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by EricJ
March 6th, 2024, 5:12 am
Forum: Around the Site
Topic: Oscar Contest 2024
Replies: 26
Views: 1114

Re: Oscar Contest 2024

And once again, the annual tradition, as a public service to those who had no idea what the OTHER eight nominated Pictures were about, but weren't planning to subject themselves to Poor Things:

by EricJ
March 5th, 2024, 5:23 am
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: YouTube Goodness
Replies: 1029
Views: 449281

Re: YouTube Goodness

By the music, I'm guessing this was to fill space-time while Snoopy was twanging his jaw-harp on the cross-country bus ride.

No loss--After all, it's supposed to be about Charlie's spelling bee, it's not titled "A Blanket Addict Named Linus".
by EricJ
February 28th, 2024, 4:21 am
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: The state and future of animation
Replies: 588
Views: 203237

Re: The state and future of animation

Why did animation studios have a "no sequel policy" through the 1990's. The existence of theatrical sequels like The Rescuers Down Under , Fievel Goes West , and All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 seem to show otherwise. "Studios" didn't (and Universal clearly didn't), Disney did: After Disney's direct-video ...
by EricJ
February 20th, 2024, 8:45 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: DMC Exclusive Disney Blus
Replies: 279
Views: 72109

Re: DMC Exclusive Disney Blus

I wouldn’t expect Mill Creek to issue The Shaggy Dog on Blu, as that deal was for decidedly "B titles" and deeper catalog oddities along the Touchstone lines that Kino were doing, or older 20th titles (the deal did announce that a lot of these releases, which still haven’t started to happen yet, wo...
by EricJ
February 16th, 2024, 5:34 pm
Forum: On Television
Topic: New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+
Replies: 2005
Views: 641195

Re: New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+

Iwájú : coming soon to Disney+ .... still looks cool, and (potentially!) very fun, though! And I unironically say, if Disney had management that greenlit THIS for a movie instead of the Frozen-by-numbers "Wish", I would have paid to watch it in a theater. 8) I have no idea what it's about, and it s...
by EricJ
February 14th, 2024, 3:57 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: MGM & Amazon In talks to bring He-man to live action again!
Replies: 8
Views: 5041

Re: MGM & Amazon In talks to bring He-man to live action again!

Ben wrote:
February 14th, 2024, 6:25 am
The movie that killed Superman IV! :(
I thought it was Sylvester Stallone's over-the-top salary that first killed Golan/Globus!
by EricJ
February 12th, 2024, 5:39 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney Pixar's Turning Red
Replies: 136
Views: 46132

Re: Disney Pixar's Turning Red

Must be a contractual thing, or at least a "favor" to Pete Docter to make up for shoving all his product onto D+ and to have "legitimised" them as theatrical releases outside of the super-limited awards contention runs. I keep comparing it to why Disney thought Fantasia 2000 had "flopped" when it u...
by EricJ
February 11th, 2024, 1:20 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney Pixar's Turning Red
Replies: 136
Views: 46132

Re: Disney Pixar's Turning Red

Even a re-release would get attention back in the 90s, but here, it's treated with the "DONE that!" afterthought of another Fathom Studio Ghibli fest. FWIW, Mei and Mom at least got some West Coast (no Epcot Canada, sorry) park representation for Lunar New Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iahU6...
by EricJ
January 28th, 2024, 12:20 am
Forum: On Television
Topic: Looney Tunes Golden/Platinum Collections
Replies: 343
Views: 200388

Re: Looney Tunes Golden/Platinum Collections

And just tangentially on the Looney subject: Would it be violating any political rules on the board to point out that in this week's court case, the jury found Yosemite Sam liable for an additional punitive fine of 8300 pounds, after posting a series of comments about, quote, "that rackin'-frackin' ...
by EricJ
January 24th, 2024, 5:26 am
Forum: On Television
Topic: Looney Tunes Golden/Platinum Collections
Replies: 343
Views: 200388

Re: Looney Tunes Golden/Platinum Collections

If I made a list of favorite Bugs and favorite Daffy toons, I can guarantee more McKimson titles on each than Jones.

And with A Feud There Was, we're working our way through the early Egghead, but there's still Believe It or Else and Count Me Out to be archived.
by EricJ
January 22nd, 2024, 7:28 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 49542

Re: Disney's Wish

James wrote:
January 20th, 2024, 9:16 am
Frozen II has a coherent plot. It's not a good plot, but it's got one at least.
And it's less misandist than either Wish or the first Frozen!
by EricJ
January 22nd, 2024, 7:26 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Looney tunes return to the big screen in new animated film!
Replies: 18
Views: 3946

Re: Looney tunes return to the big screen in new animated film!

Peter MacNichol, star of Dragonslayer, Bean: the Movie, and Ghostbusters II!
by EricJ
January 16th, 2024, 6:17 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Soul
Replies: 133
Views: 67134

Re: Soul

It feels more like contractual obligation, to say that these films played theaters-- They're playing regular release and not Fathom screenings, right? Unfortunately, streaming aside, this is the reality of re-releases in the physical-disc era, when studios kept claiming "Audiences want shorter home-...
by EricJ
January 10th, 2024, 1:24 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Mary Poppins
Replies: 40
Views: 28986

Re: Mary Poppins

Her 50s film Miranda always got overshadowed by Mr Peabody And The Mermaid, but do check it out if you ever get a chance. Where she briefly played against young English comic actor...David Tomlinson! https://www.tcm.com/video/1083530/miranda-1948-did-you-catch-any-big-ones And followed by the 1954 ...
by EricJ
January 1st, 2024, 4:57 pm
Forum: On Television
Topic: Prime Time Specials!
Replies: 10
Views: 4185

Re: Prime Time Specials!

Always liked to watch RudolphSNY on disc during the in- between week before New Year’s, since the Rudolph specials were some of the….better Rankin-Basses? In that they didn’t use the usual corny ear-bending one-foot-in-front-of-the-other cookie-cutter Maury Laws-Jules Bass songs, but went back to Ru...