MrMarosa

What I love about this blind adoration and defense of the crappy BATB remake is that some people have actually taken away that I am somehow defending BvS!!! Nah. That would be awesome for the staunch BATBheads, because that way they could justify their calling me 'retard' and maybe even the 'troll' accusations, but I feel that both films —BATB 2017 and BVS— are equally bombastic, misguided, soulless spectacle. The difference is that BvS was the followup to an equally crappy film, while BATB2017 is the followup to a wonderful, beloved film that had more artistry, heart, and genuine soul in the fricking opening credits than the remake has in its entire runtime. Nostalgia is indeed a potent, common-sense-impairing drug.

I agree: 1991’s Beauty and the Beast was gloriously soulful. I am looking forward to GITS, but these clips make it look like an utterly mediocre carbon copy. :-( Sure, a great-looking, well-crafted copy, but soulless indeed.

Except for Major not talking in this clip version (and not breaking some of his limbs), it’a pretty much a shot-by-shot copy of the anime. Which can only mean one thing: GITS will be a box office smash. Being a soulless-yet-slavish replica of a classic animated narrative did not hurt BATB's box office one bit.

@baumer Box office acumen...so sad not to have it. I bet that is a highly marketable skill that tons of high-paying employers seek out. Anyway, good luck with your job search, Mr. Mod...your skills at predicting the BO for crappy blockbusters on an internet message board makes you special.

Box office acumen...so sad not to have it. I bet that is a highly marketable skill that tons of high-paying employers seek out. Anyway, good luck with your job search, Mr. Mod...your skills at predicting the BO for crappy blockbusters on an internet message board makes you special.

LOL Anyone who is not high on the OW fumes of a crappy CGI monstrosity like BATB is a troll? Great moderation skills there, bro. I am gonna laugh so hard at your defense of this POS film when it fails to do 500 m and you all start finding other excuses for it.

Yeah...less than 400 and with much better reviews. The whole if X did this, Y will surely do this is just a bad formula.

When this film, which is already, and unquestionably, a gigantic financial success (in spite of its being utterly mediocre), fails to gross 500 million, I will sit back and enjoy the excuses, backtracking, and scrambling for arguments to justify it. People are just high on the OW box office fumes and predicting crazy numbers. The OW has burned off demand and this ia no Star Wars. That Monday drop is far from spectacular (2 million less than BvS??).

Yeah...with a mainly fangirl-driven audience (if that is a bad thing for CW it is a bad thing for BATB, right?). You cant act as if a superhero film that makes a billion dollars is just fanboy driven, but then use a different and convenient criteria when ita a film you like.

Less than BvS’s first Monday and in line with CW’s first Monday. Buh-bye, 500 million. Even with the whole ”but its a family film!!!" thing, this ain’t making a whole lot more than 400.

There is no guarantees it will make 500 million. CA:CW opened higher and with MUCH better reviews, and still could not do it.

This will be slaughtered by Wonder Woman.

Remember Touchstone Pictures? Are they still around? I am old enough to remember when Disney’s Touchstone division was a solid performer releasing a steady stream od box office comedy hits from the likes of Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg. Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, etc. I remember the Touchstone logo always making me feel that I was about to have a great time. Anyone knows what happened to them?

So...how long before they announce a sequel? Come on...you know that Disney is pondering it as we speak...

LOL Good God...what have you done. Baumer???

The Marvel overlords are the real Skynet.

Emma Watson for Batgirl. Or...what’a a redhead (or reddish brunnette?) Marvel character that is not BW? The Inhumans’ Crystal? Hey, Squirrel Girl is badass!! Lol

This is a joke, right?

I actually LOVE the idea of Latifah as Ursula.

She chose this to be her first successful syarring vehicle?? That’s what Wrathofhan asked. You probably meant that she chose this to be the first big, major Hollywood blockbuster wannabe she signed on for post HP, right? She cannot control what succeeds and what does not, and any of her indie films could have been a surprise hit. We cannot be sure of that. This is her first truly successful post-HP solo venture because it is freaking Beauty and the Beast; let's not act as if she somehow compelled all this people to plunk down money to see her, when it has been quite evident for a while that nobody gave a shit about her in anything but HP. This success is all about the BATB property. Plus she has zero range and a limited emotional palette, acting-wise. Just watch as she goes back to mediocre indies that flop and the inevitable BATB sequel (that hopefully flops, because that would be even more pointless than this remake).

That's exactly the thought behind Futurist’s sarcastic comment. You don't think he was serious about Watson being a draw, do you?

Don't forget Zoe Saldaña, Kate Winslet, ans Bryce Dallaa Howard.

Just like I thought, people are already claiming that Watson is the aspect of this film that made it a smash. Evidently, her stellar record at the box office with non-HP films proves that it was not 26 years of pent-up nostalgia for a beloved classic what turned this remake into a monster; it was Emma's box office power, acting versatility, and —especially— her glorious singing.

There is a huge audience for racist propaganda, the Kardashians and cocaine; that don’t make those things right. I do believe there is a ton of wrong things with Disney’s princess crap, but like you said, different strokes for different folks. My dislike of it will not make it go away and it will not impede you from enjoying those stories.

So you are turned off by the stupidity of that scene in a movie series that is defined by stupidity, implausibility, and big bad robots engaging in destruction porn? Ok.