• FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I have 0 interest in any of these “live action remakes”, not a single one has managed to even match the originals, much less surpass them.

    Animation is it’s own medium, it’s like trying to “remake” a sculpture by painting a picture of it

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      The other day I was trying to get the facts on how effective it actually is for humans to digest grass out of curiosity, and underneath the unwelcome AI answers was a series of thumbnails of tiktoks / youtube shorts with people dressed like fucking clowns doing this thing where they put their face way too close to the camera, make a stupid face, and point at something.

      Basically, manhattan

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        I mean not to be old man yelling at cloud but internet culture is making me hate everybody.

        Edit: hate “content creators/influencers” and the people who like them.

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    drugged stalker is truly the internets greatest aberration, i have no idea what he owes his success to and i vaguely dislike him but i also watched him as a dumb teenager so i literally contributed

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        And illegal, because the gameshow was fixed. But no one cared enough to actually prosecute it. It’s hilarious that his own incompetence protected him from the consequences of that incompetence.

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          I’ve never heard this, here I thought it was just unfunny.

          Come to think of it, basically everything Doug has ever done ended up being done better by the Red Letter Media crew. They have a brand with multiple shows, they do media reviews with skits, they even do funny gameshows sometimes - fingers crossed we’ll never find out that Mike and Jay are treating everyone like garbage behind the scenes.

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    I understand this is slop for people who just pay for whatever movie so it doesn’t matter there’s no demand for it, but haven’t all of these dog shit live action remakes barely broken even at best? What is the incentive to keep wasting money on them?

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      IIRC lion king was a huge success, other releases like little mermaid still generated more revenue than their budget by factors of 1.5-2x, but that isn’t considered a success for a movie this big

      something low on disney’s priority list but surely on there is that kids do generally like these movies. at least, I can see the justification for putting them into 3D CGI because I’ve seen my own daughter glaze her eyes over the original releases, but stay completely engaged with the 3D CGI versions.

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        other releases like little mermaid still generated more revenue than their budget by factors of 1.5-2x, but that isn’t considered a success for a movie this big

        IIRC the old rule of thumb for hollywood accounting is that marketing costs roughly the same as the movie’s budget. That’d make anything under 2x a loss.

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          In addition to those ones, Snow White, Mulan, Aladdin and the new Lilo & Stitch come to mind. There’s also the spin-offs like Cruella and Peter Pan, and now spin-off sequels like Mufusa.

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            Oh we’re including the live action remakes as 3D cg? I get that they also use a lot of it but some like Snow White or Mulan don’t really use enough for me to even consider them hybrids.

            Beauty and the Beast may as well get thrown in there along with Cinderella