Posted on 03/06/2025 1:33:48 PM PST by Rummyfan
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the most contentious blockbuster of them all? On any list of the most trouble-plagued releases in recent Hollywood history, Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would surely rank heigh-ho, heigh-ho highly. The $270 million-budget spectacle, starring Rachel Zegler as the storybook princess, finally hits cinemas this month after four years of seemingly never-ending online fury and negative news stories.
From calls to boycott the film and attacks over its alleged “f______ backward” depiction of little people, all the way to the sight this weekend of the movie’s two biggest stars onstage at the Oscars, supposedly refusing to make eye contact with each other over disagreements about Gaza, this is a film beset by controversies. Controversies that, even with a magical, fortune-telling looking-glass like the one hung in the Evil Queen’s castle, Disney could hardly have seen coming.
After all, 2025’s Snow White was meant to be an easy win for the studio. That’s how it was regarded both internally at Disney and throughout Hollywood when it was announced nine years ago, on the back of other live-action remakes of Mouse House classics derided as lazy by critics but lapped up by audiences. 2010’s Alice In Wonderland and 2016’s The Jungle Book each surpassed a billion at the box office, with another, 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, on the horizon when Snow White was announced in October 2016.
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hopefully this is on the list of least grossing movies of all time.
Woke writers, woke executives, woke moron actors who can't keep their stupid mouth shut.
Yo, Disney. It’s Snow White, not Snow Woke.
What century does Prince Redneck think this is? Slush white will sue him if tries to serial kiss her in her sleep.
-— “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the” queerest of them all?
I’m waiting for the hillbilly version.
And possums.
Lots of possums.
The dwarves work in a leather bar.
It didn’t help Disney when its “woke” Snow White star characterized the genial storybook Prince as
a “sexually aggressive” stalker who kissed S/W without her permission.......a radical feminist no-no.
Oh, I’m most interested in Yahoo’s take on this subject. Not.
Hint. It was really easy.
"May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace"
Rache Zegler.
Years and 270 million wasted - to have a ‘remake’.
Disney deserves and needs to fail.
I even wrote a little prolong that would make this work.
Mirror Mirror on the wall.....
The shame of it is that, from the clips I’ve seen, it’s very well done, visually. What a waste of good cinematography and animation to have it ruined by a toxic script.
Liberal Disney was loathe to depict "seven dwarfs" so they dumbed down the remade
characters as something out of a DEI sketchbook which precipitated the film's downfall.
Maybe if they had used an actual white person that fit the bill “White as snow”, used actual dwarves, and a decent script that stayed close to its roots, and left out any “woke”, it probably would have made a billion.
Instead, they cast the wrong person for the main role, got shamed into getting rid of the dwarves, then shamed again to add them by the worse CGI imaginable, used a “woke” don’t need a man script. Yes they failed in every way.
Then have your main actress actively attack the fans and run her mouth every chance she gets and eventually become the most hated actress in Hollywood. Yea, that’s the ticket...
I think the only way that the movie could have worked is that if it was a parody.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights was a terrific film for that reason.
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