couldn't Disney just make a fully fantasy movie based on the stories and folklore of the different tribes at that time? Sort of a Fantasia like anthology based on that type of story telling would have been amazing.
Disney made their bread and butter adapting European folk stories and traditions, they could have continued doing so using stories from all continents around the world but at some point Disney kinda gave up basing their movies on tradition and legacy and now everything is a live-action race swapped rehash and modernity based garbage.
As for reaching a general consensus on worst things, I think everyone agrees that Mel Gibson should never be allowed to sing again for any role, ever.
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I had the Disney Read-Along Book'n'Tape. They cut out a LOT of the fluff and just get straight to the Meat'n'Potatoes. From what I recall, it's basically...
- White men come to indian land
- tension between indians and white men
- Pocohontas shows blonde white dude what nature has to offer, which.. somehow results in them developing feelings for one another???
- One of the indians gets attacked, indians want white men dead
- Pocohontas prevents indians from killing blonde white dude because he's different, or something.
- Everything is magically good now.
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>CGI is ass as expected
>Have her in braids OR loose hair not both jesus christ
>Everything is muted and dark to hide the shitty CGI
>The talking animals would have been bad either way.
>Hyper realistic looks stupid and cartoony would have looked stupid too
>Awkwafina is Scuttle
>Why is she everywhere? She isn't funny
>Corporations have learned that ragebait and hatewatching works so these mini racewars are only feeding the problem. That's what they want.
>At least Halle Bailey can sing because Emma Watson couldn't
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They need to make every Disney villain boring in the live action remakes compared to their more flamboyant selves.
Disney made Pocahontas because they wanted Oscar bait. Like Pocahontas was deliberately made in an attempt to get a best picture nomination at the Oscars like Beauty and the Beast.
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iirc it also tied in with the aborted AmericaLand park, sorta like the shit like Jungle 2 Jungle and Marsupilami while trying to get EuroDisney off the ground
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Venison is on the menu, after the Lion King as first course.
(Out of all the remakes gotta say I did like Jungle Book. Bill Murray, Chris Walken, Scarlett Johansson, little brown boy, Johnny Favs as director, all did good jobs.)
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It probably helped that Jungle Book is the weakest of Walt-era Disney, it was to my memory one of the last animated films in the Disney pipeline before Walt died of lung cancer. Making a remake of something that was pretty much just decent made sense.
But Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Little Mermaid, and so on are masterpieces. It's moronic to remake classics.
God have mercy on us all if/when Disney remakes Robin Hood and the OG Furbait gets new life.
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Its most lasting legacy is furries that desperately want to fuck a Meeko plush doll.
What makes it even funnier was the B team made Lion King while the A-listers worked on Pocahontas.
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So one of the main places that offer's meeting Mickey has now become recipet only to meet Mickey. He used to walks the tables and such, but now he will not anymore there.
The only thing close to this they used to have was Beast would walk the tables at Be Our Guest. But with a recieipt you could get your picture and autograph with him personally.
Ohana also offers a photoop with Stitch personally, but he still makes the rounds of the tables as well and stops for autographs and photoops.
The only thing close to this they used to have was Beast would walk the tables at Be Our Guest. But with a recieipt you could get your picture and autograph with him personally.
Ohana also offers a photoop with Stitch personally, but he still makes the rounds of the tables as well and stops for autographs and photoops.
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Honestly, they would be moronic to do that, since wokies and especially native Americans are very mad at Disney for doing,,, whatever Pocahontas was to the story of a real young girl whose life was ruined, a girl who is a minority no less.
I don't see a way for them to fix it enough to be ok either, as at the end of the day the core problem will still be there or it won't be Pocahontas anymore.
Genuinely, I don't think they can use Pocahontas outside of minor appearances anymore without attracting a woke mob.
I can see them doing Princess and the Frog or maybe Atlantis live action, just straight up skipping Pocahontas tbh
Kinda ironic how their 'progressive' oscar bait movie is a lot more actually problematic than Song of the South lol
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Who the fuck cares this much about Mickey Mouse?! Is Mickey Mouse anyone's favorite Disney property? I could understand Goofy. It'd still be cringe Disney Adult behavior, but I could understand because Goofy is actually fun, but Mickey has no personality. His defining characteristic is he's a sterile mascot meant to be as inoffensive as possible.
I do love that Mickey is now starting to act in the same avaricious manner that Disney is as a company. "Hey kid, whadya want, a hug? You got a receipt?"
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I don't think anyone cares about Mickey himself, they care about the symbolism and what it means going forward. Disney has been pretty instrumental on copy right laws being as they are and infamous of being a pain in the ass to take in court. Now there seems to be a change happening because people pay attention on boring paperwork and they are running low on money.
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Wow that's amazingly fucking lame, unless this is in response to a bunch of people being assholes about Mickey not getting to their table yet
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In lighter news, Willow is canceled:
www.escapistmagazine.com
I know it's the Escapist but still.
Willow Canceled at Disney+, No Season 2 Coming
Disney has canceled the Willow TV series revival at Disney+, meaning that there will be no season 2 for the Lucasfilm fantasy show.
www.escapistmagazine.com
I know it's the Escapist but still.
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>a wokeshit sequel series to a movie that wasn't liked all that much to begin with gets axedIn lighter news, Willow is canceled:
Willow Canceled at Disney+, No Season 2 Coming
Disney has canceled the Willow TV series revival at Disney+, meaning that there will be no season 2 for the Lucasfilm fantasy show.
I know it's the Escapist but still.
wow. what a surprise.
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All I know about the Willow show is they cast a troon as a the queen and had that awful actress from Winter Solider/ Falcon show. That killed any interest I had, even before I saw the reactions
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In lighter news, Willow is canceled:
Willow Canceled at Disney+, No Season 2 Coming
Disney has canceled the Willow TV series revival at Disney+, meaning that there will be no season 2 for the Lucasfilm fantasy show.
I know it's the Escapist but still.
Had to suffer through this for a friend's sake.
This is the kind of headline that leaves one feeling so unburdened of all life's troubles that you feel like you can just spread your arms and fly.
Imagine you're stuck at a RenFaire. Half the attendees are aggravatingly in-character but it's otherwise a relatively mild affair. And then, all of a sudden, the faire is invaded by an army of edgy high schoolers, fresh off a weed-addled MCU marathon and shouting SHIT and FUCK and BITCH like they just discovered they can say these words and not land in detention. But the Faire attendees don't seem to notice. They just continue to speak in that vague GRRM idiom while these high schoolers are trying to out-quip each other and mug at a camera that doesn't exist.
"Your Grace, you must needs seek the Sacred Place and retrieve the Sacred Stone, and with all haste. Destiny waits for no one."
"Don't worry pops, I can't wait for Destiny either...TO LICK MY FUCKING ASS! If you know what I mean. My ass. Her tongue. That sort of thing."
That is what the dialogue in this show sounds like. The screenplay of a sequel to a Lucasfilm fantasy movie is a neverending, witless, psychotic mishmash of vaguely Early Modern English and 2020s TikTokers cussing each other out, constantly vying for supremacy, neither side ever prevailing. No one working on the show thought that was a problem.
I could study all writing and invective for a thousand years and never, ever come close to describing how much I hated this show. Burn the body, salt the earth where it fell, and put an industry ban on anyone with a writing credit.