• MaXimus421@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        3 months ago

        It was a Lion King movie. Of course people paid to go see it. Box office profits (tickets sold) do not equate to an enjoyable film.

        I’ve never heard of anyone IRL or online claim that film was worthy of their time.

        We all got catfished on that one but I’m not surprised. You cannot remake a classic. It will work only 1 time out of 50. The odds are never good.

        Jungle Book was an exception, imo.

        • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          I know a person who loved the movie. Of course they haven‘t watched the original nor do they intend to because cartoons „are for children“. Some folks just watch anything that just gets advertised enough I guess.

        • hex@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          I watched both, liked both. I don’t think it’s that deep. It was just The Lion King with new voices and new visuals.

          What do people generally dislike about it? Just that it’s a remake of a film?

          • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            It’s a remake of the film but with less emotion and far less fun.

            Making it photorealistic and trying to limit yourself to real film techniques limits things heavily and meant that you couldn’t show the same emotions on all of the characters that you could before.

            I also firmly believe that replacing Rowan Atkinson was the worst decision Disney had made since hiring Jake Paul.

    • ShepherdPieEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Wasn’t that the first of the modern “live action” remakes? Nobody knew how terrible they’d all be yet so it probably sold well.