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Disney really fucked up with this movie about a princess, meant for six-year old girls, that seems to have missed the mark with the middle-aged male football fan demographic. 

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  On 12/13/2024 at 9:43 AM, Your Mom said:

Disney really fucked up with this movie about a princess, meant for six-year old girls, that seems to have missed the mark with the middle-aged male football fan demographic. 

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Which is why the trailer is getting down-voted.  Need a trailer just for middle-aged male football fans that is nothing but Gal Gadot walking around, reading the phone book.

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  On 12/13/2024 at 9:43 AM, Your Mom said:

Disney really fucked up with this movie about a princess

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  On 12/13/2024 at 7:21 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Which is why the trailer is getting down-voted.  Need a trailer just for middle-aged male football fans that is nothing but Gal Gadot walking around, reading the phone book.

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Right, it's all those damn incels, not because the trailer looks terrible. You should go bump the Acolyte thread again.

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  On 12/13/2024 at 8:10 PM, rage-a-holic said:

Right, it's all those damn incels, not because the trailer looks terrible. 

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Oh it looks like ass to those of us who are middle-aged male football fans, it was dumb to go with that hairstyle from the original. I know they could still be working on the dwarf VFX and some of the other VFX between now and the release, but we saw what happened with the train scene in Black Panther - what you sawin the trailer is what you got.

But my daughter and her friends want to go see it on the big screen or watch it when it's streaming, and that's all that ultimately matters to Disney.

They just had a huge hit with Wicked, when the original trailer/posters were causing some people to lose their shit.  It's in the top ten all-time highest-grossing musicals already.

 

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From what I've seen online, people think Rachel Ziegler is really good in it and Gal Gadot and the CGI dwarves are fairly terrible. We'll wait for Disney+. 

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So I haven't really followed the backstory, but it sure seems like the failure of this film is being very vocally celebrated by a certain... segment of the population.  Without getting too CR, why did this movie become a right-wing target?

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  On 3/24/2025 at 2:19 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

So I haven't really followed the backstory, but it sure seems like the failure of this film is being very vocally celebrated by a certain... segment of the population.  Without getting too CR, why did this movie become a right-wing target?

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It's still around a 2.0 on IMDB and most of the critics are laughing at it.  Just a few of the reviews:

"Lazy, visually repellant" - The Independent
"Exhaustingly awful" - The Guardian
"Disney has trashed its reputation" - The Times
"A strange, hot mess" - Huff Post
"Listless" - ScreenDaily
"Good enough... for TV" - Vanity Fair
"Film has a major identity crisis" - BBC

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  On 3/24/2025 at 2:32 PM, BabaYaga said:

It's still around a 2.0 on IMDB and most of the critics are laughing at it.  Just a few of the reviews:

"Lazy, visually repellant" - The Independent
"Exhaustingly awful" - The Guardian
"Disney has trashed its reputation" - The Times
"A strange, hot mess" - Huff Post
"Listless" - ScreenDaily
"Good enough... for TV" - Vanity Fair
"Film has a major identity crisis" - BBC

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Oh this movie is very clearly terrible.  I was just curious why some folks seem so happy at this being the case.  No matter, I'm sure I'll still be dragged to see it.

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  On 3/24/2025 at 2:19 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

So I haven't really followed the backstory, but it sure seems like the failure of this film is being very vocally celebrated by a certain... segment of the population.  Without getting too CR, why did this movie become a right-wing target?

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Lead actress hated the source material and gave interviews to that effect 

 

During an interview with Variety, Zegler explained how her version of Snow White focuses on leadership and self-discovery rather than the traditional fairy tale narrative of a damsel in distress waiting for a prince. 

"I just mean that it's no longer 1937, and we absolutely wrote a Snow White that's not gonna be saved by the prince, and she's not gonna be dreaming about true love," Zegler said. 

"She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true. And so, it's just a really incredible story for young people everywhere to see themselves in."

 

 Zegler referred to the original 1937 Snow White movie as outdated and even suggested that the prince was depicted as a "guy who literally stalks her." 

In a separate interview with Extra TV, Zegler reiterated her perspective: "The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so. There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird, weird. So we didn't do that this time. It's an inner journey that she goes on to find her true self and she meets a lot of people along the way that make the journey really incredible."

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  On 3/24/2025 at 2:19 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

So I haven't really followed the backstory, but it sure seems like the failure of this film is being very vocally celebrated by a certain... segment of the population.  Without getting too CR, why did this movie become a right-wing target?

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They are fans of the OG Walt.

Disney Plus streaming site will not offer 'racist' Song of the South film | Walt  Disney Company | The Guardian

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  On 3/24/2025 at 2:46 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

Oh this movie is very clearly terrible.  I was just curious why some folks seem so happy at this being the case.  No matter, I'm sure I'll still be dragged to see it.

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Can't speak for anyone else, but this has been a long, miserable pattern with Disney of taking established storylines and just dipping them in warmed over kitten shit when there is no need to.  The Acolyte comes to mind.  Everyone was so excited about it, and it was just awful.  Marvels still holds the biggest modern flop as it was a budget of $270M and it made a little over $40+M on opening weekend as this one has.   

Then you add in premier cancellations because the studio can't trust that their lead actor will promote the project.  It's not just conservatives, the original casting moved away from "little people" so as not to offend them, leading to massive backlash from the community who weren't being cast.  

Sums up a lot of the issues

Snow white controversies

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  On 3/24/2025 at 2:19 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

So I haven't really followed the backstory, but it sure seems like the failure of this film is being very vocally celebrated by a certain... segment of the population.  Without getting too CR, why did this movie become a right-wing target?

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In addition to "Snow white is supposed to be white, not brown" - Brown-skinned Snow White actress decided to go off script during press junkets and weigh in on the Israel/Palestine conflict, creating a major conflict with her Israeli co-star. She also bad-mouthed Trump and his supporters on social media. All of this while promoting the film. Not smart.

They also removed the white Prince from the story.

That's my guess

 

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Disney needs to do more Cruella and Maleficent type films and less of these straight up remakes with minor changes that seem to offend everyone. 

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  On 3/24/2025 at 2:44 PM, mdmost said:

Yeah but Lilo & Stitch is going to do a shitload of business. I think it's more people just might be tired of old animated movies being redone. 

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What is stupid and hypocritical:

MAGAT: "Oh no, Snow White is brown. This is an outrage, make fun of it on social media and hope it fails!"

Same MAGAT: "Lilo & Stitch is using a light skin pretty person for the main role that should be titularly and canonically a dark brown person-- but don't care or make a peep about THAT change."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/disneys-casting-lilo-stitch-character-prompts-colorism-debate-rcna79735

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  On 3/24/2025 at 3:40 PM, Vegas64 said:

What is stupid and hypocritical:

MAGAT: "Oh no, Snow White is brown. This is an outrage, make fun of it on social media and hope it fails!"

Same MAGAT: "Lilo & Stitch is using a light skin pretty person for the main role that should be titularly and canonically a dark brown person-- but don't care or make a peep about THAT change."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/disneys-casting-lilo-stitch-character-prompts-colorism-debate-rcna79735

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You think this movie flopped because of the ethnicity of the lead actress?

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Don't have girls, and can't imagine any scenario where I would watch this.  But its been hard not to see this disaster coming.  Not the greatest marketing campaign.

1.  They pissed off dwarfs by making a movie with dwarfs living in a cave (Dinklage)

2.  They pissed off dwarfs by deciding to CGI the dwarfs rather than give acting jobs to dwarfs

3.  Ziegler pissed off people who liked the original story.

4.  Gadot pissed off people by taking a Pro-Israeli stance

5.  Zegler pissed off people by taking a Pro-Palestinian stance.

6.  Zegler pissed off MAGA by saying "may Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace."

 

And Mine Train is a B- roller coaster with too long of a line.  Just go do Thunder Mountain in half the time.

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  On 3/24/2025 at 4:20 PM, Don Johnson said:

Don't have girls, and can't imagine any scenario where I would watch this.  But its been hard not to see this disaster coming.  Not the greatest marketing campaign.

1.  They pissed off dwarfs by making a movie with dwarfs living in a cave (Dinklage)

2.  They pissed off dwarfs by deciding to CGI the dwarfs rather than give acting jobs to dwarfs

3.  Ziegler pissed off people who liked the original story.

4.  Gadot pissed off people by taking a Pro-Israeli stance

5.  Zegler pissed off people by taking a Pro-Palestinian stance.

6.  Zegler pissed off MAGA by saying "may Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace."

 

And Mine Train is a B- roller coaster with too long of a line.  Just go do Thunder Mountain in half the time.

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It got so bad that Disney outright cancelled the UK premier and the US one was very small and reporters were not allowed to view it in advance - those in social media were limited to reactions only - not real movie reviews in advance.  YouTubers are just destroying it in their reviews and dunking all over it.  

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  On 12/4/2024 at 9:48 PM, nineliveslost said:

Good call Disney 

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It was, in fact, not a good call. They were "woke", but would have been better than the monstrosities they put in instead.

  On 12/8/2024 at 11:20 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Fuck it, if Disney wants to do more live-action remakes, give us Treasure Planet, and the two Atlantis movies.

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I would keep my subscription to see both of those...Atlantis is one of my fave underrated Disney flicks.

  On 3/24/2025 at 2:44 PM, mdmost said:

Yeah but Lilo & Stitch is going to do a shitload of business. I think it's more people just might be tired of old animated movies being redone. 

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It's the original is fucking great, if overlooked, and they didn't do anything stupid with the casting.  They cast Hawaiian's as Hawaiian.  Bubbles is a black man, as he was.  The aliens are crazy white characters(Disney can't NOT do that).

  On 3/24/2025 at 3:24 PM, irishtexan said:

In addition to "Snow white is supposed to be white, not brown" - Brown-skinned Snow White actress decided to go off script during press junkets and weigh in on the Israel/Palestine conflict, creating a major conflict with her Israeli co-star. She also bad-mouthed Trump and his supporters on social media. All of this while promoting the film. Not smart.

They also removed the white Prince from the story.

That's my guess

 

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All of this. 

It's the same reason Miss Marvel got so much blow back because not only was she saying she's stronger than Thor repeatedly(true or not) she was telling people the move isn't made for them.

Basically telling half, or more, of the MCU fan base "This isn't for you and you shouldn't see it"

  On 3/24/2025 at 3:40 PM, Vegas64 said:

What is stupid and hypocritical:

MAGAT: "Oh no, Snow White is brown. This is an outrage, make fun of it on social media and hope it fails!"

Same MAGAT: "Lilo & Stitch is using a light skin pretty person for the main role that should be titularly and canonically a dark brown person-- but don't care or make a peep about THAT change."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/disneys-casting-lilo-stitch-character-prompts-colorism-debate-rcna79735

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Not to get all CR, the first point is right.  Maga assholes hated a non white, or all the pretty, Snow White.

But the second point is wrong.   They literally cast an Hawaiin to play the part, born and raised.  She is dark enough and the character in the cartoon wasn't so dark it should make a difference.

 

Same think happened with Jasmine when a certain group said "she's not Persian enough" which was just as silly then as now IMO.

  On 3/24/2025 at 4:20 PM, Don Johnson said:

Don't have girls, and can't imagine any scenario where I would watch this.  But its been hard not to see this disaster coming.  Not the greatest marketing campaign.

1.  They pissed off dwarfs by making a movie with dwarfs living in a cave (Dinklage)

2.  They pissed off dwarfs by deciding to CGI the dwarfs rather than give acting jobs to dwarfs

3.  Ziegler pissed off people who liked the original story.

4.  Gadot pissed off people by taking a Pro-Israeli stance

5.  Zegler pissed off people by taking a Pro-Palestinian stance.

6.  Zegler pissed off MAGA by saying "may Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace."

 

And Mine Train is a B- roller coaster with too long of a line.  Just go do Thunder Mountain in half the time.

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All of this is true.  Especially the roller coaster comment.

Honestly if Zeigler hadn't opened her mouth about the story and how "it was in need of updating" the rest might have been overlooked as in other disney movies.

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  On 3/24/2025 at 5:22 PM, Vegas64 said:

Did it flop? It was #1 in the box office. I mean I guess if it flopped, then all movies flopped.

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Is this serious?  It only made around $40M+ against the backdrop of a $300M budget before marketing expenses.....vastly under what it was projected and/or needed to make.  

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  On 3/24/2025 at 5:38 PM, BabaYaga said:

Is this serious?  It only made around $40M+ against the backdrop of a $300M budget before marketing expenses.....vastly under what it was projected and/or needed to make.  

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I went and googled it, sounds like it was a flop despite being #1:

Despite being the No.1 movie over the weekend, Disney’s latest live-action remake of “Snow White” underwhelmed in its debut, reports The New York Times, citing box office data from Comscore. The polarizing reboot, which drew criticism for its casting decisions and story choices, earned $43 million domestically and $87.3 globally in its opening weekend. Not a happy ending for this costly fairy tale, which cost Disney at least $350 million to make and market worldwide.

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  On 3/24/2025 at 6:22 PM, Vegas64 said:

I went and googled it, sounds like it was a flop despite being #1:

Despite being the No.1 movie over the weekend, Disney’s latest live-action remake of “Snow White” underwhelmed in its debut, reports The New York Times, citing box office data from Comscore. The polarizing reboot, which drew criticism for its casting decisions and story choices, earned $43 million domestically and $87.3 globally in its opening weekend. Not a happy ending for this costly fairy tale, which cost Disney at least $350 million to make and market worldwide.

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It's about context - you can be the highest grossing film when compared to a bunch of lower budget, small films and it doesn't tell the whole story.  They have a massive recapture they have to make just to break even - which it seems as if they are never going to hit.  

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It's a flop because we're in a time when 87 million dollars worldwide in one weekend is considered bad because you've saddled a movie with a 250 million dollar budget from the onset. How these movies get this out of control budget wise is just beyond me. Looking at the movie I'm trying to figure out where the money went. Is it mostly a CGI budget because Ziegler and Gadot can't charge that much to be in a movie?

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  On 3/24/2025 at 6:34 PM, mdmost said:

It's a flop because we're in a time when 87 million dollars worldwide in one weekend is considered bad because you've saddled a movie with a 250 million dollar budget from the onset. How these movies get this out of control budget wise is just beyond me. Looking at the movie I'm trying to figure out where the money went. Is it mostly a CGI budget because Ziegler and Gadot can't charge that much to be in a movie?

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Yea that's crazy. I saw the headline "box office number 1" and in my world that just meant a hit. I guess nowadays it's not enough to be #1 because the costs of these movies is insane.

I am in the minority in that I actually like a lot of these remakes, too, so I'll end up seeing this on streaming.

I saw this posted (spoilering it because it's long) which also makes the case for generative AI to save costs:

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  On 3/24/2025 at 8:19 PM, smuggs said:
I understand it's significance in film and animation but I always thought the original Snow White was a boring snooze fest. 

I think this gets lost in all of the other controversies. It’s an almost 90 year old movie and is not that great anyway.

A remake of something like The Lion King, Aladdin or The Little Mermaid make financial (not creative) sense because the parents of the kids now grew up with those in their home and in theaters. It puts multiple generations in the seats to share something nostalgic for the parents and something fun for the kids. Snow White was locked in the Disney vault (remember that?) for years and the 25-45 year old parent didn’t have access to the movie and grow up with it. My kids have seen it but it’s not an essential text for them, nor me. Dumbo was the other live action remake that didn’t do well for similar reasons.
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  On 3/24/2025 at 7:32 PM, Vegas64 said:

Yea that's crazy. I saw the headline "box office number 1" and in my world that just meant a hit. I guess nowadays it's not enough to be #1 because the costs of these movies is insane.

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Its not just nowadays.  Two of the most famous flops of all time - Waterworld and Ishtar - both opened at #1.

These big budget flops often open #1 because the studio has put so much into them.  They just suck and don't have staying power past week 1.

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Peter Dinklage comments..

 

“Literally no offense to anything, but I was sort of taken aback,” he said. “They were very proud to cast a Latino actress as Snow White, but you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me. You’re progressive in one way, but you’re still making that fucking backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together. Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? I guess I’m not loud enough.”

 

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  On 3/24/2025 at 9:45 PM, ChickenSandwich said:

Peter Dinklage comments..

 

 

“Literally no offense to anything, but I was sort of taken aback,” he said. “They were very proud to cast a Latino actress as Snow White, but you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me. You’re progressive in one way, but you’re still making that fucking backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together. Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? I guess I’m not loud enough.”

 

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If you're going to do something, dammit, do it right!  

Disney hired 11 dwarfs to dress as puppets and wave to people for the  premiere of Pinocchio. They got drunk and naked, then screamed obscenities  at the crowd instead. : r/Damnthatsinteresting

  On 3/24/2025 at 10:34 PM, Deej said:

Says the only actor who still gets dwarf roles.

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