Maybe that section of the ride could start out in the computer generated reality, then shift to the barren wasteland of "the real world" and then back into the Matrix for a cool fight scene.
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Changes to the Great Movie Ride, What would you do?
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Maybe that section of the ride could start out in the computer generated reality, then shift to the barren wasteland of "the real world" and then back into the Matrix for a cool fight scene.
DisDadEddie
Active Member
It just needs to be updated to movies that the current generation know. My kids don't even know what the movies are besides Wizard of Oz, that stays.
And who's fault is that? Would your kids know what Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs were if you never showed them the film? Like I said, this ride should be about introducing GREAT MOVIES. Not just pimping new films that haven't stood the test of time.
karl75
Well-Known Member
The current generation need to to know their history of movies where it started what sort of movies other generations watched. Instead of updating the movies in the ride why not keep what they have and expand and add more sets if possible or go through the decades and pick a movie from each decade that stands out for what ever reason and have that as a set. But all genres need to be covered to give a broad spectrum of the movie world.
J03Y
Well-Known Member
which are just a bunch of blockbusters that haven't had time to really become substantially remembered. besides, i don't want to say it's your fault for not teaching them these movies, because it really is a two-way effort here but if they don't at least KNOW the movies then there's a problem. but no one said they needed to watch them.
J03Y
Well-Known Member
omg, that WOULD be epic. and maybe him crying out "STELLAAAAAAAAAA"
yes, yes. that would be nice.
spacemt354
Chili's
I had said this in another thread but I'll say it here too. I think that they should do a spaceship earth type of time travel through cinema, starting with the old classics and ending with present day films. I thought that was what the ride was about, but last time I rode it, I realized the progression of films stops in like 1980, and then goes back in time to wizard of oz and casablanca. So if I had control of the update, here is what I would do.
Start: The Public Enemy, Casablanca (both in black and white), then show how film evolved to used color, the Wizard of Oz, and animation, Snow White and the 7 dwarfs, Fantasia.
Then go into the musical aspect of films in the 50s and 60s. Singing in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and then the Western Films with John Wayne such as The Alamo, and mob films of the 70s such as The Godfather.
Then the evolution of special effects in the late 70s and 80s. Star Wars, Indiana Jones
Next show how animation evolved into Pixar and CGI in the 90s and 21st century with Toy Story, the Matrix, and Inception.
Finally end the ride by removing the old screen and replace it with an Imax screen and 4D effects to show how even the way we watch movies today has changed and evolved over time
Start: The Public Enemy, Casablanca (both in black and white), then show how film evolved to used color, the Wizard of Oz, and animation, Snow White and the 7 dwarfs, Fantasia.
Then go into the musical aspect of films in the 50s and 60s. Singing in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and then the Western Films with John Wayne such as The Alamo, and mob films of the 70s such as The Godfather.
Then the evolution of special effects in the late 70s and 80s. Star Wars, Indiana Jones
Next show how animation evolved into Pixar and CGI in the 90s and 21st century with Toy Story, the Matrix, and Inception.
Finally end the ride by removing the old screen and replace it with an Imax screen and 4D effects to show how even the way we watch movies today has changed and evolved over time
DisDadEddie
Active Member
I don't care for those movies myself. They are way before my time too. I grew up in the 80's!
DisDadEddie
Active Member
The history is fine but I don't care for it myself. Growing up inthe 80's I am not even interested let alone people in their teen and 20's.
DisDadEddie
Active Member
Not interested in watching movies with my kids I don't even like myself. Maybe I'm just too young myself.
J03Y
Well-Known Member
i'm 18 years old and yet i still know what a Bugsly Berkeley movie is, and so does my mom. whether it was before your time or not, those movies are classics, and people should at least know what they are.
DisDadEddie
Active Member
I understand people knowing their movie history, but is movie history a must do ride? The Great Movie Ride is something you do when there is nothing else. If you do it once there is nothing pulling you back for a second visit. If you want to represent the movie history do it in a more appealing way, make it fun.
J03Y
Well-Known Member
by showing movies with less film quality and haven't even become titled as classics? that's Universal. not Disney. no one wants to go on any ride about a culmination of good movies and see a scene from say, Twilight or some other modern movie, anyway. you'd get too many people complaining. at least with one about the classics, it's debatable considering that these movies are labeled as classics. and there are plenty of people who are in fact interested in that stuff too. just because you aren't doesn't mean you speak for every single person that goes on that ride.
spacemt354
Chili's
If Twilight is in The Great Movie Ride, I will lose all hope for humanity lol
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Short answer...for some...yes
Obviously not for you...
Let's NOT dumb down TGMR
Like I said in the other thread...Ignorance should not beget stupidity.
DisDadEddie
Active Member
My personal opinion counts myself and myself only, I speak for nobody else or do i claim to. These boards are asking for individual opinions. We have the freedom to express ourselves here. I give my opinion and do not bash others for sharing theirs. I didn't start the thread I only contributed my personal opinion. I am not here to condemn others.
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MissMorrow
Active Member
I don't think the ride needs much updating at all since it's supposed to be a journey through classic films. The only scenes I would remove would be Alien and maybe Tarzan. I'm not sure what I'd replace them with, maybe 2001 A Space Odyssey for a classic sci-fi film, or Titanic, LOTR, My Fair Lady, West Side Story? I don't know, I'm just throwing things out here.
Magenta Panther
Well-Known Member
I'd add Shirley Temple, Our Gang, Gone With The Wind, Steamboat Willie (a black-and-white Mickey AA on an actual boat in the water, tooting the horn and whistling just like he does in the cartoon), keep Bogey and the Duke, dump Tarzan (that scene is really dopey-looking), maybe add in Yankee Doodle Dandy, and perhaps do a tribute to some great movie comedians like The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello...that could be really fun...
IowaHawks7
Well-Known Member
The Great Movie Ride is not complete until they add a scene from possibly the greatest movie trilogy of all time, The Godfather Saga. Also a Forrest Gump scene would be great, as would a scene from a personal favorite of mine The Shawshank Redemption. And what about a scene from Caddyshack anyone? The Cinderella man scene with Bill Murray? Or Ghostbusters? How about the original Jazz Singer I know its old but it is the first feature length film with sound.