Aladdin remake trailer/general - robin williams didn't die for this

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Something else that bothers me about the Prince Ali clip is that Will Smith cannot sing that well. He can rap okay, but this ain't rap. Compare his singing voice to Robin Williams. Williams can actually carry a tune and hold a note without straining himself.

The funnier thing though is that Smith Genie is trying to get everyone pumped up but he's utterly failing at it while Williams Genie does a better job drumming up excitement for Prince Ali.
 
My parents are dragging me and my brother to see the Lion King remake and (possibly the Aladdin one). Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
 
The reviews are rolling in.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

'Aladdin': Film Review

Will Smith plays the Genie in Disney's live-action remake of its 1992 animated classic.
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Disney has certainly covered all the bases with the live-action remake of its 1992 animated classic. Decades ago, this film musical probably would have featured white actors like Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood wearing heavy dark makeup. That approach obviously wouldn't go over well these days, so the ensemble in this version, directed by Guy Ritchie, features lead performers of Egyptian, South Asian, Dutch-Tunisian, Iranian and African American descent. The combination of diverse casting and female empowerment themes results in a perfectly politically correct Aladdin for these times.

There's also an entirely new number, "Speechless," featuring lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land), that feels all too calculated but probably necessary as a feminist anthem for a character who at one point is told, "It's better for you to be seen and not heard."
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I have to give credit where credit is due. I enjoyed this behind the scene/commentary video Lindsay Ellis made. It could have edited down a tad bit especially when she starts sperging out over how Shrek is a mean movie because it lampoons Disney. Also Shrek did build its characters around the actors, they animated their facial movements based on how Meyers/Diaz/Murphy talked. It wasn't just shoehorned popular actors which Lindsay has a hateboner for.


Partway thru the video she shows an interview with Williams where Williams says that Aladdin is essentially a Warner Bros cartoon wearing Disney animation clothing. That is so distinctly true because Genie with his madcap celebrity impressions and is pure Looney Tunes.

I honestly feel somewhat bad for Will Smith being asked to adapt this character to Live Action. It's something no human could compete with, not when a 2D Cartoon moves so much faster and with such grace.
 
Why am I not surprised only the SJWs would like this film.

It honestly feels so phoned in, like those plays kids make in high school which are watered down versions of the original plays. They do their job, but nobody really thinks they're "improvements" over the original.
 
friedshrimp dijo:
The songs are up. Jasmine's song is actually the weakest of the bunch, sounds more like something out of Christina Aguilera's albums than Aladdin. But the instrumentals on the classic songs sound nice.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T9GmO_WFhjQ
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ukS1ceZa0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BEHX72PKmkk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYxrVBu2_gc
https://youtube.com/watch?v=atc8RAtl-Ms
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DwTogmKwYWo
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Mena’s the best singer in the movie, Will’s too goddamn rusty
 
My grandmother's probably going to like it despite agreeing that Disney as a company has been horrendous as of late. Like seriously, Grandma? You say you like movies, but then you support obvious cashgrabs?

Cardenio dijo:
It could have edited down a tad bit especially when she starts sperging out over how Shrek is a mean movie because it lampoons Disney. Also Shrek did build its characters around the actors, they animated their facial movements based on how Meyers/Diaz/Murphy talked. It wasn't just shoehorned popular actors which Lindsay has a hateboner for.
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This is also more hilarious because Shrek as a character was originally made for Chris Farley in the same vein as how the Genie was made for Robin Williams. When Chris died before he could finish recording his lines, they had to rewrite Shrek's character from the ground-up to fit Meyers, so if you ever compare the two Shreks, they're completely different characters only connected by the name.

I consider Shrek and Aladdin to be two sides of the same coin in that regard, even though yes, Shrek was not being subtle about banking on star recognition and was purposefully made as a giant middle finger to Disney. But that's what made it so great. If it wasn't for the Disney hate (and also for "stealing" the first Best Animated Feature award from Disney/Pixar lol), Lindsay'd probably still dislike it for just being the final blow to 2D animation in general.

The Ferngully backstory I didn't know about, though. I imagine she's been sitting on this information for a long time.
 
My biggest issue is that Will Smith is lacking so much energy, and emotion. His voice sounds good, but he's just so quiet that it brings everything down. Which is a shame because I really like the instrumentals. Same goes for Naomi Scott. She has a nice voice, but she doesn't have the same kind of, I don't know, passion. You could really hear Jasmine's excitement in the original, but in this version that same energy just isn't there.

Mena Massoud gives the best performance out of them simply because he just sounds like he's at least somewhat into it. Sounding just like the original Aladdin is a big plus, too.

NE-YO, and ZAYN, and Zhavia's covers are much better. NE-YO just sounds like he's having so much fun, and ZAYN, and Zhavia version is actually really pretty.
 
I just read the whole Wikipedia synopsis, and it all just felt like the same damn thing we got almost 30 years ago. Aside from the addition of Jasmine's friend, what other new elements are there?
 
friedshrimp dijo:
Why am I not surprised only the SJWs would like this film.

It honestly feels so phoned in, like those plays kids make in high school which are watered down versions of the original plays. They do their job, but nobody really thinks they're "improvements" over the original.
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Even the worst community, college, or high-school theater production has more socially-redeeming value than these Goddamn Disney live-action remakes. They exist out of love for performance. These remakes exist as a risk-free means of enhancing quarterly profits and drowning out competition for the largest media empire in history.

Bread Fetishist dijo:
I just read the whole Wikipedia synopsis, and it all just felt like the same damn thing we got almost 30 years ago. Aside from the addition of Jasmine's friend, what other new elements are there?
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There's 38 minutes of extra content in the live-action version. I imagine it'll be exactly as neccessary as the extra half-hour of content in the live-action Beauty and the Beast.

It's one thing to do this for Broadway where the priority's hiring people who can sing and act and consistently deliver (which they seemed to at least get from Mena). But hiring Will Smith for a musical? He's never been a singer!

They'd've gotten some heat for this, but if they hired Lin-Manuel to write rap verses for all the Genie's songs, then hired featured vocalists to sing the choruses who can actually sing, Will Smith would've worked significantly better (even if they should've casted an actual Broadway performer rather than a celebrity, just 'cause you sin doesn't mean you need to go whole hog).

But these movies are so risk-averse, they won't even put rap verses into a song they've hired a rapper to be in the role for.
purpleboy dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4PofrJqEQv0 DJ fucking Khaled...this sounds like the premise to a Triple-Q shitpost
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This wasn't even a good song, but Will still soubded better on this than he did on the film's version.

purpleboy dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=r21fH-ysABsNow this is a fucking cover
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This was incredible. Thanks for posting it.

Why didn't they cast him? Sure, he's not as famous as Will Smith; but Ne-Yo's at least kind of a mainstream celebrity, he's had pop hits that reached high on Billboard a fuck of a lot more recently, and no one's seeing this thing for Will Smith anyway.
 
Bread Fetishist dijo:
I just read the whole Wikipedia synopsis, and it all just felt like the same damn thing we got almost 30 years ago. Aside from the addition of Jasmine's friend, what other new elements are there?
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Aladdin is an urban tale and public domain; and Disney's animated version was just yet another version of it.
If they had to remake it, why not completely reinvent the concept in a wholly new way.... instead they remade their own goddamn movie and just made it terrible.

It's like an author plagarizing one of his own biggest works decades later just to.... tarnish his reputation and slander his original vision?
 
I'm so completely unsurprised that they changed the "it's barbaric" line to be about different cultures instead, I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from not surprise.
 
vertexwindi dijo:
I'm so completely unsurprised that they changed the "it's barbaric" line to be about different cultures instead, I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from not surprise.
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SteelPlatedHeart dijo:
I said it in the Disney General thread, but it feels like they’re making live action remakes of any old animated films so they can get rid of any “problematic” content they may contain.
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