Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon, 2017)
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Date Watched: 06/09/17
Cinema or Home: Friend's house
Reason For Watching: I had dinner at a friend's house and she wanted to watch it.
Rewatch: No.
As much as I love animation, I've never cared for the 1991 film. I don't like musicals and I don't like heavy fantasy, so it was without any excitement that I heard the news of this live action remake and I was not exactly thrilled when my friend suggested we watch it tonight.
That said, this version of Stockholm Syndrome: The Movie is actually rather well done. The set design and costumes were beautiful, the CGI was quite good (though the wolves still didn't quite look right), and the performances were at least decent. However, I still hated the songs and still didn't give a crap about any of the characters, least of all the enchanted furniture, dishes, etc. Ultimately - while I respect the effort put into it - I'm just as apathetic to this beastly tale as I was to the animated one.
P.S. - Did we really need the addition of the "tragic" backstory to explain Beast's cruelty and make us feel sorry for him? Sometimes people are just ***holes because they can be.
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