• Re: [NEWS] Netflix announces new animated Cinderella spin-off movie

    From marika@marika5000@gmail.com to rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.animation,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley on Wed Dec 24 03:38:43 2025
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    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
    On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 13:19:16 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:


    The 'Politically Correct' whiners won't allow them to be or called
    "ugly stepsisters" any more. :-\

    So, basically, anything you don't like in art (well, movies at least)
    is the reult of "political correctness"? No other explanation is
    possible?

    Seems that way.

    Looks like it

    I havenrCOt read the original in a few decades, I think they were more mean than physically unattractive

    I think one of them had big feet

    If so, your statements along these lines have no meaning or value, as
    they have no content beyond your personal spite.

    Personally, I'd be more interested in whether or not they get their
    eyes pecked out during the wedding. These old-style stories for
    children could be /brutal/.



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  • From Paul S Person@psperson@old.netcom.invalid to rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.animation,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley on Wed Dec 24 08:37:38 2025
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    On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:38:43 GMT, marika <marika5000@gmail.com> wrote:
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
    On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 13:19:16 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:


    The 'Politically Correct' whiners won't allow them to be or called
    "ugly stepsisters" any more. :-\

    So, basically, anything you don't like in art (well, movies at least)
    is the reult of "political correctness"? No other explanation is
    possible?

    Seems that way.

    Looks like it
    I've run into something similar: some reviewers here many years ago
    used "bad CGI" as a criticism -- a lot.
    But I saw the films, and saw nothing wrong with the CGI.
    Of course, there are people (I am not one of them) who actually can
    detect bad CGI when the see it. These are people employed in producing
    CGI -- that is, who know what is involved.
    I came to the conclusion that, in most cases, "bad CGI" meant "I
    didn't like the film, but I have no idea why, so I'll blame the CGI".
    Well, except the ones who specific the character design. What they
    meant by "bad CGI" was "I didn't like the way they did the characters;
    I prefer something else".
    Which, of course, applies to a much larger class of reviewers, who
    basically do not like the film they saw so they imagine one that would
    be better and use that to trash the actual film, since they have no
    actual reason.
    Claiming everything is "woke" or "DEI" or (for that matter) any other
    buzzword is just another case of the same thing.
    I havenAt read the original in a few decades, I think they were more mean >than physically unattractive

    I think one of them had big feet
    IIRC, /Into the Woods/ got it right: as you say, mean rather than
    ugly. As to feet, one cuts off a toe to make the slipper fit, and the
    other cuts off a heel. Very determined. One might almost say
    "entitled". And not very bright.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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