movie The Little Mermaid (2023) | Makes a BIG streaming splash on Disney+ | 16M views! 🫧🐚

[EmailMySwift]

Asia really said no to this. It's one thing if it was about the quality of the movie but the terrible Beauty and the Beast live action made a killing so racism is the only explanation. 

 

https://twitter.com/Luiz_Fernando_J/status/1662852893156802560

[Peroxide]

36 minutes ago, V$. said:

Jessica (Vanessa) has been blocking people for saying she should have been Ariel on ig! 

 

 

QUEEN! 

This is bad ***** behaviour.

[Cloudy]

44 minutes ago, V$. said:

Jessica (Vanessa) has been blocking people for saying she should have been Ariel on ig! 

 

 

QUEEN! 

Do people not think or simply lack any kind of empathy? What makes people think saying she would have made a better Ariel than Halle think it's ok?

[Memoirs387]

I saw this yesterday and absolutely loved it. 
 

Halle, Melissa, Prince Eric… the cast was great. 
 

Flounder was a flop tho but Sebastian surprised me with how much I enjoyed him that I forgave the floppage of Flounder 

[Konril]

Great domestic opening but worrying international. Hope it grows legs.

[V$.]

44 minutes ago, EmailMySwift said:

Asia really said no to this. It's one thing if it was about the quality of the movie but the terrible Beauty and the Beast live action made a killing so racism is the only explanation. 

 

https://twitter.com/Luiz_Fernando_J/status/1662852893156802560

 

[family.guy123]

53 minutes ago, FreeXone said:

How is 175 million not good

It’s production budget was $250m. Marketing was close to $100m from what I’ve heard. Movies make the vast majority of their money in the first couple of weeks so if it’s off to a rough start, it’s hard to course correct. I’m no BO expert but I guess most movies follow the same trajectories and drop % are fairly easy to predict after a couple days etc etc Of course it could buck the trends and have unexpected legs. It happens, but those films tend to be outliers. 

[family.guy123]

49 minutes ago, EmailMySwift said:

Asia really said no to this. It's one thing if it was about the quality of the movie but the terrible Beauty and the Beast live action made a killing so racism is the only explanation. 

 

https://twitter.com/Luiz_Fernando_J/status/1662852893156802560

It’s crazy. For music, it’s the opposite. Americans are more racist (see Morgan Wallen only smashing in America. But for film, America seems to be the only saving grace for TLM

[RihRihGirrrl]

Just got back from watching....I loved it!! Halle really lit up the screen even during the parts of the firls where she was silent. She is magnetic on screen 😍 

[Sscorpionn]

31 minutes ago, V$. said:

 

Korea being extremely anti-black is so ironic considering how they’ve built an entire music industry ripping off black American music 

 

OT: this bombing outside of the US and especially in Asia is not surprising and Disney probably already knew that when they casted Halle. Hopefully it performs similar to BP 2 with a strong US leg. 

[Aethereal]

Latin America more supportive than Europe:

 

Mexico 

Aladdin - $8.9M

TLM - $8.5M

 

Argentina 

Aladdin - $1.2M

TLM - $2.5M

 

Brazil 

Aladdin - $4.6m

TLM - $4

 

From 3 biggest markets of Latin America. 

 

 

[V$.]

14 minutes ago, Aristotle said:

Latin America more supportive than Europe:

 

Mexico 

Aladdin - $8.9M

TLM - $8.5M

 

Argentina 

Aladdin - $1.2M

TLM - $2.5M

 

Brazil 

Aladdin - $4.6m

TLM - $4

 

From 3 biggest markets of Latin America. 

 

 

mi gente latino 

[Sergi91]

2 hours ago, Aristotle said:

Latin America more supportive than Europe:

 

Mexico 

Aladdin - $8.9M

TLM - $8.5M

 

Argentina 

Aladdin - $1.2M

TLM - $2.5M

 

Brazil 

Aladdin - $4.6m

TLM - $4

 

From 3 biggest markets of Latin America. 

 

 

I love it! 

[Sergi91]

I’m planning on seeing the film tomorrow with my nieces 

[Europe]

The demographic breakdown of watchers is quite interesting:

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Heavy female leaning at 68%, with 61% between 18-34, and the largest demo being millennial 25-34 year olds at 35%. Diversity demos strong across the board, with 35% Black, 25% Latino and Hispanic, 26% Caucasian and 11% Asian. Most vibrant lands for Ariel were the East, South, and South Central. 

https://deadline.com/2023/05/box-office-the-little-mermaid-1235380526/

 

The article also confirms this had the biggest marketing budget of any Disney Live Action remake.

[V$.]

https://twitter.com/ThegirlJT/status/1662969746063777792

 

[EmailMySwift]

Finally saw it. Better than I expected! I would give it a solid B. The original gets an A. 

Spoiler

Halle is good as Ariel. She has the lungs and the heart. The Eric actor is ok. Javier is bad as Triton - he seems bored and doesnt capture the conflict of a father who wants to protect his daughter while feeling guilty about how strict he has to be. Melissa is meh as Ursula - she doesn't have the vamp, the camp, and can't shed her sweet funny best friend persona. The sidekicks are lifeless and creepy - it's like the seafood section in your grocery store started singing - and their dead eyes never change.

 

Lin Manuel Miranda is a hack and all his new songs are bad. 

Big mistake: not having Sebastian present for Part of Your World. It's so important that he sees her longing and passion so that you understand why he gets on her side and helps her. Also why is Ariel singing along and having a ball during Under the Sea? In the original she understandably leaves halfway through. It's like they didn't think things through. 

 

The new scenes didn't add much, they just padded the runtime, but I did like the addition of the little mermaid statue and the way Eric learns Ariel's name. 

 

Still, I had a good time. Overall not bad! 

 

[Space Cowboy]

4 hours ago, family.guy123 said:

It’s crazy. For music, it’s the opposite. Americans are more racist (see Morgan Wallen only smashing in America. But for film, America seems to be the only saving grace for TLM

I don’t think all Morgan Wallen’s listeners are racists or know about his past racist behavior tbh  

 

 

[V$.]

https://twitter.com/HalleBailey/status/1662968783613599744

 

[V$.]

28 minutes ago, EmailMySwift said:

Finally saw it. Better than I expected! I would give it a solid B. The original gets an A. 

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Halle is good as Ariel. She has the lungs and the heart. The Eric actor is ok. Javier is bad as Triton - he seems bored and doesnt capture the conflict of a father who wants to protect his daughter while feeling guilty about how strict he has to be. Melissa is meh as Ursula - she doesn't have the vamp, the camp, and can't shed her sweet funny best friend persona. The sidekicks are lifeless and creepy - it's like the seafood section in your grocery store started singing - and their dead eyes never change.

 

Lin Manuel Miranda is a hack and all his new songs are bad. 

Big mistake: not having Sebastian present for Part of Your World. It's so important that he sees her longing and passion so that you understand why he gets on her side and helps her. Also why is Ariel singing along and having a ball during Under the Sea? In the original she understandably leaves halfway through. It's like they didn't think things through. 

 

The new scenes didn't add much, they just padded the runtime, but I did like the addition of the little mermaid statue and the way Eric learns Ariel's name. 

 

Still, I had a good time. Overall not bad! 

[Aethereal]

Just enjoy the movie, don't worry about numbers. Many great movies flopped even harder. 

[Bimbo]

I can't stop listening to Halle's Part Of Your World

[Dr. Alexander]

2 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

I don’t think all Morgan Wallen’s listeners are racists or know about his past racist behavior tbh  

 

 

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. The day the video was released, they all stood with him and promised to boost his sales and streaming. You can still see the lasting aftermath today…

[Space Cowboy]

28 minutes ago, Dr. Alexander said:

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. The day the video was released, they all stood with him and promised to boost his sales and streaming. You can still see the lasting aftermath today…

Like yeah I’m sure some of his listeners are racist, but absolutely not the majority of them. He’s the most popular male artist in the US, he just has full GP support.

 

Morgan Wallen got caught saying the n-word. Alright, so did Camila Cabello, Justin Bieber, Madonna, Eminem and many other celebs. And none of them remained cancelled, people just moved on and forgot about it.

 

No one from the GP cares at this point about this 2-year-old scandal and I’m pretty sure most have forgotten about it. Only this forum and the echo chamber that it’s stan twitter still cares.

 

[Dr. Alexander]

37 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Like yeah I’m sure some of his listeners are racist, but absolutely not the majority of them. He’s the most popular male artist in the US, he just has full GP support.

 

Morgan Wallen got caught saying the n-word. Alright, so did Camila Cabello, Justin Bieber, Madonna, Eminem and many other celebs. And none of them remained cancelled, people just moved on and forgot about it.

 

No one from the GP cares at this point about this 2-year-old scandal and I’m pretty sure most have forgotten about it. Only this forum and the echo chamber that it’s stan twitter still cares.

 

No. You’re missing it.

 

When the video was released, people stood by him in droves instead of going against him, solely because he said racial slurs. They supported him even more because of it. Why do you all act as if racism isn’t prominent still? Newsflash, it is. 

 

Read instead of just saying anything:

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Wallen’s sales increased 1,220 percent on Wednesday compared to Tuesday, while his song sales were up 327 percent, according to Alpha Data, the data analytics provider that powers the Rolling Stone Charts. And despite being removed from playlists like Today’s Country on Apple Music and Spotify’s Hot Country Songs, his streams did not dip on Wednesday at all. (Wallen’s music remains on theservices since his label, Big Loud, has not removed any material.) 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/morgan-wallen-sales-racial-slur-1124242/

Edited May 29, 2023 by Dr. Alexander