#anti modern disney

[geeky92]

Let’s play Spot the Difference!

Now, I know what most of you are already thinking: “Not Lilo & Stitch again, Geeky!”

Look, I get it, I’m beating a dead horse with this “anti remake” stance, but I NEED to get this one off my chest.

These two posters here may look similar, but they each tell a completely different message.

Notice how the 2002 poster (left picture) shows Stitch gleefully sitting in the center of a blank white canvas, and a tagline above him that reads There’s one in every family? Top that off with various characters from past Disney films looking on in utter shock/confusion/disbelief.

Then there’s the 2025 poster for the live-action remake (right picture), which just shows Stitch hoarding all the Disney IPs like a greedy dragon would hoard a cave full of treasure.

What does this say about each film? Well, I’ll tell you:

The 2002 poster is basically saying: “Hey kids, remember all the wonderful characters from those other Disney movies that stuck with you? Well, check out this funky little dude! His name is Stitch! He’s a bit of an oddball, and a troublemaker, but you’re gonna love him once you see our latest movie this summer!”

Meanwhile, the 2025 poster’s like: “Hey, kids! Guess what? We own everything now, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Now give us your money and buy our new live-action Stitch merchandise!”

In short, the 2002 poster feels like a sincere and honest preview for a new Disney classic, while the 2025 poster feels corporate, arrogant and obnoxious. I miss the old Disney!

[sailor-brunette]

I am so fuckng pissed at Disney right now. I just canceled my Disney+ subscription and am going to pirate their shit until they decide to shape up. Which will probably never happen. But hey! There's a new Looney Tunes 2D movie coming to theatres soon! So other animation companies are learning from Disney's mistakes it seems. Hoping for more 2D animation from other companes.

[doverstar]

I can't bring myself to watch the live action Lion King because it feels like a slap to the face towards the original animated lion king I grew up knowing and loving. What are your thoughts?

I 100% agree with you. The original Lion King was the first-ever movie I watched. Ever. It's my favorite Disney film. Simba is in my bloodstream. Free serotonin every time I see him! I hate the live action version. We saw it in theaters in 2019 because we loved the original so much, and were horrendously disappointed. We sort of went into it knowing it wouldn't hold a candle to the OG, but we didn't expect it to be quite as soulless as it was. I mean, it's the most boring thing I've ever seen. You're working with talking, singing animals and not one of them is able to show an ounce of emotion? And my eyes were crying out for real color throughout. At least in the cartoon I can differentiate Simba's coat from the terrain. I might as well have been watching Animal Planet. The voice cast was fine, but overall, like all of Disney's foolish, insulting, disrespectful live action remakes, it's a completely unnecessary movie. Icky cash grab wearing the original Lion King's corpse. Why, why would you watch a shell of a story, a painful, mind-numbing 2.0 when you could go and enjoy the full thing, the original? It's a total waste of time. It takes everything good about the source material and removes it, replacing it with lifeless realism and a lack of any proper intentionality or heart. Ew ew ew. And don't get me started on the new Mufasa film. Draw that sucker by hand or throw it in the garbage, you brainless, insatiable leeches. Stop treating us like idiots. We will not all hand you our earnings for every underdeveloped cop-out piece just because you used to be trustworthy and make great art. Modern-day Disney has lost 90% of my respect. I haven't seen a film of theirs in theaters since Encanto. I refuse to see any more live action remakes, I refuse to pay money to ensure their moldy leftovers get one more box office number, and I refuse to believe they're ever going to go back to the way it used to be: good stories, for good reasons. And The Lion King (2019) makes my point for me. sorry got a little winded there-

[the-overanalyst]

science vs. art is not the real conflict.

science is the study of reality. it just exists. it has no agenda. technological progress is the natural way of the world, it has been for thousands of years.

the real conflict is between art and business. which one gets to harness science for its own ends?

the frustrating thing about our current era is not that science is rising. it's that business is rising and carrying science up with it ever further away from art.

[selkiesstories]

And that’s not even getting into when production companies themselves openly say they hired X actor because they wanted to “diversify a franchise” only to loudly denounce any critics who point out that the character in question is very poorly portrayed and was clearly only hired for diversity brownie points.

Oh my god. What is with Disney these days? No one wants a “woke” Princess and it’s like they don’t even understand the word anyway.

Pixar does because look at Merida. She still got help from “a man” even if they were her little brothers. It was still “female empowerment” because her mother is actually the one who killed the bad guy anyway and it was because he was about to kill Merida. It wasn’t just “women strong!”. Hell, Merida refuses to get married and actually ends the movie that way but she never comes across as “ew, men” but that she simply doesn’t want to. I can relate.

But back to Disney. They changed Little Mermaid so Ariel literally did EVERYTHING including killing Ursula despite the fact that she shouldn’t even know how to drive a damn ship. 🙄 There was nothing wrong with Eric doing it!

And now we’re getting “woke” Snow White who is named as such because her skin is WHITE AS SNOW! But noooooo… she has to be a person of color too so Disney can have lazy writing and call everyone racist when we call them out on this BS. POC are just shields for them now although Rachel Zegler tried to accuse everyone of hate already. Lady, that’s not going to get people to see your point. And frankly, it’s not even about her. It’s about Disney and what they’re doing.

Also they’re apparently planning to change the Prince coming in to wake her up at the end. Like, what? And most of the seven dwarves are gone too. I think there’s only one now while the others are “normal”. They thought(and Zegler said) that the Prince was “acting stalker-ish” so that’s why they wanted to change him. Hah. They clearly didn’t watch “Once Upon a Time”. Now THAT is a live-action Snow White.

Frankly, their movie is not even Snow White anymore and I can tell already that it’s going to flop with all these unneeded and unnecessary changes. All it shares in common now is the name. Nothing else.

This is just my opinion. You don’t have to agree.

[hitchell-mope]

(After one of Hades’s increasingly frequent non-sequiturs)

Chad: Who’s that?

Ben: He's my wife’s father. Oh, you look confused. A wife is somebody who loves you that you don't have to pay.

[izzythehutt]

Every promo for Andor just fills me with irrational rage.

Star Wars is not "gritty." Star Wars is not realistic. There are no sex scenes in Star Wars. There is no graphic violence in Star Wars (even when someone gets their arms sliced off, there's no blood—by design!) STAR WARS IS NOT FOR ADULTS.

Star Wars is a corny fairy tale set in space for 8 year olds. It's the visual equivalent of a bed time story for children. It's the story of one dude and his family being the most important people in the universe, around which all events turn. It's King Arthur meets Buck Rogers meets Errol Flynn's Robin Hood meets a cowboy movie.

THIS SHIT IS NOT STAR WARS.

[the-indie-owl]

I swear, the Phase of having Modern Adaptations of the Public Domain using AI shouldn't be listened as "Official" Adaptations.

[hacked-wtsdz]

It really entertains me to think about more serious shows getting the marvel treatment. A peaky blinders prequel “the origins of Arthur Shelby Jr”. Kendall fans unite for Kendall’s own spinoff “the first boy”. I would give an spn example but spn kind of did something worse to themselves so. “The mystery of Jeremiah Jesus”… the appeal comes from the gratitude that such things could never afflict these shows! Except for, once again, supernatural

[stitchandani]

Looks like I have absolutely no interest in the Lilo and Stitch rema..Wait, they’ve brought back the “Stitch Invading other Disney Movies” campaign in the latest trailer?!?

Doverstar

Sorry! My interest remains on the floor, untouched. But it's not surprising modern Disney is stealing something from classic Disney in order to garner numbers. Soulless parasites.

[tljisthegoat]

The cruel irony of Disney, a company that used to be known for Happily Ever Afters & overall wholesome family-friendly shows/movies, absolutely butchered & disrespected Reylo's story just boggles my mind. They really looked at what Rian Johnson did with TLJ & and said, "Let's ruin EVERYTHING" just because the internet had the equivalent of a temper tantrum mixed with a mental breakdown over Luke not being this perfect Jedi that he was in the Old Canon/Legends continuity.

They must've mentally blocked out all of Yoda's warnings to Luke about the consequences of using the dark side.

Like when he flat out told Luke & us as the audience that if Luke used the dark side, it would start him down the dark path. Forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will. As it did Obi-Wan's apprentice. This proved to be true when Luke's use of the dark side allowed him to overcome & defeat Vader. But at the cost of changing his destiny. This is further explored in TLJ when Luke tries to kill Ben in order to stop him from becoming Kylo Ren in the future.

Sooo we're just gonna ignore that the biggest difference between Darth Vader and Kylo Ren is what Luke sensed in them? People lack critical thinking & literary analysis skills, and it shows.

Luke to Darth Vader - "I've accepted you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father. It is the name of your true self. You've only forgotten. I know there is good in you. The emperor hasn't driven it from you fully. That was why you couldn't destroy me. That's why you won't bring me to your emperor now."

Luke continues on. "Come with me."

Luke walks toward Vader, his eyes hopeful and determined. "Search your feelings father, you can't do this. I feel the conflict within you let go of your hate."

Vader responds with such overwhelming sadness, "It is too late for me, son..."

Luke: "Then my father is truly dead."

Luke: "Your thoughts betray you, father. I sense the good in you. The conflict"

Vader: "There is no conflict."

Yet, when he looks into Ben's mind, he sees darkness. He's an unreliable narrator as well to Rey, who has to force the truth of what happened to Ben out of him.

Luke: "I saw darkness. I sensed it building him in moments during his training. But then I looked inside, and it was beyond what I ever imagined. Snoke had already turned his heart. He would bring destruction and pain and death and the end of everything I love because of what he will become. And in the briefest moment of pure instinct, I thought I could stop it. It passed like a fleeting shadow. And I was left with shame and consequence. And the last thing I saw was the eyes of a frightened boy whose master had failed him."

Rey believes in Ben being their last hope, and she was right in the end. She was also right to tell Luke that his fatal mistake was believing Ben's choice was made already. It wasn't.

Rey & Ben found belonging in one another in TLJ and had that story been given a proper conclusion with lots of kisses, sex and all that good stuff, then we would've had a future that truly lives forever instead of one that's a pathetic shell of what it could've been.

[roseraintears]

Modern Media needs to realize something

Women who act like their better than men and put them down for even the tiniest mistakes does not mean they are strong women!

[doverstar]

So question: The disney sequels have a mostly-deserved reputation for being unnesscary cookie-cutter cash grabs. Are the any that you think were actually enjoyable?

Hi, you mean the live-action remakes, right? Actually, yes! Read below.

Yeah, I enjoyed:

Alice in Wonderland (2010) Cinderella (2015) Beauty and the Beast (2017) Christopher Robin (2018) That's it. 1. I love Alice in Wonderland (the book, and the story in general). It's special to me. Burton's Alice is an actual, genuine sequel film supposed to take place years after the events in Alice's in Wonderland. It borrows elements from the novels Disney didn't fit in in the animated version, and it brought together creative minds who were perfect for bringing Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to life in fresh ways. I like Alice in it in particular; Alice is the only female character I will tolerate people calling a 'feminism icon' or any variant of that, and in this movie, my reasons why are on full display. I could elaborate, but that would take too long, so I won't. I love Alice in Burton's movie; she's book-accurate to a T, right down to the wild mane of hair from the original illustrations, and having her champion Wonderland and rekindle her 'muchness' was a perfect character arc for an older Alice. Again, could elaborate, again, not going to. 2. Cinderella (2015) is a national treasure and there's nothing wrong with it. Nothing. It's exactly as colorful, magical, and moral as it ought to be. The writing is exquisite, the simplicity of the theme "have courage and be kind" is so well-done, and again, perfectly cast. If you're going to remake an animated classic, this is how it's done. Take the best points of the original story and expand on it; try to make it even brighter. A++. 3. Let me be clear. Let me explain about Beauty and the Beast (2017). I would rather watch the original, animated BatB every single time. I only included this film on my list because I like snow, and I like the new songs, and I like the costumes (except Belle Watson's dress, put that zipper AWAY-) and I like Ewan McGregor, and I like Emma Thompson, and I like Dan Stevens. It's a feast for the eyeballs and the ear holes, sort of like the original (but nothing even close to the original). I won't duck my head and act like I didn't have fun with this film when it first came out, or like I wouldn't turn it on late at night if it was snowing outside and I had a fire going. In the right mood, I would. Visually appealing. Musically delightful. Everything else about it is garbage, and a waste of time. I spit upon it all. Emma Watson played a plank of wood in a dress whining about women, the Beast's character arc deserved more, Gaston should have been worse, Lefou was a joke, no. No. Ew, ew, ew.

4. Christopher Robin (2018) was an actual sequel, like Alice, and everyone should watch it. Everyone should make their favorite warm drink and go get a blanket and watch it. Again, nothing wrong with it. Absolutely wonderful from start to finish. Pooh is himself, Piglet is himself, they're all themselves. All of them. And Ewan McGregor was stellar. The theme, the execution, the pacing, genuinely a flawless love letter to everything about Winnie the Pooh, and Disney's version of Pooh, and the whole Hundred Acre Wood, including the ones we all had when we were children. Exactly what it should have been. No notes. A++. Yes! I enjoyed those. Had fun with those. None of the others.

[fryingpan1234567]

wow some of you (those calling the live-action remakes unnecessary cash-ins) don’t know that Walt Disney put it in his will that all the Disney classics are to be remade every ten years so that every generation can enjoy them and it really shows

[calebjorgens2024]

Mickey’s Journey to Idaho.

in light of Steamboat Willie’s release into the public domain after it’s 95 year copyright expired, I immediately have gotten into work my Fic, known by the title as above, I feature the historic American Empress Riverboat in my Story as a talking ship who welcomes Mickey and Minnie aboard for their trip to Idaho.

I cannot wait to eventually begin progress on my Fic!

[hitchell-mope]

Ben: my father can’t come to the wedding. He was at a yoga retreat and he fell out of the warrior pose and he broke his hip.

Mal: should we consider the possibility that someone pushed him?

Ben: Mal please. They were a bunch of peace loving hippies who spent two weeks in the rainforest with my father. Of course someone pushed him.