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Also why are these recent live action remakes so boring? Even my children couldn't get past five minutes in any of them.
My understanding of this phenomenon is there is a committee of "You can't eat salsa, that's cultural appropriation" types who have the final edit on them, which is why you get movies like "What if Beauty and the Beast, but more feminist grudge porn, and a π³οΈβππ³οΈβππ³οΈβπGAYπ³οΈβππ³οΈβππ³οΈβπ character!" or "What if Mulan, but it's about Chinese people so there can't be anything fun or amusing in it, and...look we've got to get rid of this character arc shit. We can't have this character be intrinsically weak and then learn to use her wits to compensate for it. She's a girl, she has to be perfect and effortlessly better than the men from the start or we'll hold our breath. That's what a Strong Female Character is."
That's why they're not fun. People who are not fun are in charge of making them.
No singing and dancing in what was originally a musical. A very strange directional choice.
Which is what I meant by "there can't be anything fun or amusing in it."