https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/show/willow
Cue the stronk female protagonist.
And, in the current trend, they've dragged the dessicated careers of many the old movie's cast out of the dungeon to try and milk more money out of nostalgic 40-somethings.
Gotta love how the first thing they talk about is how it's made with "modern sensibilities," has a "diverse" cast, and all the executive producers are name-dropped while the actual cast and people who wrote it aren't mentioned at all.
Also, we have no shortage of entertainment with "modern sensibility" themes in them.
You don’t know the power of the dark side
It's nice to see they've made the dark-skinned actors the historically accurate barbarian horde villains out to kill the annoying white people. I hope the screaming useless white girls die first. Good luck, villains!
Except that's not historically accurate. What African barbarian hordes did caucasians have to deal with historically? I can't think of many if any. The Barbarian hordes historically have been northerners not southerners. Caucasian or Asian in the case of the eastern Steppe people.
That's a muzzie, not a black. Didn't see blacks among the cast.
MODERN CARBON-FIBER ARROWS
☑️ Teal & Orange
☑️ Insufferable girlbosses
☑️ Men are pathetic cucks
☑️ Shitty colour grading that doesn't convey the right tone
☑️ Riddled with CGI
☑️ Not a single likeable or charismatic person in the previews
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The rest I get. But what's wrong with teal and orange? They basically complement each other.
That makes sense.
It loses the color of green either washing it towards yellow (like there is a drought) or towards blue (which probably look alien and I don't think I've seen it done). For an example compare the scenes in Hobbiton from Lord of the Rings with similar ones from The Hobbit. From what I remember is those films were heavily graded and just when the blue-orange thing was reaching a sort of common knowledge so it stood out (at least to me) when Hobbiton was washed a "nice" warm yellow color.
I would insert a couple of screenshots here but I don't actually have a copy of The Hobbit to take one from. I am thinking of when Gandalf and Frodo are riding in the cart heading away from the camera to the foot of Bag End and comparing that with Bilbo running after the dwarves when he wakes up alone on the first morning.
It's worse than that. The mind of the non-basement dweller is deeply attuned to real lighting, and knows when it's seeing a scene where the lighting doesn't look real or is inconsistent. This causes low level psychological stress and tends to throw a person out of immersion in the film. That's why filmmakers pre-2000 used subtle colour grading to set the tone of a film, and it worked incredibly well. Everything from choice of film, lighting temperature, lens filters, etc, were used - subtlely - and they made some of the best movies ever this way.
Today, filmmakers are fucking braindead and artistically bankrupt and just slather on the teal & orange and think "wow that pops!" and out it goes to people's eyeballs.
Who? What?
Thankfully I have no knowledge of the original source material so my childhood is protected from this BS.
Same. Also, people here are so young there were movies when they were kids?
No.
Who was clamoring for this? I liked Willow when it came out but it wasn't that memorable of a film. I've seen it twice, that's good enough for me.
The best thing about the original movie was Val Kilmer who clearly won't be part of this. As great as Warwick Davis can be, he has to play off of other people (like he did in "Ray"). I'm sure they'll find someone to act in Kilmer's place but he's a tough act to follow.
I know Disney is really lacking in creativity these days, but damn, yet another reboot shows how low in the barrel they want to reach.
Exactly.
Even as a kid I sensed that the studio wanted Willow to be much more successful than it was. The tie in merchandise led me to believe that they were trying to launch a major fantasy franchise, but when the movie only performed so-so the whole thing fizzled.
Another DisneyLGBT+ dud.
Another day, another Disney ruin
I read it too, and holy cow that book was bad.
You would have though that book would have been good. I mean, they got George Lucas to help with the plot and X-men legend Chris Claremont to actually write it. How did it end up so awful?