The transcription highlights the controversy surrounding Disney's live-action remakes, focusing on the upcoming Moana remake. The speaker questions the necessity of remaking recent films with heavy CGI usage, criticizing Disney for prioritizing profit and pandering over creativity and originality. There is a call to stop incentivizing corporations like Disney from rehashing old content and serving audiences repetitive "slop." The speaker expresses disappointment in Disney's direction, contrasting it with the timeless vision of Walt Disney himself. The argument extends to the broader issue of remake culture in the entertainment industry and the need for more originality and quality in content creation. The overall sentiment is one of frustration and a plea for a shift towards more meaningful and imaginative storytelling.
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Disney just released their first teaser trailer for live action Moana and it looks like we
should be questioning why we're getting a live action Moana.
Let's talk about it.
Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe because today we're gonna
be talking about live action Moana, which I don't even understand why we're getting.
Considering Moana guys came out in 2016, why are we live action remaking a movie that came
out in 2016?
It makes no sense, but that's Disney's MO these days and we've been keeping Disney
on this channel.
They've been saying they're stepping out of the culture war and then they reinsert themselves
into the culture war.
They have a whole diversity equity and inclusion campaign, they fire Gina Carano off of the
Mandalorian.
They're putting all these LGBTQ+ themes in their kid shows and saying that they have
a not so secret gay agenda, at least according to some of their executives behind the scenes.
And on top of that, when they put out original content, it is not doing well and it's flopping.
And then they're leaning on these remakes of their old classics and now not so old
classics considering that Moana came out again in 2016.
Now I went ahead and looked at the first teaser trailer for this Moana remake and you're gonna
have to bear with me guys.
I don't understand.
I really don't understand why this is being made.
And maybe you're a huge Disney fan and you can explain this to me down in the comments
because we're calling this live action, but it is 90% CGI.
I mean, this looks like AI slop at this point.
I saw somebody say they're going to start the rumor that this is an AI movie and honestly,
it does look like that.
It is almost beat for beat exactly what the original animated film looks like.
And the CGI is so overwhelming that I don't understand how they're really getting away
with calling this live action.
We need to start a revolution in Hollywood on this stuff.
I don't know about you guys, but I think if you hire a few human beings to be in your
movie and then everything else is just CGI all over the place, you don't have the right
to call it a live action film.
And that's what this trailer looks like.
You guys can correct me if I'm wrong on that.
That's what I'm seeing.
Even just look at this.
Uh, you know, the chicken.
Hey, hey from Moana.
Look at the side by side of the live action version of this chicken.
Be so real.
Disney.
So real.
And I had to rack my brain of all the Disney remakes that I had come to mind and I had
to go back and look at when these actual projects were made.
We just had Lilo and Stitch come out, which was buns.
Okay, guys.
It was a buns.
We literally flipped the narrative to this new girl boss vacation of these older films
and Lilo and Stitch came out in 2002.
We got Mulan.
That's a 1998 film, which was a totally unnecessary live action remake.
We got the little mermaid in 1989, so we're going back a little further, but we went through
this whole race swap diversity thing.
That movie was overwhelmed by CGI and to be honest, pretty underwhelming CGI at that.
We got the Lion King 1994, which they're still, you know, farming content from those remakes.
Snow White.
You guys don't even need to get me started on Snow White.
I've been started on Snow White haven't ended on Snow White.
That came out in 1937, but I guess it's not 1937 anymore weird, weird.
And with that remake, we got another restructuring of the plot where Snow White is now a cripple
boss who's from a communist land who doesn't fall in love with the prince, but a communist
revolutionary.
So that was weird, weird.
And then of course we have Tangled, which is an upcoming live action remake that Disney
is working on currently, which was created in 2010.
So now we've gone from 1937 remake to 2010, 2016.
They're really inching up on you guys and we are falling for it.
Okay.
This movie is probably going to make a billion dollars, which is just crazy to say and crazy
to think about considering what I'm looking at does not deserve to be made.
And I could maybe start to justify this if they really took it seriously.
I'm talking like James Cameron level live action, Christopher Nolan level live action
in these films.
But if your film is looking exactly like the original animation 2016, maybe you are just
playing us.
Maybe you are playing the entire world with just re-releasing movies over and over and
over again from just a slightly different angle.
And what I've seen in red about Walt Disney, I can't imagine he'd be happy with the vision
that is now currently being laid out by this company.
And I can't imagine it's a representation of what his vision was at all.
Here you had a man who was trying his best to create these timeless classics that could
withstand the test of time.
And now Disney is not even giving them the chance to withstand the test of time.
We're waiting what, how many less than 10 years to go ahead and make a live action remake
and make these movies and these animated pieces a shell of what they once were.
And it's because they care about profit and pandering and diversity, equity, inclusion
and all these other things far more than they care about the actual creation of the thing,
the creation of the entertainment and where you watch old school creators and some creators
who are still around now creating really great pieces of original art speak about their craft.
You're hearing talks of imagination of timelessness of universal themes of struggle of communicating
with children of entering a childlike state of mind to capture something that is the essence
of childhood itself.
And Disney's just like, yeah, you know that movie we made six years ago?
How about we just cast a bunch of people and remake it?
And the sad part is, as I said before, this movie is probably going to do numbers.
It's probably going to do numbers because we are willingly eating the gruel and slop
that they serve to us in our meager little bowls.
I have really nothing else to say about this.
Other than I saw the teaser trailer, I'm sure some of you did too.
And we have to stop this.
We have to stop this.
We have to stop incentivizing this for these corporations.
We have to stop allowing them to serve us straight up slop.
And we're just sitting there eating it.
We have to stop allowing this.
Stop it.
Get some help.
So much so that now Disney on Disney Plus, I have to add really quickly before we leave
out here, they're going to be adding AI shorts to their Disney Plus platform.
They are quite literally willing to serve you up artificial intelligence slop for you
to eat for $18.99 a month.
Think about how expensive it is to subscribe to these platforms on a monthly basis.
Think about how expensive it is to go to the movie theater for just your ticket, let alone
a drink and some popcorn and whatever snacks you want and maybe the recliner chair.
Think about how much money you're spending on that.
And think about their unwillingness to give you an original piece of content.
And even when they take on the deep task of remaking something, they can't even be bothered
to go about it from an original framework or to try to make it look any different from
the animated version of the thing you just watched, not, not even 10 years prior.
Disney has to be stopped.
That's all I'm going to say.
Guys, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this Moana remake in the comments down below.
Let me know how you feel about this and let me know how you feel about remake culture
in general.
We've spoken about this at length on this channel.
I have many a video on it.
Maybe I'll pop them up here so you guys can check them out if you haven't heard me speak
at length about this, but I'm over it guys.
And I have a feeling you are too.
So let me know if you disagree with anything I said in this video, do get out in the comments
down below, but do so respectfully.
I encourage healthy debate on this channel.
And if you like this video, like, subscribe, click the notification bell to be notified
every single time I post a video for you guys, which is every day.
And I will see you guys tomorrow.
Bye guys.
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The teaser trailer for the live-action Moana remake has sparked questions about the trend of Disney remakes.
Criticism of Disney's focus on profit, diversity, equity, and inclusion over originality and quality.
Concerns about the overuse of CGI in live-action remakes and lack of innovation in storytelling.
Summary:
The transcription highlights the controversy surrounding Disney's live-action remakes, focusing on the upcoming Moana remake. The speaker questions the necessity of remaking recent films with heavy CGI usage, criticizing Disney for prioritizing profit and pandering over creativity and originality. " The speaker expresses disappointment in Disney's direction, contrasting it with the timeless vision of Walt Disney himself.
The argument extends to the broader issue of remake culture in the entertainment industry and the need for more originality and quality in content creation. The overall sentiment is one of frustration and a plea for a shift towards more meaningful and imaginative storytelling.
FAQs
Disney has been leaning on remakes of their old classics due to the lack of success with original content.
Examples include Mulan (1998), The Little Mermaid (1989), and Snow White (1937), among others.
The heavy use of CGI in the live action Moana remake raises questions about its classification as a live action film.
Critics are worried that Disney's focus on profit and pandering is overshadowing the creation of quality entertainment.
Many viewers are expressing concerns and frustration over Disney's reliance on remakes and perceived lack of originality.
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