The Lion King Remake: Disney's Biggest Mistake
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Lion King 2019 in this day and age is a stark reminder of how far a studio is willing to fall from it's core ideals, and no more than ever needs to reminded of what needs to be done to change things, as it can never die out.
the fact that I COMPLETELY forgot the live action Lion King exists speaks volumes 💀
Yes! It does
its the higest grossing animated movie (shut up i know what youre going to say) and we just forgor
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Consider yourself blessed. I wish I could forget it.
The weirdest thing about this movie is that it drags and adds enough scenes to make it half an hour longer than the original, but all the genuinely meaningful scenes from the original (like Simba and Nala's reunion) are either rushed through like footnotes, or they're omitted entirely.
If they had enough time to give half-baked subplots to Nala and Sarabi, as well as prolonged sequences revolving around a mouse and a literal piece of shit, why didn't they have room for Rafiki's "the past can hurt" line which literally sums up the entire message of the story?!
They _really_ didn't have their priorities in order here.
That is a pattern for a lot of the Live Action Remakes, which compounds how soulless and unnecessary they are. Often they only really work if you have already seen the original, but if you have, you'll know how inferior these are.
No cuz when I was watching this movie me and my brother legit skipped the beginning, cuz it’s literally just a stupid fucking mouse that appears for 1 scene in the original movie, why does it need focus, this movie is so stupid AAAAAA
I did like the fact that they added some new scenes and dialogues, differentiate it from the original movie since it is a remake, but still something went wrong I think, and some scenes were rushed up also because of that, if it had been written and organized better maybe
I'd argue that this film isn't Disney's biggest mistake. That comes later this year with the unnecessary sequel where they make Mufasa a villain and make Scar a sympathetic character.
If they are doing that in the Mufasa film, I will be peeved to say the least. Most of Disney “live action” movies are garbage except Cinderella. At this point, I don’t know how the prequel will go.
I'd imagined it'll be the equivalent of Pinocchio live action: instead of Pinocchio learning right and wrong through trail and error and listening to Jimminy Cricket, he's perfectly responsible, reasonable, and doesn't need him at all.
The whole "Hamlet" plot gets thrown out the window, huh?
You're missing the point. Lion King remake is the catalyst. The jungle book was good but Lion King revealed their true colors and ego
My biggest beef with the Mufasa trailer is that they put lions in a climate that in reality would be physically impossible to survive for a wild African Lion pride.
Lions can’t survive snow and ice in reality they don’t live where it gets that cold in Africa. It’s the mountain range that normally gets snow and ice it’s rare but Lions don’t live where it happens their fur is adapted to the heat freezing temperatures would kill a full grown adult even cubs can’t survive that either.
Disney didn’t do their homework their going for realism but can’t even get the climate right
Mufasa: "Remember who you are."
Lion King Remake: "Nah. We're going to be soulless and decimate your character in a prequel!"
One thing that I love is that everytime I look at videos about the flaws of this remake, my own pet cat comes up to me expressing way more emotion then these fake animals where they got rid of the human expressions but didn’t replace them with actual animal emotions.
It's actually mind-blowing how they managed to make a movie about some of the most visually expressive animals there is, look at any footage of lions socializing and you'll see the wide range of facial expressions they have as well as all of the body language they display even without their face or vocalization, and somehow made them boring and as expressive as rocks.
I really don't get how you can fumble so badly
@@sephikong8323 that’s the thing that really pisses me off here. They wanted to make it look documentary and supposedly “nice clear days are too lucky” but they just IGNORE that lions are social creatures and thus very expressive.
@@sephikong8323I don’t find lions expressive *in the same way that humans are* at all. They don’t have eyebrows per se, which makes a big difference to body language. Their expressions are more in terms of things like the way their ears twitch, how their noses wiggle, etc.-which the 2019 movie actually *does* capture to a large extent.
Nonetheless, I agree with you on the whole-but for a more basic reason: Making the characters video-realistic robbed them of the charm they had in the original movie, since they don’t have the same facial features that the cartoon characters did. Again, EYEBROWS make all the difference!!!
@WestIndianAK Well, of course they don't have the same facial expression as humans, but if you've ever spent any times actually watching felines and their body language, you'd see that they indeed have some wide range of expression, and no, the movie does not do it justice in the slightest, even the ear twitches are like the bare minimum, and that's putting it lightly. Even if they wanted to make the movie like a documentary (stupid idea still), they could still have made the lions expressive, because lions are very expressive animals if you look at them how they should be looked at (if you're looking for human expressions you will walk away thoroughly unimpressed, because that would be like looking at a tree and deciding that nothing interesting happens on a tree because you didn't see it move and didn't bother to look at anything happening in the canopy or root system), they simply decided to not do it, probably because the director thought that "photo realistic = mature = boring" or something
@@WestIndianAK nobody said that they express it in the same way as humans. It’s cause they don’t have the facial muscles. But they have the body language, the ears, etc. honestly, this COULD have been done to show how lions and other big cats actually DO show emotions, like hard stares, slow blinks, etc. they don’t even have Simba lower his ears or arch his back when seeing the wildebeests charging at him, I don’t believe.
When I first learned of this live action remake, I was obviously very disappointed.
The Lion King is one of my top childhood favorites, it was just fine and had no need for a remake like this.
I remember seeing this “remake” in theaters. Most boring experience I’ve had.
Me too. This live action should've been a box office flop instead.
@@vincenthoule5643Whose fault was that tho?
@@tonatiuhnino3711 It was bob iger's fault. We need a live action action remake of atlsntis the lost empire instead of poppular classic disney movies.
Unfortunately I saw it in theaters. Wish I could’ve seen the original on the screen instead since it’s one of those animated films where its grand and epic scope really comes across effectively on the big screen.
I brought it on DVD and I was really disappointed 😞☹️I brought The Jungle Book Live Action temake and it really Good 😊👍
James Earl Jones sounds like he’s just there to collect a paycheck in this remake. Also how does Aslan look so much better 20 years ago than these lions do in 2019?
Yeah he didn’t sound he was invested in it like everyone else. They all sounded so different from the original characters. The worst voice was Timon, I can’t stand the Hakuna Matata.
James Earl Jones was almost 90 when he recorded these lines again and most of his lines are from the original, so it makes the difference much more noticeable. It’s not his fault he doesn’t sound the same he did 30 years ago. He sadly just didn’t have the same power behind his voice anymore. If he had been Simba’s grandfather or just a Great King of the Past, he would’ve fit fine. But as a first time father who has to be sad, angry, scared, etc? He just didn’t have the energy in him anymore.
Jones is also (knocks on wood) in his sunset years so I don’t think money was really his motivation. Even in 1994 he respected the art of voice acting and even came back to re-record a line for the video game for free even though he was the highest sought voice actor in Hollywood.
I think the idea of Jones being back to voice Mufasa is a good concept. “One foot in the future, one in the past.” The Lion King is about legacy and passing the torch. But sadly if they were gonna do it it should’ve been like five-ten years earlier when Jones sounded stronger.
My mom forgot that she took me to the theater to see the remake. That is just how forgettable it is, despite being a beat-for-beat remake of the original with nearly nothing new added.
yeah I honestly forgot this existed until today
and my mom took me to see it and I had no idea that were making this film at that time
Seriously. Did anyone ask for a Live Action remake?
if studios asked which movies we need, 80% of released projects hadn't been made😄
@@redbearddan2000Wrong. Because studios who are in more touch with the public should know what people want. Nobody wanted any of Disney's live action remakes, which shows Disney lost their touch.
Let alone a Prequel in live action?
No but people got interested
@@vetarlittorf1807You're wrong. Many people wanted a lion king Remake when the remakes were good
If there was a list of every mistake Disney has made in the history of their existence, this would be high in the top 5. The very idea of a live action Lion King is not only stupid to the core, but it feels like a massive spit in the face to everyone who loves the original and traditional animation as a whole. At least with the other live action remakes (regardless of their quality), there was SOME form of justification for their existence. Lion King 2019 has none of that. It's nothing more than just a blatant technology flex that screams "hey look, I'm a classic disney movie but with advanced graphics. give us your money!!!". Whoever at Disney's boardroom approved this abomination should've been fired from the company.
Making this remake the highest grossing animated film ever is baffling and Disney won’t admit it. They are out of touch of their audience
Hopefully Inside Out 2 would kick that remake's ass.
This remake should've included Broadway musical songs.
My 10 year old son said "I wish the new Mufasa movie was like.. a cartoon"
This original was made to tell a story. This one was made to appease shareholders and play on nostalgia. The problem with Mufasa will be that there is no nostalgia for it since it's a new story, and the live action trend is played out. So we are going to get the sequel to a soulless copy of a masterpiece, and I do NOT think the shareholders will be happy if it bombs (which I suspect it will).
I cant even tell who is who! The lions all look the same!
Agree. Examples of instances in this live-action remake where O literally cannot tell who is who among the lions:
1. Cub Simba and Cub Nala in the same scene.
2. Any scenes with the lionesses together in the same scene, whether it is adult Nala, Sarabi or Sarafina.
3. Mufasa and Scar in the same scene.
4. Adult Simba and Scar at the ending.
Epic fail indeed 🤦🤦♀️🤦♂️
Favreau said during the extra scenes at Pride Rock, he had Nala and Sarabi frequently address each other by name to help audiences tell them apart. Like “we have to do something Sarabi”, “Nala come over here”. Smh
Here’s a fun story: While my mom and I were driving back from seeing the remake in theaters, I pointed out to her how the film was barely different from the original and her reply was “she heard Jon Favreau say he loved the original so much he didn’t really want to change it that much”. Thinking back on it 5 years later, it makes me wonder if Jon Favreau thought the original was perfect, why even remake it in the first place?
Yeah I wonder where that came from. You can tell Jon Favreau definitely loved the Jungle Book, since he talked about growing up with it a lot and Was a child of the 80s, and that movies lifts so much from the original AND the books and so many other obscure pieces of Jungle Book media that you can tell this is somebody that really really loved it
...I do NOT get that impression with Lion King. Lion King is very transparently Disney dangling the Star Wars shows that he actually wants to make over Jon Favreau's head
The worst part was turning Shenzi serious and militaristic and stripping her of any sort of humor or personality. In the original, she was silly, snarky and bantered with the others a lot, but she was also legitimately dangerous when she wanted to be and was clearly the leader in charge.
God...James Earl Jones sounds like the life was sucked out of him in the live action
Don’t blame him. He’s literally saying the same lines 25 years later. I’d be bored as well.
Not to mention he was also MUCH older. Back when the original movie was in production he was already in his 60s. 25 years later, he was well in his late 80s.
@hunterolaughlin Oh no I don't blame him at all, but this kind of is proof they shouldn't have even bothered making a live action. Let the VAs chill lol
@@torytellstales I like the idea of him coming back for a remake since the story is about legacy and passing the torch, but sadly Jones was too old to play a character who has to be basically an action hero dad, getting scared, angry, etc. And it doesn’t help that most of his lines are the same so the difference is very palpable.
The only good live action remake is Cinderella.
I like malificent personnally. But, I agree
The Jungle Book was Good as Well!
Christopher Robin was pretty good too, pretty underrated in my eyes
I liked Alice in Wonderland personally, but I also agree with this.
I watched the original on my vhs until the tape started to get bad. I watched the remake one time on the streaming and then took him off my playlist. 😂😂😂
"One of the first things you gotta remember about Disney World is to pace yourself."
I think this probably was one of the most damaging movies for Disney. Its success hurt Disney more than it had helped. Many people were disappointed after the movie and I see only little praise for it. Also it gave Disney the false impression that people actually want these hyper realistic animals. I mean the animal characters in the little mermaid remake were a result of it.
Why have Peter Jackson’s movies from the 2000s aged so well compared to… this?!
Even his King Kong had more emotional expressions on his face than the animals in this remake and no part thanks to the mo-cap performance from the King of Mo-Cap himself Andy Serkis.
@@hunterolaughlin in addition to what I said: Pixar made an entire movie about robots that had more emotion in one minute than anything in the two hours of the TLK remake.
The fact Disney now days has not only forsaken 2D animation an medium that brought company and studio to begin with through the first theatrical animated film in history Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but now they tend to remake live action versions of classic animated just milk it and capitalize success and popularity of animated movies while butchering many things of what made original animated movies special unique beloved and memorable in first place in fact they tend do live action remake not just for moneys but to reinforced that animation as medium are for kids only nonsense which is all common but damaging stereotype misconception and lies that detrimental to art form entertainment and medium as whole
Look at the people Disney hire for these gigs and projects. They hate the original and think they can outdo what came before with live action cash grabs. Rachel Ziegler in particular amplifies everything wrong with live action remakes.
@hattanalshutaifi4587
yes true, but for goodness sake, please use some punctuation at least😅
no offense
Rango is evidence that they could’ve used that middle ground, but they chose not to.
To this day I'm astonished by how well the visuals in Rango have held up, the textures are stunning
This remake was godawful.
I actually watched this movie dubbed in my native language, and it was kind of weird since it felt like they just took the sound from the first movie, and put it into the new one.
It literally felt like I was watching one movie while listening to another.
Rafiki: Yes... past can hurt... But the way I see it, you can either run from it.. or LEARN from it
Disney: Nah, remakes 😎
Other than maybe a few racist moments in their old movies, what could possibly be so hurtful about Disney's past?
@@vetarlittorf1807Well there is Jeffrey Katzenberg’s stint as chairman of the Walt Disney Company in which he was known to meddle with some of their animated films like trying to edit out any dark moments from The Black Cauldron by himself, nearly cutting out “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid just because of a response from a test audience of kids, pulling all advertising for The Rescuers Down Under when it didn’t do well in its opening weekend and pushing for Pixar to add “more edge” to Toy Story which led to the disastrous and infamous Black Friday screening and nearly resulted in not just the film getting cancelled but the premature death of 3D animation as an animation medium. Need I mention how he treated the original Lion King as some sort of “unimportant talking animal flick” and Pocahontas as “their next Best Picture nominee”? Plus, the first half of the 2000s decade where their 2D animated films were bombing due to audiences becoming more interested in 3D animated films and killing the medium’s profitability at the American box-office with Home on the Range and their disastrous first attempt at making computer animated films with Chicken Little.
@@hunterolaughlinKatzenberg had nothing to do with the decline of Disney's 2D department. At least not directly. Disney had been wanting to go 3D for years and they deliberately sabotaged their 2D movies in the 2000's. Either by releasing them against highly anticipated movies like LOTR, Harry Potter, Spider-Man and Avatar or screwing with the artists and writers.
I'd argue, that the biggest failure from this movie, is the fact that it changed characters yet the creators were more keen on trying to be all focused about how it's a shot-for-shot remake.
From changing Nala from being just as rebellious as Simba is when she was a kid, to making her act very responsible as a child. To Scar and the hyenas losing their intimidating force behind them. And Rafiki not even really giving much of a lesson for Simba about the importance of learning from the past.
To anyone who considers remaking movies or adapting anything to the screen, let me tell you this:
You CANNOT change character, YET keep the same plot events, and expect your story to PLAY OUT THE SAME.
CHARACTER IS STORY.
The fact 'realistic' Mufasa fought WHOLE BIG GROUP of hyenas and still made it without scratch when at the very least he should have been slightly bitten
Photorealistic / live action remakes of animated films feel like an excuse to exploit our nostalgia and erase the past in favor of current trends that feel obligated to fulfill one’s selfish desire. Sean Bailey was behind the live action remakes. His recent failures post-pandemic critically and commercially like Haunted Mansion and those live action remakes of Pinocchio, Peter Pan & Wendy, etc. were enough (including interference from leadership) that led to him to step down and to be replaced by the headlight of Searchlight who might change things up.
There's a reason why certain films/scenes are best left to be animated then they are trying to feature "realistic" animals. With animation you can make as many expressions with the animals as much as you can to make it believable while still keeping them going about no differently than how your told and shown how they move about and fight in the wilds.
When certain films around early to mid of 2000, folks would experiment on featuring live trained animals at command to make them move around the film set while having editors giving certain animals an expression/lip movement.
This film is nothing but a false advertisement of calling itself live action when barely any of it is even live to begin with. It doesn't help that they admit behind the scenes that all of this was a giant simulation sand box, with virtual animals being no different to the questionable robotic animated that is BBC's take on Watership Down. Rafiki is someone you like seeing with all of his expressions and how he goes about with what little screen time he had in the original animated film. In the 2019 film, I see an expressionless baboon that doesn't tell me he's happy, I just see a baboon who could tear me limb from limb if I turn my back.
This film is a reminder of how so bad it is with it's fake realism that between Junglebook and Narnia the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, does the animal expression 10 times better than whatever the heck the director wasn't thinking when it comes to his VR make-belief that he can direct a film such as this.
I made the mistake seeing the live action reboot in theatres, it was solely for Beyonce, Seth Rogen, Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones. I instantly realised my mistake that I ran home to cleanse myself with the OG which stands SUPERIOR and nobody will ever, EVER, *EVeŔ* top that!
Me too I did the same mistake and I won't watch the live action prequel lion ling.
Wait a minute, Morgan Freeman wasn’t in the film.
@@hunterolaughlin He voiced Rafiki in the reboot
@@ryanappleton3653 That wasn’t Morgan Freeman, that was John Kani.
@@hunterolaughlinwhich I’ll give them props, John Kani is a great pick for Rafiki. I kinda wish they’d cast Lebo M as Rafiki so he could’ve sung He Lives In You in the film.
(The credits cover of the song is AMAZING)
I mean African Cats already existed by this time since 2011. But what if they used actual animatronic slightly creepy puppetry filmmakers used in the pre-CG era like Jim Henson's Creature Shop? Or it's Broadway theatrical version?
Well, The Lion King remake is different to the animated version, that's it. The Lion King 1994 is unmatched, besides a remake is a remake, not the same as the original movie, it could have been better if the animals had been more expressive. The animated sequels are what is not bad
I always thought it was funny that they call it "Live action" when it is not "live action".
The original Lion King is much better I saw the remake in theaters and I was very disappointed it’s borderline unwatchable original movies are much better for parents to introduce their kids to as they watched the older Disney movies when they were kids 👎
The 2019 dr Doolittle is superior to the lion king remake because it knew how to give photorealistic talking animals human like expressions.
And because it actually had an interesting story, good lessons, and good acting. Also, Robert Downey Jr.
Also Narnia. I swear, everyone came back to that movie just to see a CGI talking lion make more of an emotional impact 😂
No, no, no, let’s not get crazy now. Dr Doolittle is still bad regardless of the animal’s expressions. I will not stand for revisionism on that pile of trash.
@@Depth217 I respectfully disagree
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All of Disney’s live actions are a mistake.
Except Christopher Robin.
I just am still bothered by the lack of emotion. Looking at any clips of the original, you can just see how expressive and animated the animals are, theatrical almost. It made the movie fun. Making it all too realistic was the mistake. Because obviously you can’t have the realistic hyenas dancing around like in Be Prepared. It would just look odd. However, that takes away from the charm of the original. I admit I might just be overly critical though with The Lion King genuinely being one of my favorite Disney movies in my childhood.
I feel like Disney has made a LOT of "Biggest Mistakes."
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They should of had a new person play Mufasa.
Yes is a big iconic role but in the 2019 cgi remake he just sounds exhausted
Mufasa looks worse
Real lions can’t survive in snow and ice ( I looked it up Lions don’t live in the area of Africa where it gets cold enough for snow their fur is adapted to the humid and heat of Africa unless they are in a zoo a lion can’t survive colder weather )
I thought Africa's snow only existed in mountains.
Well real lions also can't survive only eating grubs and stuff like that. Yet we have Simba xD
Seriously it's just a movie. This feels like nitpicking. I'm honestly glad they're giving us new environments instead of the Pride Lands over and over again
@Vadigrie it's not a problem with the animation cause there's already a certain suspension of disbelief. The "live action" version markets itself as real so issues like that become more noticeable and subject to criticism
@@Mal-go5dl The "live action" markets itself real in terms of looks. But not really in animal behaviour. I mean we're talking about talking (lol) animals here who kinda act like humans in both the original and remake version. There's a big difference for me.
We don’t know that the lions are LIVING there, they could just be passing through. Novelization blurb also says there’s a journey.
Disney literally owns the rights to the Muppets, so why wouldn't they have made a Muppets Lion King?
A Muppets Lion King would definitely be more entertaining to watch than this crappy Lion King 2019 live-action remake, especially with the Muppets making it funnier with their approach to the source material 😁😁
Honestly, the movie is not the biggest mistake ever. The Mulan and Pinocchio remakes were way worse. Of course, maybe their real biggest mistake is in the future as a ticking time bomb in the form of the Moana remake.
The twilight wolves were more expressive, then Disney’s lion King remake
Even the kaiju in the recent Godzilla x Kong The New Empire movie were more expressive than The Lion King remake too!
You know what I think? I think Julie Taymor should've directed the 2019 film and have all the songs from both the original animated film and the Broadway musical and be done like a musical! I would've loved Beyonce to have sung "Shadowland"! Also work on other problems like the CGI expressions and some of the casting. Then it would've been a just as a masterpiece like the 1994 film and the Broadway show.
I said it before and I'll say it again. The only movie that I think Disney is made that I like when it came to the live action was the jungle book. They've done animals right when it came to the expressions and emotions and that was made 3 years before the live-action Lion King in 2019. What's this no lack of emotion and I don't know why Disney thought that this was okay because you're getting rid of a lot of emotional moments that made the original so lovable back then
Got that right. The live action remake pales in comparison to the original animated film. No live action remake could ever top the original animated film!
I missed out on this one but everytime i see a clip of this abomination, i feel disgust. When i found out Jeremy Irons wasnt asked back and his replacement was terrible, that made my decision. Jeremy Irons will always be Scar to me.
I feel if they just did a new take on the story but keep the film animated like the original. That would of may be saved this. I was thinking a lions take on Romeo and Juliet would have been amazing. Macbeth is what inspired the first film. So taking from another Shakespear play may have been a great choice.
I really don't want to come off as that "well, actually..." person. In the most respectful and friendly way, let me point out that the first film's original inspiration was Shakespeare's Hamlet, not Macbeth. And we already do have a Romeo and Juliet adaptation in the Lion King! It's "The Lion King II: Simba's pride", in which Kiara and Kovu fall in love despite their families hating each other and wanting each other to die. If you haven't watched that sequel, it's quite enjoyable! 😊
Disney's biggest mistake on this movie? they made it.
Happy 30th Anniversary To Disney's The Lion King (1994-2024) 🎞🦁📽🎥🎬
Perfect explaining why the Lion King remake is a mistake. You should go over the Aladdin remake and the Beauty and the Beast remake next.
This felt like the end of Disneys era in the 2010s decade before it burst
You know, for the longest time, I’ve had an idea for a film like Land Before Time but without dialogue and just told visually. This movie PROVES you could do that (and honestly, if you’re going to do realism, go all the way), so it just upsets me they use it for… this.
The only think i liked about the remake was how adorable Timon looks. Thats it
I was fine with remaking the classic films or modern films with big controversies, but this? This was unnecessary--but financially successful. I hate how it's labeled an animated film, though.
Totally agree like i get the 1st live action but to properly pay respects to Mufasa it has to be 2d animated. This is just be another cash grab for Disney and soon Disney is going to do it to other movies which is scary to think. I honestly hope the movie does bad so Disney could learn not to be lazy and bring 2d animation back. They tried to do it to Pixar and they wasn't having it so im glad we have one thing set in place. All the live actions are totally forgettable and draining for fan that love there own franchise. Hopefully they change up soon.
Disney RELYING on live action remakes of their animated heritage shows they have almost completely forgotten who they are! If you remake an animated movie in live action, chances are you’re missing the point of why the original is animated! Not to mention: it is overall riskier to make a remake than an original movie! Make a bad movie that’s at least original, it could gain a cult following in later years! A soulless remake of a well loved classic movie will just end up forgotten!
The only good thing that I can say about this movie is that it got me back into thinking about doing a theater visit to watch new release movies that I will think are good enough to be watched in a theater because of the franchise and what the trailers show about them, instead of continuing to only watch good enough ones on Blu-ray or DVD when they get released on any of those type of discs. For an unknown reason I stopped doing theater visits for a bunch of years but this movie got me out of that.
The Lion King Live Action Remake Could've Been Better If They Didn't Change The Lyrics To Scar's "Be Prepared" Song.
Your videos are great man!👍🏻
Say what you want about The Lion King 2, but it’s a masterpiece compared to the live action remake.
Jon Favreau is not the best filmmaker in the world but he’s a good one who can make some great stuff. I see clips of him while making this movie and never does it seem like he was just half assing it, and even a movie like this requires SO much effort from animators, etc. I think he suffered from three flaws:
1. A woefully misplaced vision for the film. You can’t have hyper realistic lions do songs and drama and still look normal, that’s why the original is a 2D animated film.
2. Favreau tends to try to be as safe as possible because he worries about upsetting audiences - not in a “that was too edgy” way, but in a “we don’t want to upset our audience” way. In Mandalorian he had Grogu return to Din very quickly because he didn’t want audiences to wait too long for their reunion. In Endgame he tried to convince the Russos to spare Tony to not upset audiences. And being in the Star Wars fandom I’m sure he had the mentality of “I can’t upset the fans of Lion King so I need to be line for line and shot for shot.”
3. Favreau tends to be “eh good enough” with his project’s scripts. Many episodes of Mandalorian, even the best ones, have extras that nod way too hard when a main character says something; or Elf how the mom is just there to be the mom and we’re supposed to care about her despite having no personality. That’s why Favreau signed off on having almost the exact same script and some very, very lowkey acting from his cast.
I don’t think Favreau set out to make this movie with the intention of disrespecting animation, especially 2D; nor did he do it just for a paycheck. Disney certainly didn’t mind what he put out, but Favreau I believe is a sincere enough guy. He was just woefully misguided.
Last remake I saw on theaters was Beauty and the Beast and my god it was the first time I nearly fell asleep at the movies. Im so glad I decided to skip this one cuz I knew I was gonna both be bored out of my mind and hate it.
Funny enough movies like Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent and Aladdin (the only other live actions I got to see) I enjoyed for the most part and thats mainly cuz they actually changed things up and made them feel more or less their own thing. Even if they werent perfect, at least they didnt try doing a shot for shot boring fest.
Im still waiting for YMS part 2 of his review
Funny seeing YMS getting referenced here. Then again, Lion King Remake is something he ought to get back to ripping apart...
I literally have no idea why Beyonce voiced Nala
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is gonna wipe the *floor* with this pathetic prequel remake by December lbh.
Their greatest mistake YET, remember: Snow white is comming.
Aldone, could you please do a video on the five 2D films of DreamWorks? 1. Moses, Prince of Egypt, 2. Joseph, King of Dreams 3. The Road to El Dorado 4. Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron 5. Sinbad and the Legend of the Seven Seas?
All Disney remakes are mistakes actually
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. All this movies have shown that over and over again... Why make a photo realistic /live action version of a movie that is already very good?
Only movies that would benefit of a remake is Black Cauldron, Atlantis and the cow movie. While Atlantis is good, it does need a tune up on its story, same for the others.
But overall, this remakes don't add anything of value to this stories; just ride on nostalgia for an underwhelming and mean spirited movie
I haven't wachted the LA myself, because every single time I see footage it looks super boring.
And I've watched so many essay videos about it, it sucks and I do not want to support it when it's killing my future job, 2d animation.
Have you ever been in Comic Con in Los Angeles at October 4th-6th?
I think a good comparison is that of Avatar. People flocked to the movie for the visuals, not the story. However, Disney failed to live up to even that quality.
i heard this movie was made to show the Marvel FX team vfx skills to keep the staff on after the Disney takeover. So it was hype-realistic for that reason.
I like the idea of realism. Like, for real, but, they just can't do it nicely. Maybe in Mowgli, but not the lion king.
Disney is out of ideas and credibility
The original Lion King was a great, entertaining movie, but it was still highly flawed. This is partly because of Simba's weakness as a character. He goes from a smarmy, annoying spoiled brat who brags that he's going to be king one day and do whatever he wants to an exile who shirks his responsibilities as Mufasa's heir. And he completely lacks agency: EVERY SINGLE THING SIMBA DOES IN THE ENTIRE MOVIE, he only does because some other character either pressures/manipulates him into doing it. Going to the elephant graveyard? Scar tricks him into doing that. Going to the gorge where he got caught in the wildebeest stampede? Scar took him there. Going into exile? Scar told him to do that. Going back to Pride Rock to reclaim the throne? He had to be cajoled and guilt-tripped into it by not one, not two, but THREE other characters--first Nala, then Rafiki, then Mufasa's ghost. And he doesn't even really defeat Scar in the end; Scar basically defeats himself by throwing the hyenas under the bus--"They put me up to it! They're the enemy!"--within their earshot, causing them to turn against Scar and attack and kill him after Simba flips him off of Pride Rock. In short, Simba sucks.
They bring back one great voice actor but recast the rest? Yeah no wonder it suck. Just because it made alot of money doesn't mean it was great.
In all fairness, this whole live action thing, not only with Disney, but also Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, Kim Possible, and The Loud House for weird reasons, isn't really necessary, and I can't believe I'm saying this but they also did the same with Garfield, The Cat in the Hat, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, these were the only three I actually enjoyed, despite all the pandering, which proves once again Hollywood ruins everything.
Except at least the live-action Flintstones film respected the original cartoon and still maintained its cartoony attributes even in a live-action format. At least the film didn’t try to make the dinosaurs photo-realistic and kept their cartoonier designs.
And let's not forget these crappy fairly godparents live action movies 🤮
@@Simbala-bq5vy I knew I was missing something, and frankly, The Fairly OddParents has gotten worse with some bad episodes, seasons 9 and 10, Fairly Odder, and that reboot where Cosmo and Wanda were with Hazel.
No your wrong, their greatest mistake in Mulan remake. Since they released that in a wrong time during the covid 19 pandemic & not to mention if you are subscribed to Disney + you need to pay an additional to watch Mulan live action apart from your Disney + subscription. Not to mention they removed the hilarious dragon Mushu & replaced him with a boring phoenix that does nothing but fly. Not to mention the lady that they hired to be Mulan is also pro police brutality & there are more cartoonish scene than the actual cartoon itself. Such as the fact that the main antagonist can climb walls through walking on it vertically unlike in cartoons that they actually used grappling hooks. Not to mention that Mulan is like a Mary sue or a person so perfect no flaws like Rey in Starwars sequels. They also introduced a force like powers called the chi. Also what about the fact that the enemies used a trebuchets for ground forces when it should have been used for siege battles in like castles when it couldn't miss. Also their clever scene in the avalanche is also silly in this movie. Mulan set up bunch of helmets on the rocks & shoots the enemy with the bow so the enemy saw their troops being shot from behind them & they only saw a few helmets & they fire a trebuchet on a mountain making an avalanche. Atleast in the cartoon Mulan saw the reflection of the snowy mountains from her sword & fire it with some kind of fireworks rocket. EVEN THE WAY SHE REVEALED HER SELF AS A WOMAN IS EMBARRASSING. IN THE CARTOON SHE GOT INJURED SO SHE NEEDS TO BE HEALED ON A CAMP THE LEADER OF THEIR TROOPS WENT INTO THE TENT & SAW HER CHEST IS DIFFERENT IN YOU KNOW! IN THE MOVIE FOR SOME REASON HER DECEIT POISONS HER CHI SO SHE REMOVES HER ARMOR WHILE RIDING TO BATTLE & DID SOME VERY UNREALISTIC FIGHT SCENE. The commander saw her as a woman & he banished her. THEN GUESS WHAT SHE LITERALLY SAID " I'D RATHER BE EXECUTED!" Also the emperor is a problem in this movie in the cartoon he is an old wise man in this movie he is a narcissist & a wizard you should have seen his fight scene he is a fabric bender. The death of the main antagonist is also worthless. THE ANTAGONIST TRIES TO KILL THE EMPEROR WITH AN ARROW THE EMPEROR CAUGHT IT THEN HE LAUNCHES IT INTO THE AIR & MULAN LAUNCHES HERSELF IN THE AIR KICKED THE ARROW WITH THE TIP OF HER TOE SHOOTING IT ON THE MAIN VILLAIN'S CHEST KILLING HIM. Didn't I also FORGOT TO MENTION THAT THEY FILMED THE MOVIE RIGHT WHERE PEOPLE ARE ABUSED THEY EVEN OPENLY THANKED THEM IN THE CREDITS!
"WE MADE THE IMPORTANT CHARACTERS BLACK" was supposedly an accomplishment, whereas in the original race-blind casting, actors were chosen for their ABILITY TO PORTRAY THE CHARACTER. Nobody bats an eye at black men voicing cartoon samurai and ninjas, at most it's a "Huh, neat!", women routinely provide the voices of young boys in cartoons, and Edna Mode in The Incredibles is voiced by a man because they couldn't get an actress with _quite_ the right high class inflections for the archetype demonstrated in the tests. Talking animal cartoon characters are _always_ going to be voiced by humans or robotic amalgams of human voice samples, and saying "only people of African descent can voice lions, elephants, or hyenas" is ridiculous and frankly racist.
John Oliver is no Rowan Atkinson and Billy Eichner is no Nathan Lane (and he obnoxious to boot).
The title should say Disney’s biggest crime. Doing such a disservice to the Legacy of Walt Disney and the company. Sure Disney was not a perfect human and nor were the team around him. But when he did it right he did it right. And even when he got it wrong he still got it better than the live action remakes. Even during the 80s when the company nearly toppled. Stayed true to the companies nature of original stories and traditional animation. (I’m aware of song of the south and that was Disney’s biggest mistake, including many of the racist and outdated depictions in the old animated features)
Are you kidding me? Original stories? Acting like most of Disney's catalogue arent adaptations of existing fairytales, don't get me wrong, the live action remakes are ass, but don't act like older Disney moves were all original when most of the time they were straight up downgrades from the original tales.
@@HydragonofDeath I’m aware Disney is controversial for putting the public domain into copyright. Except for the completely original stories like TLK (some hamlet inspiration) or Raya and the last dragon, Disney has always made interpretations from other work.
Please do a maleficent remake video next please and how it’s one of the better remakes.
A lucrative but soulless mistake.
Is it weird that I enjoy the idea of a realistic remake of Lion King? It doesn’t beat the original but it’s a cool way to experience the story.
The background visuals are the only good thing about the remake
Reads the title: are you referring to the Lion King live action movie that already came out a few years ago, OR the upcoming prequel live action Mufasa movie?
Atleast they show in this movie why nala left
It’s out???
The optics of the canyon and the hyenas being Scar's allies instead of subordinates. That's what I can recall from the top of my head what I liked about this movie, even over the original.
But everything else... is either worse than the og or bad moviemaking in general 😅
It's sad cause I loved Disney & it's 2D Animation growing up in the 90's. Now they've completely abandoned it. So much of what they now make is unrecognizable to the things that they once made to create their legacy. The current era of higher ups have monopolized so many things. Yet they keep hiring these people that come off creatively bankrupt. Even if these people get the chance to work on a pre-existing beloved story, they cannot help themselves. They seem to be incapable of creating artistic creations that stray away from their own personal perspective, instead of showing they are capable of leaning into escapism or pure storytelling.. They have proven time and time again that they are not capable of doing anything even remotely close to that.. (which is weird because that should be one of the most important attributes that a director or a developer or an actor has in order to be successful at their job....?)
How is there no one who is willing to fire people who have clearly proven to fail at their job. Some seem like they openly hate the fans, the consumers that were the one's who gave y'all success in the first place..
There's now people like Kathleen Kennedy, She's a Perfect example of this awful trend where people keep getting these positions when they in no way deserve those positions. They are not hired based off talent or skill..? So we are seeing very expensive shows, movies, all so terribly designed, terribly managed, Awful writing, world design, character development, poor aesthetics. So much now feels creatively bankrupt and I really hope we all snap the f*ck out of it and get back to making better things.
The new Acolyte show comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. The whole thing is a complete self centered power trip.. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show.
It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody..
Now Compare the "The Acolyte" as If you go back & watch "X-Men the Animated series" It was so well crafted. The story of the struggles of mutants having to deal with humanity was such a universally relatable storyline. Media back then was not afraid to face difficult topics head on. They found really unique ways to abstractly teach people life lessons. They touched on difficult situations & found intelligent ways to convey certain stories. Even when I was all grown up & rewatched it, it really felt like the story is crafted so well & executed at such a high level that anyone is capable of relating to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that, that we are deeply lacking nowadays. So much so that literal kid's cartoons from the 90's told deeper and more mature stories than most media nowadays.
Stuff used to take pride in who can find the most creative ways to convey certain things. Who can give the audience certain feelings without overly explaining it.
It used to not matter what kind of character, creature, species they were. What matters is that they found ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that can connect us on a deeper level.
...Has anybody else noticed how this guy just kinda strings a bunch of words together to sound intelligent to vaguely form a point without actually saying anything at all?
"And now more than ever I decided to remind ourselves how useless this was, being their greatest mistake, when some of their newer films have not as performed as it once were trying to be the best to make it a valuable franchise when it turned out not to be the case."
Like...what??
I get curios; how do you come up with new video ideas? With how much you've done, I'd think that it'd be challenging.
When Nala and Simba Saw The Elephant graveyard Scar Wasn't kidding Scar was right The Elephant graveyard is a dreadful place
The fact the live action movie is the highest grossing in the box office of animation💀
Lion King 1994's hand drawn animation is infinitly better than the ugly photo real CGI which shows no emotion in the remake!