Disney Will Eat Itself
Mirror, mirror on the wall/ Who needs media training most of all? So, it looks like Disney's Snow White remake will be the anticipated box office disaster. I'm going to stay neutral on the whole wokeness debate, except 'may they never know peace' is a totally cringe thing to say, whatever side you're on. More interesting to me, as a shameless Disney fan, is their manic obsession with remaking all their old IP in the first place. By choice, I've only seen one of these rehashes. Last year's Little Mermaid added half an hour to the original's running time and subtracted at least two-thirds of the fun. The songs don't land like they should, the visuals are murky and muted and the whole thing exists in that uncanny-ish valley of modern photorealistic animation that delivers on a technical level yet leaves you emotionally cold. I remember exactly one of the new songs, which was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and doesn't bear any stylistic resemblance ...