I don't really like Lindsay Ellis at all but I never thought I'd see the দিন where I agree with her on something and she'd have a video that perfectly sums up my issues with ডিজনি in সাম্প্রতিক years.

I was watching her Beauty and the Beast 2017 review and she was basically complaining about how years of whiny, nitpicky nobodies on the internet like আপনি and me going on and on about "stereotype" this and "problematic" that regarding ডিজনি চলচ্চিত্র has pretty much resulted in the hot গাধা messes modern ডিজনি films are today. How the BatB remake is a terrible adaptation of the OG film and it's contribution to Disney's current obsession with being "meta, self aware, subversive" and "progressive, feminist, woke", only adds to the nonsense.

And it's so funny because Lindsay Ellis is the exact type of person these modern films are trying to appease with this stuff but now that it's affecting a film SHE likes (BatB) even she agrees that this crap has gone too far. In fact, in the video, she's almost kind of apologetic for contributing to this mentality. ("I will never cease my penance walk")

Actually, in a few reviews of the BatB remake on Youtube, the reviewers generally have this attitude of "We were just joking around and nitpicking about the অনুত্তরিত questions, the stockholme sydrome etc. We didn't think you'd actually listen to us. This isn't what we wanted."

And this issue isn't exclusive to the remakes, it's in the revival DP চলচ্চিত্র too, the writers are so obsessed with inserting the self aware meta-contextual humor you'd expect to find in parodies of ডিজনি চলচ্চিত্র and making sure the heroines and the stories are as progressive, feminist and "unproblematic" as possible.

With the criticism of wishing, (PATF) the "I don't need a prince" crap, (Brave) the "you can't marry a man আপনি just met" crap, (Frozen) and the "if আপনি have animal বন্ধু then you're a princess" crap. (Moana) There's huge hoorah over Tiana being the first black princess and Moana's body type and that stuff IS nice but what about আপনি know, the actual story?!

It doesn't surprise me at all that PATF, Brave, ফ্রোজেন and Moana have all been labelled various combinations of "rushed, bland, messy, lackluckster" among ডিজনি অনুরাগী compared to Tangled, often praised as one of the most cohesive rounded out stories from ডিজনি in the last decade.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this might be a contributing factor as to why Rapunzel/Tangled is the most জনপ্রিয় Revival princess/movie দ্বারা such a significant margin among the ডিজনি community, because outside of Flynn's "I don't sing" bit, it doesn't have any of the pretentious meta crap. This may come as a shock to some of you, but people don't like being patronized and antagonized for liking what they like! Which seems to be the intent of a lot of these modern movies.

Disney, we already know your older চলচ্চিত্র have ridiculous elements (they're fairytales for crying out loud) we don't need আপনি to tell us, especially in the most condescending "on the nose" way possible. And on শীর্ষ of that, আপনি encourage and further perpetuate the louder strawman arguments against the older films, like Cinderella.

In the 2015 remake, y'all were so determined to make this সিন্ড্রেলা "smarter, stronger and আরো independent" than her 1950 counterpart but as the Nostalgia Critic points out, আপনি ironically made her dumber and weaker. And now it seems this foolishness is gonna continue with the আলাদীন remake because apparently they're making these same kind of "improvements" with Jasmine.

To quote Naomi Scott "this movie, আপনি see her go on such a roller coaster, as opposed to her one goal being to fall in প্রণয় অথবা get married.” Right, because the original জুঁই was all about প্রণয় and marriage. A false critique that quite a few people, including Lindsay Ellis, have spouted about Jasmine.

And again, this is an issue with the revival DP চলচ্চিত্র as well, the whole "smarter, stronger, আরো independent, আরো developed, আরো progressive, আরো feminist" heroine shtick did exist in the renaissance era but it is turned up to 100 with the modern films, and it's even আরো in your face because of the try-hard self aware crap.

Y'all were so determined to pander to whiny, nitpicky bastards that gather on sites like Reddit and Tumblr complaining about how the পূর্ববর্তি princesses are "problematic" and again, ironically আপনি created characters like Tiana, who actually did marry a man (or in this case frog) she just met, Merida, who finds herself needing to be rescued আরো often any other princess, Anna, arguably the dumbest princess yet, and Elsa, an arguably very undeveloped character. আপনি made princesses who are just as if not আরো guilty of the stuff পূর্ববর্তি princesses are প্রদত্ত grief for.

To bring it back to Lindsay Ellis, she made a potent point about the gradual change in Disney's approach and ironically praised the old fashioned Walt for putting the story first and just trying to appeal to the childlike wonder that's in all of us. In Eisner's days it was আরো of a balance between telling stories and making money. Nowadays, with the current ডিজনি head (can't remember his name) it's all about doing what's marketable and mainstream অথবা at least what they think is mainstream.

Disney, the loud minority of pedantic nitpicky people online who get critical and offended over little thing আপনি do are just a minority, they don't represent the general public অথবা even the hardcore ডিজনি fandom. I know these grievances may seem mainstream because celebrity idiots like Kiera Knightley bash সিন্ড্রেলা and Ariel in an interview, but if আপনি look in the মতামত section (usually a cesspool but surprisingly sensible in this context) of that interview on Youtube, vast majority of people are actually not co-signing on what she's saying....not even a little bit.

Concepts like diversity and progressiveness are very much welcomed but I'm just saying maybe we should take a page out of Walt's book, and just prioritize telling a fun entertaining well written story. It's like a contributor to the YouTube channel Cheshire Cat Studios ব্যক্ত in his ফ্রোজেন review about Disney's current state of "social justice wokeness". He ব্যক্ত "the problem is that people treat this as though it owes them a responsibility".

Disney's only responsibility and obligation is to tell an entertaining story and maybe present a moral অথবা two along the way. It's not their responsibility to coddle আপনি and basically "talk আপনি off a ledge" nor is it to make some revolutionary progressive statement, and not to mention when they do try to make these statements they make them in the most half-assed way possible.

For example, if they really gave a crap about developing and progressing Belle in the remake, they would have made her an aspiring লেখক অথবা writer. আপনি know, an actually natural and logical progression for her character, not taking a characteristic from Maurice (inventing) and giving it to her and basically turning her into Emma Watson's self indulgent feminist power fantasy. The fact her inventing skills never actually impact the plot tells me it was just to put in to make her seem "better" than the 1991 Belle.

Let's not forget about Le Fou being gay....apparently and what happened to Belle's mom. Both of which, as Lindsay Ellis points out, were just inserted in the film to be progressive ("first gay ডিজনি character YAY!") and to make some meta-response to the age old "dead mom" critique from whiny people on the internet.

Disney, as loud as people on Tumblr, Reddit, a few যশস্বী and dozens of প্রবন্ধ on Buzzfeed-esque sites may be, there are not the vast majority of people watching your movies. Most people actually DON'T care that "the first black princess is a frog for the most of the movie", to them it's just a thing that happens in the story. Regardless, আরো people are just happy to have a black princess and even আরো of them just want to watch a good movie.

Same goes most of the similar complaints about ডিজনি চলচ্চিত্র being regurgitated on the internet. The fact is, most of the people making those complaints are either a) not actually being serious অথবা b) just plain crazy and won't be satisfied no matter what ডিজনি does. Trying to accommodate and pandering to these people should not be a priority.

I know Walt wasn't the most progressive man but contrary to what may seem like জনপ্রিয় belief, most people actually subscribe to his way of thinking when it comes to movie making. Just tell a compelling and cohesive story. That's it.