What about the people who didn't buy them because they don't want to support illegal copying? Technically, if you bought a used copy of one of the overseas home video releases, that doesn't fall under the same rubric, but in this day and age it's also a matter of finding working laserdisc...
That's not a rant, that's merely an observation. Of course they will give hits preferential treatments over flops, but sometimes it's not that simple. Excuse me while you watch the maestro in action:
No, actually Bedknobs and Broomsticks is, but there wouldn't be such a film were there not a Song of the South first, and for Disney to un-restore that after all the work it took to put the original cut back together again feels like an extension of their mutiny against SotS. But those two films...
No official Song of the South release in a non-obsolete video format = we got a bill of no sale right here for all things Disney. I won't even watch ABC.*
Yet when protesting was justified for an inferior and derivative film that couldn't even beat it when they were both reissued theatrically...
Maybe they'll re-restore it when the stage version comes to the United States. It's still unconscionable that they cut it at all, but to put it back and then take it away again? I don't give a shit about the ADR not being a 100% match for the original actors because they didn't care about that...
The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the rest of the MTM Enterprises library have been subject to four buyouts since 1988. Its last owner before Disney was Fox, and they let their own library languish, too. A lot of actual Fox shows haven't been run through a telecine in at least three decades...
Airing exactly 39 years and one day ago, The Facts of Life Goes to Paris* didn't have any crooks in it that I recall. At least with that show, they didn't ignore the events of their movies when they came home, since the chef who trained Mrs. Garrett actually visited her and the girls at...
I already got the original UK Blu-ray of Flight of the Navigator, so I can wait for a 4K UHD disc release.
I'm glad they are keeping the alternate endings because they feel more like actual endings than what the release cut had. They could have edited the mutually exclusive parts together and...
The Three Lives Of Thomasina is hands-down the best of the three films Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber made for the studio. It has an excellent-looking DVD that was remastered in anamorphic widescreen (that's more than The Gnome-Mobile got), yet has gotten nothing beyond that. Perhaps it needs...
Crackle also has Melba, the short-lived Melba Moore CBS sitcom from 1986 that had the misfortune of premiering on CBS the same night as the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion.
Considering how many shows are just plain poorly made regardless of whether the subject matter is fit for broadcast, it's a wonder they don't do it more often!
And just for that bit of ableist hate speech similar to that which Meathead in real life used against a Black man on Homophobe Joy Reid's TV show, I will now admit I liked Cousin Stephanie better than him. At least Danielle Brisebois could act. Archie giving her a Star of David necklace when...
Gee, I didn't think I'd cause such a stir with this.
Even now, it's such a touchy subject.
Obviously, I knew that going in,
Right?
Guess not. But I cannot
Ever look at the show the same way
Just because it contradicts
Events I have experienced so
Far in my life. I assumed that in my own thread...
One just put on the cover of a magazine for its 50th anniversary. All I ever read here are complaints after complaints about TV getting too preachy. Who do you think got the ball rolling on that? In 1960, no one cared who Ward and June Cleaver voted for or even if they voted for the same candidate.
No, he wasn't. Archie was right about Mike; he could not cut it outside of the bubble that is academia, then he couldn't cut it as a professor either if he left his wife and children to live on some commune.
And after Joey was born, he accused Gloria of trying to make him gay through...
Most of those episodes are copying the movie Rashomon. Even Diff'rent Strokes and Mama's Family did it, but only they acknowledged Akira Kurosawa by calling one "Rashomama" and the other "Rashomon II."
One of those flashbacks even had Bea Arthur in a wheelchair as Sophia's mother while yet another had Dorothy as a 7-year-old child jealous of newborn brother Phil (who died next season in the same calendar year). So in that case, they knew having Bea play a younger version of herself wouldn't...
I was a 1980s kid and a 1990s teen, so I caught the tail end of a lot of this sense of ritual you talk of. We missed Peak Catchphrase and had to experience it vicariously in reruns, but we still talked about The Simpsons every Friday morning. I still remember the last episode of Cheers and...
I second Benson and raise you an Empty Nest. The shows they were spinoffs of got complete releases and books written about them, yet the latter show got nothing when even Dave Chappelle's short-lived Home Improvement spinoff Buddies got a disc release from Touchstone to tie in with his Comedy...
I have lived in California, where Mike and Gloria left Queens for, for 10 years and it has been eight since I wrote that review. If I wrote it today, I would be far more critical of the show than I was then.
I saw the film in a 35mm nitrate Technicolor print at the Egyptian Theatre in 2003. They had to get the fire department to send a firefighter into the projection booth to ensure its safety. But what projected upon that screen was indescribable. Something no home theater could ever duplicate...
It was difficult enough even before the pandemic began. In addition to convincing enough people to buy what you have been able to get on TV for free for decades, you have to convince them to be able to buy it again in HD.