We watched the Aladdin remake, and we drink for whenever the word sultan is said. That's a fair number of times.
Yeah, I bet that it is!!
I started watching the remake - didn't finish watching it. Not sure why...
I started watching the remake - didn't finish watching it. Not sure why...
It's alright, but I prefer Robin Williams' genie more than Will Smith's. Yeah there's the fact it was the one I grew up with, but also Smith's genie is a lot meaner than Williams'.
Robin Williams was amazingly funny - it's hard to compete with that! From what I saw, Will Smith did a decent job with Genie, but it seemed a little "off" to me - maybe because it's hard to forget Robin Williams' version of the character.
I think I'd be pretty salty, too, if I were bottled up for centuries and then jarringly summoned to grant the whims of ding dongs. Especially if someone promised to let me go and then gave the impression they were going to renege on that promise.
@blue: That's true. However this is also a problem with the remake-Al, it wasn't quite as believable that they'd have friendship feelings towards each other. All of it was just Will Smith telling Aladdin how much of an awkward turtle he is.
Iunno. There just as much emotional depth as the first one. More like just pretty excuses for songs.
I'm well, thank you for asking. And yourself?
And I think that comparing a remake with an original as colossal as that will always come with complaints.
And I think that comparing a remake with an original as colossal as that will always come with complaints.
Well yeah. Comparison will always happen, and that's okay. What's not okay is hating without watching (which I am guilty of on a few things). But this was my second time watching the remake, where I could think through my opinions without like a knee jerk the original is better. The remake does do some good things. It's treatment of another culture is more respectful, they took out the racist lines from the opening song, there's more scenes where we can see why Jafar is being the big bad. The scenes are pretty, and giving Jasmine her own song was very nice. However, I still like the original with its own problems is the one I like most.
Yeah, I didn't see enough of the remake to really weigh in on comparisons or contrasts between the two versions of the movie. But comparisons are inevitable if you've seen one version or the other, then see the other.
Lol I watch a looooooooooooooooooot of movies. Which includes watching different versions of the same movie or source material. There are remakes I like better than the original.
One I can think of is The Nutty Professor, the original is eh. Flubber is better than it's original The Absent-minded Professor. The big one for me though is Thirteen Ghosts. The original is slow and boring as fudge.
I haven't seen Thirteen Ghosts - any version of it. Flubber is definitely better than the original (I actually saw them both). I can't really comment on the others.
The original Nutty Professor had Jerry Lewis in it, and the remake had Eddie Murphy in it. For Thirteen Ghosts, it was done by the same guy who did House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price in it. Which is a fun bad movie, but Thirteen Ghosts is a chore to get through.
Yes, I saw the Jerry Lee Lewis as well as the Eddie Murphy versions. I wasn't a particular fan of either, tbh.
Vincent Price did some awesome "bad" movies! :3 <3
Vincent Price did some awesome "bad" movies! :3 <3
Vincent Price was in a lot of gold yes.
And Boris Karloff
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I need to watch more Karloff films honestly.
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Having you as a Voltie would be awesome.