7th October 2019, 11:10 AM
I was making a joke with the Jon Oliver thing, but the broadway stage play Morning Report is pretty catchy.
Anyway, personally I don't really like this trend. Why is Disney pumping them out? Well, in case you didn't notice, Disney is currently a media empire all by itself. Warner Bros is like a kitten compared to the Lion that is Disney at this point, they don't even compare. They own, well, most of your childhood now, and rumors are they intend to get more. They intend to make a new Star Wars movie every two years until we are all dead, and Marvel movies way past that. Personally, I have checked out of Marvel movies. Thanos is dead, so I'm done. I don't want to get caught up in another wave. I have a life, hypothetically.
Disney owns The Simpsons. Let that sink in. They didn't get the News branch of Fox because, well, there is no winning scenario for them. If they kept Fox News as a right wing pundit branch, they'd lose all their left wing fans. If they completely remodeled it into, let's face it, a centrist news station like CNN, they would alienate all their right wing fans. No, Fox News is too small for Disney to care, stuck in a very particular niche. Disney is bigger than Fox News by a few planets.
So, Disney can spit out remakes of their classics for decades, costing them millions, and it's still just a drop in the bucket for them.
Also, the Lion King remake isn't live action in any sense of the term. That's what's so bizarre. They sucked all the life out of it by making it more "lifelike". A couple of these things have tried doing unique changes to the story, like Pete's Dragon or maybe the last act of Jungle Book, but frankly everyone's already forgotten those. They'll forget this year's remakes in a couple years too. None of them serve as replacements, and past the two I mentioned none of them do anything new with the material either. They are frankly useless.
Anyway, personally I don't really like this trend. Why is Disney pumping them out? Well, in case you didn't notice, Disney is currently a media empire all by itself. Warner Bros is like a kitten compared to the Lion that is Disney at this point, they don't even compare. They own, well, most of your childhood now, and rumors are they intend to get more. They intend to make a new Star Wars movie every two years until we are all dead, and Marvel movies way past that. Personally, I have checked out of Marvel movies. Thanos is dead, so I'm done. I don't want to get caught up in another wave. I have a life, hypothetically.
Disney owns The Simpsons. Let that sink in. They didn't get the News branch of Fox because, well, there is no winning scenario for them. If they kept Fox News as a right wing pundit branch, they'd lose all their left wing fans. If they completely remodeled it into, let's face it, a centrist news station like CNN, they would alienate all their right wing fans. No, Fox News is too small for Disney to care, stuck in a very particular niche. Disney is bigger than Fox News by a few planets.
So, Disney can spit out remakes of their classics for decades, costing them millions, and it's still just a drop in the bucket for them.
Also, the Lion King remake isn't live action in any sense of the term. That's what's so bizarre. They sucked all the life out of it by making it more "lifelike". A couple of these things have tried doing unique changes to the story, like Pete's Dragon or maybe the last act of Jungle Book, but frankly everyone's already forgotten those. They'll forget this year's remakes in a couple years too. None of them serve as replacements, and past the two I mentioned none of them do anything new with the material either. They are frankly useless.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)