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The original movie was made very much with an audience from 100 years ago in mind. Boomers have nostalgia for it, so can’t change the script too much. Meanwhile, millennials are socially aware and see the problems with the story. Disney tried to make everyone happy, and generate a little bit of free press, and failed to make anyone happy.
This was a remake that should never have gotten off the ground.
It's not even that. This story is easily watchable in any way you'd like, and everyone has probably already seen it as a kid.
This is the part where Disney blames bigots rather than admitting they just made a bad movie people never wanted to watch
Bigots definitely didn't help, but I know far more people who didn't go simply because "why would I want to see that?" Vs bigots
Outside of Maleficent, all of them have been shot for shot remakes (with one additional scene/song to make it "different"). And animation is just a better medium for magic and whimsy compared to what you can do in live action.
Couldn't agree more. If I wanted to watch someone pretend to have magical powers and interact with nonexistent set pieces, I'd assemble my game group. There's so much that you can do with animation that just cannot be done live action. I miss when animated movies had distinct styles that contributed to the atmosphere the fiction was building. Live action is comparatively empty of expression.
They purposely casted controversial actors hoping to get free publicity - Hollywood's new favourite marketing ploy is outrage casting. But this time it didn't pay off.