I kind of grew up in an age where Disney focused less on animated films and more on Live action Films. Not that I haven't sat through quite a few of the classic animated features.
The animated films are usually good, but it's kind of hard for me to take them seriously, usually because the plot is the generic "princess meets and falls in love with the generic charming guy." Also, I got sick of Hakuna Matata pretty friggin' quickly.
You know, out of the 53 animated feature films Disney's produced, there's only three films that fit that description: Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Respectively released 1939, 1950, and 1959; nearly ten year gaps between each film.
Even if you fit any film that features a female lead that falls in love with a male character, that'd be 8 (Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Mulan, and Princess and the Frog) out of 53. You'd be denying yourself of so many wonderful films if you discount the the 45 other films.
Also, does anyone else remember watching the Disney Channel? You know, before they started showing... crap?
I don't think there was ever a period of time where they didn't show crap. If anything, Gravity Falls is pretty dang great. I'm glad the guy who did Imaginary Friend got his own show.
Thinking back on it, I realized something: there used to be a time when Shia LaBeouf wasn't just a walking joke. Seriously, go watch his performance in "Holes" and you'll begin to wonder if it's even the same guy. That or an episode or two of "Even Stevens".
Every town
Has its ups and down
Sometime ups
Outnumber the downs
But not in Nottingham
I'm inclined to believe
If we were so down
We'd up and leave
We'd up and fly if we had wings for flyin'
Can't you see the tears we're cryin'?
Can't there be some happiness for me?
Not in Nottingham
Part of me wants to have faith since this is the first thing in recent memory that Disney has rebooted, but...then I read up what is supposedly being done to Robocop and I cringe at the thought of the same kinds of things happening to The Rocketeer. The Rocketeer and Flight of the Navigator are two of my favorite Disney movies and I think both should be left alone.
Part of me wants to have faith since this is the first thing in recent memory that Disney has rebooted
Even if we only look at live action films, Tron: Legacy less than two years ago isn't in recent memory? What about trying(and failing) to reboot John Carter of Mars? What about Alice in Wonderland? The Muppets? Underdog? Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Even if we only look at live action films, Tron: Legacy less than two years ago isn't in recent memory? What about trying(and failing) to reboot John Carter of Mars? What about Alice in Wonderland? The Muppets? Underdog? Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Tron: Legacy was a sequel, not a reboot. They may have been in a new computer system that looked totally different, but the storyline continued on from the first movie.
I wouldn't call The Sorcerer's Apprentice a reboot either. Honestly, the gap between the original Fantasia material and the live-action film is so huge, I'm not even sure what you'd call it. Maybe "loosely inspired by the Fantasia short". Very loosely.
Aside from Jennifer Connelly's somewhat-wooden performance (though she did make up for it), the original film was amazing. I doesn't need a reboot, just a decent Blu-Ray releas- OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE DISNEY.
I wouldn't call The Sorcerer's Apprentice a reboot either. Honestly, the gap between the original Fantasia material and the live-action film is so huge, I'm not even sure what you'd call it. Maybe "loosely inspired by the Fantasia short". Very loosely.
It's as much a reboot as Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are reboots. It's in that weird gray area where the Fantasia short and the live action film are obviously adapting the same source material, so it's "another adaptation", but it's an adaptation that frankly would not exist without the previous adaptation's existence. No way modern Disney would adapt Sorcerer's Apprentice if it hadn't been adapted in Fantasia first.
Even if we only look at live action films, Tron: Legacy less than two years ago isn't in recent memory? What about trying(and failing) to reboot John Carter of Mars? What about Alice in Wonderland? The Muppets? Underdog? Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Tron: Legacy was a sequel, not a reboot. They may have been in a new computer system that looked totally different, but the storyline continued on from the first movie.
I wouldn't call The Sorcerer's Apprentice a reboot either. Honestly, the gap between the original Fantasia material and the live-action film is so huge, I'm not even sure what you'd call it. Maybe "loosely inspired by the Fantasia short". Very loosely.
John Carter also wasn't a reboot, as the only adaptation of the novel ever made was a direct to DVD movie 3 years before the film (and the Disney movie was in production long before that).
The Muppets wasn't a reboot either but a sequel, as it continued the storyline of (and referenced events from) the previous movies.
It's as much a reboot as Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are reboots. It's in that weird gray area where the Fantasia short and the live action film are obviously adapting the same source material, so it's "another adaptation", but it's an adaptation that frankly would not exist without the previous adaptation's existence. No way modern Disney would adapt Sorcerer's Apprentice if it hadn't been adapted in Fantasia first.
I admit, I don't know a whole lot about the original source material for The Sorcerer's Apprentice. But the film is so fundamentally different from the short on basically every level, the only thing they seem to have in common is the same VERY basic premise, and that cleaning scene in the middle of the live-action film that comes off more as a homage than anything.
I'd imagine it's what used to be PAL, given the title. I believe it's known as "Basil the Great Mouse Detective" in the US. I could very well be wrong though - it's been known to happen from time to time.
Not that it matters. It's Blu-Ray - there's no region locking.
Also: I WANT IT.
EDIT: According to Wikipedia, the 'Mysteries in the Mist' edition DVD was never released in Europe, so...
EDIT2: According to Blu-Ray.com, it's Region A. Again though, there's no region locking on a Blu-Ray, so...
It's kind of a shame that The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver and Company are usually overlooked by most people as the "Disney Renaissance" was said to start with The Little Mermaid.
Personally, I'd say it started with The Great Mouse Detective, as that was the movie where Disney started going back to Walt Disney's desire to push the technology forward while keeping the story solid. The Great Mouse Detective was the first Disney movie to combine moving 3-dimensional objects made from computer imaging software with hand drawn animation (not counting John Lasseter's Where the Wild Things Are pitch, which was brilliant and it's a shame it never got made into an animated feature).
Amazon never get that right. Its best to ignore that and do your own googling to see if you can watch it in your region. Seriously the amount of times iv found out there wrong and I can play it even in the reviews of some things ppl take piss out of them for that.
Took me awhile but I found out it is in ABC format.
People don't argue for Great Mouse Detective as being as good as Beauty and the Beast but to ignore the fact that Beauty wouldn't exist without Mouse Detective is to ignore how Disney history was a scaffolding process, and Detective was an important step.
The Great Mouse Detective was instrumental in rebuilding Disney's trust in movie-making.
The 'failure' of The Black Cauldron was pretty off-putting to the bigwigs, but thanks to The Great Mouse Detective being a hit, Disney went on to make films like The Little Mermaid, which kickstarted the Disney Renaissance and turned the company into the massive success it is today. So yeah, TGMD is a pretty important film.
Quality of the story, memorability/catchiness of the music, and interest in the characters (esp. as compared to the Renaissance-era movies) is something else. EDIT: Oh... wiki says that The Great Mouse Detective competed almost directly with An American Tail. That's why it's been overlooked.
I admit, I don't know a whole lot about the original source material for The Sorcerer's Apprentice. But the film is so fundamentally different from the short on basically every level, the only thing they seem to have in common is the same VERY basic premise, and that cleaning scene in the middle of the live-action film that comes off more as a homage than anything.
Also, if we really want to be technical, the movie is inspired by the ballad that was the inspiration for the symphony, not just the animation, although it did influence the movie (especially
the ending, where you can see Yensid's hat
).
Also, the movie got way more flak than it deserved. I for one didn't think it was a bad movie at all.
I'm just wondering but did anyone ever hear of the original version of Emperor's New Groove? We'll originally it was meant to be a Prince and the Pauper story called Kingdom of the Sun and it was meant to be more based on drama. Ymza in this version did not want to take over the empire but instead want to block out the sun because she thinks it will make her beautiful again. Pacha was meant to be a lookalike that would switch places with Kuzco and while Kuzco would still become a lama he would be unable to talk.
There is a movie that Sting's wife (The person who wrote the songs was Sting) made about the development of the movie and the unfortunate news that they would have to remake the movie. I seen all this when i checked out Wikipedia's page on Emperor's new groove. Check it out
It was taken down but someone re-uploaded on Vimeo. I haven't watched the whole thing yet but the song Sting wrote for Ymza to sing in the first version was good. I do agree we got the better version though.
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You know, out of the 53 animated feature films Disney's produced, there's only three films that fit that description: Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Respectively released 1939, 1950, and 1959; nearly ten year gaps between each film.
Even if you fit any film that features a female lead that falls in love with a male character, that'd be 8 (Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Mulan, and Princess and the Frog) out of 53. You'd be denying yourself of so many wonderful films if you discount the the 45 other films.
I don't think there was ever a period of time where they didn't show crap. If anything, Gravity Falls is pretty dang great. I'm glad the guy who did Imaginary Friend got his own show.
Didn't watch Gargoyles,I love Recess & Lloyd In Space,Aladdin was pretty good, & I don't really remember watching Goof Troop but I love A Goofy Movie.
Has its ups and down
Sometime ups
Outnumber the downs
But not in Nottingham
I'm inclined to believe
If we were so down
We'd up and leave
We'd up and fly if we had wings for flyin'
Can't you see the tears we're cryin'?
Can't there be some happiness for me?
Not in Nottingham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQtKZUKlVg
(You should really listen to this Mumford and Sons cover)
Tron: Legacy was a sequel, not a reboot. They may have been in a new computer system that looked totally different, but the storyline continued on from the first movie.
I wouldn't call The Sorcerer's Apprentice a reboot either. Honestly, the gap between the original Fantasia material and the live-action film is so huge, I'm not even sure what you'd call it. Maybe "loosely inspired by the Fantasia short". Very loosely.
The Muppets wasn't a reboot either but a sequel, as it continued the storyline of (and referenced events from) the previous movies.
I admit, I don't know a whole lot about the original source material for The Sorcerer's Apprentice. But the film is so fundamentally different from the short on basically every level, the only thing they seem to have in common is the same VERY basic premise, and that cleaning scene in the middle of the live-action film that comes off more as a homage than anything.
Is region A, B ,C or ABC?
Not that it matters. It's Blu-Ray - there's no region locking.
Also: I WANT IT.
EDIT: According to Wikipedia, the 'Mysteries in the Mist' edition DVD was never released in Europe, so...
EDIT2: According to Blu-Ray.com, it's Region A. Again though, there's no region locking on a Blu-Ray, so...
EDIT3: Sadly, it appears this is not one of Disney's best Blu-Ray conversions. Boo!
Personally, I'd say it started with The Great Mouse Detective, as that was the movie where Disney started going back to Walt Disney's desire to push the technology forward while keeping the story solid. The Great Mouse Detective was the first Disney movie to combine moving 3-dimensional objects made from computer imaging software with hand drawn animation (not counting John Lasseter's Where the Wild Things Are pitch, which was brilliant and it's a shame it never got made into an animated feature).
It has Vincent Price as the rat! What more do you need?
Amazon never get that right. Its best to ignore that and do your own googling to see if you can watch it in your region. Seriously the amount of times iv found out there wrong and I can play it even in the reviews of some things ppl take piss out of them for that.
Took me awhile but I found out it is in ABC format.
The 'failure' of The Black Cauldron was pretty off-putting to the bigwigs, but thanks to The Great Mouse Detective being a hit, Disney went on to make films like The Little Mermaid, which kickstarted the Disney Renaissance and turned the company into the massive success it is today. So yeah, TGMD is a pretty important film.
"Important for the Disney brand" is one thing.
Quality of the story, memorability/catchiness of the music, and interest in the characters (esp. as compared to the Renaissance-era movies) is something else. EDIT: Oh... wiki says that The Great Mouse Detective competed almost directly with An American Tail. That's why it's been overlooked.
I like An American Tail.
Also, if we really want to be technical, the movie is inspired by the ballad that was the inspiration for the symphony, not just the animation, although it did influence the movie (especially
Also, the movie got way more flak than it deserved. I for one didn't think it was a bad movie at all.
There is a movie that Sting's wife (The person who wrote the songs was Sting) made about the development of the movie and the unfortunate news that they would have to remake the movie. I seen all this when i checked out Wikipedia's page on Emperor's new groove. Check it out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Groove
Definitely one of my top all time. I think I'll go with All Dogs Go To Heaven just slightly above it.
I love it, but it ALWAYS bugs me that Don ripped the little girl character right out of the Rescuers.