As a whole, how do you feel about live action Disney remakes?

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Waste of time and resources. A live action Lion King is still a CGi cartoon.

I feel the same way. Unfortunately, there is an audience for these things.

My wife's grandmother, for example. She loved that, and the other "live action remakes" she's seen. Why? Because she's pretentious. She's a nice old lady, but she's pretentious, in the sense of she's never seen the original animated movies, and would never, ever deign to watch them "Because they're cartoons and cartoons are for little kids." She would never watch the original Lion King. "That's silly." But she loved the remake because "It's 'real'. It's a 'real' movie." Quite a few people in her family are like that, honestly. When my wife's mother sees her watching the animated "Beauty and the Beast", she chastises her for still "wasting her time on stuff for little kids." The Emma Watson version, though? "What a great movie!"

It's unfortunate, and ignorant, but a LOT of people are like that.

That's one of the two groups these movies are for. Group 1 is people who loved the originals so much that they'd pay to see anything even tangentially connected to them. Group 2 is people who've never seen the originals because "They're not real movies" but would gladly sit and watch the exact same story in live-action... or "live action", as in the case of the Lion King remake. Just as long as it's not "a cartoon for little kids".

Add those two groups together, and it's a lot of people.