Just a reminder that we were supposed to get Haunted Mansion movie by Guillermo Del Toro but the Disney execs shitcanned it because they thought it would be too scary. This what we got instead.
We’ll at least you can’t say that they didn’t deserve it. That and the $120+ billion they lost last year.
people shit on the eddie murphy one but it wasn't THAT bad (what were people expecting?). this looks like it's more of the same, I might watch it because I love the ride and it looks like it is more closely following the aesthetic and "lore"
Just a reminder that we were supposed to get Haunted Mansion movie by Guillermo Del Toro but the Disney execs shitcanned it because they thought it would be too scary. This what we got instead.
We’ll at least you can’t say that they didn’t deserve it. That and the $120+ billion they lost last year.
Nothing about their decision making on this movie makes sense. They again attempted the Black comedy route after that approach flopped twenty years ago at a time when race relations were much less tense. They released it not alongside Halloween, but in the dog days of summer when it would have to go against a bunch of major releases. Even apolitically, the people making decisions at Disney are just moronic.
It's not like I'm basing that opinion on forum posts or tweets or some shit. I'm calling it a comedy because that's how the trailer clearly pitched it and that's how it's listed on theater apps, Google, fricking anywhere you look.
In the fall they'd have to compete against Paw Patrol and Five Nights at Freddy's. I guess they knew the movie was garbage and figured it was going to flop no matter what, so they tossed it out during the summer with the plan of launching it on D+ closer to Halloween. Of course, D+ isn't profitable either ...
Since I'm the only person in this thread who's actually seen the movie and am thus the only only one qualified to give a fricking opinion:
It's not bad if you just want a family-safe horror movie, and it is much better if you are a fan of the actual ride. The plot is good enough and the acting is solid, just nothing stands out about either. Like the ride it sits in a weird place where it's not aiming to be really scary but also not really funny.
As mentioned the movie was absolutely made for fans of the ride. The set design is spot on and the movie includes virtually every element and detail of the ride, and the soundtrack is made up of nicely arranged versions of the music from the ride.
>the original animated series
There was going to be an animated series?
…actually given how the proud family reboot turned out it’s probably best that it didn’t happen
The Haunted Mansion is objectively their most popular ride that isn't based on a pre-existing movie, has variants in five of their six resorts, and they've been trying to push it as a third Halloween merch pillar alongside Nightmare and Hocus Pocus for the last few years.
They've already made (at least) one movie though, right? I remember it being kind of a critical and box office dud. I guess I just don't understand going back to that well 15 years later when the movie industry is in shambles
Because the ride by itself is a merch money printer with a loyal autistic fanbase and if they could somehow not frick up another film adaptation, it could become an annual Halloween money printer on a big scale.
Of course, they ended up bailing from Del Toro even though the fandom seemed almost unanimous in wanting to see what he'd do with the material and we got this. They're still gonna keep trying with this though, I mean we got that Muppet Haunted Mansion special only like two years earlier and after two live-action theatrical duds, they might actually consider doing something in animation next time.
Del Taco is hit or miss for me but I think he would've made something more interesting than whatever "fortune teller get ipad" shit this new one is trying to be. Granted Del Taco probably took like half of his better ideas for Haunted Mansion and just put them into Crimson Peak.
Disney is going back to theme park adaptations. Pirates made too much money, but Jungle Cruise and Haunted Mansion aren't replicating that.
Pirates as a franchise was entirely carried by Johnny Depp and the ride is completely tonally different from the movies. The Pirates movies have far and away eclipsed the cultural relevance or even similarity to the Pirates ride.
Imagineering's also been putting more lorewank into their rides for movie adaptations to play around with to avoid repeating another "Reprogram all the Pirates to suck Jack Sparrow's dick" situation and they somehow managed to get the Bobs to buy into the whole SEA thing as a potential cinematic universe even though that brand of old timey adventurer stuff seems at odds with Disney's DEI concerns.
They've basically announced most of the obvious candidates already between Figment, Tower of Terror and Big Thunder Mountain being tossed around. And Big Thunder and Jungle Cruise are both major components of the SEAverse in the parks alongside Tokyo's Tower of Terror and Soarin' and Hong Kong's Mystic Manor. And as far as SEA's broader crossover stuff, they're more likely to lean on Jules Verne stuff since even if Indy wasn't a smouldering crater, I doubt Kennedy would want theme park lorewank touching the Indy franchise in a mainstream way.
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>Hong Kong's Mystic Manor
It will never not be funny to me that they needed to make a whole different Haunted Mansion for China just because skeletons make the Chinese shit themselves in fear.
The Haunted Mansion is objectively their most popular ride that isn't based on a pre-existing movie, has variants in five of their six resorts, and they've been trying to push it as a third Halloween merch pillar alongside Nightmare and Hocus Pocus for the last few years.
I never heard of the Eddie Murphy one having a bad reputation until the new one came along, and I instinctively feel that the old one having some awful reputation is an astroturf from Disney marketing to help prop up their new turd in comparison.
I've never heard of the Eddie Murphy film having a good reputation until all you zoomers proclaimed it a masterpiece like the Mike Myers cat in the Hat movie.
should have been released in october september. probably would have made more money since it's spooky season. doesn't look bad though.
It’s made for blacks. Why would you even watch it?
Because America worships it's Black folk so it's hard to not watch something that glorifies blackies
would you jump off a cliff if all the Black folk did it too anon
Shut up spook
can you please relax when you speak with me, that was a little abrasive
Why would you off yourself right when the world is about to get better?
didnt eddie already make this for them tho?
Not enough chud
$63 million worldwide against a budget of $150 million…before marketing. Talk about a yikes. Its dailies are barely more than Sound of Freedom.
Just a reminder that we were supposed to get Haunted Mansion movie by Guillermo Del Toro but the Disney execs shitcanned it because they thought it would be too scary. This what we got instead.
We’ll at least you can’t say that they didn’t deserve it. That and the $120+ billion they lost last year.
people shit on the eddie murphy one but it wasn't THAT bad (what were people expecting?). this looks like it's more of the same, I might watch it because I love the ride and it looks like it is more closely following the aesthetic and "lore"
A movie that didn't have a tired ass "Workaholic dad needs to learn to appreciate his family" main story and ended with the house still being haunted?
I had no idea people hated that movie until this got announced.
>written by the woman that co-wrote lady ghostbusters
What do you think?
Reminder that Del Toro wanted to make this movie back in 2015 with Ryan Gosling as the lead but Shitsney said no.
Nothing about their decision making on this movie makes sense. They again attempted the Black comedy route after that approach flopped twenty years ago at a time when race relations were much less tense. They released it not alongside Halloween, but in the dog days of summer when it would have to go against a bunch of major releases. Even apolitically, the people making decisions at Disney are just moronic.
>They again attempted the Black comedy route
No they didn't.
It's a black director, majority black cast, and the genre is listed everywhere as horror/comedy. In what sense is that not "the Black comedy route"
Because it's not a comedy. Maybe you should make your own opinions on things instead of just regurgitating shit you read on the internet.
It's not like I'm basing that opinion on forum posts or tweets or some shit. I'm calling it a comedy because that's how the trailer clearly pitched it and that's how it's listed on theater apps, Google, fricking anywhere you look.
In the fall they'd have to compete against Paw Patrol and Five Nights at Freddy's. I guess they knew the movie was garbage and figured it was going to flop no matter what, so they tossed it out during the summer with the plan of launching it on D+ closer to Halloween. Of course, D+ isn't profitable either ...
Since I'm the only person in this thread who's actually seen the movie and am thus the only only one qualified to give a fricking opinion:
It's not bad if you just want a family-safe horror movie, and it is much better if you are a fan of the actual ride. The plot is good enough and the acting is solid, just nothing stands out about either. Like the ride it sits in a weird place where it's not aiming to be really scary but also not really funny.
As mentioned the movie was absolutely made for fans of the ride. The set design is spot on and the movie includes virtually every element and detail of the ride, and the soundtrack is made up of nicely arranged versions of the music from the ride.
Sounds like it’s worth streaming, but probably not the theater ticket. I might watch around Halloween time. Thanks anon.
It's a date-night movie, anon. Take a girl to see it, they love Disney and the Haunted Mansion.
holy shit hoss peep that underbite lip on the young Black boy
it is so severe he is famous to all children
They wasted money on this instead of doing Del Taco's version and the original animated series. Shame.
>the original animated series
There was going to be an animated series?
…actually given how the proud family reboot turned out it’s probably best that it didn’t happen
Miniseries headed by the guy who did Kubo and the Two Strings and that animated Ultraman movie coming to Netflix next year.
why the frick would they make this? does the ride even still exist at disney land? of all the IP's disney has, why the frick would you pick this one?
Because it's easily one of the if not the most popular ride in any of the parks.
They've already made (at least) one movie though, right? I remember it being kind of a critical and box office dud. I guess I just don't understand going back to that well 15 years later when the movie industry is in shambles
Because the ride by itself is a merch money printer with a loyal autistic fanbase and if they could somehow not frick up another film adaptation, it could become an annual Halloween money printer on a big scale.
Of course, they ended up bailing from Del Toro even though the fandom seemed almost unanimous in wanting to see what he'd do with the material and we got this. They're still gonna keep trying with this though, I mean we got that Muppet Haunted Mansion special only like two years earlier and after two live-action theatrical duds, they might actually consider doing something in animation next time.
Del Taco is hit or miss for me but I think he would've made something more interesting than whatever "fortune teller get ipad" shit this new one is trying to be. Granted Del Taco probably took like half of his better ideas for Haunted Mansion and just put them into Crimson Peak.
Pirates as a franchise was entirely carried by Johnny Depp and the ride is completely tonally different from the movies. The Pirates movies have far and away eclipsed the cultural relevance or even similarity to the Pirates ride.
Disney is going back to theme park adaptations. Pirates made too much money, but Jungle Cruise and Haunted Mansion aren't replicating that.
Imagineering's also been putting more lorewank into their rides for movie adaptations to play around with to avoid repeating another "Reprogram all the Pirates to suck Jack Sparrow's dick" situation and they somehow managed to get the Bobs to buy into the whole SEA thing as a potential cinematic universe even though that brand of old timey adventurer stuff seems at odds with Disney's DEI concerns.
There really aren't many more rides left you can make a movie out of.
I heard someone had a good idea for a Splash Mountain movie.
They've basically announced most of the obvious candidates already between Figment, Tower of Terror and Big Thunder Mountain being tossed around. And Big Thunder and Jungle Cruise are both major components of the SEAverse in the parks alongside Tokyo's Tower of Terror and Soarin' and Hong Kong's Mystic Manor. And as far as SEA's broader crossover stuff, they're more likely to lean on Jules Verne stuff since even if Indy wasn't a smouldering crater, I doubt Kennedy would want theme park lorewank touching the Indy franchise in a mainstream way.
>Hong Kong's Mystic Manor
It will never not be funny to me that they needed to make a whole different Haunted Mansion for China just because skeletons make the Chinese shit themselves in fear.
Disneyland version has the Hatbox Ghost.
The Haunted Mansion is objectively their most popular ride that isn't based on a pre-existing movie, has variants in five of their six resorts, and they've been trying to push it as a third Halloween merch pillar alongside Nightmare and Hocus Pocus for the last few years.
I never heard of the Eddie Murphy one having a bad reputation until the new one came along, and I instinctively feel that the old one having some awful reputation is an astroturf from Disney marketing to help prop up their new turd in comparison.
I've never heard of the Eddie Murphy film having a good reputation until all you zoomers proclaimed it a masterpiece like the Mike Myers cat in the Hat movie.