Snow White
the one we got:
The one we deserve:
The one we need:
Reasons
Wrong reasons to shit all over a movie or tv show
- Executive team (writer, producer, showrunner, etc) are not straight white men
- Reimagining an existing work
- Colorblind casting
- Genderblind casting
- Homo/othersexual themes
- Low-budget production with crappy effects
Right reasons to shit all over a movie, tv show, or actor
- Executive team is unable to write a good, coherent story
- Executive team blames the existing fan base
- Executive team wants to correct the source material
- Executive team ignores source material to push an agenda
- Actors' interviews support/advance the Executive team's agenda
- Race/gender swaps with an agenda
Reasons for shitting on an Actor’s performance
- There is never a reason for this. The actor delivered exactly what the Executive team wanted.
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Auntie Cara Strikes Back
Never saw THIS coming. Evidently Gina Carano (a.k.a. The Mandalorian’s Cara Dune) is filing a wrongful termination suit against Lucasfilm and Disney.
The tl;dr version: In 2021 Carano posted some Conservative opinions on Twitter, and was fired and blacklisted from Lucasfilm/Disney.
Perhaps the campaign for ideological purity is coming to an end?
Your perceived intolerance will not be tolerated
Some movement with Auntie Cara. Nothing really unexpected. Just the legal system at work.
A mixed bag
(Found this post in my Draft queue from six months ago. Yikes!)
Another movie pushed back a year. This time, the live action remake cash grab known as Snow White has fallen behind.
No surprise here. What is a surprise is this official promo picture. Gone are the seven representation checkboxes in favor of seven persons of diminutive stature with complexions whiter than snow.
Whatever. Somehow, I have a feeling that Bentkey's Snow White and the Evil Queen will be a better interpretation.
Auntie Cara Strikes Back
Never saw THIS coming. Evidently Gina Carano (a.k.a. The Mandalorian’s Cara Dune) is filing a wrongful termination suit against Lucasfilm and Disney.
The tl;dr version: In 2021 Carano posted some Conservative opinions on Twitter, and was fired and blacklisted from Lucasfilm/Disney.
Perhaps the campaign for ideological purity is coming to an end?
Your perceived intolerance will not be tolerated
Ms. Marvel, Season 2
…also known as The Marvels is, well, being shit upon by a good chunk of the internet.
TBH, I haven’t seen it. …and from what people have said about the storyline itself, that’s not gonna happen. It starts immediately after the Ms. Marvel finale, entangling Monica into the Kamala/Carol teleport/swap gimmick. Somehow, it also has Spaceball I taking the air from Druidia, a Bollywood segment, and almost ignores Captain Marvel as a planet killer. One hour forty five minutes minutes of fun, no? (Note: Iman Vellani is generally considered the brightest and most appealing part of the movie)
Between Disney trying to get every last drop out of Marvel’s desicated teats, and all the fuckwits crying about the state of the “M-She-U”, I’m out.
Disney, when are you going to stop?
On the other hand, maybe this whole thing can be saved. Google “carol danvers rogue” and deep dive that connection.
Well, this is happening.
I don’t know how to feel about this one, other than it needs to be good. Overall, it seems impossible to fuck it up. It’s not a musical, so all the heavy auto-tune is a non-issue. It’s set in Hawai'i, so forced representation in the characters isn’t an issue (unless some fuckwit starts screaming about the “wrong” AAPI casting). A shitty CGI for Stitch is unlikely, but Jumba and Pleakley?
The soundtrack hasn’t been released, but Elvis and Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu has better be there!
He makes a point in there. If people can binge 8 hours of Netflix, 3 hours isn’t that bad.
“People say, ‘Oh my God, a family story from Disney? Just what we want…’ This isn’t that kind of family story,” Cameron added. “[Avatar 2] is a family story like how ‘The Sopranos’ is a family story.”
…but with less gabagool, right? Right?
Lovely. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse. Inspiration from attention whores trying to become internet famous.
How does that even work in Ancient Greece? Will Megara be running around with an iPhone 14 Pro Max iScroll XIV Maximus?
Maybe pull a page from Clash of the Titans, where everyone has a Bubo and they have a network to send out “hoots”?
The Little Mermaid. Why you gotta do my girl like that? (Actually, we already know)
Yet another live action, theatrical, cash-grab remake from the Mouse House. Immediately, we know it’s going to be… meh.
Then, add the pandering culturally diverse casting for representation updated for modern sensibilities. I find this insulting. People of color deserve better than being retconned into a 25 year old movie. Stop it!
Princess and the Frog, Encanto, Raya and the Last Dragon, Lilo and Stitch, Moana. How about some live action versions of those? (To be fair, there was Aladdin, but Lilo and Stitch appears to be stuck in development hell)
Of course there’s the musical butchery vocal stylings of YouTube-famous chanteuse Halle Bailey. What business does she have fixing the melodies of EGOT winner Alan Menken? Save it for your solo world tour, girlie!