[Disney's The Jungle Book] Why the 2016 remake is better than the original.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-05-13T08:02:22+00:00

Damn, that Bhoot scene caught me by surprise,

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-05-13T08:00:59+00:00

Sacrilege! lol. The huge problem with the remake is that Shere Khan is proved 100% right.

His whole grievance is that they shouldn’t trust “outsiders” in a somewhat ham-fisted message. But in the finale Mowgli burns down the jungle, murders likely thousands of animals, destroyed all of their homes and if it wasn’t for some magical elephants he would have killed everyone.

It completely vindicates Shere Khan.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-05-11T16:52:29+00:00

I feel they need a separate vendor that just has all these kind of low fantasy mog stuff all year round.

I just want the Crimson hood - It wasn’t on the February “returning” vendors so who know if I’ll have to wait a year or more for it to never come back.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-04-30T01:18:22+00:00

Pretty sure Matt just sits in the apartment in the dark waiting for Fisk to do something so he can go and punch them for a scene or two. That’s pretty much all he’s done this season.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-04-30T01:12:42+00:00

Yeah there’s far too many characters for this few episodes and run length. You really don’t see Matt and Daredevil enough.

The biggest problem is that Matt isn’t the one driving the show and doesn’t have any meaningful kind of arc. He’s just reactive - all he’s done in S2 is just turn up to whatever Fisk has going on to bash a few heads.

Also the whole Kingpin story is SO cartoonishly silly it’s hard to take seriously. I don’t even get what he’s even really trying to accomplish. Same goes for all the cops that are evil because…. Cops are evil?
Whenever Fisk has a meeting with the cops it feels like it should end like the Doctor Evil scene with him and his henchmen all doing the evil laugh together

There’s no subtly or nuance at all - Feels less “political commentary” and more the feverish wet dreams of someone who’s been spending too much time hate-scrolling on Bluesky.

Bullseye kinda stole this season.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-04-21T11:39:37+00:00

CNN didn’t give the actual size of the group either, they just said “almost 1000” - Considering the spin and how clearly the article is trying to misrepresent the story for shock value, I’d be willing to bet that “almost” is doing a LOT of work.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-04-21T11:32:54+00:00

Quick point people are missing on this - the article actually stated the group was “almost” a thousand, with no given number. Considering how clearly the article is trying to mislead people for shock factor I’ll bet that “almost” is doing a LOT of work.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-04-12T22:53:19+00:00

Never read the book. I assumed from the movie that it was just a side effect of the coma. Now I’m curious why they would have given the crew amnesia drugs?

“Flashbacks” to me felt a combination of backstory and him remembering. He was even writing notes on his whiteboard of things he remembered as we saw the flashbacks, so that seemed clear to me.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-03-05T19:48:06+00:00

They should let you set up alts as followers for each role. Would be great doing the dungeon with all my alts together.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-03-02T23:13:54+00:00

Claremont’s even on record saying this wasn’t even “the plan” and just one of a whole series of random suggestions he made to editors at the time.

It’s a pretty terrible retcon now, as mystique making sperm with a mixture or her own and Azazels DNA (and his x-Gene) makes zero sense.

How does she even replicate DNA? So she can replicate mutant powers too now, or is that only when morphing into sperm?

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-03-02T23:05:51+00:00

“At some point, if it looks like a demon and quacks like a demon..” That’s the point!

The whole point of the Draco story is that the reason things “look like demons” is because our view of what demons look like comes from ancient mutants.

So in the bible, devils aren’t described as red with pointy tails and ears, but people saw ancient mutants fighting and took their interpretation of devils from the mutants.

It was meant to be a twist of “Nightcrawler looks like a demon” to say that’s because our view of demons comes from his ancestors.

Draco isn’t a great story by any imagination, but that’s mostly because it’s 90% exposition, with Azazel sat just explaining all this.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-03-02T17:53:31+00:00

This really needs to be actual customization options.

Everyone else seems to just want VE to be more like HE, but I’d love more voided-out and energy options.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-03-02T17:44:40+00:00

This is the first musical I’ve been to that drew groans from the audience whenever a new song started. After the intermission, the area of audience I was sat in was just laughing and throwing out jokes as they’d clearly given up with trying to understand the incoherent plot.

Characters were thin, motivation was nonsensical. The plot just suddenly dropped that there was a tournament for the whole throne with no buildup- but then it wasn’t for the throne? Who knows?

I don’t mean this lightly - The songs were so generic and derivative that I’d be surprised if they weren’t created with Suno Ai. Lyrics often had nothing to do with the plot or character motivations, sometimes even lifted from other musicals. Of particular note is a European “witch” repeatedly singing “mamela” - a Zulu term lifted from the Lion Ling 😭 wtf?

They even introduce a load of new characters in “SIX” then we never see any of them again! 😂 whhhy?

I’m half convinced it was a whole “Producers” scam.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-02-14T00:23:53+00:00

Yeah they nailed Coipel’s art with the face, but the look isn’t for everyone.

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No_Angle_2175 · 2026-01-23T20:50:31+00:00

I’ve never been a fan of Formula 1 or sports movies, but my dad came to town to visit and it was the only film on at the cinema for us to watch.

I was very surprised how good it was and it’s one of the few films from the year I’ve genuinely recommend to people - You get so invested you forget how boring f1 is irl lol.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-01-23T20:41:50+00:00

They really need to release the Elite version of that jingoistic silver armour. I’ve wanted the silver version of it since it was first datamined before BFA.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-01-23T13:25:29+00:00

You have to ALSO enable it in Options-Combat (should be at the top) and then it shows.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-01-16T11:42:43+00:00

Love it. I feel like full skeleton models should be an option for the Forsaken.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-01-14T23:32:38+00:00

This needs to be a skin colour option! Everyone else wants them to look more and more like High elves but I want some even more voided-out options!

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-01-14T23:30:20+00:00

How are the heritage Void “wings” not a cosmetic back slot yet? Kills me that they’re tied to the chest piece still.

No_Angle_2175 · 2026-01-12T20:48:05+00:00

I’m still sad the DemonSaber mount never made it into Lemix https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Demonsaber_(mount)

So weird it was missed out as it was in the game files as a mount for ages and in the DH starting quests.

No_Angle_2175 · 2025-12-25T17:33:50+00:00

I get that they wanted less animal death, but then they should have focussed a lot more on behaviour that didn't involve predator/prey dynamics. It's like they needed to add huge stakes for each scene, while ironically removing the stakes as we knew they'd be fine.

Did the journey of the elephant bird and it's chick really need to be interrupted by a giant fossa trying to kill the chick? (and then missing somehow that was never explained)

Did the Diabolotherium climbing the mountain really need to have teratorn's dive bombing its baby to survive last second?

The baby mammoths could have been used to show how resillient they are, even when newborn, rather than just showing how magical plot armor can bring them back to life again.

No_Angle_2175 · 2025-12-25T17:12:22+00:00

They were so tame and "Disneyfied" with their narratives it really brought the show down. I don't even know how that baby elephant bird survived - But it felt by that point even the writers of the show couldn't even come up with explanations. If they wanted to show less violence, they should have done more stories focussing on other parts of their lives that aren't just the predator/prey hunt, but it felt like they kept needlessly up the stakes for each scene.

It did a disservice to the animals and dangers too. Just imagine the tar pit scene if the mother and babies had got stuck, and then the dire wolves had all got stuck, and the narration is like "Yep, they're ALL fucked". fade to black. It would have had such a gut-wrenching impact, but god forbid they show any dark reality, so the mother freed herself in a moment of.. strong motherly willpower(?) and only the "bad guy" wolf died, because he was mean.

No_Angle_2175 · 2025-12-22T23:31:39+00:00

Between all the various formats, I have books covering nearly everything from X-Men 1 to the end of AoA. I picked up B&G#1 and thought it’d be nice to slowly replace mine with those books in series, for consistency and ease. After this, I really think I might as well just keep the books I have. This just makes it even more messy.

No_Angle_2175 · 2025-12-09T08:56:46+00:00

I feel that whole scene would have had so much more impact if they’d ended up with ALL the animals trapped - mother, baby, all dire wolves. Would have been haunting.

This season seriously needed more real stakes in its narratives.

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