man i don’t know much about filmmaking but the way this is shot feels so…. inert? i went back and watched the original to compare and the animation is really quite simple but the way it’s blocked and “shot,” the way the “camera” follows ursula around and how they use a cut to a “close-up” adds dynamism to the scene that feels really lacking here (quotes bc it is a cartoon lol). this one starts off ok but then once the chorus hits we’re watching all this happen from so far away… then sort of aimlessly zooming in too slowly to emphasize any particular line… now we’re far again…. a musically climactic line gets performed so we can’t even see anyone’s face!
i think an underrated problem of CGI is that sometimes restraints are good for art. if your movie is literally drawings on paper (TLM was the last hand colored disney movie) there’s a limitation to how complicated you can get so you really have to think: what’s the most important thing to show here and what’s the most effective way to show it? how can we make sure the audience is always automatically looking at the most important thing in the screen? with CGI heavy stuff i feel like people just get caught up in the “ooh shiny” of it all and don’t stop to ask those questions?
acting wise i’ve liked melissa before but she is not giving it here… she doesn’t seem like she’s having fun at all which is like the whole point of the song. halle sounds so ariel-y it’s honestly almost weird but i mean that as a compliment!
also OP you were not kidding about the screen brightness like what in the christopher nolan. this is a movie for children!!!
I haven't seen this yet but IA. I think my biggest problem with the CGI versions I've seen so far is that they just feel quite...bland in comparison.
I remember a specific scene in the Lion King - I think it was Hakuna Matata. In the animated version its SO fun and colourful and lively, where as the CGI feels like a less exciting David Attenborough documentary.
It doesn’t work with animals at all. You lose all expressiveness and fun. The whole point of the animated versions is to give this the animals human expressions and emotions. That’s why it’s madness that they’re doing Bambi. I can just imagine dead-eyed Thumper
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i think an underrated problem of CGI is that sometimes restraints are good for art. if your movie is literally drawings on paper (TLM was the last hand colored disney movie) there’s a limitation to how complicated you can get so you really have to think: what’s the most important thing to show here and what’s the most effective way to show it? how can we make sure the audience is always automatically looking at the most important thing in the screen? with CGI heavy stuff i feel like people just get caught up in the “ooh shiny” of it all and don’t stop to ask those questions?
acting wise i’ve liked melissa before but she is not giving it here… she doesn’t seem like she’s having fun at all which is like the whole point of the song. halle sounds so ariel-y it’s honestly almost weird but i mean that as a compliment!
also OP you were not kidding about the screen brightness like what in the christopher nolan. this is a movie for children!!!
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I remember a specific scene in the Lion King - I think it was Hakuna Matata. In the animated version its SO fun and colourful and lively, where as the CGI feels like a less exciting David Attenborough documentary.
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That’s why it’s madness that they’re doing Bambi. I can just imagine dead-eyed Thumper
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