Disney's Christopher Robin - a.k.a. there are now officially too many sequels...THE SEQUEL

I'm torn on this one, like really torn. It's obviously a cash-grab following the coattails of Paddington made to draw in an audience of grannies and their children and grandchildren, but at the same time, this is Winnie the Pooh, the sweetest, most timeless fictional children's character of all time and I will admit that hearing his voice turns my heart into the gooey substance that is honey and I can't bring myself to say anything bad about him. So I'll probably fall for every little sentimental crap they'll have thrown in it, but here's to being :optimistic: that it'll actually be a sweet little film.

Also if they end up playing the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh theme at all in the movie, I'll die of diabeetus.
 
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I was a sucker for Winnie the Pooh when I was a kid so I want this to be good, but I'm too cynicial about the Mouse pushing out lame shit for nostalgiabux. The fact that it's an original story and not a remake is a point in its favor, though. Best case scenario is this movie makes a better Toy Story 4 than the one they're making. (Which it will judging by what I've seen about Toy Story 4)

Also the last Ewan McGregor film I saw was the one where he was a homo with Jim Carrey so this is a big change.
 
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That.... thing is NOT going to be as emotional as the original incarnation and follow ups.

Remember Pooh's smile? Try to imagine this shit doing that. I can't.

And why the vocalist Jim Cummings is voicing Pooh but not also Tigger is kinda backwards.
 
TrippinKahlua said:
And why the vocalist Jim Cummings is voicing Pooh but not also Tigger is kinda backwards.
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:c That's fucked. Like I get it that it's taking place in Great Britain so they're hiring actors from that area, but Tigger has just as much of an iconic voice as Pooh, and everyone's going to notice it sounding different. They obviously kept Jim Cummings as Pooh because of that, but to not let him do Tigger as well is just not right.
 
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:c That's fucked. Like I get it that it's taking place in Great Britain so they're hiring actors from that area, but Tigger has just as much of an iconic voice as Pooh, and everyone's going to notice it sounding different. They obviously kept Jim Cummings as Pooh because of that, but to not let him do Tigger as well is just not right.
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An Irish Tigger could have it's charms though, I'd say we should wait until we hear it before declaring betrayal.
 
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Testaclese Maximus said:
They already did this premise with Hook and it worked because it had pirates and magic instead of a talking bear with the personality of the least annoying patient in the nursing home. They need to make a movie about the Winnie the Pooh from the newspaper comics who was just an unapologetic dick to everyone for no reason.
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Pooh is savage in those comics:
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When I was a kid I loved watching the 70s cartoon. But the very ending of it with the winking live action Pooh plush always made me run out of room before it got to that bit.

Seeing this trailer made me remember that raw, visceral fear.
 
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
When I was a kid I loved watching the 70s cartoon. But the very ending of it with the winking live action Pooh plush always made me run out of room before it got to that bit.

Seeing this trailer made me remember that raw, visceral fear.
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That's pretty odd, for me, I thought nothing of that as a kid, but the older I got, the message of saying goodbye to your childhood was something that left a tear in my eye whenever I saw the ending (regardless of the recycled animation from Jungle Book just so they had Christopher Robin walking across a fallen log on the stream).

Ironically Pooh winking was seen in each of these stories when they were released as individual featurettes theatrically (1966, 1968 and 1974). Heck they even brought it back for 1983's "A Day for Eeyore" too! Apparently the first short was the only one to rely on live footage than a static photo shot as you can see the drapes moving.

For me, these were the only Pooh stuff I remember best as well, long before they created the Disney Channel puppet deal with "Welcome to Pooh Corner", the Saturday morning show and the other things that followed as the 80's, 90's and 2000's rolled on. We've became very saturated with this series and characters thanks to such impulsive marketing.
 
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That's pretty odd, for me, I thought nothing of that as a kid, but the older I got, the message of saying goodbye to your childhood was something that left a tear in my eye whenever I saw the ending (regardless of the recycled animation from Jungle Book just so they had Christopher Robin walking across a fallen log on the stream).

Ironically Pooh winking was seen in each of these stories when they were released as individual featurettes theatrically (1966, 1968 and 1974). Heck they even brought it back for 1983's "A Day for Eeyore" too! Apparently the first short was the only one to rely on live footage than a static photo shot as you can see the drapes moving.

For me, these were the only Pooh stuff I remember best as well, long before they created the Disney Channel puppet deal with "Welcome to Pooh Corner", the Saturday morning show and the other things that followed as the 80's, 90's and 2000's rolled on. We've became very saturated with this series and characters thanks to such impulsive marketing.
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Oh no I loved the animation, don't get me wrong. But I thought the plush in the playroom would steal my soul if I saw it wink :(
 
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Oh no I loved the animation, don't get me wrong. But I thought the plush in the playroom would steal my soul if I saw it wink :(
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Reminds me of Todd Graham's Apocalypse Pooh, which probably does a far better job conveying that creepiness with it's handling of the ending!
 
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