I mean, at least they no longer look like Snow White And The Top Seven Focus-Grouped Choices.
Tag: live action
Hold up: this is a *Guy Ritchie*-directed live-action Aladdin?
Apparently. …Oh. Well. That is, well, somewhat unexpected. Guy Ritchie is a director who makes films that appeal to me, if apparently not that many other people these days; I had a lot of fun at The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and King Arthur.
So, I dunno. Maybe there’ll be a gun battle or two? I’d pay good money to have this flick suddenly shift to a modern-day street score with a snap of the genie’s fingers. Oh my God, but that would actually be amazingly good. I’m now almost mad that they’re not going to do that, in fact. At least it wouldn’t be boring.
Guy Ritchie to direct live-action Aladdin?
Well. That will be… something. Yes. ‘Something’ is the word that I would use in this situation.
We’re not surprised to hear that Disney has been planning a live-action retelling of their 1992 animated classic Aladdin–they were previously planning a live-action prequel focusing on the franchise’s popular Genie character, after all–but we were not expecting Guy Ritchie to be the emerging directorial candidate for the job. It looks like everyone’s favorite street-rat will be getting an action-packed treatment in the signature styling of the Sherlock Holmes and Man from U.N.C.L.E. director.
It’s not going to be bad, mind you. In fact, I will probably watch it, enthralled. But I wouldn’t advise taking the kids to see it until after you see about half a dozen reviews from people you trust telling you that it’s safe and won’t give your children nightmares.
Moe Lane
PS: I don’t know who they’re going to sucker into taking the Genie role, either. And it would have to be a full-bore sucker, too. Or an absolute masochist.
OK, so there’s going to be a live-action Pokemon flick. …Done recoiling, yet?
No? Well, we can wait.
[pause]
Great! Now that we’re done recovering from hearing about the looming nightmare fuel that promises to be the live-action Pokemon movie, I have a question: has there been a live-action flick of this sort that wasn’t godawful? I’m not talking about stop-motion movies, like the ones that Blessed Harryhausen did; or even… ET, I suppose, or Short Circuit. Neither of those were close enough to human to trigger the Uncanny Valley effect.
I’m thinking of, say, something like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies, only it wasn’t bad.
Moe Lane
PS: Gremlins comes close, sure, but the puppets didn’t really have much dialogue. And Small Soldiers… OK, I’d have accepted that one. But the roster is still pretty dang sparse.
#rsrh Live Action earns its corn.
Oh, it’s not the only group that has, by a long shot: but it definitely helped stiffen some spines out there when it came to today’s defunding of Planned Parenthood. The Pence Amendment to the new [continuing resolution] has passed, 240-185; clearly the Senate is going to have a meltdown on the subject, but then… we’re already going to have one of those already, right? Just add it to the list.
The real question is, of course, which Republican legislator gets the first formal death threat because of this. And no, that’s not just the cough syrup talking. The Left is gearing up to be in an ugly mood this weekend.
Moe Lane
Next Live Action sting video: Ohio?
If my pet theory is correct, then very possibly: Ohio legislators will be unveiling today the Heartbeat Bill, which would ban abortions where a fetal heartbeat can be detected (H/T: Weasel Zippers). This would effectively put the cap on abortions in Ohio at being absolutely no later than six weeks, and quite possibly earlier: pro-choice agitators are already simultaneously claiming that the proposed law is intolerably restrictive and that almost nobody in Ohio needs later term abortions anyway. That these claims are at least potentially contradictory to each other is… pretty much standard for pro-choicers, actually.
At any rate, this bill has a decent chance of passing. Ohio abruptly flipped over to full Republican control of the state government last November, with the GOP taking control of the General Assembly and the governorship (we already had the state Senate): the sponsor of the Heartbeat Bill (state representative Lynn Wachtmann) has 40 (out of 99) of her fellow-representatives already signed on. And, of course, Governor Kasich is pro-life. But it’s a very serious and meaningful piece of pro-life legislation; which means that there’s going to be significant push-back on it. The question is, does Live Action have something to push back on the push-back?
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Live Action’s latest: NY and the Reproductive Health Act.
Live Action has released its latest video (unedited, full footage here), and it’s a doozy [UPDATE: this video should work, now]:
For those without video access, it’s the usual “Hi! I’m a pimp who has underaged illegal immigrant hookers! What can you guys do for me?” – and the answer, this time, is to walk the pimp through the process of vouching for said underaged illegal immigrant hookers in order to make the paperwork come out right. Because, you know, as the Planned Parenthood staffer noted: nobody checks the paperwork. Which is a very large, and exceptionally infuriating, issue: for almost forty years the pro-life movement has been told (usually snottily) that there were in fact laws and regulations that would prevent abuses of the system. Well. A law that is not enforced is not really a law at all.
Continue reading Live Action’s latest: NY and the Reproductive Health Act.
Lila Rose fights the Man.
Choice of phrase deliberate: one of the most entertaining things about today’s state of activism is that the Professional Left is just now starting to realize that they have somehow become the agents of reaction without ever quite noticing how it happened. Lila Rose, on the other hand? Her pro-life organization Live Action is a classic guerrilla theater operation designed to target the weaknesses of a frankly sclerotic tool of the Establishment… in this case, Planned Parenthood. It’s not quite the same as the Sixties groups, though: the Right has never been all that interested in getting our opponents to admit that we were right and they were wrong. Winning is sufficient validation, thanks.
And this is where I think that the above Christian Science Monitor article featuring Lila missed the fundamental point. In my opinion, the CSM author approached Live Action’s program in terms of an attempt to sway public opinion; which is after all how the Activist Left always does it. But the reason that the Left always does it that way is because the Activist Left always has to convince a majority of the American public that their ideas are correct. The Right doesn’t have that problem in this country. To use this specific example: Live Action doesn’t have to start by convincing people that abortion is disgusting, because people already find abortion personally disgusting. All Live Action has to do is show that the horrid things said about abortion providers and abortion advocates are actually true. Continue reading Lila Rose fights the Man.