Great remake! 8 out of 10! Amazing special effects! What is wrong with the 1 star ratings????

Rating: 8/10 (17 July 2019)

I went to see The Lion King tonight and I really loved it! The music is great, the vocals are really good and the story is the one we remember as kids.
So how to explain the 1 star ratings around here?
I believe is happens dor 2 reasons:
1. Insanely high expectations: as it happens with all the most antecipated movies, people creat such a huge expectations that is hard to make it come true. We saw this before (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lost and Game of Thrones series finale, etc).
2. Some people just don't like remakes/reboots. I get it. I usually give the benefit of the doubt, but some cases the movies are really bad (Lion King is NOT the case). And I'm not sure what people are expecting to see when they go to the cinema watch a REMAKE? Of course the story is the same, the music is a mix of old and new sounds (wich I found amazing).
To give a movie 1 star you really have to hate it with all your guts. Let's be rational: 1 star? 1??? Out of 10??
These ratings are coming from those who are stuck in childhood memories and can't accept a new version of a great story.
The only reason I don't give this a 10 is because the original movie had a much greater emotional feeling, and I believe it is because you can't make, for example, a real lion cry like Simba did when Mufasa died. The emotion is there, but the 1994 version was a lot more sad and touching.
But at least my childhood memories didn't stop me from enjoying a great movie with an amazing soundtrack!
Just watch it for what it is: a R-E-M-A-K-E!! So unless you have never seen the original movie, you will se the SAME STORY told in a different way.