Posted on 05/30/2023 5:18:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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This feels lousy to say, because I was rooting for a huge success to follow the noxious backlash to the trailer last year: Some people apparently couldn’t handle the audacity of reinventing a cartoon character as a Black actress. But star Halle Bailey, in the role of Ariel, has nothing to apologize for: She’s the best thing about this movie. Unfortunately, that’s faint praise.
A lot of ink and pixels have testified to the value of Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine, and that’s a powerfully admirable goal – as well as a long-overdue one, given the brand’s still overwhelmingly White majority of characters.
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Then there’s the running time: Two hours and fifteen minutes. The original was an hour twenty-three. The time expansion is such a comically bad decision, I still can’t get my head around it. Nothing little kids like more than sitting still for over two hours! Most recent Disney remakes have kept it at least under the two-hour mark, with the exception of 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast” and 2021’s “Cruella,” both of which were, at least, livelier than this one.
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Those who wear wigs, which are considered a must have in their wardrobes. Most have several as they do false eyelashes.
Every review I’ve seen of this movie says it is a disaster, yet it has grossed approximately $120 million at the box office which translates to a hit. Someone must like it.
And as for commercials, why, they're practically nonexistent! (sarc)
“There are exceptions”
“The Wire” being one of those exceptions ...
Goes all the way back to The Jeffersons.
It needs to be legit.
Not a show like Bridgerton where some viewers were apparently caught off guard by seeing Black actors in a show set during 19th century London.
Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoying its narrative.
When was the last white disney movie? Frozen, how did that turn out compared to other woke characters with contrived storie.
If you’re going to play the race card and play two larger audiences then it would’ve made more sense for Ariel to have been either an Asian or a Latino.
Love that movie. Have watched it many times.
Well you never see them in those home security commercials.
It's production costs were 250 million. Marketing usually costs as much. The rule of thumb for movies is they have to make double their production costs to break even.
This has to break 500 million just to not be a loss.
Add to this it won't do well in China or Asia, and it may not break even.
It was 6 in the Hans Christian Andersen version. (Father was unnamed — not Poseidon).
My thoughts exactly ...
The Princess and the frog ...
I came in here to mention that one ...
“Strong” independent black female ...
The Little Mermaid - Absolute Bilge
By The Critical Drinker (Hilarious!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhShXCslwow
My girlfriend. But she's Ethiopian and will be first to tell you they are better than the rest of the continent.
Just the opposite of those of us with Irish ancestry who will proudly admit to being the worst on ANY continent.
$120 million is a disaster for Disney. They need at least $600 million to break even.
Rotten Tomatoes has already been caught fudging its ratings; its really just a 5/10 movie.
The audience score is 95%. Doesn’t sound accurate to me. Usually, the audience score is pretty reliable. But like everything else, assume it’s woke now, therefore it is no longer valid.
God forbid they portray black actors as criminals in those home invasion and identity theft commercials.
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