Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: But the pile of feces in the live-action Pinocchio is the most likable character.
Film Courage: What do you love about Disney live action remakes?
Chris: I don’t love anything about Disney live-action remakes. I think these are the worst films of our time that represent everything wrong with factory filmmaking and studio executives and lawyers deciding they need to make a movie to somehow preserve the intellectual property. The Disney live-action remakes with the exception of a few, I would say The Jungle Book by John Favreau, but almost all of them have been incredibly unwatchable. Thankfully the classic films on which they’re based still exist, films like Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, and whatnot. But the live-action remakes have been the worst. Pinocchio in particular was one that had me specifically angry because it was first of all embarrassing at how bad the film was. It’s everything wrong, you’re taking the design of the original Pinocchio and rendering it in computer animation and it’s the exact same design. You get Tom Hanks to play Geppetto, who it’s interesting, in the original animation of Pinocchio you have Geppetto and he’s so excited to have a young boy, a son. But when you take these concepts and from animation, 2D animation and put them into live-action, there’s something about it that is at the very least unsettling of a live-action. Tom Hanks dancing with joy that he has a…(Watch the video interview Youtube here).
BIO:
Chris Gore is a writer, comedian, author and television personality who has built a solid reputation as a hilariously outspoken voice in the entertainment world. As a teenager, Chris founded the brutally honest magazine Film Threat, which began as a fanzine while he was a college student in Detroit. As Film Threat evolved into a respected national magazine, he relocated to Los Angeles. The print magazine was retired in 1997 when it was re-launched as a web site. FilmThreat.com found a huge audience online and was named one of the top five movie web sites by the Wall Street Journal. Chris has appeared as a film expert on MSNBC, E!, CNN, Travel Channel, and Reelz Channel. Chis has also hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and G4TV’s Attack of the Show as the show’s film expert. His weekly movie review segment DVDuesday was among the most popular on G4. Chris is also an author, having written The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made and The Complete DVD Book. His book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide is considered the bible of the industry and is required reading at film school.
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