# Peter Dinklage Rips Disney For ‘Snow White’ Remake: ‘What The F\*\*k Are You Doing?!’ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 25, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359 "2022-01-25T13:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 56
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/1105 "2025-03-25T18:27:02Z")
Kids are more into Moana than they are into Snow White, which I can’t say is a bad thing. ---
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This is something I’ve been wondering about in general: HAVE any of Disney’s live-action remakes become modern-day classics that today’s little kids watch over and over? Mine were too old when the first one came out (_Beauty and the Beast_, 2017 with Emma Watson?), so I don’t know. Does anyone have little ones in their life often enough to be aware of what they like to watch? ---
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> [@bordelond](#): > > Mine were too old when the first one came out (_Beauty and the Beast_, 2017 with Emma Watson?), They also made a live-action **101 Dalmatians** in 1996. ---
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> [@PastTense](#): > > No, no, no! The big question is how much Disney theme park attractions, merchandise, toys, video games, books it will sell. See Frozen for an example: The issue there is that Snow White already has stuff. Frozen was not only a huge hit- record breaking box office- but also all new characters, etc. > [@Biffster](#): > > It’s hovering around 2 currently on IMDb. Out of 10. Either they got review bombed real bad, Likely bombed. 85% 1 star. While I have no interest in in, it is most certainly NOT a 1 star film. > [@peccavi](#): > > Does anyone trust IMDB ratings anymore? It’s 48% from critics and 74% from audience on Rotten Tomatoes. Reading some of the audience comments, if you subtract the culture war 1/2 and 1 star reviews, the audience rating would certainly be higher (the critics reviews seem to be more measured, pointing out flaws adults will notice, similar to some of the comments in this thread). Yep, thanks, that makes more sense. I would buy those rating, based upon watching several previews, The OG film is 97% there. > [@bordelond](#): > > HAVE any of Disney’s live-action remakes become modern-day classics… Nope. The Jungle Book came close, and having watched it- it is pretty damn good. Maybe better than the OG. Getting Bill Murray to voice Baloo was genius. And they left that song in. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/1109 "2025-03-25T19:25:36Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > They also made a live-action **101 Dalmatians** in 1996. I recall that one … Glenn Close as Cruella. It seems to be of a different generation, somehow, from the current crop of Disney live-action movies. I do remember, in the late 1990s, a friend’s three-year-old that _did_ often watch that exact film on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/1110 "2025-03-25T19:39:31Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > I do remember, in the late 1990s, a friend’s three-year-old that _did_ often watch that exact film on DVD. I only remember that film because the news were reporting that the film caused the usual, predictable but idiotic buying frenzy for Dalmatians. I bet it didn’t have a good impact on that dog breed. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/1111 "2025-03-25T19:48:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@bordelond](#): > > > > HAVE any of Disney’s live-action remakes become modern-day classics… > > Nope. The Jungle Book came close, and having watched it- it is pretty damn good. Maybe better than the OG. Getting Bill Murray to voice Baloo was genius. And they left that song in. I was unclear – “modern classic” in the sense of “_every parent of a toddler has it in steady rotation_”. Compare the _Land Before Time_ dinosaur series, the 1990s Disney animation renaissance films, _Monsters, Inc_., _Finding Nemo_, _Toy Story_, etc. ---
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> [@bordelond](#): > > This is something I’ve been wondering about in general: HAVE any of Disney’s live-action remakes become modern-day classics that today’s little kids watch over and over? My kids are still pretty young, but they don’t really _have_ classics they watch over and over, when it comes to movies (which has been hard for me to wrap my head around!), because with streaming, they don’t have the 10 or 15 or 20 VHS tapes in your personal collection; they have all of Disney’s (and Paramount and Universal and …) library available in an instant. So as much as I wish my kid loved the same Winnie the Pooh movies I watched as a kid, for example, she’s only seen them once or twice; she rarely actually has to rewatch a movie. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/1113 "2025-03-25T19:50:47Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > My kids are still pretty young, but they don’t really _have_ classics they watch over and over, when it comes to movies (which has been hard for me to wrap my head around!), because with streaming, they don’t have the 10 or 15 or 20 VHS tapes in your personal collection; they have all of Disney’s (and Paramount and Universal and …) library available in an instant. I wondered about the impact of streaming – thanks for the data point. I’m sure your experience is common. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/1114 "2025-03-25T20:14:52Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@bordelond](#): > > > > Mine were too old when the first one came out (_Beauty and the Beast_, 2017 with Emma Watson?), > > They also made a live-action **101 Dalmatians** in 1996. And I’m just now remembering the 2015 live-action _Cinderella_, which was the first of the 21st-century remakes. Wikipedia lists a handful of others pre-2015, but all of them aside from **101 Dalmatians** are re-adaptations of the source material, not live-action remakes per se. > **[List of Disney live-action adaptations and remakes of Disney animated films](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_live-action_adaptations_and_remakes_of_Disney_animated_films)** > > This is a list of live-action or photorealistic remakes produced by Walt Disney Pictures of its animated feature films. The list also includes the films' sequels and spin-offs within their fictional universe. This list does not include remakes/legacy sequels of live-action/animation hybrid films (such as Pete's Dragon and Mary Poppins Returns), the direct-to-video movie The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, animated feature films that were produced by another studio and later adapted as live-action... ---
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Although we had probably 30+ kids video tapes, and my kids watch the sound of music 300,000 times. And most of the others only two or three times. ---
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I guess they also had a video that was _just_ hit songs from Disney movies, and that one was also very popular. I’m not sure we even owned “beauty and the beast”, but we watched “be our guest” a lot. ---
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> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Wikipedia lists a handful of others pre-2015 … I had _completely_ forgotten about the Jason Scott Lee live-action _The Jungle Book_ from 1994. ---
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> [@Zoobi](#): > > > [@robby](#): > > > > Snow White is one of the most valuable pieces of intellectual property that Disney owns. > > I’d love to see some references that support that (I am not being a smart ass). I’m sure it depends how you count. But isn’t their logo Snow White’s castle? And her dress is one of the more recognizable princess dresses. Even if other costumes sell more, the existence of “Snow White” kind of anchors the brand. It’s surely a very valuable piece of IP. ---
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Yeah the live-action **101 Dalmatians** just seems _different_ from the recent crop of remakes we’ve gotten in the past 10 years. Perhaps because they used actual dogs instead of cgi like all of these recent films. It doesn’t just seem like a shot-by-shot remake but it’s own thing. ---
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> [@puzzlegal](#): > > But isn’t their logo Snow White’s castle? Sleeping Beauty & Cinderella. ---
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Oh. Never mind. ---
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> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m sure it depends how you count. But isn’t their logo Snow White’s castle? And her dress is one of the more recognizable princess dresses. Even if other costumes sell more, the existence of “Snow White” kind of anchors the brand. It’s surely a very valuable piece of IP. You sure that’s not the queen’s castle? I thought Snow White lived in the woods… ---
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Naw, i was just wrong. I guess i can’t tell the princesses apart. ---
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> [@Babale](#): > > My kids are still pretty young, but they don’t really _have_ classics they watch over and over, when it comes to movies (which has been hard for me to wrap my head around!), because with streaming, they don’t have the 10 or 15 or 20 VHS tapes in your personal collection; they have all of Disney’s (and Paramount and Universal and …) library available in an instant. > > So as much as I wish my kid loved the same Winnie the Pooh movies I watched as a kid, for example, she’s only seen them once or twice; she rarely actually has to rewatch a movie. Consider yourself lucky not to have the same 6-7 Barney tapes running all the time (kids had Disney tapes too but there’s no accounting for taste). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359.md?page=57)