YMS: The Lion King (Part 1)

Streaming some Silent Hill 4 on Twitch right now: www.twitch.tv/AdumPlaze

I took a class at Disney World last year learning to draw Simba, halfway through the artist said “we add eyebrows to our animal characters to make them more expressive…can you imagine if we made The Lion King with realistic animals that couldn’t emote or express? that would be crazy!” the saltiness from hand-drawn animators is unmatched

Scar's such a good manipulator that he manipulated Jon Favreau into believing his plan was about the roar.

Imagine being an actual nature photographer, laying in a bush for weeks to perfectly capture amazing pictures of animals in their habitats, and then hearing “the skies are too pretty, nobody gets that lucky”

the fact that the "realistic live action" seems to never show them expressing fear/sadness/etc via their ears laid back is so crazy to me. like the #1 most common cat emote

Absolutely obsessed with the fact that Surf’s Up did the “ground breaking camera movements” first. Surf’s Up fucking rules.

The lack of ear movement is horrendous. Scared cats, inquisitive cats, relaxed, etc. It's a major way that you can tell how a cat feels.

Zazu in the remake is "oh it's Jon Oliver" Zazu in the original is "That's Rowan Atkinson?!?"

i’m actually so angry at the clips of people saying animation has ‘come so far’, animation is losing what makes it animation

Human emotions according to Jon Favreau: –Happy –Sad –How the fur glow

"I like keeping my skies simple because it's so rare to catch a beautiful sky." Probably the most anti-Hollywood, un-Hollywood idea in the history of industry-killing ideas. Stanley Kubrick: "I see 'realistic' every day of my life. When I go to the cinema, I'd like to experience something unique."

One year in and I can’t wait for the sequel.

“Oh no, fascism is bad! So we cannot use fascism imagery alongside our VILLAINS, because fascism is bad, and we cannot have our BAD GUYS associated with FASCISM, because FASCISM IS BAD.” — Disney, for some reason.

"Kids don't like 2D animations, you know what they love? Documentaries." Jon at some point

Scar singing a villain song to his army of hyenas is so unrealistic so it was a better idea to have him do slam poetry about beeper repair in a horribly lit cave instead

Whenever I hear Jon say, “It’s like his lightsaber” it makes me want to punch a hole into the fabric of space and time.

"No father realistically loves his son" had me dying😂

Jon wanted to make a realistic movie about lions but here's my question... why can't I see their balls then? If it's supposed to be realistic JON.

So, I’m blind, and I watch movies with audio descriptions. After watching this review, I thought I’d check out the movie, mostly for the obvious mixing of new and old James Earl Jones lines. Now, most audio descriptions for animated movies or shows begin with “In a cartoon” or “In animation.” If not, it’s assumed it’s live-action. The first words in the audio description for The Lion King 2019 are, “Live-action.” Even actual live-action movies don’t say they are, so somebody at Disney specifically had that word added to the description. They actually straight up lied!

"The human emotion in how the rocks tumble down" is one of the craziest things I've ever heard