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‘Aladdin’ is one of the worst movies I have ever seen
2/10 As Disney plumbs ever deeper into its vault of classic- and renaissance-era features to remake live — or, “live” — it will inevitably begin to withdraw properties that will take more effort to translate into live-action or that make … Continue reading
Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ nobody’s baby
3/10 When a movie is advertised as “from the imagination of Tim Burton,” you tend to go into it expecting a real blue-blooded Tim Burton passion project, one that he really took ownership of and fought hard to get the … Continue reading
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Tagged #alice in wonderland, #Disney, #michael keaton, #the lion king, #tim burton, Aladdin, bad, charlie and the chocolate factory, Collin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Derek Frey, Dumbo, Ehren Kruger, Eva Green, it's a goddamn goldmine, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Nico Parker, over-produced, The Ring, Transformers, ugly, under-directed
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Now is not 1964
3/10 The original Mary Poppins was a technical marvel, one that reinvigorated a dying genre and would be held unto this day as the crowning triumph of Disney productions. It was sold and resold and resold again on the strength of how … Continue reading
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Tagged #alice in wonderland, #avatar, #ben whishaw, #cinderella, #Disney, #emily blunt, Beauty and the Beast, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns, Meryl Streep, PL Travers, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Grinch, Walt Disney
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Once again, Disney loses tens of millions to bring you a terrible film
3/10 In 2010, Alice went back into Wonderland to discover an ungodly amount of money, the kind of money that, at the time, could put a movie into the upper stratosphere of all-time projects. Disney would send her back in … Continue reading
Stay home! Watch the original! Save your money!
2/10 Everyone’s tired of the endless stream of sequels, remakes and adaptations coming out of Hollywood these days, but they don’t have to be bad. Remakes can make an old story new again, or tell it in a completely different … Continue reading
