bluestemz

This was just absolute heresy. The only thing it made me want to do is go back & watch the original. There is no depth, no soul, no emotion, nothing. A big empty void wrapped in autotuned CGI meh. Empty, hollow, plastic. Disney needs to stop DESTROYING perfection. The original animated Aladdin was just that: PERFECTION. Nobody wants a shot for shot remake of Citizen Kane or Casablanca do they? No. If you are going to re-imagine a thing, then do that, re-IMAGINE it: use your IMAGINATION! It seems Disney has dumped all their creative talent into one department and they are all at work on the Star Wars franchise leaving the rest of the crew to imperfectly re-shoot scripts which were previously shot PERFECTLY. Walt Disney must be somewhere in heaven crying his eyes out right about now. Whoever thought that since there was a lack of new material pumping out from the Imagineers that in its stead they should pull out all the old archive material & just trace over old projects with new pens (in the form of computers) should be fired, no, shamed out of employment & run out of town. A studio ripping off another studio is one thing but a studio ripping off itself is just MADNESS. The direction this studio is heading outside of it's one creative, imaginative pull (Star Wars) right now is downright distasteful, irreverent, & outright shameful. I will keep supporting the Star Wars projects since they retain a creative vision but I dare not subject my child to anymore Disney disgrace outside of that universe until they get all their Donald Ducks back in a row.

Going into this film I had no idea what to expect, the only hint as to it's nature I had was the visual of the bunny costume. I expected something "Donnie Darko"-esque scripted to it's nation's culture, however sitting through this Indonesian horror I couldn't help but allude to what I felt were other American influences. The overall mostly surreal tone seemed very Lynchian, the scenes in the theater had a Mulholland Dr vibe & the foreboding rickety old lady reminded me dearly of the Log Lady in Twin Peaks. The script seemed, to me, to draw some influence from Shutter Island & that's all I'll say about that. Of course these ideas & artistic direction could have developed completely independently, regardless, as a fan of what I just referenced, this film left me pretty satisfied. Definitely worth the time IMO.