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One of my favorite podcasts did its season finale. It was a good one. https://www.narniaweb.com/2022/05/c-s-lewis-created-an-atomic-bomb-talking-beasts/
I seem to be out to smash the shibboleths of the YouTube critic community on my blog. Recently I defended Disney remakes. I began by praising the 2012 movie, Les Misérables. https://theadaptationstation.com/2021/04/an-appreciation-of-tom-hoopers-les-miserables-part-1-a-masterpiece-of-visual-storytelling/ https://theadaptationstation.com/2021/04/an-appreciation-of-tom-hoopers-les-miserables-part-2-the-part-thats-not-actually-appreciative/
https://theadaptationstation.com/2021/04/an-appreciation-of-tom-hoopers-les-miserables-part-3-a-master-adaptation/ #LesMisI seem to be out to smash the shibboleths of the YouTube critic community on my blog. First, I praised the 2012 Les Miserables movie. Now I'm defending "live action" Disney remakes. Check it out. https://theadaptationstation.com/2022/05/a-mild-defense-of-disneys-recent-line-of-nostalgia-bait/ #Disney #nostalgiabait #remakes
Category Archives: Remakes
A Mild Defense of Disney’s Recent Line of Nostalgia Bait
It’s no secret that the Walt Disney company has been relying on remakes of their more popular older movies a lot lately. 2019 saw not one, not two, but four of them! (Aladdin, The Lion King, Dumbo and Lady and … Continue reading
Remaking Christmas: It Happened One Christmas (1977)
Did you know that in 1977 there was a made-for-TV gender flipped remake of It’s a Wonderful Life? And that they decided to give it the title of a different Frank Capra movie, replacing one of the words with Christmas? … Continue reading
Remaking Christmas: Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Of all the remakes of George Seaton’s 1947 movie, Miracle on 34th Street, only the 1994 one was released in cinemas. Fittingly, it’s the best of them or at least the most interesting. I don’t consider it anywhere near as … Continue reading
Little Women Smackdown Part 1
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is a rare book in that it attracts ardent fans from both sides of modern American Culture Wars. On the one hand, it’s considered something of a pioneering feminist book for focusing largely on the … Continue reading
Which Friday Is the Freakiest? Candidates 3 and 4
One Final Attempt to Understand What Goes On in Your Head: Freaky Friday (2003) Only eight years after the 1995 Freaky Friday, Disney released another remake, into cinemas this time, from director Mark Waters and screenwriters Leslie Dixon and Heather … Continue reading
Which Friday is the Freakiest? Candidates 1 and 2
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Many more people know the premise of Freaky … Continue reading
