This was a great disappointment for me. This happens when you want to remake exactly the original and the original is a musical with beautiful and classic songs and your actors can't sing. This was like a pale fifth generation photocopy of the original. There was not even a single good song in...
I think nobody had the singing chops in the live action. The animated Beauty and the Beast had such beautiful songs and professional singing that the live action felt like a bad karaoke night.
I very much liked The Jungle Book and Cinderella because they are different and new and not a shot by shot remake. I disliked Beauty and the Beast. The Lion King seems to be even more shot by shot than Beauty and the Beast. I hope it's not.
This is fascinating. Was Jungle Book a shot by shot recreation? I suppose not and that's why it was successful.
Recreating shot by shot the exact same frames might sound impressive but I think is a huge mistake. It will be a great negative if they made every shot like the animation and it just...