Aladdin (Guy Ritchie, May 24, 2019) Movie • Page 6

Anyway, y'all can go ahead and see Booksmart this weekend instead it's more than worth your time

 

I'll just wait for this to hit Disney + haha

 

Is this real lol

 

He puts his own spin on either Prince Ali or Friend Like Me as soon as the credits roll

 

Wtf

 

Yeah, this was a dud. This movie only really works as an animated movie. Smith does what he can, but he’s stuck repeating Robin Williams’s lines, but with less energy and he’s often got that weird uncanny valley look to him. Jafar is terrible. The new song doesn’t mesh at all with the old stuff. Some of the editing is super choppy or uses some stupid Ritchie go-to’s like unnecessary slo-mos.

I’m sure Disney doesn’t care. They’re gonna make a mint off of this either at the box office or a selling point for Disney+.

 

Forgot to mention the editing. I almost never notice stuff like that, but things like the scene where Aladdin is first escaping the guards is pretty haphazard stuff. Easy to tell at times how little care went into most of this

 

oh god, that DJ Khaled business is gonna make me HARD PASS this movie. Fuck that guy

 

Until they got to the Cave of Wonders this film was bombing on every level. Surprisingly Will Smith was my favorite part of this movie, without him this movie probably would have been terrible instead of just mediocre.

 

Going to see this next week. Very hyped.

By the way, does anyone know when Mulan is supposed to happen?

EDIT: Apparently they finished filming in November 2018 but the release is March 2020.

 

no way this is actually gonna be awesome, huh?

 

you see the trailer? yeah. there’s no way lol.

 

It is definitely not awesome. But I don’t think t was terrible either.

Character updates could have worked if not for some lazy writing, Will Smith is mostly good in the role (though he doesn’t get to put his own flair on it often)

What I did like:
Friend Like Me
Prince Ali
A whole new world (this one was mostly just fine but the great song carries the scene anyways so it was cool to see come to life)

The really bad that stuck out to me:

Editing + shoed in slow-mos
The new song, Speechless (the song itself is fine) and how they crammed it into the movie in a very obvious, glee type moment that stuck out as something that didn’t belong - gotta try to get that Oscar somehow I guess.
Billy Magnussen’s character was a big swing a miss.

 

Sounds about right. 15 months of post-production until the end of February 2020.

 

why didn’t guy make another lock stock/snatch type movie instead of this. hell, i’d take another rock n rolla lol

 

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

Made $7 million last night. Estimated to take in between $75-85 million this weekend. I think that might be on the high end tho.

 

i guess this might make money. i’m dubious. you could argue that’s why he made king arthur too. didn’t necessarily pan out that way haha.

 

These live-action Disney remakes are, for the most part, making $500 million plus over the last decade so I'm sure this will at least make enough to justify continue doing them. I haven't seen this one yet, but I'm excited to since Aladdin has always been my favorite Disney movie, but they're made for kids and they'll most likely continue making shitloads of money.

 

I actually really liked this, maybe I'm alone but I thought it was fun.

 

I'm reading comments online that are seemingly all over the board but I'm not seeing much outright hate for it. I'll be seeing it Sunday!

 

I think Will Smith is a great actor and performer (granted with questionable taste in projects), but watching the trailers for this had me a little worried that they had him play Robin Williams' Genie as opposed to building the genie and really the movie around his own version of the Genie. I hope I'm wrong.

 

Aladdin and Jasmine were cute
I'm glad they made Jafar younger because a 50 something dude marrying a 14 or 15 year old girl for political power is in hindsight fucked up
I loved seeing Nasim Pedrad
Will Smith just plays Genie as Hitch which I'm fine with

Aladdin doing parkour and the Sigfried and Roy joke definitely took me out of the movie, and a Will Smith DJ Khaled genie rap that I'm pretty sure references Getting Jiggy Wit It seems like a Demi joke

it's weird seeing a big corporate movie talk about gender and class inequality but it also does and doesn't, Aladdin experiences class mobility but I think he may be a class traitor, or maybe he actually helps get that homeless family more than a bag of dates we don't know

I feel like I can't really talk about the race element