Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Watched the Blu Ray of My Neighbor Totoro last night. Looks fantastic. Maybe they should have Studio Ghibli do future restorations?<< Aren't most of the Ghibli films relatively recent? And most of the screwed up Disney movies relatively old? I think The Little Mermaid is the most recent Disney film that had issues, and as far as I know the Ghibli ones are all newer than that. Perhaps they just not old enough to need restoring yet
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Aren't most of the Ghibli films relatively recent? And most of the screwed up Disney movies relatively old? I think The Little Mermaid is the most recent Disney film that had issues<< Nope. Totoro came out a year before Little Mermaid. And Nausicaa came out in 1984 - before Black Cauldron! Remember - the footage on the MENU for "Mickey's Christmas Carol" looks fine (based on the screen shots). It's the movie itself that's trashed. So it was deliberate and premeditated. (And to quote Ed Wood, "And one thing's for sure … Somebody's responsible!") What Disney is doing to these films to screw them up has nothing to do with their age, other than they seem to be clumsily trying to force a digital look on not-digital movies. Mermaid was the last Disney film that, for the most part, was not rendered digitally.
