Mufasa: The Lion King 2024 Movie Review
The general consensus of Live-Action remakes have become a heated discussion amongst movie goers over these past years. With Disney remaking various classics into Live-Action, everyone has gotten heated up and criticized them for their laziness, repetitiveness and annoyance of taking an animated classic and approaching them from a poor and lazy perspective, with nothing new or value to express.
I solely agree with the statement that Live Action remakes are getting repetitive. Animation is golden in cinema due to the passion and beautiness behind the work of animation and what made the original animated movies “classics”, should be left alone. I believe Disney should continue to provide new, original, and different stories to continue what made Disney good. Continuing to craft remakes of classics ruins the legacy of the best aspects of Disney and with the modern generation, the classics might be forgotten if it continues. By creating new ideas with interesting stories and characters, Disney will be remembered by future generations for what made them great.
Many times complaints have been said that Disney needs to stop remaking things and make original. They need to stop making cash grabs and focus on good movies. Issue is that the remakes still make lots of money despite the backlash and negative responses from the public. It’s because no matter what is said, people still flow through to watch them and the more money it builds up. Disney is compelled to continue to craft remakes until the towel runs dry. I find it hypocritical that people express their dislike of the remakes, yet, the more the words are spoken about it, it’s basically giving out free promotion of the remakes, and unsurprisingly, draws more attention. For example, the Live Action remakes of Aladdin and The Lion King have been negatively discussed before its big release from what I had seen in the past. Despite all the negative feedback, the movies still made billions. Free marketing, demanding boycotts (especially with the new Snow White Live-Action movie) and controversy responses are allowing free marketing and publicity that would attract viewers (especially children or naive audiences) to watch them. On the other hand, when new and original stories are made, they rarely get discussed. Like when Strange World came out, it was a box office failure (yes, I understand the movie isn’t amazing but still, it’s at least an original concept).
Loud responses, calls for boycotts, and public backlash pretty much raises awareness, in the worst ways possible, to promote the movies. It draws curiosity and attention. Curious eyes and ears will draw through backlash as it feeds like a parasite.
The best thing to do is just: Ignore The Remakes and Let It Fail. Drawing more attention to how ugly it looks, complaining about them, criticizing them, and reviewing them, pretty much will draw viewers because people will have the sense “Is it that bad or controversial? I need to see it now!” If people desire to stop the remakes, the voice, call for boycotts, and talk of it should be subsided. The best way one could fail is to not promote, speak, and engage with it. It’s like making an influencer who desires attention, lose the attention; you don’t buy into their nonsense, you ignore them and let them fail on themselves.
The decisions of live-action remakes isn’t solely Disney’s fault, it’s also the audiences and viewers fault that these live-action remakes continue to exist. Sure, Disney is 100 percent milking themselves to make more money and the company is the issue. At the same time, viewers are just as responsible to not engage with the remakes. If you wish the remakes to stop, the best is to avoid it, ignore it, and don’t promote them. It would send out a clear message to tell Disney that they need to improve and make better things.
