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  1. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    Yeah, I lived through the 1990s the first time. I'd rather experience a time I wasn't alive for when it happened. Interesting fact about The Big Green: an actor in that film named Billy L. Sullivan was very briefly on the short-lived Golden Girls sequel The Golden Palace.
  2. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    Every single one of those movies came out in 1995. Every single one. Two of them I saw in theaters because one had Runaway Brain. Now they are all late for their "25th Anniversary Editions" again.
  3. MatthewA

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    But Dionysus can still be a prototype of Bluto from Animal House.
  4. MatthewA

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    Unless either Disney undergoes an Ebenezer Scrooge-like transformation* in its business ethics or they make some major vault discovery or both, there will never be another release of Fantasia that accurately replicates the opening night presentation. The reasons for this are: —At some point in...
  5. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    Of course the revenue isn't there for titles that aren't available.
  6. MatthewA

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    So are we ever getting Never Cry Wolf or are they coming up with an excuse for why they can't show full-frontal adult male nudity?
  7. MatthewA

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    How many of those will get "vaulted" for good to keep Uncle Remus company?
  8. MatthewA

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    In the tape and laserdisc days, and even in the early years of DVD, they used to give fewer stock responses.
  9. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…
  10. MatthewA

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    Well, I couldn't help but notice that neither The Sword and the Rose nor The Ref have made the jump to BD yet; the latter is most likely to end up with Kino Lorber*. None of Disney's 1950s English films other than Treasure Island have BDs yet, including Disney's 1952 live-action Technicolor The...
  11. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    Thank you, but it doesn't bring me any joy in saying so. Meanwhile, Glynis Johns' other Disney movies are MIA on Blu-ray.
  12. MatthewA

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    Now you know why I don't give the company money directly anymore. It's more than just the cutting/censorship of a handful of decades-old movies; that was just the straw that broke the camel's back. It's also this apparent apathy to what consumers want. It's seeing park cast members living out of...
  13. MatthewA

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    The existing Muppet Movie Blu-ray has nothing technically wrong with it, so there's not much of a point in redoing it unless it's to go 4k and/or to include the slightly longer UK cut (last seen on VHS tape in the late 1980s). It'd also be nice to get a version that included The Muppets Go...
  14. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    At least the actual films are uncut and restored. That's the main compensation for the complete lack of extras, not even the DVD ones, never mind the laserdisc ones.
  15. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    I post in this thread. Whoever's in charge of home video these days, you need to be more like whoever's in charge of music.
  16. MatthewA

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    So this is the fate of the package films and likely The Black Cauldron as well? Just release the uncut versions.
  17. MatthewA

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    The decisions they made may not have been popular at the time, and some decisions they made were unquestionably bad, and even some people within the studio knew it before the egg had a chance to land on their faces, but they still survived nonetheless and came back even stronger financially...
  18. MatthewA

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    Maligned as many of them are, I'd honestly have preferred more 1970s and 1980s titles while waiting for Walt-era ones to come out. Something snapped within that studio once Howard Ashman and Frank Wells died, Miramax became part of the growing corporate empire*, and Witt/Thomas/Harris, who got...
  19. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    Well, if you actually worked for a home video company that would give you an advantage. They might put you in the educational division.
  20. MatthewA

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    The smaller-scale movies seem to have migrated to Disney Channel where they don't get as big of a budget as a theatrical film would have. I remember the first wave of Disney Channel Original Movies from the 1980s and early 1990s seeming to care more about whether they were also palatable for...
  21. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    I haven't heard about any. I would hate to see it just end like this and expect us all to get our Disney fix from this new streaming service of theirs, especially with so many titles I want from multiple eras still unreleased. The existing ones have but a small number of changing titles...
  22. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    Honey I Shrunk the Kids actually outgrossed The Little Mermaid the year they both were released. By 1989, if anyone still doubted that Disney was "back", those doubts were gone. They certainly were in better shape than they were in 1979, by which time they could bring themselves to use harsher...
  23. MatthewA

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    An audience that's come to expect the same standards from Disney as they have from other studios is not going to settle for what they were putting out, so their reaction to complaints is not to up their game and bring their standards up to the level of Warner or Fox but get out of it altogether...
  24. MatthewA

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    Did the Davy Crockett features have any footage that wasn't in the original TV versions?
  25. MatthewA

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    Aren't there still unreleased episodes from the Texas John Slaughter and Swamp Fox mini-series, in addition to numerous 50s/60s/70s episodes that have never seen the light of day on video at all?
  26. MatthewA

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    They picked a pretty good selection of episodes. I know off the top of my head they released a couple of Ludwig Von Drake episodes* and an extended version of Ward Kimball's Oscar-winning short It's Tough to be a Bird. I know there was also one from 1980 called The Hunter and the Rock Star...
  27. MatthewA

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    I have all those tapes at my Mom's house in North Carolina. Some of them, such as 1977's The Bluegrass Special with Davy Jones, are on DVD; others, such as the 1981 special Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, are not. I'll be going back there for Hanukkah so I'll make a more comprehensive...
  28. MatthewA

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    1982-1983 was when they started making stuff for The Disney Channel. Some of the films and TV shows were released on tape back in the day, but who knows whether any of them will ever see the light of day in any digital form besides YouTubes by those with the foresight to record them or buy the...
  29. MatthewA

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    Since it's late 1980s TV, this may be a case where a Blu-ray might be impossible without totally rebuilding it in HD the way Paramount had to for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  30. MatthewA

    Anyone join the DISNEY MOVIE CLUB?

    I'm not a fan of the DTV sequels either, especially when The Rescuers Down Under proved a sequel need not be substantially inferior in form and substance to the original. But somebody must be buying them.
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