Talkie Tuesday: Mulan 1998

 

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

 

Hello everyone!

 

After a fun-filled October where we explored the different books to choose from for fall reads (and didn't even make a dent, let me tell you), it's back to the good old usual blog posts, which consist, but are not limited to, movies and books.

 

And of course, The Mandalorian has just started streaming again!

 

If you haven't yet seen the silver bucket head and his adorable green side-kick, I suggest you do, they're basically the best thing to come out of the Star Wars universe by Disney in a long, long time.

 

But I digress.

 

BEFORE I went on my Booktober binge here, I wrote up a review about the newly released Mulan. This would be the 2020 one, mind, and, yes, it's about as good as reviews make it, which is to say, not so good.

 

Since I needed to cleanse my palate after watching that confusion, I went right back to the very first Disney movie I ever saw in cinemas, and I was about nine or ten years old at the time, let me tell you. Nine going on ten, and you see the big expanse of white with the Huns suddenly rushing down, is SOMETHING.

 

The 1998 version of Mulan is something else.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Mulan 2020

 

"Loyal, brave and true."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So every little chick and their mother are chirping about this movie. 

 

And when I say everyone, mind you, I mean EVERYONE.

 

Everywhere you turn you can see some sort of commentary on this, from good to bad (mostly bad though). There are a couple of positive reviews but, unfortunately, most of this is as negative as it comes, and I do believe only one other got such a bad reception from audiences.

 

The Disney company used to have a good heading and knew where they were going. I'm starting to believe that might not be the case anymore. 

 

After the Star Wars debacle (still hotly debated all around the internet), the live-action remakes of beloved cartoons was always going to be a dicey proposition.

 

But I liked two of those. I haven't seen the rest yet, but I'm planning on it.

 

This one I was unsure about going in, and it turns out I was right. Mulan is one of those things you'd think they couldn't get wrong - but they did.