Topic: Movie thread.

@Kermit1 Nah, they'll just turn Cartoon Network to HGTV Kids.

@HotGoomba don't joke about that... You'll just give them ideas.

The scrapped animated Popeye movie leaked. I'm legit mad right now, it's soo good, I can't believe we got the freaking eMoJi movie instead of a really good Popeye movie.

@Kermit1 At least they redeemed themselves with Spider-Verse.

@HotGoomba apparently Sony is going to sabotage Spider-Verse 2 with a "Madam Web movie", it's plot sounds terrible.

The plot (someone leaked it)
Terminator-like robots want to kill Peter Parker's mother before he was born. So then a time travel adventure happens with Madam Web and some Spider-Man knockoffs to stop the robots from killing Peter Parker's mother.

The Kraven movie sounds worse. He's a "environmentalist" and an "animal activist" who fights crime.

I don't like Sony Pictures anymore (the real Sony makes good headphones though)

@Kermit1 The only part of Sony Pictures still alive to me is the Animation division, ironically enough.

The real Sony makes great TVs though.

lol Yeah, Sony doesn't get Spider-Man villains. Kraven is the Predator but human; there's no need to make it more complicated than that.

NGL, the live action Pinocchio actually looks good. Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think Disney nailed it with how Pinocchio looks. Really looking forward to it now. As someone who loved the original movie, I'm quite happy with what I've seen in the trailer so far.

@Kermit1 Meanwhile, Smurfs: The Lost Village got overlooked because people were angry at the studio over the Emoji Movie, even though it's more faithful to Peyo's works than the live action Smurfs movies were.

On a good note, some Chris Farley Shrek footage was found. Shrek looks legit scary, also some audio was also found for it but it's nothing special.

@Sunsy.... I still want to watch this one more, it has the dying art of stop motion.

Same. I won't be watching the Disney one. I'm more interested in Guillermo's take, as I think he's more suitable to take on what was essentially a watered down version by Disney (which Disney does A LOT for many fairy tales, literature and even historical figures like Pocahontas), especially when the original story was a dark fairy tale like Guillermo's Pan's Labyrinth. He's literally the perfect person to bring Pinocchio to life.

Between the guy who does dark fairy tales for a living or the billion dollar corporation that continues to cash in on our childhood without any semblance of shame, I think it's obvious which one is the perfect visionary to bring a dark fairy tale to life.

Of course, it helps that I really, really hate Disney and all that it stands for. Its use of childhood innocence to capitalize on an entire generation of paying customers is pretty disgusting.

No mention of My Life As A Courgette, the critically acclaimed sweet and brightly colour stop motion film about an abused child who kills his Mum and then gets sent to an orphanage?

@jump isn't that film PG??

@Kermit1 Probably, there's no bewbs or naughty word in it.

I mean I use Disney+ just for the old live action stuff. I see what you mean, it's gross, but I will never go to a Disney park ever again. Mainly because we are pretty much living in poverty, and Universal is ten times better, it has roller-coasters (though I'd like to one day go to Canada's Wonderland)

@Kermit1 I used to want to visit Disneyland when I was a kid, because that seductive magic of Disney did attract my young impressionable mind, but I'm kinda grateful that we don't have Disneyland in Singapore because our land is too small. Had I grew up with Disneyland, I don't know if I would see Disney for what it is.

But it's not really the theme parks that bothers me even, but the slew of live action remakes that are blatantly cashing in on people who have seen the original animations, while also doing a worse version of those animated films. Their take on a Pinocchio live action is just their latest attempt to sell you your childhood nostalgia, much like what many, many Hollywood blockbusters have been trying to do since The Matrix: Resurrections. It's a cheap nostalgia-bait, and it's bad, lazy and uninspired filmmaking IMO, not to mention being a disgrace to the craft of filmmaking and a detriment to original films.

They also sued parents for putting Spider-Man on their dead child's tombstone because they wanted to "preserve the innocence and magic" of Disney's characters.

FYI: Stan Lee would've allowed grieving parents to put Spidey on their child's tombstone. Your so-called preservation of "innocence and magic" is more about preserving your product that would make you money, a product that might risk losing money if it's on a tombstone. Just say what you really mean.

Disney isn't the "magical and innocent" company of your childhood that many would like to believe, that many children are being influenced to believe. It's an aggressive company that has cost thousands, if not millions of people their jobs by buying out less successful companies like Fox and LucasArts.

@Maxenmus it's messy. I'm choosing not to watch Disney films and remakes.

I like films like CLUE (that film is legendary), I like 50s-70s dramas, I like under the radar old films like
The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming (a freaking awesome satire), I love Jim Henson films and I like experimental short films from the 60s-70s. I sometimes don't want to watch a big boom pow bang movies.

I'm still somewhat new to TV (lol), I grew up watching the DVD's for the Muppet Show Season 3 (the Harry Belafonte episode is my favourite thing ever), Fraggle Rock was something I watched over and over again. As a kid I was a huge puppet nerd and one summer (I think I was 8) I went to the Center for Puppetry ArtsCentre and it was my dream come true seeing the real Fraggle Rock puppets on display (stuffed of course), that is the only time as a kid where I felt truly happy. When I went to DisneyWorld... It was hot, ultra busy, mediocre food and when my Mom and Aunt went back to the parks in the afternoon I stayed with my cousin and we hung out at the pool.

@Sunsy I'm with @Kermit1, I'm looking forward to the stop motion Pinocchio more. Although the Disney one at least has a Pinocchio that doesn't look hideous.

Also I'm sure both movies will be better than the other Pinocchio movie that released this year.

Daredevil:

But really, I get that it's a good business move and that's why they do that, so I'm not too mad at them about that. But that being said, the live-action remakes need to stop. Just make more original movies and stop hanging on to nostalgia, DISNEY.

@HotGoomba have you seen their original movies... that secret society of royal or whatever it was called was one of the worst things I've ever seen. THEN DISNEY DID IT AGAIN WITH THE SAME STORY BUT IN A MAGIC FAIRY SCHOOL. they both are terrible...

I do feel like older films should be revisited as they were. They might not have better graphics than modern films, but they were important historic landmarks of what the culture was like back in the day, and how that culture influenced the films being made. Remaking them feels like rebuilding the Statue of Liberty and putting a Captain America shield on it... oh never mind, they already did that. Big oof.

lol What about Daredevil? I'm pretty sure Netflix's Daredevil will still be better than the Disneyfied version, considering how badly of a job they did with Kingpin in the Hawkeye TV show.

It is a good business move, and I get that that's just how businesses work, but it just feels scummy to me because of certain business decisions they made, like that whole deal with the Spider-Man tombstone (giving the grieving parents some plastic card with Spidey to make up for it), and the many unnecessary live action remakes and their hollow cape flicks that are saturating the film industry, making it harder for original films to make a profit. It's not a crime they're committing, technically speaking, but you can see why I'm annoyed as a film buff (and also as a human being in regards to the tombstone one).

And it's not just Disney hanging on to nostalgia either. I wouldn't be surprised if other film studios were influenced by Disney's business practices when greenlighting their recent nostalgia-baits, including Jurassic Park: Dominion that brought back the original characters of the original trilogy. They didn't even do a good job with those characters from what I heard. Locusts? In a movie about dinosaurs? Really, Universal? Really?