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2 minutes ago, Prince Eric said:
Since always. Mods are always biased and always have been. And if you don't like the idea that you're trying to deny the film's review bombing, which is 100% legitimate, and act like an annoying troll, then leave. I have very little patience for troublemakers these days.
Oh and btw, I always change my username every week? I'm going to get around to changing my avatar and name to a Spider-Verse character.
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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Anything less than $300 million is a disappointment.
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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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2 hours ago, filmlover said:
The group of people you're referring to was too busy wailing about an all-female Ghostbusters at the time. Try harder with the whataboutism. Next.
Which also had nothing to do with race and everything because of another change from the original thus proving my point yet again.
Weak deflection anyway though.
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49 minutes ago, filmlover said:
It's a good thing the average person doesn't sit around all day blasting a Disney remake of all things (or any movie, really) online when they're busy doing much more productive things than spreading bile without consequence while trying to hide behind usually revealing comments like "I'm not racist but" before continuing to make thinly-veiled racist statements.
You're literally proving my point.
Again all these "racists" complaining about Ariel not being white....where were they when The Jungle Book came out and was a huge success? Where was the backlash then?
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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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9 hours ago, filmlover said:
Cool. You're gonna have to find someone else to try and convince that Disney should be afraid of a small but loud and obnoxious minority who lack the self-awareness to realize they're the villains in the story (and should in no way feel validated in the first place because if one can't see how having a collective "oh the horror!" pity party over the race of a fictional cartoon mermaid - whose race is completely irrelevant to the character's identity in the original movie this is a remake of!
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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20 hours ago, filmlover said:
That sounds like a "them" problem. Next.
It'll become a Disney problem soon.
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9 minutes ago, excel1 said:
I could be wrong but I really think if they announced Michael B. Jordan as Bruce Wayne in the new DCU, there would be a TON of excitement.
There was a ton of backlash to his casting of Human Torch. There was backlash when he was merely rumoured to play the next Superman. He'd get a storm of backlash if he were to ever play Batman.
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24 minutes ago, excel1 said:
Remember all the people who avoided The Batman because Catwoman was black? Me neither.
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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1 hour ago, jedijake said:
If they liked Little Mermaid beforehand, I'd think that they'd all have known who was playing her. In other words, you showing them the trailer should not have been the first time they saw Halle. And I am sure they are all wonderful people, but I think your claim that they became uninterested based on Halle seems VERY suss, aka, not at all true.
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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So how likely with this $51 million or so opening is Creed 3 at surpassing Rocky 4's $125 million which has stood at the top of the franchise since 1985?
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Movie is gonna bomb hard. Several Disney fans I know who have loved most these live action remakes have no interest in this once they see who is playing Ariel.
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Any idea of what DBS is at there now?
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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.
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How is Dragon Ball expected to perform there compared to how One Piece did?
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6 minutes ago, MG10 said:
Dragon Ball Super Hero had a 860k euros debut in Italy, with 120k admissions (link)
What did Broly do in comparison?
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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.
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Was that meant to be $1.72 million for Colombia then?
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Any update for this week?
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Any word on what Dragon Ball is at?
The Flash | June 16 2023 | Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton | We’re stoping the count at a Nice 69% RT (it’s 72% For Real) | Please Remember that Your Enjoyment Of The Film is Not Based On Others Opinions And To Be Nice To Each Other
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It's largely this Ezra's fault. He completely screwed over the movie with his antics.
Maybe they should have replaced him after all.