Originally Posted By basil fan I read a blurb for the new edition coming up which stated that it comes with "a new bonus feature." I thought it sounded kinda cheesy, only one bonus feature. Wonder what it is, though.
Originally Posted By Manfried Yes, awful. It is a boring film with no heart or memorable stuff at all.
Originally Posted By Manfried I'm sorry, I really wish the film had been better. The books it is based upon are really pretty good. Too bad the film did not capture that imagination.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: That's all right, Manfried, duckling, you have every right to express your opinions, too. Frankly, my sisters and I agree that there was much room for improvement regarding The Black Cauldron-- ORGOCH: --Amen ta that, sister! Fer starters, they could a done without yerself 'n ol' Orwen in the flick! Right there ya would a saved a lot a wasted screen time and saved the world from wastin' their time watchin' two lunatics that never should a been drawn in the first place!! ORDDU: As I was saying, I believe some better script writers were badly needed for Black Cauldron. Too, if one hasn't already read the original books by Lloyd Alexander, you're more likely to like the animated film version because you have nothing to compare it with. ORWEN: I think they should have had at least two or three good songs to go along with the movie, too--so that it could be remembered better. It's the songs in animated films that help keep them alive. ORDDU: Perhaps the rumor we once heard about Disney going back and producing a live action version of The Black Cauldron will come to fruition some day. That way these wonderful stories might receive the treatment they should have been given the first time around.
Originally Posted By danyoung I was really looking forward to the time when I could see the movie for myself. After years of delay, Disney finally relented to fan arm twisting and released the movie on vhs. I've watched it exactly ONE time, and it was incredibly hard to stay awake even that one time. Yup, a really bad movie, but there's a need to keep all Disney movies available in at least a sorta current format. Now if they'd just release Song of the South in a newly restored Digtal DVD and Blu-ray . . .
Originally Posted By mawnck The Black Cauldron, being one of the two Disney animated features shot in 70 mm, would make an *awesome* looking Blu-Ray. (Sleeping Beauty was the other one.)
