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Wow, thanks for the heads up. My spouse and I are down to watching the last two episodes of Willow. We'll make sure we finish before the 26th.

D+ is totally worth it to me for the Star Wars content alone. Everything else, and there's a lot, is just gravy from my pov. Last night I watched with my spouse the newly restored Cinderella remaster. Looks great! I'm not sure when the last time was that I watched it, but maybe twenty years...

Disney paid $71 billion dollars for 20th Century Fox, which of course included a vast library of films. I'm not sure Disney will ever earn back that amount of money, but given that they own this library why not make more use of it? There are hundreds of good movies rated G and PG that 20th...

Searching around for something to watch last night that my spouse might like, I found this weird, elaborate, and for us fairly funny direct-to-Disney+ movie titled "Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers" (trailer below). It more or less follows the template of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in that it shows...

"....Disney Plus remains firmly in investment mode as it fights for share in the global streaming market. The media conglomerate has told Wall Street it plans to spend $33 billion on content for the 2022 fiscal year, up $8 billion year over year, with much of the increase earmarked for Disney...

Movies like Onward, Maleficent, and the upcoming Hamilton are making Disney+ a good entertainment value. Disney+ has already zoomed past 50 million subscribers.... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/business/disney-plus-50-million-subscribers.html

Sorry you were in pain. Hope you're feeling a bit better.....

I'm now watching the last episode of The Imagineering Story, which focuses in part on Disney Shanghai. Good show. I appreciate the behind the scenes stuff and the analysis, but obviously this is to a large degree a giant promo series for Disney. But it's well done. This last episode also covers...

I had trouble watching the Day at Disney program because it felt like a Bob Iger infomercial. I turned it off after about 5 minutes because it felt uncomfortable watching Disney employees laughing at the jokes of the CEO. Perhaps I'll go back to it later. The 5th episode of Imagineers was...

Watched the new episode of The Imagineering Story, and I was pleasantly surprised at how the episode was sometimes critical of how mismanagement by Eisner and others damaged the Disney theme-park brand. Eisner did this by making the relatively low-cost "California Adventure" park in California...

Probably not. But I've seen at least four feature-length ones in my browsing through the decades section.

Today I watched the 1953 Disney documentary Living Desert, a "True Life Adventure" that I think I last saw in my elementary school when I was about ten. Still good stuff! It's David Attenborough stuff done Disney style, and in fact I'm guessing that DA watched this stuff when he was a kid/young...

Well, Aladdin came out in theaters in late May, and so perhaps January for that one? And wow that one was a big hit.... DOMESTIC (33.8%) $355,559,216 INTERNATIONAL (66.2%) $695,134,737 WORLDWIDE $1,050,693,953

I haven't tried those. Thanks for the recommend! PS Having now watched one of them, I did think it was amusing. But as a fan of traditional hand-drawn animation, the relatively low-cost animation style for these new cartoons wasn't my favorite.

I'm glad to have the Disney animated shorts that we have on Disney+, but obviously there are a lot that are missing. In the decades section the shorts start with Steamboat Willie from 1928, but then the next cartoon is Santa's Workshop from 1932. During the years 1929, 1930, and 1931 Disney made...

I'm watching right now the Ice Cream episode of The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Some of it is funny! It's a lightweight show, but nice background stuff.

I'm just finishing now the 3rd episode of The Imagineering Story. The story of Disneyland Paris was even more dramatic than I knew. Good stuff for Disney fans.

I'm enjoying some of the early Disney animated shorts found in the decades search function. Nice multi-plane animation on one part of a Pluto cartoon from 1941, for instance, along with some amusing comedy.

They are still ramping up Disney+, and I think the future is bright. We are going to be enjoying three Star Wars shows, plus lots of original movies, as well as other original shows. In three years, my guess is that rates are likely to still be lower than Netflix, but maybe not by a lot. The...

MMM. I don't see any place to adjust the quality in the Kindle app.

As a test, I downloaded the new Dumbo movie onto my Kindle fire, since I like to watch videos on plane rides. Unfortunately, it was immediately apparent on playback that the resolution is mediocre, and visibly worse that what you get with downloads from Netflix and Amazon Prime. It looked like...

Watched episode 2 of The Imagineering Story, covering the Haunted Mansion, Disney World, and Tokyo Disneyland, from c.1966-1984. Even if it's halfway to being a promo film, it's good stuff imho.

Watched the first episode of the National Geographic doc Drain the Oceans, which I thought was surprisingly interesting.

I'm watching right now The World According to Jeff Goldblum. I'm a Goldblum fan, and it's amusing to even watch him read the phone book imho. Anyway, low budget, but some good info and a solid host, making this a show I'll probably watch (although sometimes in the background depending on time).

I watched the first episode of The Imagineering Story on the creation of Disneyland, and I really liked it, even though it is somewhat like a sophisticated and very well made promo film. But as a fan of Disneyland from when I was a kid growing up in Southern California it was fascinating.

I think the title is hilarious, but since the launch of this fully operational streaming service was a sometimes a little bit "maclunkey," I guess I'm ok with a change.... PS And I would love to see Disney+ create new original hand-drawn animated films and shorts. That would be amazing.

I would like to see more Fox films on Disney+. Imho I think they should have a sub-channel within Disney+ for just that—G and PG-rated Fox films from 1935 to 2019. There are hundreds of good movies that would qualify as suitable for almost all ages, even if it would be mostly the older audiences...

Watched The Mandalorian in 4k UHD Dolby vision with my whole family of Star Wars fans. We liked it! Previously my daughter and I enjoyed the Lady and the Tramp remake. The original 1955 movie is a favorite that I'd rate "A+", but this remake has some laughs, nice production values, and is a...

Watching the new Lady and the Tramp now and so far I'm enjoying it. It can't top the original, of course, but it's good fun imho.

Early non-spoiler reaction to 27-minutes of footage from The Mandalorian is very positive....