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Well we have an update on the situation with the Fauci documentary
The Valeyard
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The trailer for Home Sweet Home Alone is out.
It’s a rehash of the first movie and Buzz is now a police officer.
It’s a rehash of the first movie and Buzz is now a police officer.
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This....this has to be a joke. When you said that this was a rehash of the original, you weren't joking: This is literally the first movie all over again, verbatim, only ersatz-Kevin and his family are British. Many of the shots even look similar:
Hell, even some LINES are repeated verbatim: "This is my house. I have to defend it." THEY. DIDN'T. EVEN. FUCKING. TRY.
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It's not entirely the same. This time it's the (step) fathers fault the kid is left behind. One of the intruders is now a strong women, the other a pathetic punching bag, weak man. So there's that...
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So pretty much the mold for modern movies then?
As someone who grew up with the first two movies the series started to go downhill starting with the 3rd. When you white actors playing North Korean spies when it was originally two guys who failed at being robbers. The third movie still had a charm to it however. Points for him having a pet rat, Doris. This movie, however, looks soulless.
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To be fair, the remake of True Grit did the same thing. The only difference is that they expanded on the characters from what they already know.
They can’t really do that with Home Alone. Which is why it’s just a straight-up remake.
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Hooray, the Mouse wants to dip its paws into anime streaming (archive). The article was already mentioned here, but it's worth linking in this thread too. While there's reasons to be concerned, I don't see this being easy considering Japanese laws and Disney's previous (fruitless) DMCA sprees.
vern
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Looking at the article again, I think the titles may be region locked.
Maybe its just worded bad or something but it seems like their producing these for the sole purpose of expanding Asia and not just given westerners new content to consume, i.e funding a bunch of K-dramas ahead of launching in korea, producing some anime and J-dramas to expand in japan, and bootlicking china to try and get in the mainland.
Maybe all of these will be worldwide eventually, but if they do I'm expecting most of them to be dubtitled like Visions was.
Product Placement
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I don't get the rehashing of Home Alone, unlike Marvel or Star Wars or even the live-action remakes of their animated movies I have never heard anyone not talk shit about Home Alone 3 and onwards.
Look at the dislikes, 15k likes vs 57k dislikes, has a Disney trailer ever got a backlash on this level? I mean that's pretty close to the ratio of Ghostbusters 2016 first trailer got.
It's a brand where people are pretty clear they don't want a new one or remake. At best this will get views as an oddity. I mean even if the movie somehow turned out good, I still don't think anyone would want it. In fact, willing to bet that the original Home Alone will be viewed more this Christmas than this new one will be.
Look at the dislikes, 15k likes vs 57k dislikes, has a Disney trailer ever got a backlash on this level? I mean that's pretty close to the ratio of Ghostbusters 2016 first trailer got.
It's a brand where people are pretty clear they don't want a new one or remake. At best this will get views as an oddity. I mean even if the movie somehow turned out good, I still don't think anyone would want it. In fact, willing to bet that the original Home Alone will be viewed more this Christmas than this new one will be.
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Seen this child actor before, think it was Jojo Rabbit. He endeared me in his last performance. He's annoying here and I'm pretty sure it's the script and the reason this whole movie exists, because he's carrying the same performance as last time (chubby cute kid who says punch lines) except he was used sparingly before whereas here everything is a punch line and a zinger.
This is one of those instances where Disney picked the wrong property to rehash. No identity chasing gender specials on Twitter or Tumblr have been fed Youtube essays about how "problematic" Home Alone was, so they don't care. It's not even a property predominantly enjoyed by white males (comics, Star Wars) so they have no reason to 'better' it.
Thus everyone hates it and no one has a shitty reason to champion it's existence.
An idea:
The wife is crazy and her husband is only around because he's pretty sure he'd be murdered otherwise, she's wrecked their finances and in her last spectacular gamble she decides to rob a house. She becomes increasingly unhinged as the movie progresses, with the husband finding his balls and deciding to protect the kid once he finds out he's in the house. The kid is a pampered wilted flower who's miserable his parents left him behind and have continuously ignored him, who then forms a bond with the new father figure as they navigate this quasi-home invasion. Now instead of the kid setting traps, it's the burglar. From slapstick comedy to a dark comedy, thriller mash-up of sorts. Home Alone meets Die Hard, there's your elevator pitch. Bonus points for the misleading advertising cycle and the flood of hundreds of articles when every publisher and Youtube under the sun leaves their take on the OH SO SHOCKING TWIST which is the whole reason anyone outside the bored and morbidly curious would watch it.
Now, I'm not saying this is the best thing ever and has likely been done before itself, but fuck me mates, at least try.
Edit: I remember what happens when they try. Never mind.
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Disney had co-produced anime and manga and done animeque style cartoons as well in the past. But with Disney in its current state and without any tard wranglers it is a matter of when they're going to fuck up and shit the beds over there.
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God....I was so good in the third film.
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There's been no less than three remakes of Escape to Witch Mountain. And the original wasn't even good to begin with.
This looks like a bigger mess, though. I'm just going to pretend it doesn't exist and stick to just watching the first two Home Alones instead.
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it's weird how in theory Escape To Witch Mountain should be a decent enough idea for a movie but it always shits the bed
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Disney has a habit of remaking their live action movies every so often to keep up with the times. So Freaky Friday, Escape to Witch Mountain, and less frequently, the Parent Trap. I kept seeing ads on Instagram for the remake of Underwraps, which only played on the Disney Channel and was made in that time when they were putting out original movies in the late 90's-early 2000s. I'm seeing if they to remake Xenon, Brink, Halloweentown, and Johnny Tsunami, those will be like the bottom of the barrel of remakes.