{"id":3392,"date":"2024-10-02T23:57:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T04:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2024-10-03T00:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T05:00:41","slug":"aladdins-cash-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2024\/10\/aladdins-cash-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Aladdin&#8217;s Cash Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched the Aladdin Live Action Remake (compliments of the kiddos); and while my expectations were already low, I must say I was thoroughly underwhelmed. It&#8217;s worth pointing out that I am a huge fan of the original as it&#8217;s probably my favorite Disney movie, but I&#8217;d like to think my issues are legit and not (too) biased. Specifically: Aladdin&#8217;s arc, the undynamic cinematography, and Jafar&#8230; all things Jafar &#8211; and don&#8217;t get me started on the climactic scene.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as how it&#8217;s existing IP and banks on people&#8217;s nostalgia, I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised it raked in so much money (over $1B?!); but I guess I still am. That&#8217;s exceedingly successful financially and no doubt paved the way for future live action remakes. While I probably won&#8217;t be as vested in the production of those films, I feel the bottom line allows Disney to marginalize the value of animation in favor of live action, which saddens me. <\/p>\n<p>That said, I realize the original wasn&#8217;t perfect:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gi93Dbh_E3c?si=0oTJZFVLLsian9pO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Still, I still watch it and feel like it holds up &#8211; and extremely well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched the Aladdin Live Action Remake (compliments of the kiddos); and while my expectations were already low, I must say I was thoroughly underwhelmed. It&#8217;s worth pointing out that I am a huge fan of the original as it&#8217;s probably my favorite Disney movie, but I&#8217;d like to think my issues are legit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,31],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aladdin","tag-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}