I feel the live action Lion King ruined it. Same with Rise of the Beasts. Completely ruined Beast Wars.

Remakes for a modern day audience are mostly a downgrade. Well the Lion King and Aladdin weren't completely bad but the classic versions are better and I think it's hard tp repeat a success from the past with retelling known stories in general.

There are some live action movies that got great animated spinoffs like Star Wars the clone wars or the animated series of Godzilla 98 aka "Zilla" from Roland Emmerich. Those shows gave the movie or it's universe, timeline and characters more depth and are well received from most fans.

None have been improvements and plenty have been disasters. The few that turned out to be about as good as the originals, like One Piece, are very rare exceptions. The travesty of the Lion King remake is dumb on multiple levels, topped off by the fact it's not live action, it's CGI animation.

I don't know why anyone would want live-action over animated in the first place, since animation means you have unlimited options for special effects.

The idiots who think live action is superior are either following trends, or never watched actual cartoons in their lives. Like seriously this attitude of ‘animation is for children’ needs to DIE! It’s done nothing but harm animation everywhere.

It's mostly done because Hollywood is terrified of risks. They only want to "create" properties with a built-in audience. Not create art, not create entertainment, create properties.

So, they'll make Lion King live action. They'll make Moana live action. They'll do them all cause they can't do much else now.

The answer is threefold imo:

1. Some people just can't get into animation or even ''stand'' to watch a few animated films so these live-action fares are meant to capture that audience (which as it seems to be panning out is small or not really there)

2. As Lu-Man said, Hollywood sees that sweet-sweet 円 and/or $ but in the absence of their own animated studio they resort to live-action while oftentimes not ''getting'' either what it's about or not caring.

3. Creative bankruptcy/risk aversion - nowadays with the amount of money dunked into an average blockbuster movie, (which is likely both bloated and subject to horrid embezzlement we will likely find about only years/decades later), one can ill-afford to be creative and risk 100, 200 or even 300 mil on a work/franchise that will go nowhere, so the studios mine for movies that were popular thinking that the sparkle will rub off of the live-action and/or that people will be hit with memberberry juice.

In the end tho, a bit of good news is that indie and foreign movie scenes are alive and well, one just needs to summon up a bit of courage and look beyond planet USA to see what's out there.

As far as I'm concerned. They can stop the live action BS. I can't stand it and find it pointless.

If nobody wanted these live action remakes, then they wouldn't be being made. Just 'cause we don't want them doesn't mean no one does.