THEY DON'T EVEN FIT
LET ME TELL YOU INTERNETS I AM VERY DISPLEASED
I already tweeted about this but I'm so freaking pissed that I have to vent here too.
Disney is planning to a 3D animation remake of Yellow Submarine.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING. IT WAS A A PERFECTLY FANTASTICALLY FABULOUS MOVIE YOU DO NOT NEED TO REMAKE IT. AND IT IS SO ABSOLUTELY ICONIC OF THE 60S AND POP ART AND PETER MAX'S STYLE AND ALL THAT STUFF. TO REMAKE SOMETHING THAT IS THE EPITOME OF A CERTAIN STYLE IN A DIFFERENT STYLE IS JUST DISRESPECTFUL AND TRAGIC. AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GIVE IT A REST WITH THE 3D ANIMATION EVERYBODY IS SICK OF IT AND NOBODY WANTS TO SEE IT ANYMORE. AND WHY WOULD YOU MAKE AN ANIMATED MOVIE OF SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY AN ANIMATED MOVIE ANYWAY IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
DAMMIT DISNEY WHY ARE YOU SO COMPLETELY CLUELESS ABOUT EVERYTHING? ARE YOU SO ENGROSSED IN YOUR OWN LITTLE BUBBLE DOWN THERE THAT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ANYBODY WANTS TO SEE OR WHAT ANYBODY IS SAYING ABOUT YOU? I AM SO FREAKING SICK OF THIS.
Oh, and the kicker: it's being directed by Robert Zemeckis, the guy who did Polar Express and the upcoming remake of A Christmas Carol, using the same performance capture technique used in those two. HEY, NEWSFLASH. NOBODY LIKES YOUR PERFORMANCE CAPTURE STUFF, WE FIND IT VERY VERY CREEPY AND NOWHERE NEAR AS COOL AS YOU SEEM TO THINK IT IS.
Here's the link:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/all-aboard-yellow-submarine-remake-in-the-works/
While I'm ranting about Disney's utter cluelessness, let me rant more about The Princess and the Frog in case I haven't ranted enough in here about it. Okay, I'm glad they're finally going back to traditional 2D hand-drawn animation. I'm glad they're going back to fairy tales. I'm glad they're finally making a movie with a black princess. But why, oh why, do they have to be so BAD at it? Firstly, some of the character designs are just awful, they're bland and uninspired and so unoriginal. The frogs, especially. They look like every other cartoon frog ever! But beyond that...
They finally have a black princess. Okay, great. But then...they named her Tiana, she's a waitress in New Orleans. Um, Disney? This is starting to be a little awkwardly stereotypical. Did they really have to give her a "black girl" name?? But oh, it gets SO MUCH WORSE because they couldn't just stick with the traditional story of the frog prince, oh no, of course not, they had to TURN TIANA INTO A FROG TOO. DISNEY, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? ARE YOU COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING? YOU JUST TURNED YOUR FIRST BLACK PRINCESS INTO AN ANIMAL FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE MOVIE. God, where should we even start? Do we start with the fact that it feels like they didn't actually WANT a black princess so they found a way to not actually have to put the black girl on screen for most of the movie? Do we even want to go NEAR the horribly awkward implications of turning your first black lead into an ANIMAL?
I don't want this to sound worse than it is because I don't for a second think they're doing this stuff on purpose. I'm sure Disney doesn't have any racist agenda or anything. They just don't THINK!
I was reading an article about the movie and it had quotes from some Disney people. One guy said something like "We maybe didn't realize the impact of that. But we made every effort to be as sensitive as possible." (That's probably not the exact quote because I'm doing this from memory, so don't quote me on that.) Um, really? You didn't realize the IMPACT of it? HOW LONG have people been complaining about the lack of a black princess? It's hardly gone unnoticed, it seems to me it's been a pretty big deal. And when they announced this movie, everybody got so excited that they finally WOULD have one. So they just make themselves look stupid by saying they didn't realize it was a big deal. And...they made every effort to be as sensitive as possible? Oh, PLEASE.
In the same article, another guy from Disney said something along the lines of "There was a feeling that people didn't want to see 2D animation anymore." (Again, not an exact quote I'm sure.) And again...WHAT?! People have been pleading for years for a return to 2D animation, to everything that initially made us fall in love with Disney movies. NOBODY could understand WHY ON EARTH they kept churning out 3D things when we were all begging them to go back to 2D! So how oblivious do you have to be to say that you thought people didn't want to see 2D anymore?!
IT'S JUST SO FREAKING FRUSTRATING!
I already tweeted about this but I'm so freaking pissed that I have to vent here too.
Disney is planning to a 3D animation remake of Yellow Submarine.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING. IT WAS A A PERFECTLY FANTASTICALLY FABULOUS MOVIE YOU DO NOT NEED TO REMAKE IT. AND IT IS SO ABSOLUTELY ICONIC OF THE 60S AND POP ART AND PETER MAX'S STYLE AND ALL THAT STUFF. TO REMAKE SOMETHING THAT IS THE EPITOME OF A CERTAIN STYLE IN A DIFFERENT STYLE IS JUST DISRESPECTFUL AND TRAGIC. AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GIVE IT A REST WITH THE 3D ANIMATION EVERYBODY IS SICK OF IT AND NOBODY WANTS TO SEE IT ANYMORE. AND WHY WOULD YOU MAKE AN ANIMATED MOVIE OF SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY AN ANIMATED MOVIE ANYWAY IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
DAMMIT DISNEY WHY ARE YOU SO COMPLETELY CLUELESS ABOUT EVERYTHING? ARE YOU SO ENGROSSED IN YOUR OWN LITTLE BUBBLE DOWN THERE THAT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ANYBODY WANTS TO SEE OR WHAT ANYBODY IS SAYING ABOUT YOU? I AM SO FREAKING SICK OF THIS.
Oh, and the kicker: it's being directed by Robert Zemeckis, the guy who did Polar Express and the upcoming remake of A Christmas Carol, using the same performance capture technique used in those two. HEY, NEWSFLASH. NOBODY LIKES YOUR PERFORMANCE CAPTURE STUFF, WE FIND IT VERY VERY CREEPY AND NOWHERE NEAR AS COOL AS YOU SEEM TO THINK IT IS.
Here's the link:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/all-aboard-yellow-submarine-remake-in-the-works/
While I'm ranting about Disney's utter cluelessness, let me rant more about The Princess and the Frog in case I haven't ranted enough in here about it. Okay, I'm glad they're finally going back to traditional 2D hand-drawn animation. I'm glad they're going back to fairy tales. I'm glad they're finally making a movie with a black princess. But why, oh why, do they have to be so BAD at it? Firstly, some of the character designs are just awful, they're bland and uninspired and so unoriginal. The frogs, especially. They look like every other cartoon frog ever! But beyond that...
They finally have a black princess. Okay, great. But then...they named her Tiana, she's a waitress in New Orleans. Um, Disney? This is starting to be a little awkwardly stereotypical. Did they really have to give her a "black girl" name?? But oh, it gets SO MUCH WORSE because they couldn't just stick with the traditional story of the frog prince, oh no, of course not, they had to TURN TIANA INTO A FROG TOO. DISNEY, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? ARE YOU COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING? YOU JUST TURNED YOUR FIRST BLACK PRINCESS INTO AN ANIMAL FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE MOVIE. God, where should we even start? Do we start with the fact that it feels like they didn't actually WANT a black princess so they found a way to not actually have to put the black girl on screen for most of the movie? Do we even want to go NEAR the horribly awkward implications of turning your first black lead into an ANIMAL?
I don't want this to sound worse than it is because I don't for a second think they're doing this stuff on purpose. I'm sure Disney doesn't have any racist agenda or anything. They just don't THINK!
I was reading an article about the movie and it had quotes from some Disney people. One guy said something like "We maybe didn't realize the impact of that. But we made every effort to be as sensitive as possible." (That's probably not the exact quote because I'm doing this from memory, so don't quote me on that.) Um, really? You didn't realize the IMPACT of it? HOW LONG have people been complaining about the lack of a black princess? It's hardly gone unnoticed, it seems to me it's been a pretty big deal. And when they announced this movie, everybody got so excited that they finally WOULD have one. So they just make themselves look stupid by saying they didn't realize it was a big deal. And...they made every effort to be as sensitive as possible? Oh, PLEASE.
In the same article, another guy from Disney said something along the lines of "There was a feeling that people didn't want to see 2D animation anymore." (Again, not an exact quote I'm sure.) And again...WHAT?! People have been pleading for years for a return to 2D animation, to everything that initially made us fall in love with Disney movies. NOBODY could understand WHY ON EARTH they kept churning out 3D things when we were all begging them to go back to 2D! So how oblivious do you have to be to say that you thought people didn't want to see 2D anymore?!
IT'S JUST SO FREAKING FRUSTRATING!