hey eric andre is in this thing
― Mordy, Friday, 23 November 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
I was hoping this would be like an old timey Disney cartoon where stock footage of lions is used and some 70 year old baritone narrator tells the audience what that translates to in human-speak
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 November 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
Jesus, Disney has three of these coming out in the next year. Lion King, Dumbo, and Aladdin with Will Smith playing Robin Williams. This is the most horrid thing happening in modern cinema.
― Frederik B, Friday, 23 November 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Can't wait for the 20 scenes of elephant shit
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 November 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Who's playing the crows in Dumbo?
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Sacha baron Cohen iirc
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Friday, 23 November 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
what's the over/under on easter eggs referencing weed
― rip van wanko, Friday, 23 November 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
extremely otm. lost opportunity by Disney to get 10 dollars from me & 10 from Neanderthal and zero from everybody else
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 23 November 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Nah i'd've gone to that too
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 November 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
The unforeseen consequence of Aladdin's first wish
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YLMSdeVNQ7M/VExdAHjAPGI/AAAAAAAAEFY/7i2l1BfuEFU/s1600/089-aladdin-zn.jpg
― jmm, Friday, 23 November 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
Man, you know those Hallmark Christmas movies are even more wholesome than these Disney movies for children since they don’t have like Ratatouille guy being like “LET ME ALLUDE TO HAVING A TINY COCK”
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
those production companies aren’t even allowed to have an implication that romance is occurring beyond a lingering glance, I mean they need to see in the script that for example at the end of the date the dude walks away and goes to his car and drives off. And iirc nobody’s drinking wine unless they have a problem with it.
― omar little, Friday, 23 November 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
will the live-action remake of the disney robin hood have CGI animals or just boring old real people playing the characters?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 23 November 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
kevin costner in a foxboy furry outfit or it's bullshit
― imago, Friday, 23 November 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
DISNEY EXEC: Pride Rock? We always hated how striking and iconic it looked. The sun hit it too beautifully. Is there any way we could make it look more like [points to turd mood board] a couple of turds piled together on an overcast day? pic.twitter.com/GaU3tkcq3J— Neil Cicierega (@neilcic) November 23, 2018
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 23 November 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
a 2 hour, $200MM homage to poop
― rip van wanko, Friday, 23 November 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
The Shit King
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 23 November 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
neil c is the final authority on this tbf
― imago, Friday, 23 November 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
We saw the scary trailer for Dumbo today, it's a bit rich to bill it as "from the imagination of Tim Burton" when all it is is a live-action remake of a cartoon. Albeit one of Walt Disney's few totally original ideas, if I recall correctly. So at least it isn't an adaptation of an adaptation. But given The Lion King is famously the first Disney film to have a fart joke, I wouldn't rule out photorealistic poop jokes in this one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Hang on, stop this thread. The Lion King is the first Disney film to have a fart joke? Is that really true? Clearly that can't be true? Does that include shorts? Clearly it's not true if it includes shorts? Right?
― Frederik B, Friday, 23 November 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
suspect the waterface short had one
― Tom: I do all the bills. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 23 November 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Bedknobs and Broomsticks had Angela Lansbury rip a few iirc
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 November 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
I dunno what they got up to in Denmark Fred but I think most of us can believe it took until 1994 for the Disney Corporation to explore flatulence in their oeuvre
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Altho Loony Tunes produced the seminal "He Who Smelt It, Dealt It" featuring Pepe le Pew in 1947 iirc
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 November 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Quotes from Don Hahn, the director, from when I interviewed him years ago:
"It was controversial. It’s so old hat now, but at the time, especially in a Disney movie, there was a feeling that you couldn’t do that. We were more open to take risks, since we were already taking risks. We felt that, my God, they’re animals, what do animals do? They don’t have opposable thumbs, so they can’t pick up anything. Well, they run around and they poop. It’s just a funny character trait to assign to a wart hog. We had great support from the exectutives at the time. Once we previewed it a few times and the audience loved it – we got big kid laughs every time Poomba had his little problems. Interestingly, it’s all trombone sounds."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 November 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
In Shr5k they’re gonna finally gonna show him cumming
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 November 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
it’s about time he returned the favour
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 November 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
lmao
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 23 November 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
loooooool
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 23 November 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
This looks fun.
― Jeff, Saturday, 24 November 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
The Lion King is a wonderful adaptation of an iconic classic. It has a few small changes which enhance what was already great and everything else is right on point. The CG can be slightly distracting at times but the emotion quickly covers that. Loved it. pic.twitter.com/9QmsP3PmNh— Germain Lussier (@GermainLussier) July 10, 2019
wow the reviews are in it must be good
― omar little, Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
WaPo editorial yesterday made a p convincing case that this film/the basic story/source material are essentially fascist (regardless of the ethnicity of the voice talent).
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
We knew that in '94 tho, no?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
Probably, I just hadnt thought about it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
Also, I've no idea which thread this belongs in, if any, but ...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D--gK60XsAEi3rY.jpg
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, July 11, 2019 9:52 AM (fourteen minutes ago)
hamlet?
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
idk how far back you wanna trace the lost prince vs. usurper of the throne plotline but it goes back way before Hamlet
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
(and that's not really one of the aspects that are fascistic)
this looks like dogshit
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
half the point of hamlet is that it is a psychedelic self-deconstructing version of a story you already know. it couldn't be hamlet if its plot were original. the lion king has more to do with henry iv anyway imo.
did not see wapo piece but yes clearly the hyenas are an underclass repressed in the name of a supposedly virtuous natural hierarchy that organizes sentient beings by species. scar at least is an interesting figure tho: not merely a pretender but a political adventurer, glibly fluent in revolutionary language for the purpose of exploiting class division on his way to supreme personal power. (his death at the vengeful hands of the very disaffected who formed his core support is nifty.) given this villain all the movie actually needs to become antifascist (if not antimonarchical) is for simba to learn values from timon and pumbaa that convince him to abandon his evil father's pious blather about the food chain and grant the hyenas full citizenship. by avoiding both this ending and its tragic mirror, in which t+p are cruelly banished (like falstaff) in a symbolic restoration of (im)moral order, i'm sorry to say that the film renders itself juvenile.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
Lotta Richard III in Lion King too, obviously.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
def-- scar is nothing like claudius tbh
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
I'm assuming that the people who wrote disney's the lion king are not experts in pre-early modern english literature and that the basic structure of "heir to the throne's father is killed by his uncle - who makes it look like an accident and usurps power to become king. prince fucks around a bit for a while - hamlet with the actors and rosenkrantz and guildenstern, simba with poomba and timon (ok poomba and timon are good guys and r and g are spies for claudius). mufasa is horatio (ok that's a stretch)" is more likely to have been taken from one of the best known pieces of world literature than not.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
Which Shakespeare play is it where a warthog's dank farts kill all fauna within six yards' distance?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
merry wives
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
there are a number of fart jokes in shakespeare's oeuvre
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
thanks for the fascism heads up comrades, my cousin wanted me to take him to see this so i punched him in the face
― lumen (esby), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Good!
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
cousin-punching is praxis
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
They talk, yes, which makes them likely to set up a fascistic dictatorship (the dictator dictates, i.e. speaks) but the fact that these are animals is not irrelevant to the tale. Aesop, La Fontaine and their ilk are least interesting when read as allegorical anthropomorphists.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link