Originally Posted By macnak81 40 Pounds of Trouble, you can see 8 mins of the film and some great views of the young park at <a href="http://www.twitvid.com/KAFHO" target="_blank">http://www.twitvid.com/KAFHO</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Fascinating. I'd never heard of that film before. Here's the trailer for the home video: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1437073689/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/video/scre...7073689/</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt One more thing... I find it rather ironic that the film is from Universal!
Originally Posted By macnak81 never realized that it was from Universal, maybe thats why it's not so well known. The Disney publicity machine does such a good job. And I guess Universal wouldn't want to be promoting Disney !
Originally Posted By macnak81 it's pretty cool to see it with people running around to see the scale that doesn't always show in pictures.
Originally Posted By Bellella Idea: in the movie, the Country Bears come to life and they talk about how P.O'd they are about being in storage for ten years!
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes Wouldn't they be Country Bear Zombies by now? They've been torn up pretty badly.
Originally Posted By Bellella NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really???!!! Then that means they won't be bringing them back anywhere for a long time, if at all!!!!!!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I just looked up Kingdom Keepers on Wikipedia to get a better understanding of what it is and now I'm wondering why Disney doesn't just make a movie based on those existing books instead.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt More "Magic Kingdom" film news: <a href="http://screenrant.com/jon-favreau-magic-kingdom-movie-pauly-90983/" target="_blank">http://screenrant.com/jon-favr...y-90983/</a> The article states that other park franchises are being considered for films, including the Jungle Cruise and the Tiki Room attractions.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "Stupid idea. A magic kingdom / disneyland is supposed to be a canvas BIGGER than what film can provide a story. It's where stories come to life DURING THE DAY. It's also where a worthy story can be immortalized. 'If you are a successful enough movie, you get to be a theme park attraction.' This idea diminishes the whole concept of Disneyland as something kinda lame during the day, but worthy of an action movie at night when they 'come to life'." I think you're actually putting too much thought into this. Actually, I'd bet you are putting more thought in than any of the creators or writers of the dreck that comes out of Hollywood these days, anyway!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "What was the name of this film? " WHAT THE..........?!?! Didn't you see Al's column on this film a few months ago? He went positively ga-ga over this film!!!
Originally Posted By Britain Yeah, I probably am putting too much thought into it, but I guess what I'm saying is that I view movies as a transient and disposable form of entertainment, where as I see the Theme Parks as something more concrete and permanent. I don't like thinking of Disneyland as being the subject for a piece of disposable entertainment that will be (if successful) old news in a year, dated in 5. If unsuccessful, it will make the parks into a sad joke. Now, I've read the recent interview with Favreau about it, and yes, I definitely dig the nostalgic vibe of what he's going for. And it looks like they are pressing forward with it, so I sure hope he does a good job, but I still am very wary of the whole bass-ackwardsness of the idea. It's like doing a Thomas Jefferson film, but it's based on the Jefferson Memorial, not on Jefferson himself! It diminishes the sanctity of the memorial and dilutes the story of the man. Adapting Pirates of the Caribbean worked because aside from a peppering of inside jokes, it was essentially a cool pirate movie. Haunted Mansion didn't work because it was a lame ghost movie. If they HAVE to adapt these properties (and I'd prefer that they don't) then make a great jungle adventure movie and call it the Jungle Cruise. Make a great space adventure and call it Space Mountain.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I'm not as enthusiastic about the 'nostalgia' angle. For one thing, only a handful of disney geeks like ourselves would even "get" the references. Hauling out Pete's Dragon or the minetrain through nature's wilderness would be lost on almost everyone. I also don't agree that movies are disposable. Just look at 'Snow White', Gone w/t Wind, Casablanca. Hell, even 'Forty Pounds of Trouble' is still lurking around over fifty years later, not because of any towering cinematic acheivement, but only because it included footage of disneyland. Finally, everyone likes to forget the 'Country Bears' movie from several years back. But it's important to remember that just because a film is based on a park property doesn't mean it can't be a stinker. I'm still more skeptical than enthusiastic about this film, and I'm the target audience for it - I'm a disney dweeb with full familiarity with all the backstories and long closed attractions. I can't imagine the general public will enjoy something like this with a lot of "inside baseball" jokes and references. But who knows? They haven't made it yet. So we'll see what they come up with.
Originally Posted By Britain Who here remembers the Disneyland's 35th Aniversary Special? The one that starts off with Woody from Cheers telling the guys at the bar about when he was a kid and he went on the Haunted Mansion? He goes through the ride, meets a cute girl ghost who gives him a kiss. Stories that straddle fences between "We're on a ride" and "Wait, it's REAL!" come off as hopelessly corny to me, like one big commercial (surprise surprise). Sometimes spook alleys & ghost houses can do the "It's only a ride ...or is it?" but that's only to support the original intention of the ride - to make you think it's real. This movie, in order to help clarify what is real and what is 'coming to life' is, of necessity, going to have to make the animatronics look lame, it's going to emphasize the fakeness of the attractions sets. It's not going to reinforce the magic that ALREADY is in a regular trip to Disneyland.
