Into the Woods Official Movie Thread — Page 199

I really think a lot of these complaints have to do with budgetary issues. It really was not made for a lot of money by today's standards.

No ugly hands when she transformed back.

They showed a closeup of her hand in the flashback of the witch's rap when she initially turned into the hag. That was great and very effective.

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I've made the observation that people are going to go see it but theyre not really liking it. It's making plenty of money, but pretty much everyone that I've talked to who has seen it has hated it with an unhealthy passion. It also has a really low score on IMDB and the audience reviews are far from good.

I was hoping that this film would make new admirers of Sondheim, but has instead made a lot of people who hate his music and are very vocal about it.
I thought that it was an okay film but is it really a 1/10? Most audience members seem to think so and the marketing department is to blame.
One of my friends was taking her 5 year old daughter to see this movie because the trailers made them think it was a sweet Disney film. They hated it and thought that the music was dull and boring and creepy.
I then gave them a recording of the stage show and they changed their minds because they knew what they were getting into.
Disney should've let they're audience know what they were getting into.

INTO THE WOODS shows that people just can't use Google right and they trust too much in brand name. Their mistake.

It's funny that in this day in age that people go anywhere not knowing where they're going or what they're about to see...with all this information right there (literally) at their fingertips.

Disney isn't all sugar and spice. They have the blood of many characters' parents on their Mickey gloved hands. I think parents allow cartoons to be only for children and forget that those cartoons aren't as sweet as they may think.

Ursula in Little Mermaid was spookier in her transformation song than the Witch in Into the Woods was the entire film and even on any stage ever.

As for creepy...Gaston takes the cake or the fact that Belle falls in love with a Beast. An animal. Not at all like a Wolf telling a little girl about flowers and how plump she is? Please.

These lovely parents are why there are Little Reds running around ignorant of what Wolves are doing to them or will do to them.

I don't believe Disney did anything wrong or tricked anyone. They didn't market it any differently than they have any other film under their name. They allowed Age of Ultron to use a song from Pinocchio in the most creepiest manner possible. Disney isn't going for sweet and any parents who paid an ounce of attention at what companies Disney bought would know that this kind of change was coming.

This includes the not so wimpy women in Frozen. Those girls didn't need not a single man to get what they were after. They did that without spouting Feminist propaganda.

I do blame the parents. If they care about their kids and what they see, then they need to know what they're getting into no matter what marketing does to make them think.

I agree. Disney does sport some more adult heavy films (Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind) and a lot of their traditional films (Snow White, Pinocchio, etc.) are FAR more unsettling to me personally than there newer films.

However, when it comes to their more adult franchises, I think it's fair to point out that they are targeted more directly at the teens-adult crowd, prominently featuring the PG-13 rating. Although some of the franchises have audiences that drop down to young children (the Marvel franchise), they're most always promoted as a film for more mature audiences and their promotional materials always feature all the themes explored in the film (death, violence, etc.) The ITW promo definitely stayed more on the road of "Look! All your favorite fairytales in one movie! Fun!!" than anything else. Therefore, I think comparing this to Age of Ultron is a rather unfair comparison.

As for the classic films, the subject matters of those selections tend to have been left behind in that era of Disney films. Disney's newer films (late 1990s onwards) tend to not explore those themes anymore. You don't see them making more mature movies like "Mulan" or "The Lion King" anymore. Pixar really is the only Disney associate that has movies with bigger meanings (UP).

I think it's fair to say that Disney really has moved away (for better or for worse) from their more classic films that had more depth and meaning than their newer movies like Frozen (sorry to all the Frozen lovers). Disney in the 21st century markets more towards "nice and sweet" than "emotionally compelling with a strong storyline."

That being said, I do stand by my belief that people should research a film before seeing it. It takes less than a minute and there's really no excuse why you shouldn't.

Updated On: 1/11/15 at 03:19 PM

I agree - some people hate the movie, but it hasn't slowed it down at the box office after two and a half weeks. If it was universally hated it'd be out of the top 5 by now and it would have flatlined around $60 million or so after the first weekend instead of crossing the $100 million mark and ending this past weekend at #3. And if everybody hated the music the soundtrack wouldn't have been #8 on Billboard last week (it's still #12 on the Amazon top 100 list of music best sellers).

Heck, the movie ADDED 295 theaters last week. They don't do that with bombs that everybody hates.

It ain't 'Grease' but it's not 'Nine' either. And I've seen a lot of love for the movie on Twitter and tumblr.

Updated On: 1/11/15 at 03:55 PM

The imdb rating is down to 6.8 now. This is not a good score . Despite the material being almost 30 years old, it almost seems to be 'ahead of its time' in terms of Disney. It seems there are a vocal crowd who aren't loving the film.

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Updated On: 1/11/15 at 04:33 PM

Actually if you check out Tumblr and Twitter there are a lot of fans of this movie, and many of them are young people. But the nature of the Internet is such that if you go looking for something, good or bad, if you skew your search in a certain way you'll find it.

The bottom line is: how is it doing at the box office? Answer: very well. That's all the evidence I need. The movie is a hit.

This includes the not so wimpy women in Frozen. Those girls didn't need not a single man to get what they were after. They did that without spouting Feminist propaganda.

[Eye Roll Gif]

Frozen went way overboard with female chauvinism, bordering on a misandrist perspective.

It was messed up.

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Well, the Globes have been passed and INTO THE WOODS didn't get a single thing. Ah well, at least there's Oscars which I'm sure this film will not go empty handed at.

But big congrats to BUDAPEST and the other winners.

Updated On: 1/11/15 at 10:57 PM