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    Aladdin (2019)

    Naomi Scott performing "Speechless"....
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    Aladdin (2019)

    My top 5 movies for the first 5 months of 2019..... Aladdin Us Tolkien Dumbo Stan and Ollie
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    Aladdin (2019)

    Jake: Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts. Given how important the original movie has been to you for so many years, it's understandable that you didn't connect emotionally with the new one. My favorite movie adaptation of a Jane Austen novel is the 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility...
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    Aladdin (2019)

    I think Will Smith does a really good job as the genie. He has his own take on the role that won me over.
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    Aladdin (2019)

    Saw it again today in IMAX 3D and liked it even better the second time around. The 3D is very good imho, and I think that's the way to go if you can find it in that format. They were only showing it once in IMAX 3D as far as I could tell as my local AMC (not once a day, just once period)...
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    Aladdin (2019)

    One of the places this film could be said to be "needed" is in the more feminist take on Jasmine.
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    Aladdin (2019)

    Revised and/or new lyrics for opening song.... "Oh imagine a land, it's a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam Where you wander among every culture and tongue It's chaotic, but hey, it's home When the wind's from the east And the sun's from the west And the sand in the glass is right...
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    Aladdin (2019)

    I liked it a lot! My rating: "A" My rating of the original: "A+" The theater was only half full, but the audience was clearly enjoying it. Jasmine was a standout, with a more powerful role and her own new song. That's 3 for 3 for me for the recent Disney remakes, since I really liked Mary...
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    Aladdin (2019)

    Beauty and the Beast (2017) Domestic Total Gross: $504,014,165 Distributor: Buena Vista Release Date: March 17, 2017 Genre: Fantasy Runtime: 2 hrs. 9 min. MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: $160 millionTotal Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $504,014,165 39.9% + Foreign: $759,506,961 60.1% =...
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    Aladdin (2019)

    My guess is that you will be wrong. Aladdin in one of the crown jewels for Disney, and they clearly have invested not just fortune of money into this, but a fortune of talent as well. I think it's going to be a good movie, although imho there's no way it will be as good as the animated version...
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    Aladdin (2019)

    I was only the second ticket sold.....! But it's a long way out yet. I expect it to sell out by opening night.
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    Aladdin (2019)

    I just got my ticket for Aladdin from AMC A-list for the first showing on Thursday, May 23rd, in IMAX.
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    Aladdin (2019)

    Aladdin will almost certainly have much bigger box office than Dumbo and Mary Poppins, but still I think it's likely to be closer to those movies than to Endgame. But I'm looking forward to it. I'll probably by an IMAX 3 D seat for it in a couple of weeks.
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    Aladdin (2019)

    Once you've read this book, hope you'll give us a little report on it!++
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    Aladdin (2019)

    I'm looking forward to this movie! Thanks, Jake, for keeping us up to date.
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