Aladdin live action movie | 24 MAY 2019 | Disney | 7th most profitable movie of 2019. Disney does it again!

[Alli]

Maleficent was so bland, but casting AJ was perfect. Casting doesn't seem to be the problem with these live action remakes.  From what ive read will smith does a commendable job here

Edited May 22, 2019 by Alli

[YM!]

1 minute ago, I Am said:

I see what you did there.

[Deja23]

14 minutes ago, I Am said:

I hope this movie bombs, and (I'm so sorry, Jon Favreau) I hope "The Lion King" does too, so Disney reconsiders destroying "Mulan," "The Little Mermaid," and whatever else is in the pipeline.

Dislike the remakes all you want, but how are they destroying the originals? I truly don’t get the argument that the remakes make the originals worse. If it’s something you loved then, you’re still allowed to love it. It’s not like it’s a sequel that affects what was shown in the original.

Edited May 22, 2019 by Deja23

[dxmatrixdt]

are we signing up/paying to see a real movie here or just a simulation of a movie?  if they release more then one version, do we know about it?

Edited May 22, 2019 by Clubs Are Trash

[jedijake]

Disney really can't seem to push out a live action non-Marvel film that is, well, good....at least not in the past 2 years. At least not anything that can make an 80%.

 

Those who say they want Disney remakes to fail ( as well as their other live actions) remember, that only leaves Marvel, SW, and Pixar. Before buying SW and Marvel, Disney was putting 1-3 films out per year with 1 of them being animated. The others nobody heard of (except for the years they had POTC films).

Edited May 22, 2019 by jedijake

[YM!]

1 minute ago, Alli said:

Maleficent was so bland, but casting AJ was perfect. Casting doesn't seem to be the problem with these live action remakes.  From what ive read will smith does a commendable job here

The problem like most of Disney remakes and other films trying to cash in on the past; IDR, Pikachu, likely Ghostbusters 3, and many of these upcoming reboot sequels is that nostalgia only gets you so far, critically I’m speaking.

 

Not to mention the charm from animation tends to leave in favor for live action treatment due to limits of realism.

[Porthos]

13 minutes ago, Ithil said:

A lesson you must learn

 

You know, I want to take a little bit of issue with this.

 

First off, I think (nearly) EVERY SINGLE PERSON who was commenting last night used the word "if" or words similar to it.  We've been on this rodeo enough to not take those post-premiere comments as gospel.  But we had to react to the info given to us last night and just ignoring it completely or saying mealy-mouthed "well it's premiere buzz so irrelevant" is BOOOOOOORING.  

 

And, logically, if one really believes that, there'd be no comments.  It's part of buzz.  We react to it.  That's part of this whole reason to this forum. That the buzz may not be the final word is, frankly, irrelevant.

 

On the other hand, I do think it shows that there are a lot of people on this thread who wanted this film to do well.  There is in fact a pretty deep well of good-will to the property here that was perhaps bordering on wish casting that seized upon it a bit more than they should have, I'd go along with that.  

 

And, at the same time, laughing at a mega corp potentially fucking up a marketing strategy is never ever ever unpopular.

 

But jump the gun?  Nah.  We had buzz, it looked like it might reset the narrative.  Of course we'll react to it.

 

Frankly, we'd be remiss not to.  Just like we're reacting to this stage of buzz.

 

(gets off soap box, gets ready to head to TROS thread)

[MovieMan89]

I will say the Cinderella one was surprisingly well done. Managed to capture what makes the animated one a classic while still doing some new things that actually made sense and worked well. And yet it's one of their worst performing commercially of all these, so go figure. 

Edited May 22, 2019 by MovieMan89

[YM!]

As for the Disney remakes, I’ve lost much of my anger as outside of Mulan, LAS and TLM, from 2020 onward, nothing else will make the big numbers that TJB, BATB or even TLK will make and even the former two are iffy.

 

The 2000-2009 catergory isn’t big enough for a remake. And Disney won’t do live action Frozen or the 2010s lineup until the late 2030s as I imagine a Frozen 3 and 4 will happen.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, YourMother the Edgelord said:

As for the Disney remakes, I’ve lost much of my anger as outside of Mulan, LAS and TLM, from 2020 onward, nothing else will make the big numbers that TJB, BATB or even TLK will make and even the former two are iffy.

Wait until the live-action Pixar remakes start coming.

[Rorschach]

I can tell the weekend thread is gonna be pleasant.

[TMP]

1 minute ago, Rorschach said:

I can tell the weekend thread is gonna be pleasant.

Yeah.

[MagnarTheGreat]

Here's Disney release's RT scores from beginning of 2015 through the present:

 

Spoiler

Disney movie (2015-2019)	RT Critics %		RT Critics Rating	RT User %		RT User Ratings	User minus Critics %	User minus Critics
Aladdin		57%	5.8		89%	8.8	32%	3.0
Avengers: Endgame		95%	8.3		89%	9.0	-6%	0.7
Disneynature: Penguins		91%	7.1		78%	7.8	-13%	0.7
Dumbo		47%	5.6		54%	6.6	7%	1.0
Captain Marvel		78%	6.8		55%	6.4	-23%	-0.4
Mary Poppins Returns		79%	7.3		67%	7.4	-12%	0.1
Ralph Breaks the Internet		89%	7.3		65%	7.0	-24%	-0.3
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms		32%	5.1		34%	5.2	2%	0.1
Disney’s Christopher Robin		72%	6.2		85%	8.4	13%	2.2
Ant-Man and the Wasp		88%	7.0		78%	7.6	-10%	0.6
Incredibles 2		94%	7.9		86%	8.4	-8%	0.5
Solo: A Star Wars Story		70%	6.4		64%	7.0	-6%	0.6
Avengers: Infinity War		84%	7.5		91%	9.0	7%	1.5
A Wrinkle In Time		42%	5.3		28%	4.6	-14%	-0.7
Black Panther		97%	8.2		79%	8.2	-18%	0.0
Star Wars: The Last Jedi		91%	8.1		45%	5.6	-46%	-2.5
Coco		97%	8.3		94%	9.0	-3%	0.7
Thor: Ragnarok		92%	7.5		87%	8.4	-5%	0.9
Cars 3		69%	6.1		70%	7.4	1%	1.3
PotC: Dead Men Tell No Tales		29%	4.7		61%	7.0	32%	2.3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2		83%	7.2		87%	8.4	4%	1.2
Born in China		83%	7.0		74%	7.6	-9%	0.6
Beauty and the Beast (2017)		71%	6.7		80%	8.0	9%	1.3
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story		84%	7.5		86%	8.4	2%	0.9
Moana		95%	7.9		89%	8.4	-6%	0.5
Doctor Strange		89%	7.3		86%	8.2	-3%	0.9
Queen of Katwe		93%	7.4		87%	8.2	-6%	0.8
The Light Between Oceans		61%	6.2		61%	7.0	0%	0.8
Pete's Dragon (2016)		88%	7.3		72%	7.4	-16%	0.1
The BFG		75%	6.8		57%	6.8	-18%	0.0
Finding Dory		94%	7.6		84%	8.2	-10%	0.6
Alice Through the Looking Glass		30%	4.6		48%	6.4	18%	1.8
Captain America: Civil War		91%	7.7		89%	8.6	-2%	0.9
The Jungle Book (2016)		95%	7.7		86%	8.2	-9%	0.5
Zootopia		97%	8.0		92%	8.8	-5%	0.8
The Finest Hours		64%	6.1		66%	7.2	2%	1.1
Star Wars: The Force Awakens		93%	8.2		87%	8.6	-6%	0.4
The Good Dinosaur		76%	6.6		65%	7.2	-11%	0.6
Bridge of Spies		91%	7.7		87%	8.0	-4%	0.3
Ant-Man		82%	6.9		86%	8.0	4%	1.1
Inside Out		98%	8.9		89%	8.6	-9%	-0.3
Tomorrowland		50%	5.9		49%	6.6	-1%	0.7
Avengers: Age of Ultron		75%	6.7		83%	8.0	8%	1.3
Monkey Kingdom		92%	7.3		76%	7.8	-16%	0.5
Cinderella (2015)		84%	7.1		78%	7.8	-6%	0.7
McFarland, USA		80%	6.7		88%	8.4	8%	1.7
Strange Magic		17%	3.9		51%	6.6	34%	2.7
average (all)		77%	6.9		74%	7.7	-3%	0.7
average (Marvel Studios)		87%	7.4		83%	8.2	-4%	0.8
average (Lucasfilm)		71%	6.8		67%	7.2	-4%	0.4
average (Disney Animation Studios)		94%	7.7		82%	8.1	-12%	0.3
average (Pixar)		88%	7.6		81%	8.1	-7%	0.6
average (other)		68%	6.4		68%	7.3	0%	0.9
% of fresh (>=60%) rated films		83% (39/47)			81% (38/47)

 

Data current as of December 20, 2018; The Nutcracker and the Four Realms through Aladdin data current as of May 26, 2019.

 

Edited May 26, 2019 by MagnarTheGreat
update May 26 AM

[Yandereprime101189]

Ah, I remember the days when a summer movie was rotten but opened with 100+ million.

 

This could very well be one of them.

[Mulder]

@Rorschach and @TMP having matching icons gives me life.

[YM!]

Just now, filmlover said:

Wait until the live-action Pixar remakes start coming.

Pixar won’t work in live action (live action Ratatouille and Cars would be too creepy, Toy Story, Nemo, Monsters and Incredibles would likely be too soon and not until 2030s, Up and Wall-E could work but again not until early 2030s/late 2020s) unlike Disney Animation movies and I’d imagine the people at Pixar would be much less gung-ho about remakes. 

 

I thank the people at Pixar for going sequel crazy these past few years to keep up relevancy as they’ve prevent subpar live action remakes... for now.

[I Am]

5 minutes ago, Alli said:

Maleficent was so bland, but casting AJ was perfect. Casting doesn't seem to be the problem with these live action remakes.  From what ive read will smith does a commendable job here

She was fantastic. I'm sure she'll be very good in the second one, but I'm not spending anymore money on Disney remakes, so I'll wait for it to come to Disney+ or whatever.

 

To me, Will was the obvious choice to follow up Robin Williams, but I'm so sad that the quality of the film as a whole doesn't seem to match the effort he apparently put into portraying the character. I wasn't too disturbed by his musical renditions on the soundtrack, because they were at least different in a good way and played to his strengths - knowing you can't just suck up the originals and crap them out forgettable 2019 pop song-style like "Speechless" and the new "A Whole New World."

[jedijake]

Mulan is already coming. That's set in stone. TLM is in early production. With Aladdin going where it's heading, I'm sure there will be discussion about what to do with TLM and whether to release it on the big screen or on Disney +. I assume they will still push it to the big screen for better or worse but then can it at that. Everything else will go to Disney + where it can avoid so much scrutiny and box office questions.

 

TLK will probably do well, but there may be some burnout and fall out from Aladdin and others so it may not reach what some may think it will. And whatever it does, it's too late to call its success a revitalization of Disney live actions. Too many have failed already for it to suddenly turn around because of 1 movie.

[JGAR4LIFE]

5 minutes ago, Yandereprime101189 said:

Ah, I remember the days when a summer movie was rotten but opened with 100+ million.

 

This could very well be one of them.

Definitely this.

 

The name Aladdin will attract numbers higher than $80M.

[I Am]

14 minutes ago, jedijake said:

Those who say they want Disney remakes to fail ( as well as their other live actions) remember, that only leaves Marvel, SW, and Pixar. Before buying SW and Marvel, Disney was putting 1-3 films out per year with 1 of them being animated. The others nobody heard of (except for the years they had POTC films).

I read somewhere, it might have been here, that very few people would accept a book author or singer rewriting and "updating" their classic material due to lack of creativity, so why do we accept it from movie production studios...