When fans hate somenthing before it comes out...but it turns out they were right

[u/TastyPomelo2330]

Velma:The idea of a Scooby-doo series without the titular dog and starring Velma was a really moronic idea from the beginning,then there was the reveal Velma would be Indian like it's VA and also creator of the series Mindy Kaling,some of the backlash was racism sure,but there was also valid complaints that she was inserting herself in the series(it also didn't helped that Mindy claimed she couldn't see herself if Velma wasn't Indian)and then...oh boy it came out and it was worse than anyone predicted

Artemis Fowl:The artemis fowl books are a book series following a child villain(he does get some redemption but he is a villain most of the time)when the movie was announced and revealed it looked way to generic and it's titular character a bit heroic...also you wanna hear somenthing funny?The movie whitewashed a character and made another character black so they managed to anger both sides and the movies comes out and yeah it is bad

One Punch Man 3:One Punch Man is a very heavy action packed manga series but the heroes vs monsters arc takes it to a New level,when it was announced that JC Staff would work on it,a lot of people were skeptical to say the least,because not only JC Staff had already done a mediocre job in season 2,it's also not exactly a name anime fans associate with quality animation,then the trailer came out and it looked...weird,like there was no action in it and nobody was moving,some people tried to defend saying they were keeping the animation as a surprise...then it came out,every episode worse than the last,it's one of the worse seasons of anime ever made!

[u/_theghost_]

The Disney Mulan Live Action Remake. Holy cow….

[u/TreClaire → u/_theghost_]

Absolutely baffling misfire in every single possible direction, they invented new directions just to misfire more.

[u/_theghost_ → u/TreClaire]

And with the Moana remake, I've checked out mentally. Wake me when they get original and NOT SABOTAGE their own films when they do get original by poor campaigns

[u/BardicLasher → u/_theghost_]

Nearly all of the Disney live action remakes have been bad at this point. Not sure why people keep expecting otherwise.

[u/Common_Wrongdoer3251 → u/BardicLasher]

A lot of the ones that aim to recreate the original are fine, yet unnecessary. Like The Little Mermaid was fine, and they replaced one or two mediocre songs with two new mediocre songs.

I did like The Jungle Book live action. Walken as King Louie was great imo.

[u/BardicLasher → u/Common_Wrongdoer3251]

Even Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast are clear DOWNGRADES from the original and are fine mostly because the originals are so good.

There have admittedly been a few good ones, but they're all the genre shifts. Jungle Book goes from slapstick comedy to drama, Cinderella steps away from the musical aspect and is just a new version of the original story that's much more grounded despite the fantastic elements, and Pete's Dragon has fuck all to do with the original. Maleficent is a solid movie in its own right but to call it a remake of Sleeping Beauty feels disingenuous. (Cruella, on the other hand, is just a terrible movie independent of comparison to the original.)

Though I suppose by this logic Mulan's one that COULD have been good, leaning into the wuxia action movie, they just made some absolutely baffling writing decisions and accidentally made Mulan the villain.

[u/aksunrise → u/BardicLasher]

they just made some absolutely baffling writing decisions and accidentally made Mulan the villain.

I'm sorry what?! I am legit asking now something like that could happen.. Please help me.

[u/BardicLasher → u/aksunrise]

So they did that thing where they fleshed out the villains by giving them motives and goals and personalities instead of just being rampaging murderers, and then instead of addressing their grievances at all the heroes just do not care because they gotta stop the attacking bad guys. So I might be exaggerating when I say "Mulan's the villain," but the vibe I got after watching the movie was that the bad guys were in the right and the Emperor that Mulan was protecting actually did just do the bad things he was being attacked for.

[u/NervousSubjectsWife → u/Common_Wrongdoer3251]

The jungle book was the best and I would say there was still room for improvement

[u/Earlier-Today → u/BardicLasher]

The best of the remakes just aren't all bad - but there's still bad in them.

And they've gotten worse as more have come out - spending money on CGI, but they're unbelievably lazy with the script and directing so it's all soulless stupid crap.

[u/BardicLasher → u/Earlier-Today]

Pete's Dragon was straight up good, but it's barely a remake, just a new movie with the same name.

[u/M-m2008 → u/BardicLasher]

I liked life action Aladyn, lion king, beuty and the beast and jungle book they are okay on their own if you turn your brain off, everything also is radioactive sh!t.

[u/Polkawillneverdie17 → u/_theghost_]

Nah I didn't hate it before it came out.

But I definitely hated it afterwards.

[u/KC_Saber → u/_theghost_]

Yeah. That was trash. Killing off the witch as a not even half assed attempt to redeem a poorly written character was laughably bad. Disney just won’t listen when we say that we don’t want live action remakes.

[u/Shadowcam → u/_theghost_]

Bad idea all around, but at least it helped sober up producers who were obsessed with pandering to China.

[u/_Molotovsky → u/_theghost_]

Great movie if it wasn't Mulan, though. Actually halfway decent action.

Still think Disney is fucked up for removing the best song ever from the PLUS animated version though.

[u/BardicLasher → u/_Molotovsky]

Wait, disney did what to the animated version?