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00:10 everybody love this and if I move right 00:14 if we look up stand this spot my life 00:18 and I just can't play down here help me 00:57 my teeth and ambitions are bared be 01:02 prepared be prepared 01:08 Oh Simba I didn't see you over there 01:14 Oh Mufasa Mufasa Simba what happened to 01:19 Mufasa was what's going on here sir 01:22 Simba you killed Mufasa Simba you need 01:26 to leave here right now 01:29 leave the Pride Rock and don't ever come 01:34 back 01:35 leave well yes 01:45 everybody well no well just leave leave 01:49 now 01:50 you killed the king obviously yeah you 01:59 know you don't need to get your momma or 02:01 I'll Beyonce in involved in in any of 02:06 this it looks like I wasn't prepared 02:17 today morning what's up guys this is 02:29 Rashad here what's the color commentary 02:32 crew give you views from a different 02:35 side we've got a lot in store for you 02:38 first we'll be talking about the great 02:40 new movie The Lion King the live-action 02:45 version live-action which means 02:48 completely computer-generated yeah it's 02:51 completely new like let's go ahead and 02:56 bring on the other half of the crew 02:58 what's happening sir what's up guys 03:01 what's up guys what's up guys I know 03:02 it's been a long time no we took a week 03:05 off cause it wasn't absolutely nothing 03:06 to talk about but uh 03:09 yeah I'm here we can't face apart easy 03:11 it sucks hail here and yeah I'm ready to 03:13 get get it give into this you know I 03:15 have mixed reviews on Lion King I'm a 03:17 big likings fan and I grew up that was 03:19 my favorite movie growing up as a child 03:22 and you know just impact me so much so I 03:26 can't wait to talk about them and of 03:27 course you know all the rest of the cool 03:28 topics we get to discuss this look what 03:31 about you all right let's get into it 03:33 then let's go ahead and take like about 03:36 a minute minute and a half a piece talk 03:38 about Lion King lead non-spoiler review 03:41 go for it sir all right nice we was 03:46 hopefully seen liking bass also just 03:50 give my first reactions of it I didn't 03:53 think it was great I thought it was a 03:55 decent movie deep decent Disney film it 03:59 didn't to me stay completely true to 04:02 what the original I didn't have those 04:04 fun and not let me tell you part my 04:06 pockets are not big enough to control 04:09 the amount of I ruling that I have for 04:11 you right now 04:14 you could toggle your drive I didn't I 04:20 liked it I just didn't love it wasn't a 04:22 great movie hey I didn't get the same 04:24 feeling that I got first in a jungle 04:26 book ok the lag though easy 04:29 I mean they really brought you back to 04:32 being a kid and seeing the thing live 04:33 you know this was like I don't know the 04:37 way that the way they even shot the 04:39 movie just missed all the emotional 04:42 points of the movie Simba I like the kid 04:46 that played them but watching him on 04:48 film you know I could it wasn't really 04:51 captivating at all you know the songs I 04:53 know they try to make everything 04:54 National Geographic and you know 04:56 everything true to how it looks in in 04:59 the you know and in the wild even though 05:02 we know monkeys don't go pick up baby 05:03 comes from throw a hold them over 05:05 mountain tops you know so I like to me 05:07 like they get a little too real like 05:09 everything that they have to be exactly 05:11 real real you can just hey know you 05:14 could just don't add the Disney flavor 05:17 to make it look good 05:18 and keep it moving and we can still have 05:20 a great movie that everybody enjoys like 05:23 I was actually well here I said one 05:25 minute let me I want to get it thank you 05:28 but basically you know I I felt through 05:31 this I thought most of the characters 05:33 that portrayed the new the new cast 05:37 portrayed the characters pretty well but 05:40 then I like scar so I'm gonna talk about 05:44 that a little bit more in my non-spoiler 05:46 but if they true to the movie when it 05:48 came to the store the script of the 05:50 story I mean everything most of the 05:51 scenes were almost exactly how they were 05:54 on the cartoon it's just you just miss 05:55 that next element to really bring to 05:58 make the movie great like you know the 06:01 original ones but uh what about you 06:04 thank you I'm glad you finally done 06:07 they'll become complaining to me after 06:09 the videos over to my non-spoiler 06:11 section it was too long sorry after the 06:19 movie ended the audience that was with 06:22 me applauded they clapped and I saw 06:24 another guy that was on Facebook and he 06:27 was tomorrow's movie sucks and I posted 06:30 on his page I said I bet your audience 06:33 applauded it just like mine did after 06:35 it's over it was like well yeah but okay 06:43 go okay what's that it whatever man 06:46 thank you from here 06:48 I had all my kids there I was like just 06:51 to be great guys 06:51 it's gonna be awesome no please none of 06:58 the impactful moments like like you did 07:00 my child 07:02 that's probably with anyone hurt - - so 07:04 like Daddy can really like it this this 07:07 D : 07:09 yeah it wasn't it's not my favorite 07:13 I still like Aladdin Aladdin to me was 07:15 just an incredible a millions of magical 07:17 movie all with her I said I wouldn't say 07:19 it was that I also would agree that it's 07:22 not great at points at least as far as 07:25 the story is concerned but I liked it I 07:29 very much liked it 07:31 there was one part of it that I thought 07:33 was absolutely phenomenal though and 07:35 that was the amount of computer graphics 07:38 I appreciated this movie a whole lot 07:40 more once I talked to a friend and 07:41 realize that what are you looking for 07:44 looking for the down the road I'm a 07:57 teacher I want people paying attention 08:00 anyway I would talk to a friend and 08:04 realize that the movie that every single 08:08 scene in the movie except for one was 08:10 completely 100% computer-generated and 08:13 going into the movie knowing that the 08:16 movie is mind blowing from from a 08:17 technical standpoint I mean because I 08:19 mean every means every single blade of 08:21 grass every tuft of fur every piece of 08:25 dirt every cloud in the sky is computer 08:29 generated and it looks so real I mean 08:31 it's photorealistic 08:32 and it's just that's a mom that's 08:34 mind-blowing to me she's cutting it up 08:46 dungeon you doesn't have to pawn his 08:48 suit anymore he just walks around on set 08:50 with a little suit and it's like perfect 08:52 smart already he doesn't say anything we 08:54 know you know about the graphics just 08:56 Disney 08:57 to the next level so anyway the storing 09:01 Lion King is okay but I think that if 09:04 you're not a absolute Lion King purist 09:07 like all the songs needs it goes this 09:10 way and the eyes knit you know it's the 09:13 cartoon the eyes get so big and and this 09:15 one the eyes don't get big because 09:17 they're real you know if you're not a 09:19 hundred percent of Lion King purist like 09:22 everything has to be exactly the way you 09:24 saw it it just has to be a 09:25 computer-generated version of it I think 09:28 you'll enjoy our Lisa Jordan I think 09:30 most people will enjoy it's just the 09:32 people who would guess they worship Lion 09:34 King again they've got the script 09:36 underneath their pillow they're the 09:38 haters so anyway let's go ahead and get 09:41 into this for real I to go ahead and 09:54 release everything that you want to say 09:57 about this movie okay first of all I'm 10:05 just gonna start off with I understand 10:09 that they trying to make things real but 10:11 good gosh that I mean the scar song 10:15 almost had me walk out the theater that 10:17 was so bad I was like what in the hell 10:19 is this I get is so bad I might know my 10:28 wife each other in there like it's this 10:31 for real this is a scar so I was like 10:33 it's like what no I can do this version 10:36 that we did on the skit restart do it I 10:39 just did one part I rode I just get the 10:42 O with my teeth my teeth and ambitions 10:45 are bared be prepared 10:50 be prepared all right they got paid 10:55 millions of dollars to do it here's a 10:57 beat bad baby pass people pay right 11:02 another verse on this song and all that 11:05 I need to be looking at microphones will 11:07 be the background singers like that's 11:09 what makes your movie good like you 11:11 ain't even I'm like I don't have to be 11:13 real to the T that nobody singing it's a 11:15 whole musical movie you know I'm like 11:18 I'm I just kind of roll my eyes just 11:20 don't put the part in there you gonna do 11:22 it that bad to me 11:23 all right if you don't want everything 11:24 to be real you don't want to have any 11:26 actual song and actual feeling of the 11:28 movie just make it a different type of 11:30 movie don't have it in there change the 11:32 story completely and just call it Lion 11:34 King and they say we just changed the 11:36 story and make it good but we don't have 11:38 to see the songs if they're not gonna do 11:39 the songs seven-year-old Chuck needs a 11:43 hook right now it's been with them 11:49 okay know another thing the scene that 11:54 touched so many of my generation was 11:57 when the faucet died when he falls from 12:00 that cliff and you hear all that music 12:02 you hear everybody you know you hear 12:04 scarp whisper in his ears the king and 12:08 he throws them off it was like ah just 12:10 like everything like just expands and 12:12 then like just erupts into this one 12:14 moment and it just sucks it away from 12:16 you you like it's like quite complete 12:20 sound like oh well that was that was 12:27 laughing yeah I know nobody really can 12:30 be remembering Mufasa dying in this 12:33 movie you blinking he's already fell off 12:35 the mountain so what it really fostered 12:40 I know my kids right now man damn 12:49 let the Avengers what you talking about 12:52 that bike that's what they gonna say 12:53 they know remember this well cuz they 12:56 have a lot gonna get some these days I 12:58 mean you know we've got one just like me 13:01 so week I'm sorry saying Beyonce might 13:07 need to stick to just singing 13:09 I mean her acting I know she's just 13:12 doing the voiceover but I don't know 13:14 sometimes it's hard to do her line she's 13:17 been practicing all night 13:18 well how to do this line it just doesn't 13:20 knocks our original at all so I was like 13:23 yeah yeah I don't need no the talk or 13:25 just saying no sing just singing and and 13:29 you know go try eat Kumba that was 13:32 pretty cool my own passionate I'm 13:35 bashing it but I'm gonna go too so 13:37 please actually like I love deponent 13:39 Timon and Pumba sparked really what I 13:42 like when that part came on I can see 13:45 like yeah I'm feeling this is kind of 13:48 all filled with the movie when I was 13:50 near but how laughing the bear songs 13:52 were good their whole I guess you know 13:56 interaction you know right right 14:01 I guess together when they were doing 14:02 this scripts no they weren't separate 14:05 doing their part you know they were in 14:06 the same room doing everything and they 14:08 let it feel they were feeding off each 14:10 other really good on the movie so I 14:12 enjoy that part anything was doing 14:15 minute I enjoyed I think the last I 14:17 think when um they called him fat that 14:20 was the only thing that was but they go 14:22 found abandoned car what did they say on 14:24 the new one they were he was fast 14:27 they say he was chubby chubby okay yeah 14:29 then I like the mr. pig the big booty 14:40 yeah yeah yes just left that to say that 14:45 was Bill's meat um and I guess I guess 14:49 if I could kind of sum up you know the 14:53 reasons why I felt this was lacking 14:56 I can just say the Jungle Book when you 14:59 go about go watch the jungle book the 15:02 Disney version of The Jungle Book and 15:04 watch how the animals are realistic but 15:07 they actually use the CGI or whatever 15:09 the face caption motion caption that 15:12 they did with the actors on that movie 15:15 and play the animals so when the handle 15:16 is made express anger were laughter you 15:21 know sadness you could see it in the 15:23 animal space and it made you connect 15:26 more with the movie on business I was 15:28 like similar is that if he said he 15:31 looked like a regular cinema to me I 15:32 mean he don't look down I mean even the 15:35 dog makes us sad 15:36 I said look so I'm sure the lion could 15:38 do something that makes him look sad I 15:40 mean he'd just look the exact same he 15:42 was scared he looked for Zach same as he 15:44 was when he was happy so only thing have 15:46 you ever seen a sad lion have you seen 15:49 one you see the little either look sad 15:53 but I'm saying I can see my dog my dog 15:56 looks sad and I can see okay 15:59 but the Lions they just I'm just saying 16:02 I that's why I can't connect with it to 16:09 pick up their facial expression Lions 16:11 out in the wilderness they don't play 16:13 with people they don't know anyway this 16:16 is a movie and the movies are there to 16:19 connect with the audience the audience 16:20 are humans so we don't understand 16:23 animal senses and what makes them happy 16:25 or sad or horny we don't know what's 16:27 happening I can tell what a symbol like 16:29 now are and not or not I can tell what 16:32 was going on that that whole ordeal I 16:35 just know this song was playing and 16:37 Beyonce was singing her tail off that's 16:39 all I know 16:39 in her head they were singing together 16:41 each other's head but I can't tell what 16:44 was actually going on based off their 16:46 body language we never see I miss you 16:48 late them I think I saw a tongue come 16:49 out she licked him on his cheek and they 16:51 rub little heads a little lion heads 16:53 together you can't really get into the 16:56 moment and okay really quick before you 16:59 go way to ran when he ran when he was 17:05 running back the pride of rock hey why 17:07 he just ran down around the block like 17:09 that the whole run was like souls so 17:13 quick he was like right there like he 17:15 was like jogging he already caught up 17:17 with Madonna and then the next over the 17:19 hill was was there back in the kingdom 17:22 again 17:22 alright so thing he was nowhere on the 17:25 cartoon it let him go was running for 17:26 like a week or something 17:28 who invite the whole song what he was 17:33 running oh yeah my heroes like he was 17:39 like hey hold up let me check I'm gonna 17:41 go with you then they walk around the 17:42 corner there's a prog rock fight well 17:44 that was quick 17:45 that was good you saw him to walk from 17:49 he walked through the desert to get firm 17:52 Pryor rock fair said you know it was a 17:53 long wait they just cut it it was time 17:55 to get your stuff I guess so I guess so 17:59 you know I wash it wash it some more 18:04 about it and love it like I did Jungle 18:06 Book and Aladdin so it's third or fourth 18:10 on my list of some of those remakes what 18:12 about you wait we're quick how you gonna 18:14 leave out your favorite part with Timon 18:17 and Nala oh yeah that part now this did 18:22 get me into theaters was when when Timon 18:25 and Pumbaa ever sing a song and they had 18:26 all the other little antelopes and then 18:29 little other animals all singing when 18:30 they're all going on beat something like 18:32 yeah oh yeah I got you I got you 18:34 and then the next thing that must jump 18:36 top the Wolves trying to eat every 18:37 bubble god oh oh oh God because you know 18:51 there is no you got to see her in the 18:53 woods even when you watch someone on 18:57 like the NASA Geographic Discovery 18:59 Channel you always see the Lions right 19:02 you will see from one of you of the 19:04 antelope that's just grazing in the 19:06 grass I just kill along and then thing 19:09 this comes out the right 19:10 oh okay they show this from the other 19:13 point of view and s scary that's really 19:16 scary so yeah good good props on that be 19:19 this that wasn't that was true that was 19:21 true real as real lism there with that 19:25 but uh yeah I'm hard taking walking on 19:28 my keep going with stuff so you go ahead 19:30 and start this Thank You Disney yeah you 19:35 get to write one thing good stuff again 19:39 this was a great 19:41 we but I definitely don't deserve I 19:43 don't think it deserves the hate that 19:45 some of the lion king purists are 19:47 getting but this is exciting for me 19:49 because the roles I switched a little 19:50 bit because I tend to be more like this 19:52 but the Marvel movies you know I grew up 19:54 reading comic books and I didn't read 19:55 every character but I have a good 19:57 following on most of the characters like 20:00 spider-man like you know some spider-man 20:02 moves like I really thought that 20:03 spider-man far from home was a great 20:05 movie but the whole Tony Stark thing 20:07 spider-man it always bothers me because 20:09 I know how the character should be so 20:11 it's nice to be on the other side saying 20:13 look at you ha ha you don't get what you 20:15 want so either way I thought the movie 20:17 was again was breathtaking in terms of 20:20 computer animation my favorite scene in 20:22 the movie was actually the mouse right 20:24 at the beginning um that he's you know 20:27 he's running into the cave with scar and 20:29 you can see him in a running real place 20:31 really quickly and right could be he's 20:33 going so fast that the camera can't keep 20:35 up with him and it looks like how that 20:38 would look in real life like a real-life 20:40 Mouse running and the camera can't keep 20:42 up with them and I was like god that's 20:44 real like they did that was a computer 20:46 like it's just my cuz it looks so well 20:49 details like gosh that is amazing and 20:52 then when you get in there with scarce a 20:53 that is great so just you've been 20:56 talking about a jungle book this whole 20:57 time I don't know if you realize I'm not 21:00 but Jon Favreau was the director of both 21:02 of those movies so he he why he made the 21:14 first jungle book and he's right you 21:15 know what animals wouldn't be moving 21:17 their faces like humans 21:19 this man the animals right real actual 21:22 animals and also Panthers would be 21:25 running with wolves and and having best 21:27 friends with bears and singing songs you 21:31 know and and bamboos will be holding 21:33 babies baby wait a sec have you ever 21:36 seen a panther in the woods okay and we 21:39 don't know that the parent does not be 21:41 senior owns with the Bears groaning dr. 21:44 mirrors to see that doesn't happen they 21:51 put them all together so they might not 21:53 kill each other because you know they 21:54 look at how the wild love ain't out 21:57 there doing hanging and they see they 21:59 singing anyway in some ways I like this 22:05 movie but I wasn't really the biggest 22:08 fan of the original Lion King and I got 22:09 a couple reasons now No 22:11 number one so people are like upset 22:15 about the Little Mermaid like the new 22:17 little mermaids gonna have like a black 22:19 girl s as Ariel they're like oh no get 22:22 her a blackfish you know but nobody had 22:25 any problems with the two blackest 22:28 parents in the world you know uh James 22:30 Earl Jones playing Mufasa and I don't 22:33 know who the other lady was but she was 22:35 the queen from coming to America so to 22:38 come to America couple and then having 22:41 the white kid from home improvement and 22:44 simmer nobody had a problem with it was 22:50 more like a mixed kid cuz the kid was 22:53 white talks when he started a black 22:56 person brother but when he started 22:59 calling his white dude so it was like 23:00 that you know I know we can go in oh no 23:03 we can't do this no no say like you said 23:09 it before they allow the black kid the 23:11 same baby now in the top the same 23:15 they're saying that no don't talk we 23:18 don't want to like your voice cuz we got 23:20 this star from Disney right they 23:24 probably caught it they probably 23:25 recorded the whole thing with all movie 23:37 even they did they just use me for my 23:40 voice exactly so I do like the fact that 23:44 they know they fix that you know they 23:45 made if you're gonna have the black 23:47 parents black kid play it is in Africa 23:50 and it's only the first book I mean it 23:53 already is the issue with me that oh you 23:55 get oh yes the new ruler no right it's 23:58 the white uh all every other Disney 24:00 movie Africa oh let's make it animals 24:05 but okay well you're gonna have animals 24:08 at least let them be 24:08 so finally let JD McCreary play and I 24:11 was happy with that second thing is that 24:13 the final battle was simple and Skaar in 24:15 the original symbol just kind of does a 24:18 backflip but he just flips him and 24:20 scores falls off like that doesn't 24:22 really show Simba has grown in any 24:24 ability he just kind of he just kind of 24:26 he looked up basically in that but in 24:29 this one symbol is the clear winner 24:31 against scar which I like you know which 24:34 I didn't think he was gonna happen 24:35 because you know as Nala is like nailing 24:37 him down on a rifle before if now that 24:41 could take out simple I had some 24:45 dislikes so um just like when you were 24:47 talking about Chuck when you said that - 24:49 moon thump - the two of them were 24:51 together they were definitely together 24:55 it did not seem at all like Dan up like 24:58 doc Donald Glover and Beyonce worked 25:01 together when they were doing um can you 25:03 feel the love tonight because he's like 25:22 I love you I love you I do but I don't 25:27 know if she should really sing on the 25:29 movies because she you know she's gonna 25:31 do her Beyonce song so I can't just turn 25:35 that off and get all that down like she 25:37 won't sing like Beyonce 25:53 I couldn't tell if she was over singer 25:56 he was under singing because it's same 25:58 token when he was with timon and pumba 26:00 doing Hakuna Matata 26:04 like he was really singing not be 26:08 together there's no way they're together 26:10 because they're not singing together at 26:13 all so that was a that Bobby nitpick 26:17 just like what you just said the whole 26:19 you know oh I almost fried a bully at 26:21 the polls they call me mister 26:23 that was that was lame to me and my last 26:26 thing that drug on this is the reason 26:28 why I say it's not a great movie this 26:30 main point right here the original Lion 26:33 King is probably about an hour and a 26:34 half long so this movie at what two 26:37 hours two hours 15 minutes unlike that 26:39 so they added a lot of themes related 26:43 arab scenes they just made seems longer 26:45 to make it fit and to me it drugs 26:49 sometimes like the whole beginning of 26:52 the movie like I'm like get to the 26:54 stampede okay I got it 26:56 alright you can't wait the king let's 26:58 get to the stampede I wanna see Mufasa 27:01 died you know points because I began 27:06 because you know how the movie goes you 27:08 know so it's like okay let's go ahead 27:10 and get to that part that I've know and 27:11 that bothered me that that took me out 27:13 of the movie a lot of times a lot of 27:15 times I like tame this dragon but um 27:17 overall I liked it it's better it's 27:20 definitely better good it's definitely 27:22 better the good things about it outweigh 27:24 the bad things no trying to state um let 27:25 me get some props to general James Earl 27:27 Jones we need to get James Jones in the 27:30 MCU 27:30 bro this man he ain't lost nothing when 27:33 it comes perfect look I'm jeez we need 27:59 you to come into the office ups 28:01 I'm James Earl Jones needs to be said 28:10 about this movie yeah I'm one last thing 28:13 I did want to say I like how they 28:15 changed with having the woman the female 28:23 you know since they were pulling 28:25 everything true that was true that the 28:28 females are larger now the only thing I 28:30 did that took away from that it took 28:32 some of the comedy cuz I don't know if 28:33 she was she was she was serious the 28:35 time so I know they had Whoopi Goldberg 28:39 play her and everybody are they all 28:41 those comics like meshed together so 28:43 made it funny and like when they were 28:45 talking and laughing all the time but I 28:47 only remember that uh hangers really 28:48 laughing and hyenas do they make the 28:51 noise like the laughs but I don't 28:52 remember really seeing it that much in 28:54 the movie that behind this woman laughs 28:56 we come out just like laughing in the 28:59 movie like you know did you see that 29:00 they laugh at all no and that's a good 29:03 point because the whole thing that - 29:05 they've made the evil side a lot more 29:08 serious and so that to me I forgot about 29:11 it but that lends itself to your point 29:12 about be prepared yes they dial the song 29:15 back but he's a much more serious lion 29:19 so you can't be like oh he's a bad guy 29:21 but he's got an incredible voice my man 29:24 you know I mean that that to me would 29:27 have taken you out of the movie a little 29:28 bit I can respect the decision that they 29:30 made no no he's gonna sound better than 29:36 that they should be all the same and 29:41 they should be able to carry a tune that 29:42 was like a horrible rendition of that 29:45 song sound like a broken-down karaoke 29:47 bar yeah but go ahead I'm done with Lion 29:53 King I rewatched this that's just - I 29:56 watched well yeah after I saw this but 30:01 this one I'm like oh yeah I'll see you 30:05 when I see it it's like who cares but 30:08 you yeah uh-oh I think I have to say if 30:12 you like what we did please give us a 30:14 like leave us a comment here on Facebook 30:17 or on YouTube and as usual this is the 30:26 color commentary crew will be give you 30:29 views from a different size not be 30:35 prepared be prepared be prepared 30:43 can I get something in the hyena is it 30:46 I'm like you're gonna mean you didn't do 30:48 anything 30:49 you just prepare prepare prepare like 30:51 can you leave on a note I can say 30:58 anything about the score I'm Kent State 31:01 which one in movie they need to recast 31:04 you and just w up as you such casing in 31:06 the phone sucks 31:10 [Music]
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