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That would give me nightmares if I went to see it and I don't think that's what Disney is going for.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have never watched any of these Disney CGI cash grab remakes not the least because they make me nauseous with how cynical and soulless they look.

It sounds like hyperbole but when I watch a clip of one of these movies all I can think about is how the structure of modern society is extremely hostile towards materially (not just rhetorically) valuing artists and valuing their labor and unique strengths.

THIS was the inveitable final form of the broken and dying society I was born into wasn't it?

The experience of seeing these kinds of degradations (along the axis of humanity) of art is to make me wish I was never raised an artist and that I could trade every bit of my creativity away for something people actually value and relieve me of the living hell of trying and constantly failing to navigate modern daily life with an artist's ADHD mind.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Pretty much entirely defeats the purpose of "live action". There's essentially 7 dwarves and four humans that are going to have any lines worth mentioning. So out of ten possible roles only four are actually live. At that point, just animate the damn thing lol

[–] gigiocor@lemmy.eco.br 35 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They made a Lion King "live action". Words just don't have meaning anymore

Wait. Do you mean to suggest those aren't trained lions?! I can not, will not believe it!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

And a prequel to that version of the film is coming out this year. Sigh.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Aaaand then we're back to Zemeckis' mocap atrocities. Remember Beowulf? Remember his Christmas Story? shudder

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Listen, we didn't need to go there. Everything was perfectly bad in this thread and you had to make it ultra bad.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Oh, gods, you had to remind me lol

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Another dogshit looking green screen atrocity. I think their only purpose is to remind people that the animated original exists.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really don’t get the racism around her being Snow White. She literally looks exactly like the cartoon character. What a dumb hill to take a stand on.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Agreed. She looks like a typical white lady to me. In fact, I've seen plenty of people who call themselves white with darker skin.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

This movie looks wrong on all accounts.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why are adults still watching this? It's a cash grab. Let the kids watch it.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Kids don't go to theatres alone, do they?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

Then who was the little shit looking at the phone with their friends 2 rows in front of me while the film was on? I'm guessing it wasn't the dwarf from snow white.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It would definitely give me nightmares if I were a kid.

You don't find those dwarves horrifying?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago

They don't look good, that's for sure.

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[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just take the your copy of the original movie DVD and say you already own a license for it and demand to be let in for free

Bitch I got the vhs!

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 9 points 5 days ago

Does the new movie still have the scene where they wash the dwarfs clean? That could interesting to see. ...

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Think the only live action Snow White that matters is "Biancaneve e I sette nani" https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/131751-biancaneve-e-i-sette-nani

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It's not that explicit, but I'm really surprised no one has ever taken on the challenge of adapting Donald Barthelme's Snow White as a film.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/118349.Snow_White

Not explicit, but my favorite part of the book:

"OH I wish there were some words in the world that were not the words I always hear!" Snow White exclaimed loudly. We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats." Words in the world that were not the words she always heard? What words could those be? "Fish slime," Howard said, but he was a visitor, and rather crude too, and we instantly regretted that we had lent him a sleeping bag, and took it away from him, and took away his bowl too, and the Chix that were in it, and the milk on top of the Chix, and his spoon and napkin and chair, and began pelting him with boxes, to indicate that his welcome had been used up. We soon got rid of him.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

I don't get it, the dwarfs look white enough to me /s

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

How bout not complaining? Is that an option?

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, people didn't cry about Lord of A Rings because of Gimly the Dwarve. Pretty sure Luciano Pavarotti wasn't a shorty

[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Luciano Pavarotti wasn't a shorty

This comment confused the heck out of me. Gimli was played by John Rhys-Davies, and that actor is still alive.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the guy from Sliders! He had tears in his 'fro!

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

And then he got sent off to kromag breeding camp

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This is bad AI, right?

Edit: wtf?! It's real?? And that genocide supporter, Gal Gadot, is starring in it... Ugh.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Isn't the main lead a vocal Palestine supporter? Wish she had the guts to drop out of the project cause replacing dwarves with cgi is ridiculous.

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