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Disney Remakes 7 – The Jungle Book (2016)
Now that I’m starting to get my life back under control, it’s time to continue this series on Disney live-action Remakes. Today’s subject is 2016’s The Jungle Book, the remake for the last movie that Walt Disney produced. He died … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, bagheera, baloo, ben kingsley, bill murray, cgi, Christopher Walken, disney, disney movies, disney remakes, gigantopithecus, i wanna be like you, idris elba, jon favreau, kaa, king louie, los angeles times, lupita nyong'o, movie review, movies, mowgli, neel sethi, new york times, orangutan, pixar, raksha, rebecca williams, rotten tomatoes, Scarlett Johannsen, shere khan, the jungle book, visual effects society, walt disney
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Disney Remakes 5 – Maleficent
On paper, the sound of a Sleeping Beauty remake focusing on the character of Maleficent sounds awesome. Sleeping Beauty released in 1959, and the main villain still remains up there with the greatest villains in Disney history. It’s also a … Continue reading
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Tagged angelina jolie, cgi, disney, disney princess, disney remakes, ella fanning, fairies, imelda staunton, joe roth, king stefan, maleficent, movie review, movies, prince phillip, princess aurora, robert stromberg, rotten tomatoes, sharlto copley, sleeping beauty
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Disney Remakes 4 – Lady and the Tramp
A lot of the recent criticism thrown at the Disney remakes suggests that these live action remakes barely change anything. A lot of them are far too similar to the original movie. The first three remakes I’ve looked at don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, cgi, disney, disney remake, disney remakes, dogs, justin theroux, lady, lady and the tramp, live action remake, movie remake, movie review, movies, remake, romance, sam elliot, tessa thompson, the siamese cat song, tramp, what a shame
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Disney Remakes 3 – Alice in Wonderland
Three movies into this Disney remake series and we’re already looking at the second Tim Burton directed movie. Burton can be a brilliant filmmaker, but his strange style can also be detrimental to certain types of films. For example, The … Continue reading
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Tagged alan rickman, alice, alice in wonderland, anne hathaway, cgi, cheshire cat, christopher lee, disney, disney movies, disney remakes, england, helena bonham carter, jabberwock, jabberwocky, jonny depp, lewis carroll, live action remake, mia wasikowaska, movie review, movies, sony pictures, the mad hatter, the white queen, tim burton, wonderland
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Disney Remakes 2 – Cinderella
I first saw this movie while preparing to write my post about Cinderella about 3 years ago. I’ve written about a lot of movies since. Even though I was never the target audience for any of the Disney Princess movies, … Continue reading
Disney Remakes 1 – Dumbo
Back in 2017, I started looking at movies on this blog when I got the idea to watch through every single Disney Animation Studios movie, in order of release. I wrote about every single one of them, getting through what … Continue reading
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Tagged box office bomb, cgi, colin farrell, danny devito, disney, disney animation studios, disney remakes, dumbo, eva green, katherine arnold, michael keaton, movie review, movies, tim burton
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True Story Movies 4 – Titanic
Even though I tend to watch more action movies, comedies and sci-fi/fantasy movies than anything else, I can enjoy pretty much any kind of movie you throw at me. Some of my favourite movies are dramas. There are several documentaries … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century fox, academy award, bernard hill, bill paxton, billy zane, celine dion, cgi, david warner, disaster movie, drama, gloria stuart, grand staircase, jack dawson, james cameron, kate winslet, kathy bates, leonardo dicaprio, movies, my heart will go on, romance, rose dewitt bukater, shipwreck, titanic, true story movies
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True Story Movies 2: Apollo 13
One of the more fascinating aspects of the Cold War was the space race. The United States and the Soviet Union competed for years to see who could achieve various first in their spaceflight capabilities. This race began with ballistic … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, apollo 13, astronauts, bafta, cgi, cold war, docudrama, ed harris, gary sinise, gene kranz, jack swigert, jim lovell, kansas cosmosphere and space center, kathleen quinlan, ken mattingly, kevin bacon, lost moon, marilyn lovell, movie review, movies, nasa, roger ebert, ron howard, rotten tomatoes, space race, space travel, sputnik 1, the moon, the rolling stone, tom hanks, true story movies, ussr
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
It’s been a crazy week, which is why I haven’t been able to post this until now despite rewatching Return of the King over a week ago. Anyway, Return of the King’s accomplishments cannot be overstated. Upon its release, it … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, andy serkis, aragon, army of the dead, battle of minis tirith, battle of pelennor fields, cgi, christopher lee, denathor, elijah wood, eomer, eowyn, epic fantasy, fantasy, fantasy movies, faramir, frodo, frodo baggins, gandalf, gimli, gollum, ian mckellen, john rhys-davies, jon noble, jrr tolkien, karl urban, legolas, lord of the rings, lord of the rings month, lord of the rings: the return of the king, miranda otto, mordor, new line cinema, orcs, orlando bloom, path of the dead, peter jackson, return of the king, roger ebert, rotten tomatoes, samwise gamgee, saruman, sauron, sean astin, smeagol, the witch king, Tolkien, trolls, viggo mortensen, weta digital, weta workshop
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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers takes almost much everything that worked in Fellowship of the Ring and kicks it up a notch. If the first Lord of the Rings movie is a masterclass in worldbuilding (which it is), … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, andy serkis, aragon, arawen, bafta, battle of helms deep, bernard hill, billy boyd, boromir, cgi, denathor, domonic monaghan, elijah wood, ents, epic fantasy, fantasy, fantasy movies, faramir, frodo, frodo baggins, gandalf, gimli, gollum, gondor, grammy awards, helms deep, howard shore, hugo award, ian mckellen, john rhys-davies, king theoden, legolas, liv taylor, lord of the rings, lord of the rings: the two towers, merry, movie review, movies, orcs, orlando bloom, osgiliath, peter jackson, pippen, rohan, samwise gamgee, saturn awards, sean astin, sean bean, smeagol, the two towers, treebeard, uruk-hai, viggo mortensen
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