Is Disney taking all the classic animated films one by one and rebooting/remaking them into live action?

Recently we had Cinderella and looking at the future releases list, there are several live action remakes of the animated films in the works:

(all the ones with a YELLOW L next to them at the bottom of the page)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films

Disney stock is at $103 a share. Maybe I should buy some!

Edited September 15, 201511 yr by J7Dadda

Does the world really need another Steve Jobs movie?

It's by a good director (Danny Boyle) and a good screenwriter (Aaron Sorkin) but Fassbender is not Steve Jobs.

The 2013 version with Ashton Kutcher was mediocre but Ashton did resembled Steve in some scenes.

Vacation (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524930/

I turned it off 27 minutes in after the sorority college scene.

This is what has become of Christina Applegate's movie career?

What was the point of this movie anyway?

The first 2 films were alright.

The 3rd film, Christmas Vacation was pretty much pushing its luck and it didn't make any money.

Then the Vegas Vacation was a bigger flop.

Only basing on the 27 min I watched, I will give it 0/5

The Island (2005)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/

Early Pre-Transformers Michael Bay's masterpiece starring a very stunning 20 years young Scarlett Johansson.

You can tell from watching this that Michael was destined to do only great movies.

5/5

Love that movie too.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456

We humans are doomed aren't we?

We are either going to cause our own extinction by lobbing nuclear weapons at one another or we are going to p o some peaceful alien race that visits Earth by shooting first and asking question later causing them to 'death star' planet Earth.

4.5/5

(maybe some day I will break down and watch the Keanu Reeves remake but I doubt I will anytime soon)

remake sucked trust me.

remake sucked trust me.

Yeah... that's what several people at my video stores been telling me too.

Thanks. I will pass. Save me 2 hours of pain and suffering.

Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087843/

I've seen this movie before a long time ago on VHS but that was the stupid excised 139 version for American audience - cut back from the original Italian 229 min theatrical release.

The version I watched tonight is the full 251 min film originally envisioned by director Sergio Leone in 1983, which was recreated in 2011 using previously cut scenes.

It was shown at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and subsequently released in September 2014 by Warner Bros on a special 2-Disc Blu-Ray set.

Now that I've seen this full version, the story makes more sense and the movie itself is in turn sadder and at the same time more powerful than ever before.

It's very unfortunate this film did not receive the full version release in America in 1984 which caused it to blasted by the critics and shunned at the box office.

Otherwise, it may had very likely received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Photography and Best Musical Score.

This was Sergio Leone's final film in an illustrious 20 year career that begin with the Spaghetti Westerns which elevated Clint Eastwood to an International Superstar.

Damn the studios and the American censors for disrespecting him by cutting his original cut of this film to pieces.

5/5

Edited October 3, 201510 yr by J7Dadda

Self/less (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140379/

A nearly 2-hours long exercise in banale futility, recycled plots and film cliches.

Also Ryan Reynolds is totally miscast. He has the same dumb clueless expression on his face even when someone is pointing a gun at him or shooting at him.

The main actress is also horrible as if she was plucked directly out of a cheesy Telemundo soap opera.

HECK! The 8 years old little girl that played the daughter did a better acting job than any of the adult actors and actresses in the entire film.

The premise was interesting but the director and screenwriters really had no idea what to do with it and how to execute it brilliantly.

It's like when you were in school and you were asked to write a paper about what you did on your Summer vacation and you wrote a brilliant title to start your manuscript and then your mind went blank.

You'd ended up sitting there for hours just staring at the white sheet of paper with just a title on it with no idea how to start it and what to write as your opening sentence.

Well this movie is like that!

If you value your time, stay away from this film!

1/5

Momentum (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3181776/

Not great but not bad either. It also left the ending open to a sequel.

3.75/5

War Hunt (1962)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056675/

Little known Korea War movie starring a very young Robert Redford (his first motion picture starring role), Tom Skerritt, John Saxon, Gavin McLeod (Captain of the Love Boat) and future film director Sydney Pollack.

Future Best Director Academy Award winner Francis Ford Coppola also has a non speaking cameo role as an Army truck driver.

This film is a study in anti-war psychology.

4.5/5

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/

I was pleasantly surprised. It's pretty good even when I have never seen an episode of the TV series it's based on.

4/5

Edited November 1, 201510 yr by J7Dadda

The Fourth Protocol (1987)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093044/

Brosnan should had played Bond the same way he played the ruthless KGB agent in this cold war thriller.

4/5

Cop Car (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3813310/

When you were a kid, did you ever want to get into a police car and drive it and play with the sirens and lights and drive real fast and run stop signs and traffic lights with it?

Well this film is about what happens when 2 kids do take a police car.

4/5

James Bond #24 Spectre (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/

Definitely better than Skyfall but unfortunately, I think this may very well be Daniel Craig's last Bond film.

At the end of the rolling credits it read "James Bond Will Return"

James Bond always returns but the actor playing the role may not be the same.

4.5/5

The Transporter Refueled (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2938956/

There is only one Transporter and that is Jason Statham and will always be Jason Statham.

I don't know who this actor is and I don't care he was on Games Of Thrones because I have never seen that show and I never will!

2/5

The Martian (2015)

 

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/

It was okay but not great and definitely not as awesome as people made it out to be.

Most of it was boring!

Interstellar was more exciting.

Even Mission To Mars and Red Planet were more exciting.

Could had been a SyFy movie or some Cable TV movie.

3.5/5

Edited August 22, 20179 yr by j7wild

WOW!

Has it really been almost 20 years?

Movie making sure has changed a great deal since then!

The world has changed a great deal since then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7a2u8lxWm8

Might be entertaining but I felt they kinda had closure in the first one.

With those what appears to be ships based on their tech gives them a better chance to fight at least.

Between this and Independence Day: Resurgence I choose Independence Day: Resurgence.

A friend of mine says:

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Sorry to all you Fanboys, but this trailer is total garbage, I see Mad Max meets the Fast and the Furious during a Heavy Metal concert.

I AGREE with him!

It's sooo noisy,

I got a headache just from one viewing of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVD32rnzOw

Yeah I didn't get a good vibe from it. Looks like a wait for the dvd flick.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/

We waited 32 years for a sequel to Return Of The Jedi and this is what we get?

3/5

 

I enjoyed it very much. I don't know why you were disappointed.

31 minutes ago, Tom@LCO said:

I enjoyed it very much. I don't know why you were disappointed.

THIS:

the following link contains an image with SPOILERS. If you HAVE NOT seen Star Wars The Force Awakens,

DO NOT CLICK!

http://www.imagebam.com/image/45104a453374696

If you search for articles and reviews online and on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, many folks feel the same way.

J J Abrams has no originality. He screwed up the Star Trek Franchise and remember what I said when we first heard he was going to direct the Star Wars films for Disney?

I said he was going to ruin Star Wars the same way he ruined Star Trek and I was right!

Right at the very first thread here October 2012 I said immediately: please no J J Abrams!

http://www.laracroftonline.net/index.php?/topic/6530-disney-buys-out-lucasfilm-the-star-wars-franchise-and-george-lucas-for-4-billion/&page=1

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Maybe make a film where the director seems to give an actual damn about story continuity and integrity. Gives a damn about acting and storytelling.

Let the directors hype and rumours begin!

I pick Joss Whedon!!

He is the only Director for this job!!

And PPPPLEASSSEEEE NO J. J. Abrams!!

 

 

Then down at January 2013 in that same thread I said:

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Abrams has signed on to direct Episode 7?

He is a hack!

He is ruining the Star Trek franchise and now he is going to ruin the Star Wars franchise too!

He will be responsible for the downfall of the 2 biggest science fiction film franchises in celluloid history!

Get ready for a million annoying flare lens in Episode 7!!

 

 

The movie will still make $ but not for the right reasons!