Disney Remakes Need to Die (and Peter Pan and Wendy is Unwatchable Trash)
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- A review of the first 30(?) minutes of Peter Pan and Wendy. Disney remakes must die.
Timestamps
00:00 - Disney remakes must die
01:26 - Channel partnership with Disney+*
03:15 - Review of LAR17 (Peter Pan and Wendy Live Action Abomination)
09:36 - Disney remakes are not art
13:10 - Agency and victimhood
15:10 - Felt identity
17:15 - Visual imitation / Failure of Disney Star Wars remake
20:51 - Disney remakes are plagiarisms
23:50 - Wasted money and talent
31:52 - Race swaps
36:59 - This isn’t going to end
37:41 - Cultural nihilism
*The Despot is not affiliated in any way with Disney other than his sworn eternal enmity to the organisation.
The Back to the Future trailer is at minute 14 of this video:
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The scene of Wendy dying alone on her couch is the funniest meta joke Disney has ever written.
It was what she wanted...
Feminism in a nut shell.
@@moxiemaxie3543oh really? hmmm.. I thought it was because she was so unlikeable that no one can stand her ego😂
/s
@@moxiemaxie3543 yeah sure
@@johnhawthorn5393 its something that She herself saw in Her mind.
So yes, She is looking forward To Her lonely end.
''Nooo, this power belongs to no boy!''
I physically heaved.
I wonder if that's the PPAW version of "the name is mighty thor!"
This power also doesn't belong to a MarySue or Karen.
Lol
I wondered whether they were referencing Éowyn before she killed the witch king.
WK: you fool. No man can kill me.
É (removes helmet): I am no man! (Death strike)
I was wondering because the sentence construction of the Wendy line is clumsily awkward.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral It's more like the Witch King death scene "I am no man".
"Who are you" "Lost Boys" "Every Single One of US" "But you're not all boys," "So."
And that line right there confirmed this movie was gonna suck hard.
Never let anyone gaslight you for having pattern recognition.
Whether it is blatant race washing or out of place and forced political messages, these things are red flags and no one should be shamed for recognizing them.
I mean, maybe they ARE all boys. Wendy really shouldn't have assumed their genders like that.
"Excuse me, we're Lost Peoplekind!"
@thefanwithoutaface8105 - the only way that line could have been worse is if one of the Lost Box Checkers said "did you just assume our gender?!"
@@suzybearheart530Who are you?
Cuisinarts! Every single one of us!
But yiu're not all Cuisinarts.
Did you just assume our blender?
They want representation... but only if they're the good guys. Notice how all the villains are never race-swapped... LOL
It’s so damn obvious too... Every single bad guy (especially the goons) is a white guy, or at least someone who looks white enough at a distance.
I want a movie where it’s flipped around; All the heroes are white and the evil ones are diverse to the max.
Oh, imagine the outrage~!
Excuse me? You are attacking John Boyega for reacting to the racist reaction to him being cast? I SAW IT MYSELF LOL! Anywhere from youtube, to facebook to almost every platform. People were being racist towards him. I even debated many myself. No idea what you are trying to do there.
Who is "they"? When did the monolothic voice of black people tell you this? And why you picking race out of everything else?
Black people have no problem with black villains, you are talking garbage. Provide evidence to the contrary.
DW:::::; 23:40
@@vertigo2894Welcome to the internet.
He has got to be the girliest Peter Pan ever, and that's including that time he was played by a girl in the Broadway play.
Since Disney did NOT want Wendy, Tinkerbell and Tiger Lily to have any romantic feelings for Pan in this version (because it undermines their "agency" and girlboss awesomeness), they deliberately cast that dweeby, shrimpy, charmless and talentless kid to play Pan to ensure there wouldn't be any. Mission accomplished.
@@mkeogh76 you forgot "maidenless"
If this kid comes out as gay or trans or non binary or some other bullshut like this in a few years I wouldn't be surprised.
That was obviously deliberate; this icon of adolescent masculine energy had to be eradicated.
@@DespotofAntrim First the actor is a literal child and you're making fun of him for being "too feminine" second what exactly makes peter pan an adolescent masculine icon? Is it fighting pirates, or maybe living in a hovel?
"The Disney remake is not art, it is a creature of vile intent that wears the skin-suit of art" You hit the nail on the head.
I hope you guys begin to see, .....this is all being done on purpose. No one at Disney "made a mistake" or "hired the wrong writers." It's all being destroyed on purpose. I know that doesn't make sense, but it's the truth.
When the rich and powerful start telling us plebs that everything we loved in our youth was evil and that we need to toss it all in the trash, in favor of their newly minted & radicalized versions, there should be much doubt.
Study Mao Tse-tung's ruthless Cultural Revolution in 1960s China, where his version of today's woke ran wild, to understand socio-political compulsions.
It's pretty obvious. Just the fact that Kathleen Kennedy is still there.....destroying Star Warts
It wouldn’t surprise me that they eventually start remaking the movies a second time, and use the many flaws of the remakes to promote the reremakes
I had the impression that they signed a contract to make a live action for all their classic animated films so that even when they can see that people are tired if it they can't and won't stop.
Probably from the first live action trend in this century (say Alice in Wonderland) someone said, "It's a success! Say, why don't we do ALL of them?"
As a girl I loved the book. (And I quite like the 2003 live action movie with Jason Issacs as Captain Hook.
It took some liberties, but overall stayed fairly true to the book.) I really hate what they did to Wendy. She was kind and motherly in the book; which is why the Lost Boys loved her.
When I was a little girl, I thought Wendy was boring, but that's just because I was a tomboy. As an adult, I have a much deeper appreciation for women's strength.
As for original Wendy being the maternal figure for the Lost Boys, obviously the girls now included in the Lost Boys had no maternal qualities at all. I believe Disney/feminists absolutely hate the idea of women = motherhood, nurturing, commitment to one straight male and raising children, and traditional values in general.
I grew up seeing the play once a year, and Disney movies never. They were never on TV or anyplace else you could see them. Peter's supposed to be a woman, and Tinker Bell is a light reflected off a mirror. Disney's gotten so deep into "showing the world we live in" that they've forgotten fantasy isn't supposed to be realistic.
I like that Jason Isaac also played the dad
@Drones Club High Jinks No, you just hate anyone that’s not that.
Btw “traditional values” about a century ago meant women doing backbreaking labour if poor and if in high society being passed around by their families to an appropriate suitor who ends up having 5 other mistresses anyway.
To say nothing of how much worse it was before then.
Your tradition is as manufactured as that.
The movie is terrible but really, shut up.
@@dronesclubhighjinks Disney aren't filled with true feminists. Those new film directors running the show are what I consider to be "toxic feminists/false feminists. Real feminists advocate for equal rights, as well as independency from men. However, real feminists aren't going to as far as to completely bash men and promote the message that women are "better than men in every way." Real feminists have some pride, but even they have their limits. These new so-called "feminists," are simply just too arrogant, and they only take the feminists route, not to stand up for women rights, but mainly to boosts their own ego. It's honestly pretty sad how far they have fallen.
''I love hearing stories about myself. And your mum is very good at telling them.'' Probably the best line to come out of this movie xD
And you can tell your mum the money's under the pillow.
As someone of Native heritage...
God I wish EVERYONE would STFU about "Native Representation".
There was nothing wrong with the Land of Lakes woman.
There was nothing wrong with the name "Red Skins".
And there was CERTAINLY nothing wrong with the Native tribe in Peter Pan.
The ENTIRE point of the story is that these are different cultural and mythological icons AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN.
In a time where people knew infinitely less about Native Americans, these depictions were full of whimsy and wonder and, if anything, MADE PEOPLE MORE INTERESTED IN NATIVE AMERICANS.
But now we live in an age where everyone has to get offended on MY behalf and decide what is and isn't appropriate FOR me and my family. I LIKED the Natives in Peter Pan; they were charming and goofy, and despite what everyone seems to think, NATIVES AREN'T A UNITED PEOPLE. There were hundreds of different tribes each with their own territorial denominations and subsects, blanketing them all as any one thing is INCREDIBLY ignorant and I see both sides of the political field do this whether it's leftists acting like we were ALL peace loving hippies or the right wing individuals acting like we ALL scalped our enemies. The simple truth is that stereotypes come from somewhere and more likely than not there WAS a tribe that fit this depiction, but that's okay because at no point was the film ACTING like this was an accurate depiction of ALL NATIVES.
Jesus christ.. Just LET people enjoy things.
The push to censor all of this has, if anything, actively DECREASED Native "rEpReSENtaTIOn". I'd rather the tribe in Peter Pan be mildly but innocently inaccurate than not there at all.
You get it, keep speaking out.
The Elvis impersonators is a great analogy. A good impersonator clearly loves and respects "The King" and his work. You can not say that about those making these horrific Disney remakes.
And the Elvis impersonators aren't selling themselves as something they're not. You'll never see one change the lyrics to pander to "modern audiences", or wear grey sweatpants and hoodies to nullify their "toxic masculinity".
I don’t care what colour they dye Ariel’s skin. I care that they flayed Ariel and draped the skin over a papier-mâché copy made of laundered money.
Now, if they put that in a Predator movie, I might want to watch it.
@@loupgarou-dj3tm 😂😂
You don’t care about race swapping?
No, no race swapping.
She looks good but she ain't Ariel.
Hearing you say that Disney is plagiarizing the works of Disney and the creatives of the past was a real lightbulb moment for me. And it's completely accurate.
It would be poetic, if the remake of the movie, that started Disney's Renaissance, will kill this live action trend all together.
Sadly, that probably won't be happening....if anything, it will be another record breaker, another billion dollar blockbuster winner for Disney, and they will take it as the ultimate triumph of diverse representation or some corporate nonsense like that
I know.. But it's nice to dream about it.
I'm here from the future to tell you that, no, apparently it's a bomb!
@@BWMagus Glad to know it's going to be!
- From the past
Your channel is a little gem. It's like The Critical Drinker's one but fiercer, more spot on politics, and with true film analysis, with no boring plots explained just for the sake of cashing in on adverts.
Thank you
And originality. It's nice not to see the same six movie references shown in every single one of Despot's videos.
There's room for both. Both are enjoyable and insightful.
@@BryceShamwowNo, no, no. We must break others down to prop up our favorites!
This is a very good analysis of the problems with current culture. I'm old enough to remember the 90's. EVERYTHING was better in the 90's.
'The 90s was the last great decade.' Noel Gallagher.
Entertaining.. but savage.. but informative.. but hilarious.. but sad.. but true.
There was a time Disney could pull something like this video off - even with a happy ending.
The Disney brand reminds me a lot of the Atari brand: long painful demise, all innards gone or dead, an unconscious zombie mumbling 'money' instead of 'brains'.
I've read several books that go into detail about Atari's fall. One anecdote I will always remember is a video game designer (who sold huge numbers) asking management for a raise, the manager responded "The designers are no more important to this company than the guys boxing the games on the factory floor." The game designer quit and started a successful 3rd party studio shortly thereafter. Atari got what they deserved.
@@DespotofAntrimWhat the manager said, right there, is Peak Communism. Have you ever read Atlas Shrugged? I flashed back to the part about the death of the Twentieth Century Motor Company. It's pages 658-670 of the 35th Anniversary edition (March 1992).
The guy's story about what happened afterward sums up postmodern life succinctly, as well: "Then the owner of the plant died, and the heirs who took it over, ran it into the ground. Times were bad then, but it was since then that things started going to pieces faster and faster. Since then, it seems like anywhere I turned---the place cracked and went. At first, we thought it was only one state or another. A lot of us thought that Colorado would last. But it went, too. Anything you tried, anything you touched---it fell."
I love how this guy refers to the movies, eeh, pardon, me to this monstrosities, as "live action abominations". what a legend
Calling them LAR for short is also appropriate, as they're simply LARping as actual movies.
"Equivalent of a Brahmin in the intersectional caste system" That cracked me up.
For anybody watching I'd really recommend the recent Hooper and Kraczyna translation of Pinocchio from Penguin books. It contains copious notes on the Italy and slang of Collodi's day. For instance the amount Pinocchio's nose grows each time is related to regional Italian sayings, subtle characterisation of Geppetto in what he wears and how a lot of the book is set against the background of the recent introduction of compulsory schooling into Italy in 1861. Without the notes I would have missed some of the themes in the book.
8:42 - “so why are you called Lost BOYS then?”
This isn’t sexism. It’s a reasonable inquiry
We call them lost diversity for hires
They could’ve been lost kids, problem solved
@@Pollicina_db Exactly. Reminds me of the time Spiderman questioned why the Sinister SIX has 5 members
Because you people would cry about that instead
Lol the Braveheart sequence is some of your best work yet (although Robert Paulson bears an honorable mention)... congratulations on getting on with Critical Drinker. Knew it was only a matter of time before you two crossed paths.
Yes, the Braveheart trailer was really well done!
Thanks man! That was originally going to be a Star Wars (New Hope) remake trailer but it just didn't work, probably because Star Wars is now so shite that it is beyond parody.
"Let Disney remakes die. Kill them if you have to."
Cinderella at least managed well with Lily James, who managed to embody the grace of the character and make her character richer, and teaching a valuable lesson that actually works: Screwing people over, even for your own happiness, is never worth it.
One would've been fine. This is too many.
Agreed. She did a wonderful job in that role. That movie didn't have any inane political preaching in it either, and it was different enough from the animated version to qualify as its own film. I'll show my future kids that movie, but would never inflict the rest of the remakes on them.
absolutely, it stayed true to the essence of the story and actually gave 'Kit' some agency and depth, the Jungle book was okay .
I couldn't agree more, it was actually a decent film and I think the fact they made it a movie and not a musical was a good decision and when it came out I LOVED IT, such a shame that Disney decided to nose dive for money
Totally agree! It's a great Cinderella movie, not "woke" and not horribly written. In fact, it's the opposite!! They added some bits to flesh out Robb Stark and his father, and Cate Blanchett was awesome. "Have courage, and be kind" is the film's message, and God bless that message!!
I loved that remake, she was grand as Cinderella. I think beauty and beast was not that bad either, though it could use some grandeur.
Can’t wait to hear your take on LAR18. The idea that they had to change the lyrics to “Kiss the Girl” so people don’t think Eric would force himself on her is sooo ridiculous. She literally made a pact with the sea witch that she NEEDED to get the guy to kiss her if she wanted to keep her legs. The song is about her begging to be kissed, so she can stay on land 🤣 aka HER wanting to force him instead of the other way around. They’ll just say anything to please the MOB.
They also took out Ursula's lyrics about how people don't want to hear girls talk because they thought that was a bad message. Ursula is the _villain._ You're not supposed to do what she says.
@@BiggieTrismegistus Pathetic.
@@BiggieTrismegistuswell and its true don’t want to put honest things in a movie nowadays ig
They took that part out too, sooo....
The manipulation of young minds before they have the life experience to put things in context is evil.
Disney is evil.
Only let your kids watch the original cartoons.
I call this phenomena "the Creative Purge". The idea that companies, in their endless quest to become richer and richer, no longer desire quality in their projects and slowly make it harder for other companies to even try to put effort in their own works using their connections in the industry.
it is also just the evolution of a Empire. At some point every empire just becomes too large and starts falling apart.
Cronyism/corporatism
It's called cultural marxism. Notice this isn't an isolated event. When Netflix, the BBC, academia, even the US military all spew the same talking poimts, you know it's a deliberate move.
Research Antonio Gramsci. Otherwise, I will be making another long essay in the comment about this topic again
7:30 I really wish movies would depict Natives as how they actually were, namely different tribes of similar looking people with various cultures, beliefs, traditions and acknowledging that while some Natives were compassionate and nobles, others were just as bloody hungry and savage as some other depictions make them out to be. It's insane that even now Hollywood just treats all natives as the same even though it's constantly been stated there are thousands of different tribes and plenty of them including the Comanche and Apache, were extremely aggressive, violent and brutal both towards other natives as well as other settlers.
No, they are all identical, simple minded nobles, at one with nature and free from the corrupting influence of technology.
@@DespotofAntrim Ugh, I hate that interpretation by hollywood and most people these days. A subject for another video perhaps "The Truth about the Noble Savage"
Because if they accepted than native people have nuance and don't all act the same, they'll have to admit that not all white people are evil. If they accept that humans are complex, they can't villainize an entire race to make themselves feel like victims.
As an actor myself....(yes I'm pulling the "as a..." card) and an avid fantasy fan; I endorse The Despot's message.
I want to act in plays/TV/movies that have characters, not cardboard cutouts, written by talented writers who have a genuine love for the source material, surrounded by a cast and crew who all share the same creative vision and drive for perfection - a state common to all the best movies ever made.
I'm not religious, but I PRAY no 'merican movie studio EVER gets their greedy hands on the movie rights to Brandon Sanderson's novels (it's already too late for Tolkien, and without a divine intervention cancelling the production, Christopher Paolini's 'Inheritance Cycle' is due for a SECOND desecration, this time by Disney).
Despot, I name you Truthwatcher.
Life before death Radiant.
Thanks Skaidon, I hope you get the opportunity to practice your art as an artist and not a political prop.
@@DespotofAntrim not political? You bring up several anti-trans sentiments in a video about a Peter Pan remake, sad creature and I didn’t finish your trash cruelty-for-cruelty’s sake.
Think of how your profession would be if everyone embraced the ultimate end of the process -- since skaidonC doesn't look just like me or act just like me I shouldn't have to see it on a stage. That's the end of the profession.
Damn, there’s been 17 of these atrocities already??
I enjoyed all 40 minutes of this video. You`re a wordsmith.
Disney hasn`t won. I don`t go to their park, watch their woke movies, or buy their merchandise. Hopefully more will do the same.
"For the love of whatever demonic being you worship at your degeneracy gatherings" brilliant line!
Great video as always Despot. I thought the point about the generation of animators who grew up on the 90s Disney classics are having their creativity smacked down in front of them was really poignant. I’ve never thought about that before but it’s a really depressing outcome
The "pitch meetings" channel made a reference to the animators for the "Pinocchio staring at manure" scene as well at 01:52! Here is the link, unless RUclips will not allow me to paste it ruclips.net/video/57xcebZlQ0E/видео.html
The "pitch meeting" brings up a number of points that despot mentioned too!
I am proud to say I have watched zero Disney for about 35 years. I last visited a park about 25 years ago. I would have thought that they would be bleeding capitol like Bud Light on a bad day. However because they just keep on producing this garbage I can only assume they have a money printing machine somewhere. Apparently money is no object only the 'message'. Let's raise a glass to their corporate demise as soon as possible.
I can't believe I am saying this because as a child in the 60s I loved Disney. WTF happened?
Even the Disney I grew up with in the 80s still had some reverence for Walt. Now they are just propping up his corpse to justify throwing out everything of his or letting it deteriorate until they have no choice.
Defining yourself with a brand, either by its presence or its absence, is a modern epidemic...
@@Attmay I was born in the 80s at the time, so I had no clue what the company was going through. All I knew was that I loved the movies that came out at the time, and were worth watching, no matter what critics said anything. In fact, I had no idea critics even existed or anything about box office bombs. They meant nothing to me then.
A child of the 60s? must have some good genes if you are still kicking from being around back then, in any event I am a late 90s kid, I grew up with and loved disneys early 2000s content and the stuff from the 90s (even though I wasn't alive until the second to last year of that decade) when I heard that disney was buying marvel and star wars, I knew something was up and I was a kid at that point.
Wait, did you skip Disney Renaissance?
Referring to the original Peter Pan as 'a bolt of lightning made flesh' was aptly and exquisitely stated! I love your writing.
The Disney of my childhood will always hold a special place in my heart. But if this company were to fold tomorrow I wouldn't shed a tear. Rather I think I would be relieved. Disney is so overrun with woke activist crazies I don't believe there is any chance of recovery.
"geek culture went mainstream and was destroyed by the corporate leviathan." this destruction isn't something that occurred recently, its been visible for quite some time. my question is; why are nerds and geeks so complacent about the wholesale takeover of their culture? as if the cultural takeover was inevitable, or was some how the natural order. you express yourself, create something, like-minded individuals flock to it and then the corporations take it over and it becomes a vehicle for their values or lack thereof.
Its because my generation was lazy and let happen, and the newer generation embraced it. Honestly the old fans who remain normally just look at the new ones and shake our head. And thank god we came in when we did. Still some glimmers as those younger than that are seeing their on independent stories. Not over yet, mainstream will die and with new opportunities independent will rise. To be corrupted and replaced. Tale old as time.
The same reason the political scene in the States is where it is. People took advantage of people who took high roads.
Besides that much of the creatives are leftists. What changed is that THE MESSAGE became more important than money.
As an example I am not surprised how RTD handled the 60th anniversary of Dr. Who. The background of the revival had hints in the early days of all the woke shit. What changed from then till now wasn't RTD it was the atmosphere of the era that the 60th special released. Now you can push THE MESSAGE without concern about entertaining people. You no longer have to be subtle or at least package it with entertaining writing. Nope just push THE MESSAGE and maybe you will luck your way into half way decent writing.
To quote Dustin Hoffman's Hook, "Bad form".
Insightful. Thought provoking. Entertaining. Everything Disney no longer delivers. Thank you!
I cannot agree with you more. Disney needs to crash and burn sooner than later.
I agree with everything you say, except the statement that "Disney wont die" because "They make to much money at the box office", If you look into it you will find that they are actually losing a great deal of money. So it stands to reason that even a huge corporation like Disney will die eventually if it continues this trend. I personally I'm looking forward to it.
Exactly. That whole sentiment is all too reminiscent of, "too big to fail" and Disney can go talk to Lehman Brothers if they want to find out if that is really how it works in the business world.
Will Disney be affected by the writer's strike? Do they hire writers? Kenobi would suggest not.
They own ESPN so yes they will.
Perhaps they will get by because they aren't writers but propagandists.
God bless us, he's released another video. Btw: you've been very helpful with conversations. my family are all woke fanatics, and your channel (along with some other channels like the critical drinker) have helped give me some defence against their rants
You might like "the little platoon." Good luck with your family!
"Woke fanatics". Thats pathetic
I'm really glad to hear that man. Hopefully they will one day see the light.
@@DespotofAntrim this why I love small channels. While big channels can be good, I feel like small channels with high quality content like this one fosters a sense of community which represents the internet and what it used to be. I am slightly divided though, half me wanting you to stay small and the other wanting the the despot to be the imperator
The only Modern Disney remake i closely liked was Cinderella, because the prince had more character and it was at least an attempt to tell some story. 1940s version beats it anyway.
I see Tarzan isn't on the remake list. That's because I have theory that Tarzan would be impossible to remake for "modern audiences". You can't make a movie staring white people in Africa but you also can't make a movie staring any other race besides white people living with gorillas. XD
Comparing Disney to Nazis is an insult to Nazis. Nazis never would have allowed such subversive tripe to exist.
"Modern Disney are Tyranids" is not the take I was expecting, but it is the take we deserve. Thank you.
Well they are social cancer powered by spite and esg score, it's quite close to the Galactic level force of devouring and destruction
I love how almost every time Disney as a mega corporation is talked about, there are actual nazis on the screen… very subtle 🤣
This was a great vid btw, awesome job
FYI This movie is HBO's Conspiracy, which is movie about the most important members of NSDAP discussing the Jewish question in 1942
Your video essays are where you truly shine. The insight you provide, combined with your clever use of language and humorous turns of phrase, make it almost bearable to witness this cultural suicide.
It warmed my heart to hear DoA slagging "Peter's" dreadful acting, lol. I've seen people that think we have to pretend he's ok since he's "a kid"- which is annoying, since he is actually older than he looks. And yeah, Disney certainly needs to stop doing these remakes, as long as they're married to their current template of doing things. Their most successful (in terms of both popularity and acclaim) remake has been Cinderella, which was also one of their most faithful adaptations. The best received change it made was leaning into and embellishing on the romance. Now, though, romance is one of the things not "allowed" in these things- so there's no point in remaking anything that does have a big romance.
i think alan menken is the most abused talent here.
they use him as nostalgia bait, because ppl remember him from the rainessance era.
now they force him to gut his songs and write woke substitutes to please the overlords.
he's literally a dancing monkey, humiliated to amuse them and get people to watch the resulting garbage.
I just found this video; and man it’s completely true. Your breakdown of the old Disney movies makes me see them in a new light, and I truly appreciate it. Thanks for your work!
Disney really is *the* master of fantasy.. the gaslighting involved in trying to make fetch happen with turning Ariel and Tink black? That's more magical thinking than all of their movies and IPs combined 😂✨️
You missed Wendy slapping Peter Pan,. Facepalm
What about it?
That's nothing. Check the sequel where her daughter, Jane, punches him.
"Read my pronouns out of my f*cking mouth!"
It's ma'am. It is ma'am.
@rgerber
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sisu was made with a budget of 5 million and is a better action movie than anything Hollywood has done in 5+ years.
The closest we've gotten to a fun action movie since Nobody (2020)
To say that Walt is rolling in his grave is an understatement he knew how to get the right kind of artist and to spend a decent amount of budget money to overcome his imagination weather it was on the big screen or a theme park and box office money is good but there’s no point in doing remakes it’s a waste of money I’m lost for words at this point please resurrect the Disney classics again
Bravo. I'm quickly becoming a loyal subject eager to hear the despot's insights.
You clearly care about art more than the leeches at Disney.
This is so insightful. I come from the Aussie film industry, which as limited as it is, makes movies for $3-10 million dollars max. Even that is seen as a 'risk' so many movies aren't made. But it makes you realise why Hollywood won't invest in original films when they cost $100 million minimum for some wild reason.
I'm only six minutes in, but I absolutely have to comment on how ugly these live action remakes are. Instead of being bright and fun, they are all undersaturated, flat, and dark. Even the brightly lit scenes of Wendoo and Poter flying over the coast in the middle of the day somehow feels like it's dark. They really did everything they could to suck the color and magic out of the worlds they portray. I'm not saying that everything has to be oversaturated and ultra bright, with tons of flashing lights and loud sounds. There just needs to be something other than flat, dark, heavily muted greens, blues, and browns. The original animations got the color balance right, and I honestly don't think that it would be difficult to do some work to bring life to the settings using the originals as examples.
I hate that what are supposed to be fun, lighthearted movies are colored like documentaries about the Holocaust. It all becomes so fucking depressing that I have a hard time differentiating between clips from these movies and ads for the ASPCA and charity campaigns to end world hunger.
I agree with you completely. Why are they choosing to remake beloved children's stories looking depressing as hell? I watched the "behind the scenes" features for Lord of the Rings, and Peter Jackson explained how he desaturated or emphasized (idk correct term) colours in particular scenes to set or create the mood he wanted to convey. The desaturation occurred during Moria. There were more warm, autumn, earth tones in Rivendell. They chose to film in bright sunshine in the Shire.
The "Jeeves and Wooster" TV adaptation is filmed with kind of a reddish-brown filter, which comes across as vintage and warm.
Whoever is choosing to film the Disney remakes this way is definitely doing it intentionally. I'm not sure if they realize that kids are not going to be attracted to it. And if the kids don't watch it, they're not going to get "the message" now, are they?
They are disgusting to look at. Pinocchio was unwatchable, LAR17 is just as bad and LAR18 looks like a sewer pipe flushing into the seabed.
They're drab, grey, and depressing cos that's the way the globalists want the world to be.
I have never heard a more accurate and blunt take on the abomination that Disney has become. Thank you so much for making this. It's relieving to finally have recently come across more than 2 people in the movie review section of RUclips that aren't bleeding heart leftists. First video of yours I've watched. Instant sub. 😊
The very last time Disney got a single cent from me was when I saw The Last Jedi in theater. Ever since, Disney has not gotten a single cent from me. I tell people this online and more than once, people have not believed that it is possible to embargo Disney. I assure you, it is possible. And moreover, it is perhaps necessary. Disney has gotten it into its mind that Disney is too big to fail. They will not change until forced to do so.
Damn... This is making me so sad ... :(
RIP Disney, RIP art, RIP magic, RIP innocence, RIP morals, RIP loving messages, RIP childhood.
It's really going that way. Hopefully something can be done before it's really too late, if it isn't already.
please continue making content like this. you are the voice of so many people who think exactly the same. great video!!
Remember a time when Disney was seen as the pinnacle of 2D animated film, and Pixar was the pinnacle of 3D animated films? Now if Disney isn't doing the live action treatment, it's difficult to tell what was made by Disney itself, and what was made by Pixar because it all looks the same. Or for all I know, all their CGI animated stuff is Pixar alone.
I miss the older Disney animation styles! The beautiful hand-drawn animation was incredible!
@@20thPaulUnlike other studios of the time (and later), Disney made one picture for every frame of film. Everyone else used one picture for every two frames, or even three, if they were really cheap. To understand what this says about Walt Disney's commitment to quality (and apologies if you already do), bear in mind that:
1. 35mm synchronized-sound film runs at 24 frames/second.
2. Every picture in animated film is actually several pictures: the background, and a different clear sheet (cel) for each character, and anything else that moves.
Fantasia is 120 minutes. That's 288,000 frames. Considering how many different things move in that, it probably required over a million cels. Also, the background also often moves. And in any scenes set to music, the characters move in time with it. The music and singing were recorded first, and the animators had to match the frames/second to the tempo. The characters' mouths, and facial movements, have to be synchronized with dialogue and singing. This was all done by hand. No ProTools, no CGI, nothing but weeks of learning the score til they knew it aa intimately as the musicians who performed it, with the sheet music in front of them while they hand-painted what amounted to three-quarters of a second of ONE character every day.
I got curious about how they made these films when I was six (1972), and went to the library for research. I already knew how sync sound film was produced, but real, pre-digital animation is a whole other level. So yeah, when Despot and Critical Drinker talk about how postmodern globalists shit on the work of previous generations, and call these generations "insanely better", they're like Keith Moon: nailing it to the ceiling.
Its good to find another person who understands, Disney is a walking zombie thats bites things you loved and corrupts them into the same mindless hoard of nothing. It just needs to be put down.
How dare you, zombies have ten thousand times more imagination the Disney.
*AMEN* to every syllable you uttered here.
For a long time, my favorite people have either been elderly or dead, but recently I've given high regard to artists and storytellers in Japan. I love their comics and animated stories (some, but not all), and it's clear that Japanese audiences notice Disney's utter lack of imagination and sense of producing anything entertaining.
There's a reason why Disney is fading as a symbol of standards and quality, and American audiences are turning more toward comic books and animation from Japan. It's because Disney has become a monstrous abomination, and a good portion of entertainment from Japan still retains a clear sense of humanity and decency.
Japan banned LGBT ideology and Ass-Slam on a national level, cos they still want to have a country. Galactic-Level Based.
@@emilyadams3228 Japan is awesome and America is screwed.
@@chasehedges6775 Japan's awesomeness is illustrated by two of my favorite things: railroads, and cameras.
The history of the Nikon alone is fascinating enough. Nippon Kogaku went from being a nearly-defunct ex-military contractor in a country that almost didn't exist (and, legally, did not. It was Occupied Japan til 8 September 1951), to the maker of a camera system that re-defined what a professional camera is, and changed the industry as well, in just 15 years.
Then there's the Bullet Train. It was so wildly successful that the revenue from it subsidizes the rest of the Japanese rail network, which has survived with almost no abandonment, unlike the rest of the world.
For several years after WWII, most of Japan was reduced to a barter economy. By the early 60's, they had become an industrial powerhouse to be reckoned with on a world scale and things like Honda motorcycles, Sony radios, and the Nikon F had become legendary for their quality.
I remember the Sony radio I had in 1970-73. It had a 2" speaker that sounded almost as good as a proper stereo, was AM and FM, and was about half again the size of a pack of Camels. For the whole three years I had it, it ran on the original 9V battery. I said to my dad "How can they make a radio like this?" He didn't know, either. That radio set me to reading about postwar Japan. I came to respect the country and her people. Since then, of course, I've had to watch the country of my birth and continuing residence (USA), along with the rest of the Western world, slide into degeneracy and rot according to the terms of the metaphorical deal with the Devil that is bending over for globalism, while Japan remains a real country.
@@emilyadams3228 💯💯💯.
@@emilyadams3228 The USA and the western world is approaching its bitter end.
It's *not* Disney's money to do with as they please. It's their investors' money. Which is why they're now finally in hot water with said investors.
+ the literal millions of families who spent over 1K $ of products, VHS, cinemas, toys etc. to their children for over 50 years of excellence.
"Progressivism will hollow your religion and wear its skin like a trophy"
Auron MacIntyre
Another popular original dug back up and burned to the ground by modern woke trash. Robin Williams would be disgusted. Glad he doesn't have to see it. RIP. Makes me want to rewatch Hook. All this modern woke garbage makes you realize how much better we used to have it.
Perhaps we are reaching the point when no-one cares anymore. Disney, Dr Who, Star Wars, etc etc. They no longer want us, and we have given up. The emotional attachment has been voided.
got a feeling Hunchback of Notre Dame is partly a vanity project for Josh Gad. He's producing it and I could see him playing Quasimodo (poorly)
Daaammnn, I really enjoyed your depiction of disney think tank as the 'wansee conference '! Straight savage dude! Good work by you, kudos.
"Mr. Reflection" is a name that conjures connection to my favorite villain from witcher 3. The man of mirrors.
You know what could be a genuinely ballsy thing disney can do for a live action remake. If they made an adaptation of the real little mermaid story. The og original tragedy story.
"abomination" isn't a harsh enough term for this stuff.
That was the best 40-minute rant. My new favorite creator! 😂
Welcome brother.
Peter Pan was a 1904 play by J M Barrie. Copyright for the play is still vested to Great Ormond Street Hospital in the UK. Hardly any of Disney's characters or stories are original.
Very good analysis, by the way! The summary at 37:30 is brilliant.
The copyright is owned by a hospital? I've never heard of something like that before.
But it explains why Disney think they can...
doctor the script.
Idk how this channel has flown under my radar for so long but ayyy ohhh, found ya 🙃
Welcome!
God, you’re such a good writer!
I recommend the Jeremy Sumpter version of Peter Pan. He was vibrant, cocky, and still charming, and the visuals were GORGEOUS! And while it had its deviations from Barrie's book, the theme about the importance of growing up was strong.
I don't how it is that your channel came up, or your video, but I'm glad it did.
Great takes and far better points than Doug Walker who seems convinced that this Disney dip is no different from the past ones.
Disney. It's short for "disney make anything worth watching any more". 🤔
Did you cancel Disney + yet ?
If not, don’t blame them…you’re funding it.
@@hauntedhose Do you own a mobile phone? If so then you're responsible for modern day childslavery. You're funding it. Just saying. 🙃
@@Melvin-Deeply settle down…One step at a time bub.
My answer Melvin: these days, barely!
@@hauntedhose Deep breaths, Zippy. The weight of that chip on your shoulder is making you walk squinty. 🙂
My hat off to you, good sir. simply yet another fantastic take, expressed with such contempt that it is beautiful. Very well done...again!
Dude, this script is brutal. Good job!
Narcissists never get tired looking at themselves. Mirror Mirror on the Wall......
Exactly I was infuriated with gigantic cancellation in 2017 and also the same year, Disney begin to double down on live action remake rather than pursuing originals animated releases like encanto
You know a good character? Knuckles the Echidna. He gives up his life to guard the Master Emerald, sacrificing everything to make up for the sins of his ancestors. You describing Wendy's selfishness just reminded me of what a great person Knuckles is.
Calling the lost boys the lost box tickers was brilliant I haven't laughed that hard for a while.😂😂😂
This is the best popular culture film criticism we have anywhere on the planet. Seriously, keep it up Despot.
I genuinely like Kenneth Branaugh’s Cinderella remake, and the 90s 101 Dalmatians and Jungle Book remakes were pretty good, largely because all 3 at least tried to do something different with the material instead of just copy/paste with worse material.
As someone whose main goal in life is to form an animation studio (and I promise that my anti-wokeness will reflect in my work and especially my business practices), one of the biggest sins of these live-action remakes is their disrespect towards animation (at least to me). They remake some of the greatest and most influential works the entire medium has ever seen into shells of what they once were. They also send the message that animation isn't meant to be taken seriously, and I guess that's illustrated by their box office returns compared to the animated originals. I'm so sick of all that. It sounds just like all of those people who think animation is just a kid-distracter rather than a serious form of filmmaking. And to add icing on the cake, three of the actresses who played the live-action versions of Disney princesses presented the award for best animated feature, and... just watch it for yourself.
Not knew either, Disney did this in the late 70's and basically caused their best animators to leave. And then did their best to crush them when they recreated their own company. (Eventually financially they did) The Renaissance of the 90's was that way because of the dark times of the 1980's. For Disney they teetered on collapse. Disney thinks because the company survived that they can continue because the next Renaissance will be around the corner. Surviving almost collapse makes you feel invisible, without realizing the cracks that caused the original still remain.
This video is 1 of the best, well crafted, intelligent, creations I've seen in awhile! Thank you.
Thank you for your bravery, for saying what must be said, too many simps out here too scared for real talk. Awesome.
32:06 I wonder if they'll do a live action remake of Tarzan as a black man swinging around in the jungle with gorrilas like they retconed Ariel and Tinker Bell as black? 😃👍🏼
I used to give these the benefit of the doubt, like there would be an alternative version for people who like their Disney movies drab, flavourless and ugly (like they were outsourced to a malevolent a.i. program) and by contrast fans would appreciate the hand drawn animated classics more, but now I just think they simply do not care... I hate being right sometimes.
I couldn't agreed more. At this point, anyone interested in making their own story should also try to make their own franchise and do a much better job than the people destroying well-known franchises.
I love your way with words. You stated exactly what I feel, but much more eloquently and impactfully. A long video that did not bore me and brought me more enjoyment that modern Disney ever could. It is indeed all about "the message".
I can only wonder what kind of video we would had gotten if you had watched the whole movie!
Thank you for all of your hard work, wit, and creativity! Do you have any hope for the future of creativity/entertainment?
I don't think we will ever get back to the golden era of the 90s level of quality, but who knows... independent movies can still deliver, and I think Superhero movies are just about done (Guardians 3 looks to have flopped), it will be interesting to see what comes next.
@@DespotofAntrim Thank you for replying! Let’s put it this way: there will be no shortage of entertainment products for you to make videos about. Once in a while, a good movie does pop up so I don’t think all the talent is completely lost. I definitely have developed more appreciation for ‘80s and ‘90s shows and movies though. 😄🖖
When I thought the day could not get any better... The Despot releases another video!
Glad you're having a good day man.
I appreciate the inclusion of Back to the Future clips. Considering the person who owns the rights has absolutely refused to license it out for remakes.
thanks for bringing up on the subject of good remakes (though brief), i am curious of a longer discussion of good remakes and what makes them different from bad remakes.