Was going to write something long. Now I just can't be bothered. So instead I did something shorter and more sarcastic.
"Not it's not. Do you even know what "originality" is? If it was "completely unoriginal" then you're basically saying "every movie is unoriginal" because every movie uses something. And deciding that it's "bad" because of your length of what original is, ALSO subjective too."
Let's watch the trailer and see if we can find all these "original" themes and motifs.
-She's an alpha, he's an omega.
I'm sure no one has ever thought to use love across social classes before, right Aladdin?
-Two characters that don't like each other forced to team up?
My good friends Woody and Buzz tell me that has never before formed part of a story.
-Characters stranded and need to get back home?
Eh I dunno. I would've looked for an example but I couldn't. I was sitting on a large African island with some penguins and we were all crying wondering if Shadow would appear on the horizon.
-Toilet humour? Butts? Crotch shots?
My buddy Shrek says he's never seen anything like that but he did grow up in a swamp so who knows. (On a more serious note: Shrek is a good example of how you take cliches, tropes and whatever else and subvert them to make something original.)
-A goose hitting that wolf on the head!?
Rafiki. Simba. Do we really even need to keep doing this?
"That's still your opinion. Not a fact."
Right... ignoring that it won an Oscar so presumably it's completely terrible, just think about it. Did it give us technical advancements? Yes! They made a bunch of new programming tools to render everything. There was more fur on a single background character than had pretty much been rendered on any previous main character. If I was being petty I would contrast that with Alpha and Omega's models which could be rendered by a cardboard box. When I say they did the story well, there is basically no excess fluff scenes in the movie. Every aspect serves to drive the plot. Furthermore every thing links back to earlier scenes. Why bother, you don't care what I write, do you?
"Art is subjective, what is "original or not" is, which hell, you even admit Zootopia is also less original, but then you basically said that it doesn't matter because you liked it anyway (subjective?)."
You know what else is completely generic? My Little Pony The Movie. You know what I really enjoyed? My Little Pony The Movie. Do I think My Little Pony The Movie is a good movie. Not really. I think it was great for fans and critics were too harsh/missed the point but I also now it cannot compete at the same level as Zootopia.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Was going to write something long. Now I just can't be bothered. So instead I did something shorter and more sarcastic.
"Not it's not. Do you even know what "originality" is? If it was "completely unoriginal" then you're basically saying "every movie is unoriginal" because every movie uses something. And deciding that it's "bad" because of your length of what original is, ALSO subjective too."
Let's watch the trailer and see if we can find all these "original" themes and motifs.
-She's an alpha, he's an omega.
I'm sure no one has ever thought to use love across social classes before, right Aladdin?
-Two characters that don't like each other forced to team up?
My good friends Woody and Buzz tell me that has never before formed part of a story.
-Characters stranded and need to get back home?
Eh I dunno. I would've looked for an example but I couldn't. I was sitting on a large African island with some penguins and we were all crying wondering if Shadow would appear on the horizon.
-Toilet humour? Butts? Crotch shots?
My buddy Shrek says he's never seen anything like that but he did grow up in a swamp so who knows. (On a more serious note: Shrek is a good example of how you take cliches, tropes and whatever else and subvert them to make something original.)
-A goose hitting that wolf on the head!?
Rafiki. Simba. Do we really even need to keep doing this?
"That's still your opinion. Not a fact."
Right... ignoring that it won an Oscar so presumably it's completely terrible, just think about it. Did it give us technical advancements? Yes! They made a bunch of new programming tools to render everything. There was more fur on a single background character than had pretty much been rendered on any previous main character. If I was being petty I would contrast that with Alpha and Omega's models which could be rendered by a cardboard box. When I say they did the story well, there is basically no excess fluff scenes in the movie. Every aspect serves to drive the plot. Furthermore every thing links back to earlier scenes. Why bother, you don't care what I write, do you?
"Art is subjective, what is "original or not" is, which hell, you even admit Zootopia is also less original, but then you basically said that it doesn't matter because you liked it anyway (subjective?)."
You know what else is completely generic? My Little Pony The Movie. You know what I really enjoyed? My Little Pony The Movie. Do I think My Little Pony The Movie is a good movie. Not really. I think it was great for fans and critics were too harsh/missed the point but I also now it cannot compete at the same level as Zootopia.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~