#anti live action remake

[astridhoff03]

The more I look at these recreated scenes, the more I realize how fucking empty the recreation feels.

There is something the live action version never can do. It could never recreate the emotions, which were present in the original. The depth in those scenes, which was present because of these emotions is gone. And the emotions of the characters is such a big part in the entire franchise. For me, the effort that was put in the expressiveness of the characters, is something you just can’t recreate in a live action, even if they try it in the new lion king and now this movie. This the main reason why such movies doesn’t work in live action, because of the narrative and the weight of the emotions, which is carrying you through the whole animated movie and it works so well because it’s animated. With animation you have no boundaries, also the animators did a great job in animating the faces and expressions of the characters, which is very hard to do. So why does the live action movie, which is just silly cash grab, feels less real than the actual animated version. In the whole animated series from DreamWorks Dragons, there’s more life than in this simple recreation, which has an insane budget, which I don’t think it will make back, because puh, that’s a lot of money, they are playing with.

DeBlois can say whatever he wants in the promotional behind the scenes, I can see and feel the greedy hands of the universal overlords over him. And honestly this doesn’t change the real Idea why this movie was even made in the first place. Because Hollywood is running out of ideas, needs money and wants to play nostalgia games with the audience. DeBlois maybe had done his best, but this doesn’t change the fact, why this movie was supposed to made. Not like with the original trilogy, were you really got the feeling in every movie, that it was made out of place of love. This looks like a product, another product that looks exactly the same and probably does the same as the original. You can’t retell the same story over and over again. It gets bored. And to be honest if you want to feel nostalgic about your childhood, then just watch the animated one. Live action remakes do the medium of animation nothing good, yes they make a lot of money, but they won’t win in the long run, they treat animation as a lesser medium with seemingly retelling the same story but with ugly cgi and hollow scenery and backgrounds. They just suck completely out the life of the original and I can clearly see and feel it with this one as well. A majority of what makes httyd httyd is gotten lost. The every detailed emotions and expressiveness of the characters.

It just baffles me that people still buy to see this, if they just can put on the TV to watch the original one, which is obviously ten times better.

[i-hate-tony-stark-thats-all]

No! No more! None! Stop it!

[geekynichelle]

I'll put this here too.

[kg-day]

I'm so tired of people telling those of us who are upset about the LA atla remake that we are "being too dramatic" or are just "finding things to be upset about". We are allowed to be upset that something that we love so dearly has been butchered, AGAIN. If you liked it, then that's your personal opinion, but don't sit here and tell those of us who didn't that we're the problem.

I personally think the CGI, costumes, and sets all look terrible. None of it is immersive. Sure, it LOOKS like atla, but it doesn't FEEL like atla. The heart of the og is gone, and people are allowed to be upset about this. They've altered characters to the point that they aren't the character anymore (looking at you Aang and Katara), which is a huge upset for me personally because Katara is one of my favorite characters ever. So watching her be turned into someone meek and docile is more than a slap to the face. Not to mention them removing her as the narrator as if Bryke themselves didn't state that Katara is the person the story is being told through. And before you start telling me that Aang is the same. No, he isn't. Major parts of his development through season 1 (him coming to terms with the fact that he's the avatar and embracing that role, and him also accepting the fact that he RAN AWAY and how he is never going to do that again, which is also pivotal to his character later on) are completely removed. And don't even get me started on what they did to Kataang. Regardless of whether you ship them or not, those 2 are deeply connected to one another from the start, and their relationship is a big part of the show, so to see that butchered is heartbreaking for me.

This isn't just about them "making some changes" or it not being a 1:1 adaptation. I'm fine with adaptations that aren't 1:1. What I'm upset about is that the changes they are making are VITAL changes to characters and dynamics between characters. They're rushing through the plot and condensing the story (and I will scream if I hear one more person say that it's because they couldn't fit it all in with their runtime. The runtime is an HOUR LONGER than the og, so yes, they did have the time). The changes they are making make it evident that they do not understand the og show, and if you don't feel like that, fine, once again, that's YOUR opinion, just as this is MY opinion. So stop telling us we have no right to be upset and that we just want to hate everything. That's not true. What is true is that we are expressing valid complaints about another bad adaptation of something dear to us.

Edit: If you also come at people who are upset bc they were expecting a faithful adaptation and didn't get it bc "its not supposed to be the cartoon," you're missing the whole point. An adaptation is ADAPTING SOMETHING from one medium to the other, not rewriting it. "Yall expected it to be just like the cartoon." No, I expected a FAITHFUL ADAPTATION and was met with poorly written fanfiction.

[azural83]

I need everyone who defends natla's writing to raise their standards because the current entertainment industry takes advantage of your "anti criticism" mindset and gives us mediocre shit like this😭

[whiteraven0001]

Why in the world we need How to train your dragon live action when the og is not even that old, i mean the last movie in the franchise was released in 2019.

Look i get it might be so they can keep the author rights, but the these movies does not need a live action remake, i mean at this point we are all tired of this lifeless live actions.

Like just find a new children books to adapt or animate, i am pretty sure that there are plenty of these books that are unknown and are waiting to be adapted properly.

[theweeklydiscourse]

My prediction for the new Netflix Avatar the Last Airbender show is that it’ll ignite the most annoying discourse ever conceived, perhaps surpassing that of the 2020 ATLA renaissance.

Also, the potential for Bryke’s initial vision of the live action series will live on in people’s imagination as a shining ideal that the INFERIOR Netflix show could never ever top, not realizing that it was realistically never going to live up to the standards of their childhood nostalgia. Mark my words, this adaptation is going to be no different from the other unsatisfactory adaptations and it may even cause a worse reaction because of the high esteem the original animated show holds in everyone’s memory. So, people are going to cope by telling themselves that Bryke’s vision would’ve been far superior to the Netflix adaptation (even though there are a multitude of reasons why one would doubt that) and spend the runtime of it moaning about this and that.

All of those inflammatory articles about what the show is going to change proves my point tremendously. It’s enough to make you want to break the laws of reality and rescue Katara from the disparaging discourse that’s going to resurface now that ATLA is going to become relevant again. People are already in the process of idealizing Bryke’s original plan (which no one has ever heard, mind you) and it gives me such a headache.

[darklinaforever]

How uncomfortable a romance between them would be to see... It's so visually disturbing.

In all honesty, whether they do Zutara or not, I think Kataang is going to be taken out of the equation anyway.

[suzieloveships]

Remember when back in 2018 they remaked Heathers and it was so bad we all decided not to watch it or even talk about it and soon everyone everyone forgot that happened?

We should do that more often instead of wasting time on hatewatching and being negative 24/7, just saying

[life-in-toontown]

Me when I remember that no matter how terrible and soulless the live-action HTTYD is it’s still most likely gonna make a lot of money

[unmask-strange-aeons]

Have you seen the leaked images of the Live Action How to train your dragons?

[astridhoff03]

The Casting Controversy of the unnecessary httyd live action remake

I know it’s a very sensitive topic, this is why I just let you watch this video or see over the casting choices and let yourself decide. I just think the only thing I will be criticizing is how they made her costume and nothing else. Also no one talks about the fact that Fishlegs was also race swapped and that the twins are not twining anymore. I‘m honest I don’t like race swaps. I think it’s disrespectful against the actor and the original character. Why can’t they make a new story were Nico Parker plays an original lead character?

[juniperhillpatient]

“we’re taking out this problematic aspect because showing characters doing things the audience might not like could be uncomfy” “we’re taking out unnecessary side plots & making everything more mission centric” “these characters were pretty flawed in the original incarnation of this work so we decided to make them more palatable & the story more straightforward”

[chaosandstardust]

What? The cartoon to live action cash grab created to capitalize on your nostalgia is LAZY and BAD? Who could've seen that coming??? No WAY!!

[geekynichelle]

Unfriendly reminder: supporting the Snow White live action would not be helpful if you care about racism. You are not sticking it to racist white people if you give disney money for a shitty film. Defending any disney live action remake is not being anti-racist.

[joemerl]

Bad reasons to not watch Snow White (2025): Because Gal Gadot is in it and you're an anti-Semite.

Good reasons to not watch Snow White (2025): All the rest of them.