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#226 Post by Ribs » Mon May 17, 2021 7:31 pm

Available from the Disney Movie Club next month: The Kid, Ice Princess, The Pacifier, and Herbie: Fully Loaded.

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#227 Post by Ribs » Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:00 pm

It looks like there are going to be 4K releases of Unbreakable and Roger Rabbit this fall. Why they would do the former before Sixth Sense is perplexing to me but I’m glad to see what might be the first actual adult Disney movie to be released on the format regardless.

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#228 Post by Monterey Jack » Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:44 pm

Roger Rabbit in 4K is extremely exciting news. Unbreakable is probably being fast-tracked because its two "sequels", Split and Glass, are already on the format.
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#229 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:01 pm

Ribs wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:00 pm
It looks like there are going to be 4K releases of Unbreakable and Roger Rabbit this fall. Why they would do the former before Sixth Sense is perplexing to me but I’m glad to see what might be the first actual adult Disney movie to be released on the format regardless.
I think Unbreakable has aged much better, and while The Sixth Sense was a cult favorite upon release and subsequent M. Night movies were less esteemed during theatrical runs, I struggle to find anyone I talk to about the auteur these days who cite that breakthrough Oscar-nominated movie first in the discussions. Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Split, and even The Happening (for other reasons) are more closely linked with his name today, in my experience

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#230 Post by Ribs » Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:23 pm

Latest additions to the DMC exclusives line:

The Big Green
Man of the House
Tom And Huck
A Kid In King's Arthur's Court

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#231 Post by captveg » Fri Sep 03, 2021 6:30 pm

Latest DMC BD exclusives:

Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

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#232 Post by Ribs » Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:44 pm

The next set of DMC exclusives coming out in early November will include Make Mine Music and Melody Time, completing the Disney Animated Classics on Blu-ray.

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#233 Post by swo17 » Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:47 pm

If you count hybrid animations, we're still (and will always be) missing:

Victory Through Air Power
Song of the South
So Dear to My Heart (actually this one could happen)

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#234 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:55 pm

swo17 wrote:
Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:47 pm
If you count hybrid animations, we're still (and will always be) missing:

Victory Through Air Power
Song of the South
So Dear to My Heart (actually this one could happen)
And so many more treasures in the Disney Vault.

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#235 Post by L.A. » Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:11 pm

When can we expect Ruthless People (1986)? I mean, saw it last week after many years and still a great black comedy. Made with very little money and was a huge hit and very well received by critics too.

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#236 Post by domino harvey » Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:34 pm

It’s one of the funniest mainstream comedies ever made, it definitely needs a release from someone. I assume since it’s rated R that it’s never coming from Disney direct though

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#237 Post by jazzo » Sat Sep 11, 2021 4:36 pm

Agreed. It made me laugh out loud in the theatre back in…what…’87….(?), and its shitty DVD made me laugh just as out loud when my wife and I revisited last year.

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#238 Post by captveg » Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:59 pm

There's a certain group of Touchstone/Hollywood Pictures titles that Disney both refuses to license or release themselves. Kino would have loved to release Ruthless People, Stakeout, and some of these others when they had their Touchstone/Hollywood Pictures deal with Disney, but they were off limits for licensing.

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#239 Post by L.A. » Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:36 am

Now that sure is odd. What is the reason for their refusal not to license then? :-k

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#240 Post by movielocke » Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:17 pm

Ribs wrote:
Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:44 pm
The next set of DMC exclusives coming out in early November will include Make Mine Music and Melody Time, completing the Disney Animated Classics on Blu-ray.
Melody Time has been on Disney plus, uncensored, since the service launched, but Make Mine Music was only ever censored on DVD, excited they're finally releasing these two! I would assume MMM is probably also going to appear on disney plus.

I may have seen MMM in elementary school, but it's probably the only classic disney feature I've never seen.

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#241 Post by swo17 » Sat Dec 11, 2021 8:08 pm

Ribs wrote:
Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:44 pm
The next set of DMC exclusives coming out in early November will include Make Mine Music and Melody Time, completing the Disney Animated Classics on Blu-ray.
Interesting disclaimer included for Melody Time. Has Disney ever done this before in lieu of censorship/suppression?

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#242 Post by domino harvey » Sat Dec 11, 2021 8:14 pm

Ironically their Blu copy of Make Mine Music is censored and excludes the feuding segment (as it did on DVD in the states-- the UK DVD was uncut)

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#243 Post by cdnchris » Sat Dec 11, 2021 8:25 pm

I seem to remember Leonard Maltin providing introductions to a few cartoons on the Treasures DVDs addressing aspects that "hadn't aged well," but can't remember the specific titles. No recollection of labels or warnings like that, though.

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#244 Post by willoneill » Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:48 am

They have similar warnings ahead of many titles on Disney+. I find that they go by so fast though that I’ve never been able to read one all the way to the end.

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#245 Post by knives » Sun Dec 12, 2021 11:08 am

And some of those films are still edited.

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#246 Post by swo17 » Sun Dec 12, 2021 11:24 am

I saw somewhere that The Rescuers (one of my childhood favorites) had been edited for its home video release, but looking into it it seems that all that was done was the removal of a couple frames of non-animated female toplessness that some cheeky employee had initially snuck in? :shock:

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#247 Post by senseabove » Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:06 pm

Wildly ironic that I never heard of that one, while the Little Mermaid penis spire and the Lion King sex dust were gospel in my Disney-boycotting, Dobson-devout Southern Baptist home growing up.

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#248 Post by swo17 » Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:28 pm

Yeah, I definitely grew up hearing about those two. And ironically, I now boycott* Disney for entirely different reasons

*a boycott that obviously does not extend to buying Blu-rays from third-party sellers off of eBay

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#249 Post by Feego » Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:35 pm

I was aware of all of these, as well as another Little Mermaid naughty bit involving a protrusion through the minister’s robe during the wedding scene that supposedly was his knee but many interpreted as an erection. This was visible on the original VHS release (with the penis spire on the cover) but was removed on all subsequent DVD and Blu-ray editions.

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#250 Post by captveg » Thu Mar 10, 2022 6:35 pm

The latest DMC exclusives are Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and The Gnome-Mobile (1967).

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