Snow White Remake

[Anonymous]

First I hear of it. One of the things I enjoy about DCUM.

My immediate reaction: You can't recreate perfection. The original Snow White was magical. I loved it as a kid, and I loved watching it with my child. We still have all those Disney movies from my kid's childhood. Perfection.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw it today. I don’t think it’s as bad as the reviews and all the online negativity suggest it is. It’s just mediocre. The best parts of it is what’s a direct recreation of thr original Disney animation. rachel zegler has an amazing voice and has that sweet ingenue demeanour that makes you believe why the woodland creatures would love her.

I didn’t like the addition of the bandits, that was unnecessary, or the CGI of the Dwarfs. F*** Peter Dinklage for browbeating them into not hiring real little people for those roles. Everyone lost with decision especially the quality of the final product.

Why would he do this? Doesn't he want people with dwarfism to get more roles?

He thought it was insulting or something like that. I think it was cruel of him to go after Disney on that point, and cruel of Disney to listen to him. It’s not like there are many roles suitable for such people available. To think that seven people could have had the experience of a lifetime acting in a major film and the studio used CGI instead, it’s just mind-boggling sad.

I think there are plenty of roles they can fill. Roles involving just ordinary people.

[Anonymous]

We are going to go this weekend to see it. We saw Rachel on Broadway in Romeo and Juliet over Christmas break and she was fantastic.

[Anonymous]

If you're a big fan of the OG Snow White, you'll probably hate this remake.

My DD has seen Snow White but she's not partial to it. She's probably not even seen it more than one or two times. She loved the remake. Snow White was one of my favorites growing up and I thought the remake was terrible.

I've found this to be true among friends and family. If you are hardcore Disney and loved OG Snow White, you'll hate this version.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going to go this weekend to see it. We saw Rachel on Broadway in Romeo and Juliet over Christmas break and she was fantastic.

She was great in West Side Story and the Hunger Games prequel.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]If you're a big fan of the OG Snow White, you'll probably hate this remake.

My DD has seen Snow White but she's not partial to it. She's probably not even seen it more than one or two times. She loved the remake. Snow White was one of my favorites growing up and I thought the remake was terrible.

I've found this to be true among friends and family. If you are hardcore Disney and loved OG Snow White, you'll hate this version. [/quote]

I find most live-action versions or spinoffs of Disney animated movie hits to be disappointing, with the exception of Cinderella, Aladdin and Maleficient. We'll see how the upcoming Lilo, Moana and Frozen fare.

[Anonymous]

How is her hair both accurate to the cartoon and also so ugly?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw it today. I don’t think it’s as bad as the reviews and all the online negativity suggest it is. It’s just mediocre. The best parts of it is what’s a direct recreation of thr original Disney animation. rachel zegler has an amazing voice and has that sweet ingenue demeanour that makes you believe why the woodland creatures would love her.

I didn’t like the addition of the bandits, that was unnecessary, or the CGI of the Dwarfs. F*** Peter Dinklage for browbeating them into not hiring real little people for those roles. Everyone lost with decision especially the quality of the final product.

Why would he do this? Doesn't he want people with dwarfism to get more roles?

He thought it was insulting or something like that. I think it was cruel of him to go after Disney on that point, and cruel of Disney to listen to him. It’s not like there are many roles suitable for such people available. To think that seven people could have had the experience of a lifetime acting in a major film and the studio used CGI instead, it’s just mind-boggling sad.

I think there are plenty of roles they can fill. Roles involving just ordinary people.

You can make a good movie about 7 real human dwarves, but that movie isn't Snow White. (It could be The Hobbit.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw it today. I don’t think it’s as bad as the reviews and all the online negativity suggest it is. It’s just mediocre. The best parts of it is what’s a direct recreation of thr original Disney animation. rachel zegler has an amazing voice and has that sweet ingenue demeanour that makes you believe why the woodland creatures would love her.

I didn’t like the addition of the bandits, that was unnecessary, or the CGI of the Dwarfs. F*** Peter Dinklage for browbeating them into not hiring real little people for those roles. Everyone lost with decision especially the quality of the final product.

Why would he do this? Doesn't he want people with dwarfism to get more roles?

The cynical response is no—because that opens up a whole world of potential competition to newer actors of his physical stature when there are already so few roles.

The benevolent (to his motives) take is that he doesn’t mind fellow little person actors getting roles, but he doesn’t mind them getting roles that perpetuate dehumanizing stereotypes, which he argued that casting little people in the role of “fictional magical dwarves” would do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're a big fan of the OG Snow White, you'll probably hate this remake.

My DD has seen Snow White but she's not partial to it. She's probably not even seen it more than one or two times. She loved the remake. Snow White was one of my favorites growing up and I thought the remake was terrible.

I've found this to be true among friends and family. If you are hardcore Disney and loved OG Snow White, you'll hate this version.

I doubt many are actual “big fans” of the original per se except for the idea that it was Disney’s first full-length animated film and so is historic and nostalgic in that way.
And the way in which RZ unceremoniously dumped on it was just unbecoming

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

How many more remakes of a story do we need?

I think I’d give my left pinky toe for a good original story.

[Anonymous]

Is the remake appropriate for a 3-year-old?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just not interested based on all her rhetoric. Hard to focus on movie without thinking of all the hate she spews. No thanks.

+1 she's awful. Wouldn't see anything she's in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw it today. I don’t think it’s as bad as the reviews and all the online negativity suggest it is. It’s just mediocre. The best parts of it is what’s a direct recreation of thr original Disney animation. rachel zegler has an amazing voice and has that sweet ingenue demeanour that makes you believe why the woodland creatures would love her.

I didn’t like the addition of the bandits, that was unnecessary, or the CGI of the Dwarfs. F*** Peter Dinklage for browbeating them into not hiring real little people for those roles. Everyone lost with decision especially the quality of the final product.

Why would he do this? Doesn't he want people with dwarfism to get more roles?

The cynical response is no—because that opens up a whole world of potential competition to newer actors of his physical stature when there are already so few roles.

The benevolent (to his motives) take is that he doesn’t mind fellow little person actors getting roles, but he doesn’t mind them getting roles that perpetuate dehumanizing stereotypes, which he argued that casting little people in the role of “fictional magical dwarves” would do.

Isn’t using cgi dwarves even more insulting? I don’t see how that solves the problem at all, they are even more exaggerated and lampooned.