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  1. Hey all! Been a long time since I've been here on the forums (joined during Frozen's run hence my username) but figured I'd come back since I'm interested in TWOW's box office. 

     

    I always figured 3b WW was very unrealistic. I wouldn't expect those numbers as a possibility until Avatar 3 if anything. I still stand by my prediction of a 150 mil OW, with around 650 mil DOM and a 1.7-2.2 billion WW. Not enough to overtake the first, but hopefully enough that we get 4 and 5, and really in the end that's what I care about. As long as it makes enough to get Avatar 4 and 5, I'll be happy.

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  2. On 12/16/2019 at 1:09 PM, misafeco said:

    Not a fan of the series idea. Frozen is a juggernaut partially because of the songs, it would be very hard to create enough of them (and more importantly keeping the quality) for a full season, let alone 2.

    Okay, I just looked up what the hell elsamaren is. Please God, no! 😂 

    Tangled the Series made it work. Ready As I'll Ever Be is such an AWESOME Disney song.

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  3. 1 hour ago, misafeco said:

    The soundtrack is great. Anyone who expected another Let It Go were setting themselves up for a disappointment though.

     

    You want to bet on your prediction? I say there is zero chance it misses 450 DOM. 1 month of gold account, Box Office Casino points or just the glory of winning - you can choose either one.

     

    I don't think people were necessarily setting themselves up for another Let It Go, because let's face it, only songs like "Reflection" (and potentially I'll Make a Man Out of You"), "Circle of Life" or "Beauty and the Beast" can be said to have a breakout value comparable to Let It Go (for their pre-Internet time period). Not that all the other songs in Disney's library aren't great, just that there are those select stand-outs.

     

    What I think people were expecting though—myself among them—was for the songs to be catchy. The kind of song that you're gleefully humming out of the theater because it gets so stuck in your head. Frozen 1 had a ton like that. Let It Go, Love is an Open Door, For the First Time in Forever, In Summer, Do You Wanna Build a Snowman... all of them have such a Broadway bounciness and/or energy that it's hard not to have those songs be ear-worms.

     

    Frozen 2... kinda has that in some respects, but not much.

     

    All is Found - Gorgeous, very much has the feel of something like You'll Be in My Heart. Not catchy but a sweet lullaby.

     

    Some Things Never Change - This one has that Disney catchy-ness, and I swear it sounds like something from a parade at Disney World.

     

    Into the Unknown - the catchy stand-out yeah, but this song? It's hard to sing! Let It Go had some tough high notes at the end, but that was just at the end. ItU takes that high note at the end of LiG and has it be sung multiple times in the chorus of the song. Let It Go was catchy, ear-wormy, applicable to many, and easily singable. This one is pretty tied to Elsa's powers lyric-wise, and a lot harder to sing if you actually want to hit all the notes properly.

     

    When I'm Older - this one has the catchy upbeat tone of In Summer, good song

     

    Lost in the Woods - the actual song is pretty nice, but it being like an 80's ballad feels kind of out of place (especially with the accompanying visuals).

     

    Show Yourself - now THIS is the kind of "iconic singable Disney song" kind of vibe as the rest of the Disney Renaissance and the Revival have. It's incredible, easily singable, epic, and relatable without being too heavily tied to the specific character experience like Into the Unknown was. Definitely up to the quality I'd expect from the first one.

     

    The Next Right Thing - I love this song. I do. But I think this song more than any other is an example of why I don't think Frozen 2 will get a sing-along release. Why? Because it's freaking depressing. The beginning lyrics especially are probably the most depressing lyrics I've ever heard (easily from Disney, possibly ever). It's slow, the beginning sounds borderline suicidal, it's just more like something out of Les Mis rather than Disney. True it gets more hopeful at the end, but considering it's the last song in the film it's a bleak one to end on and sing. This is certainly a Les Mis-vibe song, and Les Mis didn't exactly get a widespread sing-along release (it seems it did get one at some point though, so who knows?)

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  4. 16 minutes ago, Fullbuster said:

     

    I thought the first episodes actually, it's really good! It's also why I said "we're not getting it" but it wasn't an attack agaisnt the TV show :). I was expecting to see the rest but when I heard of Disney+ I knew it was comng there so I waited to see everything with this streaming service :)

    Now I just need to wait until March 2020 ^^"

    It doesn't come on Disney+ til then? Aww. 

     

    I really need to catch up on the series, but DANG "Ready As I'll Ever Be" is a fantastic song.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Valonqar said:

    Princess and the Frog didn't do well because it was a traditonal animation and that style was going out of fashion. That's the biggest reason. It came out at the time when Pixar became a dominant force in animation and that changed people's tastes. 

    Also I think it being set in New Orleans wasn't a bit draw. In comparison to something like a fantasy world (much of Disney's fairy tales), Imperial China (Mulan), Paris (Hunchback), New Orleans just seems... underwhelming and boring (at least that was my main issue with it at the time it came out, New Orleans was just a bleh setting to me).

  6. 1 hour ago, PNF2187 said:

    Critics Consensus is up: Even though at times Frozen II doesn't quite nail the showstopping feel of the first film, it is still a dazzling adventure into the unknown.

     

    These reviews are definitely quite good, but they are a fair bit lower than almost everything else WDAS put out this decade. 

    Then again, almost everything else WDAS has put out this decade was an original film. Sequels automatically have the expectation factor of living up to the original so it's no wonder most sequels are seen as lesser (Toy Story 2 and 3 being the exceptions)

  7. 1 hour ago, shawntyrel said:

     

    This is what I'm assuming from that review just taking in the emojis and assuming it goes in order:

    -starts out really sweet 

    -has some humor in the early minutes 

    -something concerning happens, tense and surprising stuff with the four elements 

    -some humor and surprising stuff around the middle

    -entertaining songs especially in the middle 

    -really funny part at some point past the middle 

    -a whole lot of ice magic awesomeness

    -power of love comes into play again

    -the water horse and Bruni the lizard play a part in the ending climax 

    -ending with a whole lot of awesome stuff and sparkly magic.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Darth Lehnsherr said:

    Went on to watch Winnie the Pooh. Man so sad this film was pretty much left to die by Disney by releasing it along with Deathly Hallows Part 2. A perfect encapsulation why Winnie the Pooh has endured as a Disney franchise since the 1960s and as someone who loved the A.A Milne books too it was lovely to see some of those stories adapted (albiet loosely) in this film. An easy watch for kids yet like great animated films is appealing to everyone even if there's nothing much going on underneath the surface. The last 2D Animated Film sadly by Disney Animation. Hoping that somehow changes in the future. 

     

    Also the Lopezes who did Frozen's songs did the songs for WtP, so that's a bonus! :)

     

    Also Jennifer Lee (who's head of Disney now since Lasster left) said recently they're definitely up to doing more 2D animated films in the future, so there's hope!

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  9. 12 hours ago, Yandereprime101189 said:

    Reactions are all great so far but some said it doesn't beat the original.

     

    To be fair, it's hard to beat the first, coming from a Frozen superfan :)

    Also to be fair, I think the only times it's been unanimously agreed a sequel was better than the original (for a stand-alone movie that is) was Toy Story 2 and Shrek 2.

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  10. My sibling and I are really hoping to get to see this soon!

     

    Also, while I haven't seen the second one yet, one thing that I love about Maleficent is that it's a Disney story retelling that does something completely different with the source material. It doesn't just try to be a copy of the original (looking at you, Lion King), and it doesn't claim to follow the same plot as the original while then going and making a whole much of unneeded changes and tossing out beloved characters (looking at you big-time, upcoming-Mulan-movie). It takes the characters we're familiar with and puts them in a completely new setting and situation. It's basically like an alternate adaptation with the characters rather than being just a cash-grab remake.

  11. On 10/24/2019 at 1:28 PM, Deuce66 said:

    Long interview with Joe Letteri from WETA who confirms more advancements being made and implemented for the Avatar sequels. He also confirms what I suspected regarding Alita that it's on the shelf for now. 

     

     

    https://nerdist.com/article/joe-letteri-avatar-alita-battle-angel-james-cameron-martin-scorsese/

     

     

     

     

    Great to hear they're implementing new technologies! Hoping Alita gets picked back up eventually though, I loved that movie.

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  12. On 10/1/2019 at 8:07 AM, tribefan695 said:

    Full soundtrack title list released, Kacey Musgraves and Panic! at the Disco also on it

    https://www.altpress.com/news/frozen-2-soundtrack-panic-at-the-disco-weezer/

     

    Wouldn't say the titles are all that spoilery, but use caution if you're sensitive 

     

     

    After listening to The Next Right Thing and hearing how beautifully somber it is, its placement in the film judging by the list is concerning...

     

    Into the Unknown sounds AWESOME though.

     

    EDIT: I just remembered how in the main trailer Elsa says "What would I do without you?" and Anna says "You'll always have me." It seems like usually when characters have a discussion like that, one of them dies or leaves... but they wouldn't have Elsa or anyone leave or die or anything, right?...

     

    ... Right?

     

    Then again after Frozen nearly had Anna die, Frozen 2 doesn't hate a rating yet, and Endgame had its big spoiler, I'm not so sure anymore...

  13. On 9/23/2019 at 9:13 AM, filmlover said:

    More cast members confirmed: Alfred Molina (the voice of the father), Martha Plimpton, Rachel Matthews, Jason Ritter.

     

    https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/frozen-trailer-anna-elsa-embark-journey-enchanted-forest-65790932

    Jason Ritter?! 

    ... I might just think of Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls when his character talks. XD

  14. 14 minutes ago, Snowman said:

    It's weird that some people still talking about gay and other stuff as if it isn't normal. At least are the new generation a bit more open minded.

    Whenever I see people say "being gay is a choice", I think "Okay, let's see you change your orientation from straight to gay and back right now."

     

    I think most of the time (if not all), religion is the driving force behind that opinion.

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  15. 14 hours ago, VenomXXR said:

     

    I held back from saying what I want to, so I don’t get banned. 

    Perhaps it’s better for you to use Google more often and BOT a bit less.

    I do agree most of the time, but Google wasn't giving me a lot of results tbh so I figured I'd ask here in case there were some Nordic history buffs.

     

    14 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

    Let them know there have been multiple gay monarchs before.  Reportedly, at one moment in time the King of England, The King of France and The Pope - all gay.

     

    And black people in European & Nordic lands who have interracial married. For example - General Abraham Petrovitch Gannibal -  (Russia's greatest poet) Alexander Pushkin's great grandfather

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal

     

     

     

    Cool, learned something new today! Thanks so much for the info and hopefully that will calm some people down. Also that guy has a crazy awesome name, just saying.

     

    13 hours ago, cdsacken said:

    Then don't watch it with them. Disney is inclusive. It's not made for bigots

    I suppose that's true. It is nice for people to have characters they identify with after all.

     

     

    On another note, is there any idea of when the next main trailer is coming out? I'm hyped for more news! Also do you think they'll release the full clip of Into the Unknown before the film's release, similar to how they did with Let It Go? ItU seems to be the movie's big song by the sound of it.

  16. 34 minutes ago, cookie said:

    I mean... we know next to nothing about Brown's character. He could be from a whole other kingdom as far as we know.

    That's what I'm thinking to be honest, or maybe he's a new staff hired by the kingdom.

     

    Hoping he doesn't turn out evil like Hans, he seems nice and the "twist villain" plot is really getting old now.

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