Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20160822213306/@comment-25692211-20161021224644

Marvelfan94 wrote: I actually saw the Jungle Book remake a few weeks back, and huh...well...that was pointless. It didn't really do anything for me and i don't see the point in ever watching another one of these live-action rehashes. While I do agree on the live action topic, The Jungle Book was the only one I genuinely enjoyed. I liked how it had a ton of respect for the original(unlike Maleficent), but still had enough excitement and substance to be it's own film(unlike Cinderella). It might also be due to the fact that my favorite Disney film is the original 1967 movie, so I might be a little biased.

As for the Lion King, while I'm excited to see what Favreau could do, it just seems pretty pointless. I mean, JB made sense because it was Neel Sethi, an actual actor, interacting with animals voiced by Bill Murray and Ben Kingsley. But there are no human characters in the original Lion King. So from the sounds of it, unless they do Shakespeare's Hamlet, it's basically just going to be the original with a different type of animation.

And to be totally honest, I really don't think Lion King is that great anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1U6g-kJ5og

At least not as great as everybody says it is. It's beautifully animated, has a pretty good voice cast(with the exception of Matthew Broderick) and Hans Zimmer's score is fantastic. But even as a kid, I didn't really like it. I loved the first third of the movie, Zazu and the hyenas got a good laugh sometimes, Scar was a great villain and the relationships Simba has with Nala and his parents are quite sweet. There's only three songs I genuinely like, Timon and Pumbaa felt like they were trying too hard to be Robin Williams in Aladdin and didn't fit the previously established tone at all, and to be totally honest, the plot of the film doesn't really fit the message it's trying to tell.

Seriously, the main message of the film is that Simba must go back and face his fears and the consequences of his actions. But the film already showed us that he didn't do it, meaning Simba's development comes off as pointless and meaningless. And when he does go back to face his fears, his fears start to win. When Scar has Simba "confess" that he was the killer, everyone turns against him. Not even Nala or his mother support him. Then Scar decided to say "hey guess what. I was the real killer. Don't know why I said that, I just felt like it." and then everyone turns against Scar. That's a completely wrong way to tell this message. Not only did Simba not do anything, but when he thought that he did do it, the film doesn't support him, it basically suggested that he deserved to die for it. And Scar just confessing for no reason felt like the writers just pulled that plot point out of their a**.

So When I was a kid I basically interpreted the message as "run away from your problems unless it turns out you didn't really do anything"