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Opinion: I hated ‘The Little Mermaid’
CNN ^ | Tue May 30, 2023 | Sara Stewart

Posted on 05/30/2023 5:18:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

**SNIP**

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.

**SNIP**

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
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To: Organic Panic

Those who wear wigs, which are considered a must have in their wardrobes. Most have several as they do false eyelashes.


41 posted on 05/30/2023 7:28:56 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


42 posted on 05/30/2023 7:46:12 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Magic Fingers
Right, cuz you NEVER see blacks in any roles on TV or in the movies /s

And as for commercials, why, they're practically nonexistent! (sarc)

43 posted on 05/30/2023 8:26:26 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Screw diversity. Celebrate excellence. )
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To: caww

“There are exceptions”

“The Wire” being one of those exceptions ...


44 posted on 05/30/2023 8:30:29 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: catnipman
“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.

45 posted on 05/30/2023 8:39:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: No name given

When was the last white disney movie? Frozen, how did that turn out compared to other woke characters with contrived storie.


46 posted on 05/30/2023 8:57:40 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


47 posted on 05/30/2023 9:07:31 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: whitney69
We put too much weight on color. I’m Irish, basically, and I don’t have but one female character to root for and that was from Darby O’Gill and played by Janet Monroe, Katie O’Gill. (And Monroe is British in reality)

Love that movie. Have watched it many times.

48 posted on 05/30/2023 9:15:18 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Nea Wood
And as for commercials, why, they're practically nonexistent! (sarc)

Well you never see them in those home security commercials.

49 posted on 05/30/2023 9:17:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
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.

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.

50 posted on 05/30/2023 9:19:26 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It was 6 in the Hans Christian Andersen version. (Father was unnamed — not Poseidon).


51 posted on 05/30/2023 9:23:10 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: nickcarraway
MSN: Ninety-five per cent of Black adults don’t swim – meet the people trying to change that
52 posted on 05/31/2023 2:03:23 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: dfwgator

My thoughts exactly ...

The Princess and the frog ...

I came in here to mention that one ...

“Strong” independent black female ...


53 posted on 05/31/2023 3:10:46 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Little Mermaid - Absolute Bilge
By The Critical Drinker (Hilarious!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhShXCslwow


54 posted on 05/31/2023 3:13:55 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: Organic Panic
How many black women and girls have naturally straight long flowing hair like that?

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.

55 posted on 05/31/2023 3:20:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

$120 million is a disaster for Disney. They need at least $600 million to break even.


56 posted on 05/31/2023 10:36:42 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Pretty close to your description. Heard Melissa Mccarthy is good as Ursula though.

Rotten Tomatoes has already been caught fudging its ratings; its really just a 5/10 movie.

57 posted on 05/31/2023 6:32:41 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

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.


58 posted on 05/31/2023 6:36:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: dfwgator

God forbid they portray black actors as criminals in those home invasion and identity theft commercials.


59 posted on 06/01/2023 6:56:20 AM PDT by Skeptical constituent
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