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I'm sure there is, but why not cast the best actor you possibly can? Why does the hair matter so much? It's not the original. The goal should to make the best movie possible while giving people their money's worth, not just an easy paint by numbers movie to appeal to Disney nostalgia.

I don't give a shit about Ariel's hair or The Little Mermaid but it's indicative of a larger debate about blockbuster movies and how nostalgia makes money.

Maybe they cast someone for the role who doesn't have red hair and would look bad with dyed red hair. And if that person is the best person for the role, they just sacrificed what matters to make a carbon copy.

I mean if her hair is red that's fine, but if they cast someone who is not a natural redhead because that's the best actor for the role that matters a hell of alot more. You know what's easier to market than someone's hair color? A good movie.

Right, I guess I phrased that wrong. I'm fine with movies just being fun disposable entertainment- I like plenty of those! I just don't think movies should be a bunch of technically accomplished, remade deriative scenes that have absolutely zero artistic merit that people excuse because they make money. Terminator 2 is probably my favorite blockbuster ever, but I'll be damned if I want to make a direct, barely changed remake of it, even with a great cast and solid scenes.

It was fine. The cast was good and mostly did their thing singing. All the actors playing the servants did good enough jobs, though only McGregor stood out. Be Our Guest was an excellent sequence, probably the only thing really standout in the entire film. This rendition of Gaston was good - Evans and Gad run away with the movie from their first scene. Watson and Stevens were alright, but Watson sounded like T-Pain at times and the Beast went beyond the uncanny valley and into the uncanny Mariana Trench. Outside of that CGI it was mostly good technically. The added Evermore song is boring but it had more emotional impact than most of the movie. It's fine. I was decently entertained in it because it's a fine story and good cast. But Jesus, it was boring in that way, too. It was a paint-by-numbers movie.

Beauty and the Beast was fine. It was a mostly technically accomplished, entertaining while it lasts rendition that I have forgotten about after the five minute drive home. It was just creatively vapid. Sure, it's fine to have one or two a year. But if we get to the point where every movie is either a technically well-made remake or an expanded universe jaunt designed to introduce a new orb for characters to fight over, eventually alot of people are gonna start throwing up their hands. I know that if you dare say that you'll get 100 responses calling you a "snob" and pointing to releases like this to prove how stupid I am. There's been alot of good movies this year, when studios are still willing to take risks because it isn't their big main blockbusters, but I'm already kinda dreading everything from now until September with the exception of a couple movies. IDK. It just feels creatively bankrupt. If you think movies are just supposed to be a bunch of fun scenes that entertain people for an hour and then make money, then great. That's a fine way to look at it. That's not how I see it. I think they can be really truly terrific stuff and still entertain plenty of people and make lots of money. You just need to try. That's why even though that Valerian movie looks completely vapid to me I'm still rooting for it.

Who cares what color a character's hair is? Literally, if that's the standard what makes someone like or not like a character, I don't even know if I can post about some of these movies anymore, because clearly there's two different ideas of what movies should be, and I seem to be in the losing, pretentious one.

My parents are very liberal about sex stuff but they gave me a book. The book said that both the man AND the woman had to have an orgasm for her to get pregnant. If that was true, we'd be facing a Children of Men situation.

I still love all this stuff but it's also all super creepy. A giant bunny with red eyes and fangs jumping around my backyard? And an ancient man who sees children when they're sleeping is some @TelemAAchos shit.

So this was three months ago?

All I know is that Krampus is absolutely real, and he is coming to haunt all of you this Christmas.

Wait..........................Santa isn't real?

Good Friday is super duper late feeling this year. Also, Passover is late af this year too @Jayhawk @4815162342. My family goes big as hell for Christmas and doesn't care about Hannukah but then really loves Passover and is ehhhhhh on Easter (though now that I have nieces that believe in the Bunny it matters again) so maybe I'm just off on what the dates usually are. Also, sorry for spoiling the thing about the Easter Bunny @That One Guy @WrathOfHan @Ethan Hunt.

Yea I worry about the same thing. That's what I mean by pull it off. Having a human to play off the CGI obviously helped JB/BATB. Idk, as a kid it always felt like Aladdin was alot more liked and bigger than Batb, too. It took a re-release for the box office to be so close. If they do that well with an actual diverse cast, it can bank too. I also think that this conversation is depressing af, but I'll wait till I see BaTB later to write creative blockbusters' eulogy I guess.

As someone raised in that Disney Renaissance generation, BATB/Aladdin are big among people 18-30.....but Lion King is 10x bigger. It's unreal. That's everyone my age's favorite movie ever. Part of that is coming from an area that's more diverse than the rest of the country, but nah, the box office and HV sales back it up. Lion King really is the king. I never cared about those Disney movies too much - my favorite movie as a kid was Starship Troopers - but Lion King is dope. If they pull it off, with a Gambino as a hot, marketable lead like Watson, shieeeeeet. That might do 600m.

I've only seen one trailer for the Circle one time and it has the same glossy sheen and super clear Blu-Ray esque framerate as a TV show. Every movie seems to be doing that shit now. I think that's another reason I liked Kong: it felt like I was actually watching a cinematic movie, not a good Netflix episode.

I'm not stunned. I booked tickets this morning for me and my niece to go and the best I could do was a 3:30 show in the second row. And they have showings in 2D every half hour! Business is crazy today again. I had been saying this was gonna be more frontloaded and play closer to a YA franchise film but then I tried to buy us tickets yesterday and I went uh oh.......I'm gonna be eating crow, methinks.

At 249 million, this weekend overall is the 9th biggest weekend of all-time, but depending on if things increase from actuals, it could end up the 5th biggest weekend ever. It it increases by only one million, it will become the biggest weekend outside of summer or December ever.

I wish they had been proven wrong, too. MBJ was the only good part of that movie. It flopped because it was wretched.

The same people losing it were the same people who lost it that there was a black stormtrooper. This vocal minority of creeps on the Internet (and Presidents in the White House ) is not representative of the people who actually go see movies.

What's with this idea that non-white leads don't make money? Internationally, Furious 7 is the highest grossing non-Cameron movie of all-time with almost entirely non-white leads. Get Out right now is about to be one of the three biggest horror movies ever made. Straight Out of Compton and Hidden Figures are the highest grossing drama films (i.e. non blockbuster/action) of the past three years. It's just a myth.

She's literally a fantasy mermaid who lives under the sea with a Jamaican crab. There's no reason she HAS to be white unless that's the only way you'll accept her. I think you'd be surprised how well-received that would be outside racists on the Internet. I think that most of the girls in real life that go crazy for Disney shit don't give a damn at all. And plenty of them would finally have a hero that looks like them. So what's the big deal? Cast who is best for the role, and don't care about what people on the Internet say.

True, but everything I'm looking at is reserved seating, and even tonight's shows are selling as high right now as Friday's night shows did five minutes before they started. Everything is hugely outpacing yesterday in terms of raw seats sold through the end of the night, and this has changed alot over just the last hour. Then again, last night was Spring Break and St. Patty's in the party capital of America, so skewed.

Man, I tried to book tickets for me and my niece to see this shot-by-shot remake movie today, and everything from noon till 5:30 is sold out at both theaters, and they had showings every half hour. I still think this is more frontloaded and liable to stay flat from true Friday than people think, BUT I might very well be wrong if my area is any indication - hugely outpacing Thursday and Friday. I'd eat crow if so.