Re: _Peter Pan and Wendy_ Getting Slammed by Viewers

On 2024-05-30 20:34:40 +0000, Your Name said:

On 2024-05-30 15:31:57 +0000, Paul S Person said:

On Thu, 30 May 2024 06:03:54 +0000,
danmin@danminart-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Danart) wrote:

 

Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
The new Disney adaptation of the evergreen children's story is
being panned by reviewers all over the internet as woke trash, that further tarnishes the Disney brand. It currently has a 20% favoarable rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Released direct to cable, it seems some in
corporate knew enough than to release it to theaters, so it could suffer it's ignominy in relative privacy. Choosing to update the cultural aesthetic to 21st c norms, while keeping the Edwardian setting of the original book, all it succeeds at doing is creating a cringe-fest that makes you feel embarassed for everyone involved.

 Why does it have to be a remake? Why not just fill in the gap between or after the following. Even a story before the before.

 Disney still thinks remakes are worth doing.
 -or-
 Disney is suffering from a total lack of imagination

 Neither of those is unique to just Disney. About 90% of lazy-ass Hollyweird suffers from those same things too.  :-(

I should add, it's not just Hollyweird either. Book publishers do the same thing.
They often redesign the book covers, which when done *during* the release of a series is {beep}ingly annyoying for those collecting them who end up with either a mismatched set or having to rebuy the older books.
Dorling Kindersley (DK) are also have a bad tendency to release a new edition  of a book with a few added new pages - again {beep}ingly annoying for those who already bought the previous edition.
Then there's the car industry with their rebooting of old models - the "new" Beetle and the "new" Mini being two of the best known examples.