What are your thoughts and opinions on the new How To Train Your Dragon Live Action?
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On one hand, I don't really care. It looks very uninspired, too 1:1 to the original movie, which then begs the question why it was made in the first place. They're playing it too safe, Toothless looking basically the same as his original counterpart underlines that. If you're not going to even try to do the story (or major visuals) in a different way, what's the point? So it kinda looks boring to me, and thus I'm indifferent to it. Especially with lacking the expressiveness that animation has, and the overall visuals reminding me more of cosplay than believable re-imagining. (It actually looks surprisingly low budget, the lighting in the hand touch clip seemed so fake.) But, if it introduces new audience to the franchise and to watch the original movie, then that's good at least!
On the other hand, I'm really annoyed at this "let's remake animations with live action, the BETTER format!" as if the original movie wasn't the one to win the awards. It just also feels like an attempt to milk the franchise and DW wanting a piece from Disney's live action cake. Are they attempting to "improve" the original movie with this? That kind of audacity is irritating to me, even if it's the original director at the helm again. Animated movies are still held on lower standard in Hollywood despite all the work the industry has done to change that.
So I'm both indifferent and annoyed by it. I don't personally care about it and just ignore it, but on the other hand it's a big symptom of this remake trend that looks down on the animated movies, and that I hate. I certainly don't mind people being excited for the remake and liking it, I just will ignore it and hope this live action frenzy will die down đ€