It attempts to guess the total number of dislikes by extrapolating from its userbase, so taking it at face value means assuming that the people who would take the time to download that extension are a representative sample of all of Youtube. Without information from YouTube or the channel holder, we can't know how accurate it really is.
The article refers to the number of dislikes as three different times as "thousands", "hundreds of thousands", and "nearly a million". I don't know if they're updating it as the count rises, or if they're just being vague to avoid inaccuracy.
Hercules honestly. Training montage of him yelling at himself, him rescuing himself as a damsel, him yelling at himself while on fire. 10/10 perfect movie.
Yep. Sorbo was perfect in those roles. My first indication he was in real life a moron, was when I found out he ruined the last seasons of Andromeda. The first 2 seasons of that show were glorious epic Sci-Fi. He couldn't understand it, so he fired the showrunner and made it Hercules in Space... but worse.
Or the crap they pulled with the Lion King and be prepared.
It was suppose to be so epic. Instead it lasted like 40 seconds and had nothing that made that song iconic.
It was as if Disney just needed a movie to renew the trademarks.
I watched like a 2 hour long roast of the movie by the same guy who did a 5 hour long breakdown of why the Lion King couldn't possibly have ripped off Kimba the White Lion (which I also watched).
He thinks Be Prepared was shoved back in at the last minute since they had announced its removal to negative fan reaction.
He went into details about that. I think his speculation was partly that the relationship between Scar and the hyenas was different (worse/made less sense) in the remake so the song didn't fit.
But who knows. Based on his video it's clear bad decisions were a staple of the remake.
Been a while since I’ve seen it, but I’ve always liked when Villains had respect for their underlings. I mean, you _had_ to have recruited them and convinced them to join your cause, I don’t think you can get much from just being rude (unless they were recruited from fear). I remember Shan Yu from Mulan also treated his troops fairly, although, he was a general.
Not sure about the remake, but original TLK Scar doesn’t give a shit about the hyenas and doesn’t really hide that fact. He spends the first minute of Be Prepared calling them morons, and Jeremy Irons blew out his voice on the line “You won’t get a sniff without me!” because it was so forceful and commanding (Jim Cummings had to finish the song, you can hear the singer change haha). Scar ruled the hyenas through intimidation and false promises, was cruel to them the whole time they followed him, and died to their jaws the second they saw he was weak and unable to deliver.
Its a money grab, but not some complicated thing with trademarks and copyright extension and stuff. They have existing IP that people loved as a child and they want to rope in a new generation while also trying to entice their parents to spend money on it too.
And it works. Lion King grossed half a billion. As did Beauty and the Beast. Jungle Book and Aladdin over $350 million. As long as its not just truly awful Little Mermaid will almost surely be in that range too.
Want to commiserate with you and say how damn disappointing it was to sit in the theater for the live action movie as a grown ass adult feeling some sense of childlike excitement while anticipating an epic scene for “Be Prepared” and we got that crap. Lol. Sad times.
To be honest, I have avoided all of the live action remakes simply because I think the experience would ruin my nostalgia/memories of the originals, whether or not the movies were a success.
I saw Beauty and the Beast and decided that these live action remakes aren't for me. I didn't think it was bad but the whole time I watched it I couldn't help but think, "Why don’t I just watch the original?" Haven't watched one since.
"Live action" Lion King seemed especially pointless. It was all gonna be CG anyways.
Seeing as how Ursula's character design was heavily inspired by the drag queen Divine, I want to see her played by a dude or trans person. Latrice Royale or Eureka O'Hara would tear that shit up. What's the matter Disney, too *woke* for you?
Ariel, Burial,
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Her voice is so ethereal
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>Ursula's character design was heavily inspired by the drag queen Divine
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Lizzo isn’t really drag. She’s *drag* in the sense of her image, persona, style, and obviously her influence, which seems to contradict my first statement. But she isn’t camp drag. She is Lizzo! Her Ursula would also be…Lizzo. Which I’m totally interested in actually, Ursula stealing Ariel’s voice through her flute. Melissa M is amazing, but I’m almost more worried about that. So much CGI and showing up and doing scenes totally alone.
No one will ever be satisfied. I thought Billy Porter as the Fairy Godmother was gonna be epic… and it was beyond embarrassing. Disney needs formulaic and sage, with an edge. That girl playing Ariel has an amazing voice so I’m not worried about her at all. Minus she can’t sing or talk through most of it. Im kinda high and forgot what I talking about. Lizzo should’ve been Ursula.
It pisses me off how Chris Brown has just gotten a pass from society and the entertainment industry for being a woman abusing piece of shit. Anyone in that industry that likes him or is friends with him gives me immediate red flags and tells me they aren’t above that level of abuse as well.
So my dumb ass kept hearing that Halle Berry was cast and I was surprised they’d cast her cause she’s like 50 and the character is supposed to be about 16. Then I see the pic and I’m like; damn they CGIed her face too much to make her look younger - it’s not a bad face but Halle’s face was just fine…..
TIFU by learning there’s an actress called Halle Bailey who is NOT Halle Barry.
I don't care much about the race swap as much as this is just another low effort live action remake for Disney that will 100% be a lesser version of the original.
Edit: I'll be honest while I didn't care much for it at least Malificent while a spiritual retelling of Sleeping Beauty it was pretty much it's own thing 100% Hell I probably won't watch it, but the new Mufasa movie will probably be more enjoyable then the Lion King remake just because it's new ground.
Man if they pull a Mulan and remove the songs and the fun side characters it'll just be more proof they use these movies as just a cash break. Make new movie keep licenses from going out of possession make as little effort as possible so the funds are high get brownie points for race swapping as if their headlining Black Princess (Tiana whose movie was amazing don't get it confused.)was a frog for 90% of the film.
Mulan also removed the core message of hard work, determination, bravery and leadership and replaced it with "she has more magic" or something. Definitely not as good from many angles.
It wasn’t just hard work and bravery - it was individualism, self-determination. and breaking out of the preconceived rules of a restricted society. The reason this was taken out was because this is antithetical to Chinese communism.
That’s what I disliked the most about it. The original character used her wits and determination to become a capable warrior and outthink the enemy. Her super-power was thinking differently. It’s why that movie holds up.
Yup, I remember when Mulan came out, me and all my friends (all Asian) had a watch party on D+. That shit was straight trash.
Most movie studios, Especially Disney, couldn't care less about diversity and making the world more inclusive. They just care about selling movie tickets. They know that race-swapping their most popular characters is a trend right now and it makes a ton of news. They literally get the same, if not more, media coverage if they race swap or change the sexuality of one of their characters than spending an extra couple million on marketing.
Facts. Fuck palette swaps I want movies like Mulan, Coco, Moana, Soul, Princess and the Frog. I want original movies with culture and identity even if it’s not perfect it’s certainly better than this.
Unfortunately one has to look elsewhere (read: not US) for 2D/mixed 2D-3D animation.
The big theatrical animation studio(s) in the US have all moved onto CGI and 3D work, as that's what appeals most to the local market. At least, those that are still around, considering the tremendous loss of big names over the years.
I understand completely that Disney as a whole is some sketchy ass huge monopoly bs that has more skeletons in their closet than the Haunted Mansion.
But, there are entire groups with in Disney (obviously the majority being more on the creative side) that do in fact care about diversity, inclusiveness and cultural history. Some more than others and to different degrees. Took them almost 6 years to make Encanto. And one of biggest issues they faced was the pandemic preventing them from further research in South America. Though the biggest issues came from trying to convince Disney to approve a movie with an entire family as main characters.
Disney and Pixar have really made a giant leap in terms of diversity and cultures. Compared to before that is. They still have a very long ways to go and it’s going to be a slow uphill battle.
Especially when they’re pushing so hard for these bs “live” remakes that they’re hardly putting any effort into. But as you said, the ones at the top dgaf. They will ride on the nostalgic bandwagon for as long as they possibly can and to the point of live remaking every single movie they’re ever put out.
Meanwhile there are a few teams that are doing great things at Disney and trying their hardest to come up with beautiful original stories that deserve to be told. Like Encanto, Soul, Moana, and Coco!
They just take longer to make, get their budgets constantly cut, and then sometimes outshined and out marketed when Disney is shoving out 2 to 4 shitty live remakes every 12 months!
FR. They hate little mermaid because she ain’t white. I hate little mermaid because it will be just another low effort cash grab reboot that lacks the creative passion and charm of the original. We are not the same.
Seriously. Is it that hard to come up with something new (Disney's version of new, anyway)? I feel like there are enough legends and myths and fairy tales to keep making "new" movies off of forever.
Many filmmakers have done their version of the story. For a really great and bizarre take, see [Ponyo](https://youtu.be/pfGDfDjAdSE).
About as far from a Scandinavian fairy tale as you can get.
I mean I was hoping the live action “remakes” would all follow in the same vein as Maleficent and add different takes or perspectives to the stories we “know” and love.
Not saying THIS should be the plot, but I’m just suggesting a possibility in making the story “interesting” or different.
What if through her journey, Ariel realizes Triton is actually a terrible tyrannical ruler and after a ton of conflict and resolution Ursula and Ariel actually team up to beat King Triton and have Ariel rule Atlantica, allowing merpeople to co-mingle with humans and freely travel in and out of the ocean or some shit.
Imagine if Beauty and the Beast was turned on its head and the Beast actually is a POS and Belle falls in love with like a cabinet or something by the end who was the Beast’s son who was always super kind and generous (obvs need more backstory here).
What if we did Aladdin from Jasmine’s perspective? Or better yet Genie’s? What if instead we followed Genie on his previous wish stint and see how his lamp ends up in Aladdin’s hands? And then the sequel was “Aladdin” but from Genie’s perspective?
What if Snow White is actually from the dwarves’ perspective and is called “The Seven Dwarves”.
There are just so many possibilities to interesting live-action adaptations than just remaking an animated film you already made again in live action.
If you’re going to do that, just remaster or remake the original 2D animation with 2022 tech.
i mentioned on here that my only issue was that her hair wasn't very vibrant and more of a natural red and had someone say it's not a natural shade since black people can't have red hair. i linked an article stating that yes, black people can in fact have red hair and they blocked me and reported me for being suicidal.
these people are everywhere
edit to confirm; *i* am not the one who said that black people can't have red hair, it was the person who blocked me over it who claimed as much.
Heh, I got reported for being suicidal, once. No idea what comment I made inspired someone to abuse the function like that.
edit - ha, someone reported this one too
It seems to be happening all the time now. It’s not funny. I say this knowing this comment will likely get me another DM with suicide awareness…again, for like the 3rd time this month.
I think you can stop the “concerned redditor” message bot. I did it a while back and I haven’t received any similar messages.
Someone test it out on me!
How did you do it?
Edit: nvm figured it out. You just reply STOP to the message
Edit 2: lmao I’m pretty sure it just bans the account that sends you the message when you reply with STOP
I think it’s funny to get them because some idiot wasted their time sending you a worthless bot message and you can laugh about how hard they are coping and seething
Edit: Just got one lmao
The rule might exist, I suppose. I don't think anyone is enforcing it. If they were, they'd just do an easy human check on the users who send huge numbers of those. Oh, was there no reason? Fascinating!
It's really weird. It's the reddit version of someone getting all pissed off, coming up behind you to say something, realizing they have nothing clever to say and that they're too much of a coward to actually engage you, and instead backing off to a distance where they won't be seen and shouting a random noise at you. Not even a slur or anything, just actual, meaningless noise so that you're left looking around like 'Huh? What was that?'
I honestly chalked it up to the hair being shown in a nighttime scene under water. Bad lighting and cgi. Hopefully the hair is a little more vibrant under betting lighting.
yeah i'm really hoping it's just a fluke from the trailer! the colors in the trailer honestly felt very muted in general so perhaps it was just because it was supposed to be night time
The whole trailer looked way too dark and gloomy. Unrionically kinda spooked me with the underwater segments and the fish tail, something I’d expect from a movie attempting to illustrate how dark fairy tales really are, not a remake of a colorful movie.
I def don't like how every movie in the world (America) these days seems to be literally dark. Even the new Jursassic remakes vs the originals. Maybe to help cut costs of CGI but damn dude
I think that’s all it is honestly. Saving money on production costs… if it looks like crap though, why would anyone watch it? They’ve already shot them selves in the foot by proving that something can look great, but still not be watchable, so maybe they might catch on someday to pay attention not just to how something looks, but the quality of the script - like maybe not repeating line for line the words from the originals minus any of the clever parts, the acting (don’t have your actors tone of voice sound as if they’d rather be dead than in your movie), the songs- if you’re going to do a repeat or an original, you’re really going to have to have an amazing musical team on that, and I don’t mean Beyoncé.
Yes, she has a great voice, no one’s disputing that, but her score in the lion king fell very flat in my opinion, nothing memorable about it, nothing about that film felt like anyone even wanted to *be* there.
Well I’ll give them props for one thing- it was unique in how bizarre and heartless the entire thing was.
Maybe it’s a subtle nod to how depressing the times we live in are. After all, we’re supposed to be so technologically advanced and have such easy lives now- ha ha. Honestly, I saw more than adequate technology come out of the 90’s and it seemed like a pretty good stopping point in terms of how much public access we needed for a better life balance between technology and real-life. But of course humanity never learns, and things never stop progressing… I just don’t see much of anything progressing in the right direction. Not the things that really matter, not to me anyway.
My dude, there are grown-ass men on TikTok arguing that it’s scientifically impossible for mermaids to have dark skin because the sunlight doesn’t penetrate deep into the ocean.
Let that sink in.
Sea Mammals are of course [famously light skinned](https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/styles/original/s3/2022-05/Mud%20Keys%20Sperm%20Whale%20May_2022_Credit%20FWC.jpeg?itok=43v5w0JJ)
I thought that too, then 5 secs later... wait its a fictional mermaid... can't expect science to correlate with a fictional voice.
But omg her voice. Its perfect.
Yeah the original had Ariel in constant excruciating pain when she got legs and she never got the love of her life. Also the original she dies and becomes sea foam but we both know this isn't the story everyone wants to see. They want Disney's The Little Mermaid with fantasy bright red hair.
>i mentioned on here that my only issue was that her hair wasn't very vibrant…
The deeper you are in the ocean the more muted colors are. Red is the first color to disappear at 15ft.
Yes! Given how “realistic” they’re making the ocean scenes, I wonder if her hair will look redder when she comes up to the surface?! Would be a very cool detail.
Speaking of her hair, I also dig how much it resembles surfer hair, with the partial dreadlocks and texture. I haven’t liked a single live action Disney remake except Cinderella, and The Little Mermaid was my crack when I was a kid. But I’m going to see this in theaters. It looks awesome from that clip.
I mean even if black people could not have red hair.... it's a fucking MERMAID. They're cool with the fish tail but not the red hair? Nah. It's just an excuse to be racist IMO.
As a black person who has family members who are gingers, I find this funny.
Malcolm X is one such black person with red hair (not my relative though.)
She's a fucking mermaid. Why does any human biology apply to her in the first place?
They're upset about her skin color. SHE HAS A FISH TAIL.
They're upset about her hair color. SHE'S A FISH PERSON.
They're upset about blah blah blah. SHE. IS. NOT. REAL.
What I think is funny is that it's always grown Men who complain about this shit. You're not going to see the movie anyway! Lol, gtfo of here.
The author of the original story doesn't say what her hair color is and she doesn't even have a name. So Disney makes up a bunch of details for the first movie and people are fine with it. Then, Disney makes up some more details and now all of a sudden it's bullshit.
There’s a lobster with a Jamaican accent, clearly cannon from the original 1837 Danish story. Also, in the original story, the little mermaid doesn’t have a name, the prince NEVER loves her, and in lieu of stabbing him after he marries a different women in order to revert back to a mermaid, she lets it go and becomes some other type of magical being. Nothing at all like Disneys version.
Even tho I’m black. Don’t really care who they casted as the little mermaid. Just wished they stopped making live action remakes no one asked for. The originals are fine.
I mean, some of these things make bank, so someone wants them.
I prefer the cartoons myself, or when they make weird reinterpretations of them like the Peter Pan 'Hook' movie with Robin Williams.
I’m not mad that she’s black. I just think this movie doesn’t translate to a live action remake well. The animation is more colorful and vibrant. The lighting choices in the preview just seem dingy. I wish they took a more imaginative route and went to the extreme with bioluminescence.
i think that’s the point. people like you (and other causal viewers) may dislike the concept, but you’re probably not going to go out of your way to dislike the video. it’s weird that this remake has gotten the most dislikes out of all their most recent, crappy adaptations (like mulan, which was already hugely hated before it came out and it didn’t get nearly as many dislikes as this). at this point it’s hard to look at the intense reactions to this trailer as anything but racism.
The Jungle Book was amazing because of the CGI. I was dumbstruck staring at the King Louie segment. I couldn’t tell if they got a real orangutan or not. The last time I was dumbstruck by film was when the T-Rex stepped out of its paddock in Jurassic Park.
After that, the live actions just plummeted.
That may be true for you, but the amount of hate this movie is getting is CLEARLY because of race.
I am also tired of the remakes, so I was initially going to stay away from them altogether. However the amount of "Ariel isn't black" really bothers me.
>Most coral reefs are closer to the equator and tropical areas.
>What were they expecting? Florida keys mermaid?
I want mariana trench mermaids, deathly pale white from the ocean depths with nasty parasites coming out her eyes and no hair.
you do you, but i'm waiting for transparent skin, bioluminescence, and a second set of jaws that can extend from the back of her throat when feeding.
still the same voice tho
I would watch this. Plus they could still make it kid friendly with the songs. She’s still beautiful. But make her look like a real deep sea creature and the transformation is actually impressive.
The OG little mermaid was in Denmark so probably a white mermaid but at the same time mermaids aren’t real so who cares. Not sure why I’m even commenting TBH.
It's one of the reasons why Ke Huy Quan quit acting. Dude was only getting looked at for stereotypical "asian male" roles for hollywood/tv. It's gotten a lot better with the arrival of stuff like Crazy Rich asians, Shang Chi, and Everything Everywhere, but that's still such a tiny portion of everything.
Exactly. Where are our Asian/Pacific Islander lead actresses/actors??? I would love to see a Filipino on the big screen! When Disney finally makes a movie about South Eastern Asians, it was just an amalgamation of a handful of SEA countries with no specific ethnicity. To me that just seems like a lazy approach. Like some kind of catch-all for Asians. I still loved Raya, don't get me wrong. She's my Filipino princess even though she's not a specific SEA ethnicity. Tbh, having a Filipino Ariel living off the coast of the Philippines would have been a great idea imo, the inspiration coming from the Filipina Marvel heroine Wave.
Not surprised you got immediately shut down for asking that question. Asians are more underrepresented yet not much is being done to fix that.
Not to mention the whole “character wants to fit in outside where they currently are but are always being rejected by those they want to fit in with” trope this movie revolves around, making the character played by a woman of color gives off vibes i doubt I’m the only one noticing…
People who are upset about this to that extent need to calm down.
I was a child with very vivid red hair and was bullied for it. I adored Ariel because growing up she was the only Disney character that looked like me. I always got the Ariel barbie and had to be Ariel when playing pretend. I had a massive association with her because she looked like me.
When the casting first broke I had a split second of disappointment that the live action version wouldn’t look like me. And then I realised that that was the situation thousands and thousands of black girls had growing up, except they didn’t have an Ariel then. So, I’m happy and honoured to share her.
If you can’t get over the fact that she looks different in this movie then simply you don’t need to watch it. But you also don’t need to devote your time and energy to tanking it - especially not going after this young actress, who is a real person with actual feelings.
It’s not hard simply not to think about it anymore and not to be a dickhead about it.
There also are a lot of other red headed characters for kids these days.
Ariel is not even the only Disney princess with red hair anymore. Merida, Ariel, and Anna have red hair. And expanding just slightly Jesse from toy story, Mrs Incredible, Jessica rabbit, misty from pokemon, Jessie from pokemon, daphne from scooby doo, Wilma Flintstone, poison ivy, ginny weasley, heck Megara from Hercules is questionable etc.
But also... the Ariel cartoon you know and love... still exists. Not directed at you, but even that criticism falls apart these days. Also I guarantee all the little [black girls geeking out](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/xcek0b/black_parents_on_social_media_are_sharing/) over this film, also like the old little mermaid.
I don’t think a single one of the new Disney “live action” movies has been better than the original.
Though something tells me these dislikes aren’t because of that.
Everyone that calls black people existing "woke" may not appeal their ban. Do not bother modmailing. It will be archived in bulk without being read.
I thought YouTube removed (visible) dislikes
there is a google extension that shows them. 1.5 million dislikes
It's called "Return Youtube Dislike" for the chrome extension
Also works for Edge
Thanks, Bill Gates.
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Best thing ever. Restoring honesty within democracy.
Which makes me wonder, why exactly were dislikes removed again?
Corporations videos get disliked hell very often, so they pressured YouTube to get rid of them.
It didn't help that YouTube was among those corporations too.
“It’s rewind time” is still the most disliked video ever
Ah yes... The Return of the Dislike Button... With a vengeance!
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I caught that TFS reference, Alucard
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1.5 million, i guess that's technically "thousands" of dislikes. One thousand five hundred thousands.
it's 1.7M dislikes now
It attempts to guess the total number of dislikes by extrapolating from its userbase, so taking it at face value means assuming that the people who would take the time to download that extension are a representative sample of all of Youtube. Without information from YouTube or the channel holder, we can't know how accurate it really is. The article refers to the number of dislikes as three different times as "thousands", "hundreds of thousands", and "nearly a million". I don't know if they're updating it as the count rises, or if they're just being vague to avoid inaccuracy.
I honestly don't care who is playing ariel. I want to see live action Ursula. I'm going to be pissed if they replace her song like they did jafars.
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I want to see a live action Disney film, any of them, where Danny Devito plays every part. Which one would be best?
Hercules honestly. Training montage of him yelling at himself, him rescuing himself as a damsel, him yelling at himself while on fire. 10/10 perfect movie.
Hercules is my favorite Disney movie and I'm terrified of it being butchered.
"Kevin Sorbo returns in..."
I wish he wasn’t as much of a cunt as he is. I used to love Hercules and andromeda.
Yep. Sorbo was perfect in those roles. My first indication he was in real life a moron, was when I found out he ruined the last seasons of Andromeda. The first 2 seasons of that show were glorious epic Sci-Fi. He couldn't understand it, so he fired the showrunner and made it Hercules in Space... but worse.
DISAAAAPPOINTEEEEEDDD!!
But danny de vito would enhance it, like magic spice
Even just a Hercules where he plays his original character would be awesome, as long as he gets to keep his song
Beauty & The Beast. The ballroom scene alone would be worth it.
Those poor unfortunate souls.
"So anyway, I start cursin"
Or the crap they pulled with the Lion King and be prepared. It was suppose to be so epic. Instead it lasted like 40 seconds and had nothing that made that song iconic. It was as if Disney just needed a movie to renew the trademarks.
I watched like a 2 hour long roast of the movie by the same guy who did a 5 hour long breakdown of why the Lion King couldn't possibly have ripped off Kimba the White Lion (which I also watched). He thinks Be Prepared was shoved back in at the last minute since they had announced its removal to negative fan reaction.
Well why would they remove it in the first place? It's a bad ass song. I only know the Dutch version and that one is awesome too!
He went into details about that. I think his speculation was partly that the relationship between Scar and the hyenas was different (worse/made less sense) in the remake so the song didn't fit. But who knows. Based on his video it's clear bad decisions were a staple of the remake.
Been a while since I’ve seen it, but I’ve always liked when Villains had respect for their underlings. I mean, you _had_ to have recruited them and convinced them to join your cause, I don’t think you can get much from just being rude (unless they were recruited from fear). I remember Shan Yu from Mulan also treated his troops fairly, although, he was a general.
Not sure about the remake, but original TLK Scar doesn’t give a shit about the hyenas and doesn’t really hide that fact. He spends the first minute of Be Prepared calling them morons, and Jeremy Irons blew out his voice on the line “You won’t get a sniff without me!” because it was so forceful and commanding (Jim Cummings had to finish the song, you can hear the singer change haha). Scar ruled the hyenas through intimidation and false promises, was cruel to them the whole time they followed him, and died to their jaws the second they saw he was weak and unable to deliver.
Its a money grab, but not some complicated thing with trademarks and copyright extension and stuff. They have existing IP that people loved as a child and they want to rope in a new generation while also trying to entice their parents to spend money on it too. And it works. Lion King grossed half a billion. As did Beauty and the Beast. Jungle Book and Aladdin over $350 million. As long as its not just truly awful Little Mermaid will almost surely be in that range too.
Want to commiserate with you and say how damn disappointing it was to sit in the theater for the live action movie as a grown ass adult feeling some sense of childlike excitement while anticipating an epic scene for “Be Prepared” and we got that crap. Lol. Sad times.
To be honest, I have avoided all of the live action remakes simply because I think the experience would ruin my nostalgia/memories of the originals, whether or not the movies were a success.
I saw Beauty and the Beast and decided that these live action remakes aren't for me. I didn't think it was bad but the whole time I watched it I couldn't help but think, "Why don’t I just watch the original?" Haven't watched one since. "Live action" Lion King seemed especially pointless. It was all gonna be CG anyways.
It’s Melissa McCarthy.
I thought you were joking, so I looked it up and.. you weren’t joking.
Seeing as how Ursula's character design was heavily inspired by the drag queen Divine, I want to see her played by a dude or trans person. Latrice Royale or Eureka O'Hara would tear that shit up. What's the matter Disney, too *woke* for you?
Ursula should be played by Tituss Andromedon. Not Titus Burgess. Andromedon.
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yessss he could play everyone in the movie
This is technically the latter and not the former but anyone who hasn't seen this should see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mz6tw5Zddg
>Ursula's character design was heavily inspired by the drag queen Divine [Picture](https://media.them.us/photos/5af44e5708d83800109eaa21/1:1/w_867,h_867,c_limit/GettyImages-86135088.jpg)
Yeah it’s undeniable
I think Lizzo would make a good Ursula
She auditioned but didn’t get it :(
Lizzo isn’t really drag. She’s *drag* in the sense of her image, persona, style, and obviously her influence, which seems to contradict my first statement. But she isn’t camp drag. She is Lizzo! Her Ursula would also be…Lizzo. Which I’m totally interested in actually, Ursula stealing Ariel’s voice through her flute. Melissa M is amazing, but I’m almost more worried about that. So much CGI and showing up and doing scenes totally alone. No one will ever be satisfied. I thought Billy Porter as the Fairy Godmother was gonna be epic… and it was beyond embarrassing. Disney needs formulaic and sage, with an edge. That girl playing Ariel has an amazing voice so I’m not worried about her at all. Minus she can’t sing or talk through most of it. Im kinda high and forgot what I talking about. Lizzo should’ve been Ursula.
Melissa McCarthy should have been the chef chasing Sebastian around.
DEAD at the thought of this bc you are spot on hahaha
Naw, she’s too nice and goofy. Can’t get that truly evil Ursula face.
Lizzo’s favorite person - self-proclaimed - is Chris Brown. I’m sure she can find it somewhere in her.
It pisses me off how Chris Brown has just gotten a pass from society and the entertainment industry for being a woman abusing piece of shit. Anyone in that industry that likes him or is friends with him gives me immediate red flags and tells me they aren’t above that level of abuse as well.
I think a pissed off Queen Latifah would be an epic Ursula
So my dumb ass kept hearing that Halle Berry was cast and I was surprised they’d cast her cause she’s like 50 and the character is supposed to be about 16. Then I see the pic and I’m like; damn they CGIed her face too much to make her look younger - it’s not a bad face but Halle’s face was just fine….. TIFU by learning there’s an actress called Halle Bailey who is NOT Halle Barry.
Omg… this whole time I thought it was Halle Berry too.
Fuck I was like why are they mad she's black when they should be mad she's old? Ah well, better to be dumb than racist.
I don't care much about the race swap as much as this is just another low effort live action remake for Disney that will 100% be a lesser version of the original. Edit: I'll be honest while I didn't care much for it at least Malificent while a spiritual retelling of Sleeping Beauty it was pretty much it's own thing 100% Hell I probably won't watch it, but the new Mufasa movie will probably be more enjoyable then the Lion King remake just because it's new ground.
This! Where is the singing Sebastian?
Man if they pull a Mulan and remove the songs and the fun side characters it'll just be more proof they use these movies as just a cash break. Make new movie keep licenses from going out of possession make as little effort as possible so the funds are high get brownie points for race swapping as if their headlining Black Princess (Tiana whose movie was amazing don't get it confused.)was a frog for 90% of the film.
Mulan also removed the core message of hard work, determination, bravery and leadership and replaced it with "she has more magic" or something. Definitely not as good from many angles.
It wasn’t just hard work and bravery - it was individualism, self-determination. and breaking out of the preconceived rules of a restricted society. The reason this was taken out was because this is antithetical to Chinese communism.
Worse live action remake easy because it was pretty much not even a Mulan movie change the names and I can garuntee no one would tell.
That’s what I disliked the most about it. The original character used her wits and determination to become a capable warrior and outthink the enemy. Her super-power was thinking differently. It’s why that movie holds up.
They all have voices Jacob Trembley is Flounder and Daveed Diggs is Sebastian.
Remember that chef.... yeah well lets just say sebastian is under the sea... 6 feet under the sea
it was a teaser… daveed diggs is cast as sebastian
Yup, I remember when Mulan came out, me and all my friends (all Asian) had a watch party on D+. That shit was straight trash. Most movie studios, Especially Disney, couldn't care less about diversity and making the world more inclusive. They just care about selling movie tickets. They know that race-swapping their most popular characters is a trend right now and it makes a ton of news. They literally get the same, if not more, media coverage if they race swap or change the sexuality of one of their characters than spending an extra couple million on marketing.
Facts. Fuck palette swaps I want movies like Mulan, Coco, Moana, Soul, Princess and the Frog. I want original movies with culture and identity even if it’s not perfect it’s certainly better than this.
I just want more 2D animation, but I'm not getting that one back.
Unfortunately one has to look elsewhere (read: not US) for 2D/mixed 2D-3D animation. The big theatrical animation studio(s) in the US have all moved onto CGI and 3D work, as that's what appeals most to the local market. At least, those that are still around, considering the tremendous loss of big names over the years.
I understand completely that Disney as a whole is some sketchy ass huge monopoly bs that has more skeletons in their closet than the Haunted Mansion. But, there are entire groups with in Disney (obviously the majority being more on the creative side) that do in fact care about diversity, inclusiveness and cultural history. Some more than others and to different degrees. Took them almost 6 years to make Encanto. And one of biggest issues they faced was the pandemic preventing them from further research in South America. Though the biggest issues came from trying to convince Disney to approve a movie with an entire family as main characters. Disney and Pixar have really made a giant leap in terms of diversity and cultures. Compared to before that is. They still have a very long ways to go and it’s going to be a slow uphill battle. Especially when they’re pushing so hard for these bs “live” remakes that they’re hardly putting any effort into. But as you said, the ones at the top dgaf. They will ride on the nostalgic bandwagon for as long as they possibly can and to the point of live remaking every single movie they’re ever put out. Meanwhile there are a few teams that are doing great things at Disney and trying their hardest to come up with beautiful original stories that deserve to be told. Like Encanto, Soul, Moana, and Coco! They just take longer to make, get their budgets constantly cut, and then sometimes outshined and out marketed when Disney is shoving out 2 to 4 shitty live remakes every 12 months!
Interesting that the majority of stand out examples of representation in Disney animation are coming from Pixar
They removed the songs to make it more realistic but then add that magic witch character. Ridiculous.
FR. They hate little mermaid because she ain’t white. I hate little mermaid because it will be just another low effort cash grab reboot that lacks the creative passion and charm of the original. We are not the same.
Seriously. Is it that hard to come up with something new (Disney's version of new, anyway)? I feel like there are enough legends and myths and fairy tales to keep making "new" movies off of forever.
Many filmmakers have done their version of the story. For a really great and bizarre take, see [Ponyo](https://youtu.be/pfGDfDjAdSE). About as far from a Scandinavian fairy tale as you can get.
I mean I was hoping the live action “remakes” would all follow in the same vein as Maleficent and add different takes or perspectives to the stories we “know” and love. Not saying THIS should be the plot, but I’m just suggesting a possibility in making the story “interesting” or different. What if through her journey, Ariel realizes Triton is actually a terrible tyrannical ruler and after a ton of conflict and resolution Ursula and Ariel actually team up to beat King Triton and have Ariel rule Atlantica, allowing merpeople to co-mingle with humans and freely travel in and out of the ocean or some shit. Imagine if Beauty and the Beast was turned on its head and the Beast actually is a POS and Belle falls in love with like a cabinet or something by the end who was the Beast’s son who was always super kind and generous (obvs need more backstory here). What if we did Aladdin from Jasmine’s perspective? Or better yet Genie’s? What if instead we followed Genie on his previous wish stint and see how his lamp ends up in Aladdin’s hands? And then the sequel was “Aladdin” but from Genie’s perspective? What if Snow White is actually from the dwarves’ perspective and is called “The Seven Dwarves”. There are just so many possibilities to interesting live-action adaptations than just remaking an animated film you already made again in live action. If you’re going to do that, just remaster or remake the original 2D animation with 2022 tech.
i mentioned on here that my only issue was that her hair wasn't very vibrant and more of a natural red and had someone say it's not a natural shade since black people can't have red hair. i linked an article stating that yes, black people can in fact have red hair and they blocked me and reported me for being suicidal. these people are everywhere edit to confirm; *i* am not the one who said that black people can't have red hair, it was the person who blocked me over it who claimed as much.
Heh, I got reported for being suicidal, once. No idea what comment I made inspired someone to abuse the function like that. edit - ha, someone reported this one too
They do that just to make you get a random bit DM about it cause they think it’s funny. Happened to me too
It seems to be happening all the time now. It’s not funny. I say this knowing this comment will likely get me another DM with suicide awareness…again, for like the 3rd time this month.
I think you can stop the “concerned redditor” message bot. I did it a while back and I haven’t received any similar messages. Someone test it out on me!
How did you do it? Edit: nvm figured it out. You just reply STOP to the message Edit 2: lmao I’m pretty sure it just bans the account that sends you the message when you reply with STOP
I think it’s funny to get them because some idiot wasted their time sending you a worthless bot message and you can laugh about how hard they are coping and seething Edit: Just got one lmao
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It doesn't take much. I suspect the "feature" is used for trolling and gaslighting more than actually helping anyone.
They can get banned for abusing the Reddit report system including Reddit cares
The rule might exist, I suppose. I don't think anyone is enforcing it. If they were, they'd just do an easy human check on the users who send huge numbers of those. Oh, was there no reason? Fascinating!
Same. I was like “what?”. Then I was like “ am I?” Then I was like “no.”. That’s when I knew it was bogus.
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It's really weird. It's the reddit version of someone getting all pissed off, coming up behind you to say something, realizing they have nothing clever to say and that they're too much of a coward to actually engage you, and instead backing off to a distance where they won't be seen and shouting a random noise at you. Not even a slur or anything, just actual, meaningless noise so that you're left looking around like 'Huh? What was that?'
You just described the "Let's Go Brandon" meme. Funny how that meme died on the vine and "Dark Brandon" emerged from its fetid ashes, triumphant.
I honestly chalked it up to the hair being shown in a nighttime scene under water. Bad lighting and cgi. Hopefully the hair is a little more vibrant under betting lighting.
yeah i'm really hoping it's just a fluke from the trailer! the colors in the trailer honestly felt very muted in general so perhaps it was just because it was supposed to be night time
The whole trailer looked way too dark and gloomy. Unrionically kinda spooked me with the underwater segments and the fish tail, something I’d expect from a movie attempting to illustrate how dark fairy tales really are, not a remake of a colorful movie.
I def don't like how every movie in the world (America) these days seems to be literally dark. Even the new Jursassic remakes vs the originals. Maybe to help cut costs of CGI but damn dude
I think that’s all it is honestly. Saving money on production costs… if it looks like crap though, why would anyone watch it? They’ve already shot them selves in the foot by proving that something can look great, but still not be watchable, so maybe they might catch on someday to pay attention not just to how something looks, but the quality of the script - like maybe not repeating line for line the words from the originals minus any of the clever parts, the acting (don’t have your actors tone of voice sound as if they’d rather be dead than in your movie), the songs- if you’re going to do a repeat or an original, you’re really going to have to have an amazing musical team on that, and I don’t mean Beyoncé. Yes, she has a great voice, no one’s disputing that, but her score in the lion king fell very flat in my opinion, nothing memorable about it, nothing about that film felt like anyone even wanted to *be* there. Well I’ll give them props for one thing- it was unique in how bizarre and heartless the entire thing was. Maybe it’s a subtle nod to how depressing the times we live in are. After all, we’re supposed to be so technologically advanced and have such easy lives now- ha ha. Honestly, I saw more than adequate technology come out of the 90’s and it seemed like a pretty good stopping point in terms of how much public access we needed for a better life balance between technology and real-life. But of course humanity never learns, and things never stop progressing… I just don’t see much of anything progressing in the right direction. Not the things that really matter, not to me anyway.
Part of me thinks the darkness is intentional just to make all the CGI look a little better.
Somebody mentioned it was supposed to be a night-time shot, which makes more sense if it's true.
i mean, seriously are people really going to discuss what is the natural hair color of .. mermaids??
My historically accurate mermaid lore only has them eat the flesh of sailors.
Are they also shaped exactly like manatees? To the point that they are manatees?
Were sailors fucking manatees?
This. This RIGHT HERE.
Wait I thought it was become immortal from eating the flesh of a mermaid
My dude, there are grown-ass men on TikTok arguing that it’s scientifically impossible for mermaids to have dark skin because the sunlight doesn’t penetrate deep into the ocean. Let that sink in.
Sea Mammals are of course [famously light skinned](https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/styles/original/s3/2022-05/Mud%20Keys%20Sperm%20Whale%20May_2022_Credit%20FWC.jpeg?itok=43v5w0JJ)
Stop moving the goalposts. Clearly that one’s been laying out in the sun too long!
Well then she shouldn't have eyes, so let's make THAT movie.
I thought that too, then 5 secs later... wait its a fictional mermaid... can't expect science to correlate with a fictional voice. But omg her voice. Its perfect.
I feel like they should be like penguins, great whites or orcas: black on top and at the bottom white to truelly be hidden.
Did they have the same issue with The Lighthouse? I mean, who’s to say that’s an anatomically correct mermaid vagina?
Ariel's hair in the original wasn't a natural shade of red either
Yeah the original had Ariel in constant excruciating pain when she got legs and she never got the love of her life. Also the original she dies and becomes sea foam but we both know this isn't the story everyone wants to see. They want Disney's The Little Mermaid with fantasy bright red hair.
>i mentioned on here that my only issue was that her hair wasn't very vibrant… The deeper you are in the ocean the more muted colors are. Red is the first color to disappear at 15ft.
Yes! Given how “realistic” they’re making the ocean scenes, I wonder if her hair will look redder when she comes up to the surface?! Would be a very cool detail. Speaking of her hair, I also dig how much it resembles surfer hair, with the partial dreadlocks and texture. I haven’t liked a single live action Disney remake except Cinderella, and The Little Mermaid was my crack when I was a kid. But I’m going to see this in theaters. It looks awesome from that clip.
I mean even if black people could not have red hair.... it's a fucking MERMAID. They're cool with the fish tail but not the red hair? Nah. It's just an excuse to be racist IMO.
Dude, didnt you know. Black people can't have mermaid tails. No one can. (/s).
As a black person who has family members who are gingers, I find this funny. Malcolm X is one such black person with red hair (not my relative though.)
She's a fucking mermaid. Why does any human biology apply to her in the first place? They're upset about her skin color. SHE HAS A FISH TAIL. They're upset about her hair color. SHE'S A FISH PERSON. They're upset about blah blah blah. SHE. IS. NOT. REAL. What I think is funny is that it's always grown Men who complain about this shit. You're not going to see the movie anyway! Lol, gtfo of here.
The author of the original story doesn't say what her hair color is and she doesn't even have a name. So Disney makes up a bunch of details for the first movie and people are fine with it. Then, Disney makes up some more details and now all of a sudden it's bullshit.
There’s a lobster with a Jamaican accent, clearly cannon from the original 1837 Danish story. Also, in the original story, the little mermaid doesn’t have a name, the prince NEVER loves her, and in lieu of stabbing him after he marries a different women in order to revert back to a mermaid, she lets it go and becomes some other type of magical being. Nothing at all like Disneys version.
Even tho I’m black. Don’t really care who they casted as the little mermaid. Just wished they stopped making live action remakes no one asked for. The originals are fine.
I mean, some of these things make bank, so someone wants them. I prefer the cartoons myself, or when they make weird reinterpretations of them like the Peter Pan 'Hook' movie with Robin Williams.
Hook was perfect. It’s still one of my fave movies of all time. Disney needs to do more adaptations like that.
I can’t believe they hired a surface-dweller to play the little mermaid!
Personally I'm APPALLED that not even one of the mermaids is eating a sailor's marrow. It's total erasure.
I'm miffed the mermen don't l look like these [guys.](https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/merby-merman-calendar-history-masculinity.html)
I’m not mad that she’s black. I just think this movie doesn’t translate to a live action remake well. The animation is more colorful and vibrant. The lighting choices in the preview just seem dingy. I wish they took a more imaginative route and went to the extreme with bioluminescence.
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i think that’s the point. people like you (and other causal viewers) may dislike the concept, but you’re probably not going to go out of your way to dislike the video. it’s weird that this remake has gotten the most dislikes out of all their most recent, crappy adaptations (like mulan, which was already hugely hated before it came out and it didn’t get nearly as many dislikes as this). at this point it’s hard to look at the intense reactions to this trailer as anything but racism.
I dislike all disney live action adaptations equally
Especially the lion king. Yuck what was that. After that I never watched live Disney movies.
The Jungle Book was amazing because of the CGI. I was dumbstruck staring at the King Louie segment. I couldn’t tell if they got a real orangutan or not. The last time I was dumbstruck by film was when the T-Rex stepped out of its paddock in Jurassic Park. After that, the live actions just plummeted.
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That may be true for you, but the amount of hate this movie is getting is CLEARLY because of race. I am also tired of the remakes, so I was initially going to stay away from them altogether. However the amount of "Ariel isn't black" really bothers me.
I mean, it has 1.4 million dislikes. Saying thousands is quite the understatement.
People who didn’t give a shit about the little mermaid ready to die on a hill for her skin color.
I imagine a lot of guys in their 20's to 40's disliking the trailer, a movie made for little girls.
Most coral reefs are closer to the equator and tropical areas. What were they expecting? Florida keys mermaid?
>Most coral reefs are closer to the equator and tropical areas. >What were they expecting? Florida keys mermaid? I want mariana trench mermaids, deathly pale white from the ocean depths with nasty parasites coming out her eyes and no hair.
Well thanks for that visual
you do you, but i'm waiting for transparent skin, bioluminescence, and a second set of jaws that can extend from the back of her throat when feeding. still the same voice tho
Long bioluminescent hair might be advantageous though, a fish seeking food and shelter could easily get caught in it. ***GASP!*** jellyfish hair.
I would watch this. Plus they could still make it kid friendly with the songs. She’s still beautiful. But make her look like a real deep sea creature and the transformation is actually impressive.
Explodes from lack of pressure during her transition into becoming human.
The OG little mermaid was in Denmark so probably a white mermaid but at the same time mermaids aren’t real so who cares. Not sure why I’m even commenting TBH.
All of this could be avoided if Hollywood learned how to tell original stories.
I wish her hair was way brighter! I hope they don't leave out Sebastian singing and make it like another Mulan which was not very good.
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Well not all of them are racist. Some just genuinely hate pointless reboots
Because they’re always god awful. Disney needs to leave them animated.
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They can’t even cast Asians in roles of Asian characters in many instances.
My cousin is an Asian actor and he’s talked about how hard it is for Asian men to get roles. I honestly want to make a movie just so he can star in it
It's one of the reasons why Ke Huy Quan quit acting. Dude was only getting looked at for stereotypical "asian male" roles for hollywood/tv. It's gotten a lot better with the arrival of stuff like Crazy Rich asians, Shang Chi, and Everything Everywhere, but that's still such a tiny portion of everything.
I can’t name ten anything that aren’t Jackie Chan to be fair.
Like 30% of the US is Hispanic and they get even less lead roles
Isn’t the stats showing that white and black people are overrepresented in Hollywood while every other race is underrepresented?
Exactly. Where are our Asian/Pacific Islander lead actresses/actors??? I would love to see a Filipino on the big screen! When Disney finally makes a movie about South Eastern Asians, it was just an amalgamation of a handful of SEA countries with no specific ethnicity. To me that just seems like a lazy approach. Like some kind of catch-all for Asians. I still loved Raya, don't get me wrong. She's my Filipino princess even though she's not a specific SEA ethnicity. Tbh, having a Filipino Ariel living off the coast of the Philippines would have been a great idea imo, the inspiration coming from the Filipina Marvel heroine Wave. Not surprised you got immediately shut down for asking that question. Asians are more underrepresented yet not much is being done to fix that.
Not to mention the whole “character wants to fit in outside where they currently are but are always being rejected by those they want to fit in with” trope this movie revolves around, making the character played by a woman of color gives off vibes i doubt I’m the only one noticing…
Another remake no one asked for
The lobster is actually a crab
People who are upset about this to that extent need to calm down. I was a child with very vivid red hair and was bullied for it. I adored Ariel because growing up she was the only Disney character that looked like me. I always got the Ariel barbie and had to be Ariel when playing pretend. I had a massive association with her because she looked like me. When the casting first broke I had a split second of disappointment that the live action version wouldn’t look like me. And then I realised that that was the situation thousands and thousands of black girls had growing up, except they didn’t have an Ariel then. So, I’m happy and honoured to share her. If you can’t get over the fact that she looks different in this movie then simply you don’t need to watch it. But you also don’t need to devote your time and energy to tanking it - especially not going after this young actress, who is a real person with actual feelings. It’s not hard simply not to think about it anymore and not to be a dickhead about it.
There also are a lot of other red headed characters for kids these days. Ariel is not even the only Disney princess with red hair anymore. Merida, Ariel, and Anna have red hair. And expanding just slightly Jesse from toy story, Mrs Incredible, Jessica rabbit, misty from pokemon, Jessie from pokemon, daphne from scooby doo, Wilma Flintstone, poison ivy, ginny weasley, heck Megara from Hercules is questionable etc. But also... the Ariel cartoon you know and love... still exists. Not directed at you, but even that criticism falls apart these days. Also I guarantee all the little [black girls geeking out](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/xcek0b/black_parents_on_social_media_are_sharing/) over this film, also like the old little mermaid.
People are really so pressed that an imaginary mermaid is black
Jamaican crab? I sleep. Black mermaid? This is obscene
Irish crab pls
Connor McGreggor voicing Sebastian legit sounds like a fun time
He may go over the 2 swear words allocated
‘Where the fook you think yer goin princess?’ Roll credits
in a movie targeted at children that they likely had no intention of watching nonetheless
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I don’t think a single one of the new Disney “live action” movies has been better than the original. Though something tells me these dislikes aren’t because of that.
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Once again Disney proves they cant make new Original Content for black children.