THE LION KING - Disney's "Disastrous," "Hideous," "Unnecessary" Remake

[Monterey Jack]

Right on MJ. As a parent of a 5 year old I also have no motivation to bring my son to a film where the action in THE LION KING is literalized and more realistic, including its deaths.

Truth be told, Mufasa's death in the original is FAR more potentially traumatizing for kids, because the film didn't shy away from depicting Simba's sorrow and guilt during the aftermath of the wildebeest stampede. Here, it's like looking at footage of a housecat with disconnected lines of dialogue looped over it. It's astonishing how flatly-staged and unemotional it all is.

[Paul MacLean]

Scenes that exploded with color, humor and pathos in the original -- by being buried under this technically-dazzling but emotionally-distancing digital skin -- now come across as cloddish, lethargic and not fun in the slightest.

Thanks for taking this bullet for us, Jack.

I guess I'll see Cats instead!

[Monterey Jack]

I guess I'll see Cats instead!

At least that looks compellingly bat-guano insane. This film, meanwhile, is basically like listening to a bad cover version of the Lion King soundtrack while watching Animal Planet with Clutch Cargo-style lip-synch. It's alternately disconcerting and dull.

[Monterey Jack]

Okay, this made me laugh...

[Monterey Jack]

Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk indie darling Barry Jenkins to direct a prequel(?!) to The Lion King.

Dude just got Coogler'd.

[AndyDursin]

Awesome, more crap for the zombies.

One can only hope Disney's layoffs and theme park problems eventually spill over to their entertainment division.

[Monterey Jack]

yay

[Monterey Jack]

The 2019 movie opened to $446 million worldwide.

[AndyDursin]

What's crazier is there's scarcely been any promotion for SONIC 3 so far, they've barely run TV ads or made a major advertising push -- quite purposefully, as it's supposed to ramp up "now". And apparently, they haven't needed to.

[Monterey Jack]

What's crazier is there's scarcely been any promotion for SONIC 3 so far, they've barely run TV ads or made a major advertising push -- quite purposefully, as it's supposed to ramp up "now". And apparently, they haven't needed to.

I've seen the Sonic 3 trailer multiple times in theaters, and it always seems to get a good reaction (hey, Keanu as Shadow... ). The Lion King trailer is always greeted with expressions as blank as the characters in the movie.

As much money as Moana 2's gonna Hoover up this weekend, family audiences are clearly not gonna ask for seconds on Lion King, one of those $1.6 billion(!)-grossing success stories that you can never find anyone who will admit to liking. It's like those belated sequels to the live-action Alice In Wonderland and Maleficent movies, both of which came out way too late to ride the wave of their predecessors' success and both flopped.

[AndyDursin]

Well sure they've shown the trailer in theaters and gotten it on Youtube -- that doesn't require any effort there -- I'm talking about everything else. There's been next to nothing over the last couple of months. Few ads during sporting events or major series, little coverage elsewhere, etc.

That's changing now, but this is the complete opposite of Disney's approach or something like WICKED. The NBC Macy's parade was a 3-hour infomercial for WICKED, every other ad was connected to that overhyped movie.

For them to be tracking ahead of this Lion King prequel or whatever it is, under those circumstances, is interesting.

[Monterey Jack]

Yes...!

[AndyDursin]

Yet another movie everybody saw and nobody wanted to see a sequel to...the Disney version of JOKER 2.

[Monterey Jack]

Yet another movie everybody saw and nobody wanted to see a sequel to...the Disney version of JOKER 2.

It's a pattern with them...they release a crummy live-action version of one of their animated classics, it makes tons of money, then they release a sequel five or six years later that bombs because no one actually liked its predecessor (see also Alice Through The Looking Glass and Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil). Moana 2, despite being only okay at best (you can really see how it was conceived as a D+ series that got hastily reassembled as a "movie" late in the process), was a sequel to one of the last widely-beloved "pre-woke" Disney hits, so no wonder it's raking it in. Same with Sonic The Hedgehog 3, the third in a series of well-liked movies that's the best-reviewed and most satisfying of the bunch.

[Monterey Jack]

I'm honestly surprised Disney hasn't attacked audiences for being racist for not seeing this yet.