Disney Recycled

A lot of people complain about having to replace their film collection when another format emerges - well if your a Disney fan you've been doing it for years - well sort of

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6140334.ece

Yes, Disney was the first studio to see the advantage of recyclying its material every few years. Disney's idea was to re-release their children's titles for new generations of kids every eight-to-ten years. They've been doing it with theatrical releases since the 1930s, and they've been doing the same thing with their DVDs for the last dozen years. Not only do they reach new kids and new families, they can sell the same material to the same people, too, by providing upgrades in picture, sound, and extras. Movies are business. The business of business is to make money.

John

Hi John - Thats not the recycling I meant.

If you follow the link you see a youtube video that shows Disney traces scenes from one move for use in another.

It's a great video that shows scenes being reused over and over again even tracings from sleeping beauty turn up in Beauty and the beast.

well, of course. mainstream american moviemaking is bereft of fresh ideas. just look at "benjamin button" and "forrest gump", "the last samurai" and "glory", etc.

True but you can minimize it by selling the previous version. I got $8 for the pervious version of Bug's Life and paid $28 for the BD on Amazon, so the upgrade cost me $20. Considering the quality of past Disney BD's, this should be well worth the $20.

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well, of course. mainstream american moviemaking is bereft of fresh ideas. just look at "benjamin button" and "forrest gump", "the last samurai" and "glory", etc.

Don't forget:

3:10 to Yuma/3:10 to Yuma
The Last Man on Earth/I Am Legend
Friday the 13th/Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm St./Nightmare on Elm St.
Any Japanese horror flic turned American
Vanishing Point/Vanishing Point
The Vanishing/The Vanishing
The Amityville Horror/The Amityville Horror
The Last House on the Left/The Last House on the Left
Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Black Christmas/Black Christmas
My Bloody Valentine/My Bloody Valentine 3-D
Death Race/Death Race 2000
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3/The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
The Day the Earth Stood Still/The Day the Earth Stood Still
King Kong/King Kong
Death at a Funeral (even though from 2007, since it is from the UK, it is already in the works to be remade here as an urban comedy)
District B13 (I hear a US version is being talked about...why???)
Deliverance/Brokeback Mountain

kidding

Oh man, I can't think of any more...but you get the point. Even the non-remakes (aka: re imaginations or whatever) are not exactly fresh ideas as they steal from an original.

Pretty soon we'll be seeing remakes of movies like Jackie Brown, Memento, Pulp Fiction, Seven, No Country For Old Men, and any other truly original movie, even ones taken from a novel.

I miss the days of older movies that will never be touched. At least I hope they won't. Once Hollywood remakes everything re-makeable, what next??

Remakes of Star Wars? Toy Story? In the Realm of the Senses??? What gives?

-Dave

My God next you'll be telling me that Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, were not original stories, but adapted from existing fables and fairy tales!

it's even worse..."the lion king" is a rip-off of "hamlet" and the japanese animated TV series "kimba the white lion".

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My God next you'll be telling me that Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, were not original stories, but adapted from existing fables and fairy tales!

Wait wait wait...they are??? What??? Oh man. You just RUINED my day.

Please, don't tell me this new Star Trek thing is not original either. Man.

You know, actually, I don't mind remakes when they're enjoyable...but it's happening way too much now. I was just having some fun with that list.

I truly enjoy something so original and so different, and then we're given a plethora of these other remakes that only depend on big name actors or big budget special effects to make people go and flock to the theatres to take your $15.

What happened to movies like "Charade", "Vertigo", "An Affair to Remember", "Seconds", shoot...even "Gattaca" was awesome! Give me originality, or give me DEATH! Not Death Race remakes!!

(sorry, I just got corny)

-Dave

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[Post edited by italy12 on Apr 22, 2009 - CDT 2:00 PM]

Disney continues to recycle to this day, they just recycled Planet Earth, named it Earth, and put it on the big screen for earth day!

Maybe this is Disney's idea of going green!

Guess I will follow suit and save my money and watch the original (superior)Planet Earth series on blu-ray instead.