Dude, did you see what he posted? 

*waits for the outcry of whiny cis men bitching about cancel culture and anti-abortion rhetoric*

Fucked around and found out.

Good.

There’s a small shop up the street from me that exclusively sells MTG products and has been that way for the 15 or so years it’s been open.

This same company has been reselling/selling MtG cards at stores that only sell that for 12 years, per the article…..I think they know what they’re doing. 

The problem with that hypothesis is Frozen II came out after The Lion King remake, and Disney was insisting on calling the TLK remake “live action” even while it was still in production. It was always just a marketing tactic, to get people to see something that was familiar and comforting while still “new”.

The technical achievements are undeniable — it looks absolutely photorealistic, they had Favreau wearing a VR helmet so he could look around a set that did not exist and place cameras that also did not exist exactly where he wanted them — but God, this movie sucks on toast.

What’s truly incredible about these recent remakes is that for the most part, how much money they make is inversely proportional to their quality. Pete’s Dragon is clearly the best of them, but it made a drop in the bucket of what The Lion King, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast all made, and those films are terrible.…

There’s a reason the original soundtrack/score album went however-many-times platinum.  It’s simply gorgeous and thrilling, start to finish.

Even more amazing, just about everyone who’s made a Beauty and the Beast movie has reported that the whole middle section is incredibly hard to make interesting since it’s so dramatically inert. Their solution was to go hard on making a bunch of fun castle staff to keep attention going, and it worked beautifully.

I remember rewatching Beauty and the Beast after the remake and boy the pacing is rock solid.  There is not a minute wasted, it never feels like its rushing or dragging.  Its only 84 minutes and it's just perfect. 

Beauty and the Beast already had a superior live action version.

Leave it to Disney to make the term “live action” into meaning “different form of animation”

It’s amazing how tight Disney animation storytelling could be during the comeback period. Beauty and the Beast doesn’t waste a moment and accomplishes so much. It’s not totally surprising coming in the wake of a decade of ‘80s genre movies that often got you out of the theater after 105 minutes tops, though there were…

Nah. George Lucas has original thoughts and is an innovator from top to bottom, even when his movies don’t work. J.J. Abrams’s most original idea was to ape the biggest American auteur of the late-20th century.

I do not remember a single frame of this movie. Not one composition. Obviously I recall the original cartoon vividly, but this, an utter void in the memory bank.

He seems to be a great producer.

It’s an appropriate bookend to the soulless, joyless Rise of Skywalker.

I rewatched the original for the first time in years not long after this film came out and loved it. It’s a relatively simple story, but it’s really beautifully told.