I think Kate Winslet is in there tooKorokoMystia wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:15 pm Merlin also appears in Kingdom Hearts, but he doesn't do a lot, and you never go to a Sword in the Stone themed world. Also, somehow now I'm remembering that King Arthur And The Knights of Justice was a thing..And then there was the strangeness of A Kid In King Arthur's Court, which was even a Disney live action film..and it had a young Daniel Craig in it, long before he became famous for being Bond.
And there was another Disney King Arthur movie....A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court, where an astronaut and his android double get thrown back into Camelot and it turns out Merlin is a charlatan trying to actively depose Arthur. I haven't seen that in probably close to 30 years though.
Anyway I love the Sword in the Stone. just rewatched it recently and it still works for me. Not the most dynamic movie, but it works for me. That dingus Kay who bullied Arthur was actually a knight in the Arthurian cannon, so I look at that as he was a douche because he was young but changed as time went on.
....on the subject of Maleficent...yeah the live action movie was a bad idea. Sometimes telling something from a different point of view can be refreshing but it did lay alooooooot on really thick and broadly there. I wasn't a fan of the fairies being idiots for example.
That said, I honestly think Angelina Jolie did pretty well with what she was given. She's not a bad actress really and I kinda liked her arc, even if I am opposed to Maleficent ever being good to begin with. She was kinda naive at first, and that betrayal at the expense of her naivety left her bitter and angry, but the anger slowly fades and she sort of realizes "Ya know what? I'm kind of being an asshole about this whole cursing that kid thing. I mean she's actually a decent, even virtuous person".
It just would have worked better with characters and a setting that were originals and weren't so iconic to begin with. It gives me the same kind of feeling Wicked does (sorry Jab but that's how I feel): I get it, it COULD work in different context, but for me and most other people it just doesn't.
That said Ares, I think she does turn into the dragon at the end. Not quite as big or remotely nightmare fuelish, but it's there.