Upon reflection, one of the concept mistakes was slavishly following the original plot.
The embellishments like the happy citizens, Evil Queen's love for cheap plastic jewels, apple pies, etc. just felt unnecessary and tacked on.
Disney already made Maleficent relatively recently in 2014 as a meta take on the original, so where could they go from there?
I think in this case, Godot was miscast.
I understand any actress wanting to expand their range, particularly her wanting to be known anything else other than Wonder Woman. See Leonard Nimoy and his "I'm not Spock" phase.
Sometimes, you just gotta own it tho...
A friend who watched Snow White with me thought she was okay, but I didn't think she sold being EVIL enough.
Re:Zero - I didn't even finish S2 before starting S3. It is kind of hard to watch because each season's predicament seems so hopeless. Just gotta have faith that the writer makes it pay off, and it does!
I was really busy IRL, so the list of shows that I could try out, much less follow, was pretty mimimal, by mine own standards:
Finished:
Dropped:
I Think I Missed Out:
None of this would be a problem if Disney had made a good movie.
But Disney didn't.
Zegler is a talented young actress and singer, has had notable roles already, and will continue to have a great career.
Gal Godot has been a great Wonder Woman.
Both are good, regardless of what they post on social media.
The script, production and whole concept of this movie had far worse problems than Zegler and Godot.
Creepy dwarfs? Cheap looking plastic jewels? Boring script? Bad dance numbers? Bad music?
Were Zegler and Godot responsible for all of those?
Releasing the movie to influencers would NOT have helped the word-of-mouth. You have to make a good movie to begin with for that to work.
Children Of The Stones, 1977 British childrens' horror show. A historian and his young son visit a small village whose residents hold secrets about an ancient stone monument.
Like most 70s British TV, there's no production budget, and entirely dependent on script writing and actors to create atmosphere.
Survivors was a great show! Post-apocalyptic drama at its best. They didn't need makeup to have (human) monsters.
I still remember my favorite character from that show: Bowler.
done!
There's a school of acting where you're supposed to more-or-less keep a blank face, and let the audience project emotions onto your protagonist. Richard Gere was famous for it. I want to say it's Method Acting, but that's not it.
It doesn't work if the writing doesn't work.