Snow White (Live-Action)

[Thumper_93]

What a shame for them to make such a flop. They had one of the most beloved movie of all time to take as reference and they couldn't make some justice to it. Honestly I don't know where it went all the budget because I re watched the film last week and it looks really bad.

[PatchofBlue]

If reports are to be believed, effectively having to make the movie twice over with all their reshoots would have significantly inflated their budget. Measure twice, cut once. Listen to Disney fans the first time, and don't lose nearly $200 M at the bank.

But I will always kind of resent journalists going after Zegler because of her social media activism, in part because I really don't think it had anything to do with this movie flopping. There are circumstances where I could imagine that kind of performance having direct impact on a movie's performance. I don't think this was one of them. And trying to drop a red herring into the pond like that just distracts from both Disney's mismanagement of the brand as well as the racially-motivated bullying that Zegler endured.

[Disney's Divinity]

We knew it would blow its budget long before it got to release. The Walt-era properties have limited potential as remakes already (the best it could've expected was Cinderella-level, and Cinderella did half of most of the other remakes as it was), and then they decided to racebend the title character named for white skin... And then the rumors of cutting the Dwarfs. The backlash was huge, so they tried to reverse course, to the point this film was quite a quandary in the end. The finished product was actually much better than I expected, but the perception around the film had been poisoned beyond repair. The only real thing fullblown unfaithful--as far as being "unfair" in being cut (I think making SW have a larger role in the climax was a good thing)--in the final product were the cuts of several songs. So, no, I don't think Zegler had anything to do with the film's performance--although I do wonder if she might be to blame for those songs' absence.

As for the criticism of the racebend itself, some of it was racist, but in general Zegler herself was unlikable all by herself without being the face of the racebend that took the brunt of the backlash. And I don't think she was disliked because of her race, just because of her personality. I mean, her way of expressing her opinions was off-putting, but the fact that she randomly caused friction for Gadot, who had done nothing to her, and sicced her own little mob of far left crazies on her was pretty disgusting, let's be real. She isn't a great person in my book.

All that said, this is the version of SW I'll return to the most often actually (well, unless we're counting OUAT). I was watching it again randomly just a few days ago. Tale of Terror is my next favorite, but it's not something I could watch frequently. I really only pull out the animated film or SW&tH to watch some scenes (the opening and ending of Walt's film and Theron's scenes in the other), skipping around large bits of them.