Originally Posted By skinnerbox What about the remake of Cat From Outer Space? Written by Seth McFarlane? That would definitely be an improvement. I remember seeing the original at a DL cast member screening on Main Street. Yikes.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I remember seeing the original at a DL cast member screening on Main Street.<< Wow, the rumors of cast member torture were true after all!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^^^^Right? My cable provider offered free Disney movies a few weeks ago. Watched '$1,000,000 Duck' Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn - and it's not just a terrible Disney movie, it's a terrible movie period. One thing I found interesting is during the perfunctory chase scene (which so many of the Disney live action movies seemed to have) you can see shots of Toluca Lake and then also Flower Street - they drive past the business park where Walt Disney Imagineering is located.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Boy, Disney live action in the 70s, huh? That era of Disney movies is really interesting to me. They had sort of a set batch of actors, low budgets, bad green screen effects, and stories crafted via Mad Libs. And yet, because these were pretty much the only movies my grandmother took us to. She had a great laugh, and in most of these, there was some silly slapstick thing that would strike her funny and she'd start laughing, which would get me laughing. So even though most of these are not great, I still have a soft spot in my heart for them. Or maybe that's just the after effect of 1970s era popcorn butter, who can say. The one I would like to see them take another run at is Blackbeard's Ghost. With the right actors, updated effects, and better pacing, it could be quite good.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox There's a whole list of seventies WDP live action films that are ripe for decent remakes. I'd like to see Medfield/Midvale College revamped. Those films were beyond silly. But that was their charm. Stupid nerds in the vein of Big Bang Theory but without the doctorates. And I'm still cautious about the new live action films this year. Just because you can use CGI to give realistic animals human speech doesn't mean you should. Zootopia is starting to look better with each new trailer. But Jungle Book is still creeping me out.
Originally Posted By familyguy Seems like a lot of conclusions drawn from a very short teaser trailer. Interesting.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Newsflash: you don't have to be a writing genius to figure out what this film is about from a teaser trailer. "Young feral boy living alone in the woods being aided by a real live dragon." And... stop right there. We're done. Don't care if it's Disney. Don't care if Elliot is CGI instead of hand-drawn animation. Don't care if sappy songs aren't included (full disclosure: I like Candle in the Water). Don't care that Robert Redford is included. And I really, REALLY like Robert Redford! "Young feral boy living alone in the woods being aided by a real live dragon" doesn't work for me now. Forty years ago? YES! But not now. Too little, too late. Hiccup and Toothless and the whole Berk gang changed things. For the better, IMHO. But HTTYD makes other dragon franchises pretty much useless. And the talking animals in Jungle Book... again, too late. Should have been made a decade ago.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Wow, the rumors of cast member torture were true after all!>> If you ever had the unfortunate experience of eating at the Inn-Between in the late seventies, you'd know how pervasive that CM torture program was! =8^0
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>...and stories crafted via Mad Libs.<< This is perhaps the single greatest description of those films I've ever read. There were so many wacky and nonsensical (yet oddly similar) storylines that they must have been doing this in the back room at the studio I know it's not from the 70's, but I think that Third Man on the Mountain could make for a good remake. I saw it for the first time on one of the TCM Disney nights recently and it was a really compelling film, but had lots of room for improvements and embellishments
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "One thing I found interesting is during the perfunctory chase scene (which so many of the Disney live action movies seemed to have) " Yep. And often they were the best part. Even at that age I was thinking "cut to the chase, man. Cut to the chase."
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films Looking at the list of films released in the 1970s, i was surprised at how many movies Disney was releasing each year. At that time, pretty much no one else was making G rated movies, and the costs on these films had to be relatively low. It's also interesting to see how in 1972 "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" was released just a week before "Napoleon and Samantha." Eventually they should remake Unidentified Flying Oddball. Man, the wheels had come off by that point.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Eventually they should remake Unidentified Flying Oddball.>> NOOOOOOOOO!! That's where I draw the line! The wheels didn't come off the bus with UFO. There were NO WHEELS! That sucker was ridin' on the rims. Straight off the cliff! Good heavens WTF was Disney thinking with that one!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros As long as we're on the subject of films that nobody asked for, it sounds like they're starting to work on a film adaptation of "it's a small world" <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2016/02/26/writers-hired-small-world-movie-works-disney/">http://www.laughingplace.com/w...-disney/</a> Just when you thought they've hit rock bottom...
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA 'Superdad' is super awful. So is 'Snowball Express' and 'The Boatniks' Oy vey!
