Mufasa: The Lion King

[Nick]

My main problem is it's not very information dense for a musical number. This song is supposed to form the foundation of our understanding of Mufasa and Scar's relationship and all we really learn is that they always wanted to be brothers.

The lyrics are very shallow.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

The lyrics are very shallow.

No time for lyrics! We gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go! Let's go!

 

[Lucky Planet]

looks very cute but i dont like the realistic look of these movies, i didnt like the other one either.
and from this short trailer it just gives me the feeling that it is going to be kind of boring.

 

[Michael S]

The lyrics are very shallow.

I worked on some promos for the film. I’m a fan of LMM, and he’s awesome to interact/work with, but man… the music I heard seemed like he phoned it in…

 

[Disneyhead]

I worked on some promos for the film. I’m a fan of LMM, and he’s awesome to interact/work with, but man… the music I heard seemed like he phoned it in…

He didn't "phone it in", but he is kinda a one trick pony who has exhausted his well. He needs to take a break and grow his depth.

Don't get me wrong, he is a tremendous talent. Having In The Heights and Hamilton in your past shows there is a solid future, but he is best when he births the concept, and not as a hired gun.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

I am kind of still surprised Disney thinks they are going to be able to beat Sonic 3, especially with how the hype-train seems to be aiming it to be a potential No Way Home level winner if things stick to the landing.

 

[TheUniC6]

I am kind of still surprised Disney thinks they are going to be able to beat Sonic 3, especially with how the hype-train seems to be aiming it to be a potential No Way Home level winner if things stick to the landing.

At this rate, I am fully convinced Disney is either committing self sabotage here because they have no confidence in the film or they are so arrogant that people will see the film because it has the LK IP attached to it they don't care what its going up against.

 

[Wesker69]

The unnecessary prequel is so bad that James Earl Jones "lost the will to live" like Padme.

Mufasa needed no origin story. Scar needed no origin story. I'd say I'm shocked that Disney thought this was a good idea, but well.. *sigh*

They should've just filmed the stage production of LK & released that instead.

 

[Lucky Planet]

At this rate, I am fully convinced Disney is either committing self sabotage

would explain star wars and marvel lol

 

[Legacy]

He didn't "phone it in", but he is kinda a one trick pony who has exhausted his well. He needs to take a break and grow his depth.

Don't get me wrong, he is a tremendous talent. Having In The Heights and Hamilton in your past shows there is a solid future, but he is best when he births the concept, and not as a hired gun.

Bring It On: The Musical is better than both… so…

 

[Michael S]

He didn't "phone it in", but he is kinda a one trick pony who has exhausted his well. He needs to take a break and grow his depth.

Don't get me wrong, he is a tremendous talent. Having In The Heights and Hamilton in your past shows there is a solid future, but he is best when he births the concept, and not as a hired gun.

I didn’t mean that literally, that was just what it felt like listening to the tracks. You’re absolutely right tho, I think he’s worked himself thin in a way. That’s sort of a price you pay when you create so much content in a narrow window of time (see some of Stephen King’s work over the years).

 

[GA-MBIT]

I didn’t mean that literally, that was just what it felt like listening to the tracks. You’re absolutely right tho, I think he’s worked himself thin in a way. That’s sort of a price you pay when you create so much content in a narrow window of time (see some of Stephen King’s work over the years).

It's tough, because I feel like it'd probably be tough to say no to all of these giant projects with incredibly legacied IP attached after working for awhile as an independent artist. I'm sure he probably has some amount of fun doing them and I'm sure the paychecks don't hurt either. But it's a real shame that we probably won't see another project from him at the same level of depth and quality as Hamilton for a very, very long time. He's just been spread far too thin as an artist to even attempt that currently.

I think a break could do him some good. There is a worry that the "LMM spell" could break with the public and he doesn't see the same level of work as he's got right now ever again, but I don't think that's inevitable. I've already seen some of the Lin backlash circling back around. When Wish's soundtrack released, a lot of the talk was about how it wasn't anywhere near the level of Moana or Encanto, no matter how overexposed he is right now. I think giving people the space to miss him and to make a stellar new original project would be nice.