What Old Disney Movies Are They Making Again

CMV: The modern remakes of older Disney movies (the new or upcoming Beauty and the Beast, Jungle Book, Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan, etc.) have never been exciting or good or hype-worthy and reflect a complete bankruptcy of creativity as well as a sickening, cynical and blatant greed on Disney's part

Edit: Okay so, this post gained a lot more traction than I was expecting. I woke up to over 150 replies and that's obviously more than I can realistically be expected to engage with. I want to thank the redditors who actually took the time to come up with a thoughtful response either to the original post or one of my follow-up comments, and there were plenty of you who offered good points that did change my viewpoint, so I'll be awarding deltas when I get time. There were also plenty who did not afford me such a courtesy however; one redditor went so far as to claim that I should be put on medication because I disagree with their opinion. Obviously, worthless comments like this are a dime a dozen on reddit but I wanted to focus on this one because as un-constructive as it is, I don't know if the commenter realized how hilariously dystopian their suggestion was. "You don't buy into the hype for Lion King 2019? Better drug yourself so you fit in with what my vision of a society is." Sorry to hear my opinion about kids movies about talking animals is such an affront to you that I need to change my brain's chemistry to appease you, sire. On this note I also think people have misinterpreted how ardently care about this topic. I don't lay awake at night cursing the Disney company because they made remakes of my childhood movies and replying to my original post with a response that implies that i take it that seriously is founded on false premises. Perhaps I worded my original title too negatively, because I don't care that much. What my overall point was, was that I don't buy into the hype. /edit

The most common arguments I see in support of seeing these remakes produced have been: 1. Makes me nostalgic. 2. It's what we love but made with better effects / production value. 3. It's like a Shakespeare play, we haven't seen this version of X story. And here's why I think each of those arguments completely fails:

1. Yeah, that's exactly the point. Disney KNOWS it makes you nostalgic and that's why they've chosen these properties. Not because they want to create greater art than the original, but because they know they have a guaranteed market before they even start pre-production.

2. This argument, to me, is just all kinds of infuriating. The Transformers films had "better effects" than the TV show. Doesn't mean they weren't steaming piles of garbage. Surprise surprise, one of the most powerful and wealthiest corporations in all history can make a technically competent product. I bet I could make a halfway decent movie if I had several billion dollars. Not to mention - was anybody watching the original Lion King in theaters and thinking, "Wow, this is great but I wish all the lions were photorealistic and impossible to distinguish by their faces so we have to rely on their voices." The medium of 2D animation worked so well for those films. Why spend millions and millions of dollars remaking them with different animation? (Answer: they know people will pay to see it.)

3. I think all the changes they have typically made between the original and the modern remakes have been 100% for the worse from my standpoint but 100% for the safer from a marketing standpoint. E.G.- Instead of the Beast from Beauty and the Beast being a Beast, he's like... a tall muscly guy with a hairy face. In the cartoon he was an actual monster, not unlike a bearwolf hybrid. But this was more palatable in the 3D animation medium to marketers.

Reddit post submissions are character-limited and I'm not that eloquent or intelligent so I'll stop here but for any more context regarding my opinions, check out any of Lindsay Ellis' videos about new Disney remakes (particularly her Beauty and the Beast review) as I agree with almost everything she brings up.

What Old Disney Movies Are They Making Again

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