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Method of Madness:
I'm definitely gonna give Aladdin a chance, the new trailer is definitely better.

Also based on the old posts, I just wanna say how much I ended up loving Coco. It's probably my favorite Pixar and maybe my favorite Disney movie overall. Although to be fair, I have good associations with it because I saw it a few hours after getting engaged.

Theta9:

--- Quote from: Grognard on 15 Mar 2019, 20:33 ---I'm hopeful for it.

we saw the preview for the new DUMBO movie.
they play THAT song.  had the wife in tears.
https://youtu.be/R4MCj3HROro

*she used to play it when she rocked our son to sleep...20 years ago*

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I have this album and version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqir1zJ0C9I
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqir1zJ0C9I

Neko_Ali:
From what I saw in the Aladdin trailer it looks like a beat-by-beat recreation of the animated film. Which brings me to my always objection to the live action adaptions... why bother? Is Disney studios so bereft of new ideas or so afraid of trying something different that all that do is remake their old, popular films. "Only now with live actors!" Why would I want that when I could just pop in my DVD? Of course, that's part of it. They deliberately make it hard for people to buy what they want from their catalog by not having everything for sale all the time to create artificial scarcity. Remaking their animated films gives them reason to release more of the same thing knowing people will buy it again.

But yeah... I've not yet had a reason to want to see their live action adaptions yet. And despite Aladdin being one of my favorite Disney movies, I look at this one the same way... vague annoyance and disgust. They could be spending this time and money making new stories, but like a high school jock to peaked too early, they just spend their time reminiscing about the 'good old days'. It's not like they don't make new stuff. And they could be telling new stories with these characters, like Frozen 2. But they'd rather just remake it.

Also I'm sorry. Will Smith is a fine actor, but there is no way that he can do the role of Genie credit. He cannot hope to touch the performance of Robin Williams in that role.

LeeC:
Truly, but there seems to be a lot of new scenes in that trailer that is absent in the original. I don't think this is Will Smith trying to be Robin William's Genie. It seems more like his role in "Hitch" if he was a genie. Putting his own spin and his own take on the Genie (The "Make Me a Prince" part was pretty funny and seems more Smithy than Williams-y). Which I am fine with, because if they just make Will Smith impersonate Robin Williams, then the movie would be terrible because they have different comedic styles. There are some beat-by-beat scenes which do bug me, but there seems to be a few more dance numbers and even a Gala event scene...along with a giant Iago chasing them down in the sky. I am hoping it goes the route of Jungle Book's live action adaptation where there were similar scenes and characters, but so much new stuff that it becomes its own film rather than a remake. Plus I think it would be a breath of fresh air if they make it into a Bollywood-esque film with their songs rather than just a traditional Disney musical. That is just a hope of mine rater than a fact, so the biggest grain of salt needs to be taken from the ramekin for the Bollywood statement.

cybersmurf:

--- Quote from: LeeC on 17 Mar 2019, 10:29 --- Putting his own spin and his own take on the Genie (The "Make Me a Prince" part was pretty funny and seems more Smithy than Williams-y)

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Are you saying Will Smith is trying a Fresh approach to making Aladdin a prince?

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