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I didn't ask for your life story. I never confirmed or denied that there was or was not any review bombing going on. I merely pointed out the fact that IMDb changed their rules to give the movie a higher score and it has a 50% on Google.
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Apparently the mod with The Little Mermaid avatar, a Prince Eric, gave me some warning for a "trolling attack" because pointing out the fact that the movie isn't scoring well on IMDb and Google is a problem now. Since when did this site have biased mods in charge?
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What's this looking to end with now?
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I'll add though that most of this backlash isn't really about racism. Everyone knows that people are fragile as glass now and any kind of criticism towards something like this and now you're a racist because that's always going to be the easy copout excuse for people. But nobody complained about the live action The Jungle Book, it was very successful and well liked. Nobody was complaining about Mulan for having a Chinese lead. Moana of course was very successful though that wasn't live action. The backlash rather obviously is that they have unnecessarily changed the appearance of an iconic character for the remake. People don't like that. Just like they didn't like how Be Prepared was different in The Lion King or that Mushu wasn't in the remake. If Sebastian was no longer a lobster but a different creature altogether then people would hate that. If they changed the songs then people would hate that. People don't want change like that, not when remaking a classic, people want things to be the same as what they remembered fondly as a kid. When you also take into account that it's obvious why this has been done in the first place because it keeps happening now then that's why there's backlash. They kept things pretty much the same for The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast, it sound and looked like it should and it was hugely successful. That was all they had to do here as well.
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Can't be that small when the trailer has over 1.3 million dislikes and every single comment is taking the piss and that's just the YouTube video. On Twitter it's got 600,000 likes to 3 million dislikes. Still everyone always makes that tired argument of which the counter argument will always be the same. If her race is so irrelevant then why not just keep the character white? It's clearly relevant enough that the fictional cartoon mermaid still had red hair, a purple seashell bra and a green fin. It is going to flop.
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Catwoman was already portrayed by a black actress as far back as the Batman 60s show. She's been black in comics and the 2004 Catwoman movie. More importantly though, she's not Batman. Nobody is going to see The Batman for Catwoman. She's just a supporting character, she isn't the star like what Ariel is. Now when they do the same to Batman himself, then watch the same thing happen.
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Believe what you will but it's the exact truth. As I said, these people aren't like us who dwell on the internet, who are movie fanatics who spend time and interest in such things. Not only did they not know who was playing Ariel, they didn't even know they were making another The Little Mermaid movie to begin with. And as soon as they saw Ariel they all made some kind of comment on it. "Is that meant to be Ariel?", "Why is Ariel black now", "Whose that meant to be" etc. All interest was lost. It ain't no surprise. The cartoon is old but well known and remembered fondly. When you see a live action trailer and remake for such a movie to see that the main character looks nothing like the original then you do lose interest because it's not familiar with what you liked in the first place. And of course people are becoming increasingly aware that this kind of thing is being done more and more and people are just getting tired of it all the time.
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Ive showed 5 people the trailer for this movie, my parents, my girlfriend, my girlfriends friend and a coworker. None of which are hardcore movie fans like myself or most people here. None of which have any disdain towards live action Disney Remakes as you see so often on the internet. And they all had the same reaction, the exact same, interest when they know there's a The Little Mermaid remake being done which then just disappears completely when they see who is playing Ariel. All of them just wondered....why is Ariel black? By the end of the trailer they just aren't interested anymore. These aren't racists or the type you'd find in the YouTube comments or on movie forums, just casual movie people. The dislikes on YouTube don't surprise me at all. I think they've made a tremendous mistake with this. It's got a very good chance at flopping and you already know the excuses they'll make but really all they had to do was make Ariel look like Ariel. They've done the same mistake with this new Peter Pan. And Disney won't learn.
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What are this movies chances of topping Rocky 4 worldwide?
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Any idea of what DBS is at there now?
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero International Thread
scabab replied to charlie Jatinder's topic in International Box Office
I can see it getting to like $94 million. There's been no China release confirmed yet but it looks like it will just miss out on $100 million even with it. -
How is Dragon Ball expected to perform there compared to how One Piece did?
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero International Thread
scabab replied to charlie Jatinder's topic in International Box Office
What did Broly do in comparison? -
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero International Thread
scabab replied to charlie Jatinder's topic in International Box Office
BOM updated the total by adding on $1.3 million from where it was at two weekends ago. I'm guessing the $1.3 million was just this weekends gross. Does anyone know if an overall figure has been given? I can't find anything. -
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero International Thread
scabab replied to charlie Jatinder's topic in International Box Office
Was that meant to be $1.72 million for Colombia then? -
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero International Thread
scabab replied to charlie Jatinder's topic in International Box Office
Any update for this week?