Talk:Maleficent (film)/@comment-25041621-20141113163126

It's very difficult to take such an iconic villain and turn her into a hero by giving her a chance to tell her own story. But it's rather easy to do it if you can just change the traditional story!

I admit, in the beginning, I found it hard to accept the sweet Maleficent (why is she even called that if she's good?), but when I did, I was apppalled to see that it was just a completely different story from Sleeping Beauty! What do you mean, "the story from the POV of Maleficent", that's not the story that happened. Of course, Maleficent is justified and heroic and whatever, of course you can say she loved Aurora if you have a different kiss to prove it!! Yeah, some changes are forgivable and cute (Diaval, for instance, stole my heart), but overall, it was just ridiculous to put involve Sleeping Beauty with this Villain story, Disney would have done better to just do a new film about a new villain (e.g. Despicable Me).

I would have been a lot more impressed with all the technicalities just like they were in the original animated film, just with extra information, a shifted point of view, and of course this dazzling live-action fantasy.