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Gone. No, I am not referring to The Little Mermaid as such. The other one. I apologize for not being clear, and I was not accusing the poster, just the filmmakers and those who write their paychecks. My beef is with them, not anyone here. But if you want to talk about what makes this particular...

I want the studio's resources devoted towards something else. Anything else. That movie will suck with any combination of cast and crew because the source material was horrible and so was its creator, a textbook malignant narcissist. The Little Mermaid might be tolerable with someone else at the...

Maybe Lindsay's judgement is better than I gave her credit for. All Marshall can muster is a sequel to a ripoff of a movie they don't want people to see. The movie that's getting the sequel is the movie they should have shelved instead. Even the name of the film is offensive. "Mary" is an...

There was a 1975 animated version narrated by Richard Chamberlain that was more like the book, which they made us watch in class when I was 10 or 11, but for my money the existing Disney movie is the one to beat. If Disney wanted Condon but he just didn't want the job, that basically proves my...

The movie took plenty of liberties with Hans Christian Anderson, at least as many as that Danny Kaye movie took with his life. Let's just say Ariel doesn't live happily after at the end. Marshall is form over substance. With Bill Condon, you get both.

No, but it would make a more interesting film than the L7 dullsville bourgeois asimilationist pablum we usually get from Marshall.

I'd rather have John Waters direct it. He won't, since he never directs anyone else's screenplay, but he should. It would bring the Ursula/Divine thing full circle. I honestly think Condon is a much, much, much, better director overall, and what was wrong with the new BatB would probably have...

I was not that impressed with what I saw of Beauty and the Beast. It looked too slavishly devoted to the original 1991 film to breathe, and what looked charming with traditional animation looked creepy in CGI. And autotune makes everything it touches musically worthless with no exceptions. I...

Conventional and safe. I rest my case. Guy Ritchie, on the other hand? No. Absolutely not. A thousand times no.

I disagree about Marshall. I find his films dull as dishwater and I recall reading Steven Spielberg now regrets hiring him for Memoirs of a Geisha. I've never seen anything of his I liked besides Chicago, and Condon's smart adaptation had a lot to do with it. With this he will have remade two of...

I'd feel a little better about this pointless endeavor if Bill Condon were directing it instead.