News Disney Not Renewing Great Movie Ride Sponsorship Deal with TCM ; Attraction to Close

Phil12

Phil12

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marni1971 said:
Nope. He won't.
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Indeed, a star of his magnitude deserves top billing.
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matt9112

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marni1971 said:
Yes they really will.

Another vote for why this should be a new build and not a replacement.

The Mouse LPS will be a very good ride. Maybe even excellent. But it shouldn't be at the expense of anything else, let alone the GMR.
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curious when they roll these plans out and such do they ever do a "head count" and come up with a rough capacity they want the park to have? i mean are they really ok with lowering overall capacity? or leaving it the same even though crowds will "obviously" go up?
 
prberk

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By the way, "Casablanca" is on TCM right now, with about 45 minutes left to go. The plane scene from The Great Movie Ride is at coming up at the end.

Not to mention that it is a fantastic movie. It was also made in 1942, just as the US had entered the war and as the war was really heating up. It strikes me that they were able to write a script that takes place during the war, make the movie, and get it released all before the war in the U.S. was just more than a year old. And there was another Bogart classic from 1942 about the war on before this. What amazing turnaround -- and also what some people consider the best movie of all time.

Shows what can be done when people believe in a project.
 
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prberk

prberk

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prberk said:
By the way, "Casablanca" is on TCM right now, with about 45 minutes left to go. The plane scene from The Great Movie Ride is at coming up at the end.

Not to mention that it is a fantastic movie. It was also made in 1942, just as the US had entered the war and as the war was really heating up. It strikes me that they were able to write a script that takes place during the war, make the movie, and get it released all before the war in the U.S. was just more than a year old. And there was another Bogart classic from 1942 about the war on before this. What amazing turnaround -- and also what some people consider the best movie of all time.

Shows what can be done when people believe in a project.
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Small world sometimes. I recorded Casablanca and just watched the end -- and after the movie they showed a 1937 MGM short called "Pacific Paradise," starring Jiminy Cricket himself, Cliff Edwards, playing himself and playing the ukulele (even mentioning his nickname, "Ukulele Ike") as part of an Hawaiian show on the beach. That would have been before Pinocchio was released but still around the time he would begin to be known also as the voice of Pinocchio's conscience, Jiminy Cricket, and singer of Disney's most famous song of all time ("When You Wish Upon a Star").

The timing of it (1937, four years before Pearl Harbor, and long before Hawaii was a state) reminded me again of just what we take for granted these days as part of our lives. Hawaii was still a territory, flying was not nearly as routine as it is today, but was novel and new. They took the movie crew out there on a plane to this territorial island in the Pacific with Cliff Edwards and others to make this fanciful little short film (about 10 minutes). The first radio stations had only just begun a little over a decade earlier. Commercial flight was new. Music recordings were also still relatively new, only a little over a decade old. The movies were ways to show us the world in little glimpses. And this was part of it.

I am reminded that it was only soon after this, specifically after the war, that the steel guitar was introduced to country and other popular music. They had heard it in Hawaii, particularly in the war, and brought it here to the states.

My point is this: there is so much that early pioneers did that we benefit from today; it is good to be able to see the highlights of their work, and to think about what they had to do to bring it to us. I think Walt Disney always understood this, and that is why although he was an innovator, he also wanted to keep Frontierland alive for us. The past as prologue. (Even, you could say, to the "frontier" of today.)

Disney World always taught me things about the past while celebrating the future of possibilities.

It took a while, but I really appreciate what The Great Movie Ride does. It is always healthy to learn from the greats of the past and see how they laid the foundation.
 
ThemeParkJunkee

ThemeParkJunkee

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Just finished "skimming" this 89 page thread. I appear to be the only Theme park fan who actively avoids the Fab Five in all their iterations. I was trying to figure out why. I think it was because I grew up with Walt Disney's television shows and Mickey Mouse related stuff was the least interesting to me. I looked forward to Davy Crockett, documentaries, tall tales, glimpses of Disneyland etc. Mickey to me was filler for the full length features.

That said, Mickey having a ride and not just Philharmagic in MK makes a great deal of sense in a park that has yet to create an identity. I might have some difficulty convincing the hubby to try it. I was a Great Movie Ride fan. But I did get to see it when everything worked once in the 90's. It needed help. Maybe IPCOT should be the new name for the studios.
 
Matt_Black

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prberk said:
By the way, "Casablanca" is on TCM right now, with about 45 minutes left to go. The plane scene from The Great Movie Ride is at coming up at the end.

Not to mention that it is a fantastic movie. It was also made in 1942, just as the US had entered the war and as the war was really heating up. It strikes me that they were able to write a script that takes place during the war, make the movie, and get it released all before the war in the U.S. was just more than a year old. And there was another Bogart classic from 1942 about the war on before this. What amazing turnaround -- and also what some people consider the best movie of all time.

Shows what can be done when people believe in a project.
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Well, Casablanca was, if memory serves, adapted from a play written a few years earlier before the U.S. entered the war, so that made things a bit easier.

Another thing- Hollywood received special leniency from the federal government regarding rations as they felt that would help morale at home and abroad, and Hollywood in turn considered it a patriotic duty to make films that aided the war effort. "How's this film going to help win the war?" and all that.
 
Slowjack

Slowjack

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prberk said:
By the way, "Casablanca" is on TCM right now, with about 45 minutes left to go. The plane scene from The Great Movie Ride is at coming up at the end.

Not to mention that it is a fantastic movie. It was also made in 1942, just as the US had entered the war and as the war was really heating up. It strikes me that they were able to write a script that takes place during the war, make the movie, and get it released all before the war in the U.S. was just more than a year old. And there was another Bogart classic from 1942 about the war on before this. What amazing turnaround -- and also what some people consider the best movie of all time.

Shows what can be done when people believe in a project.
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I think a large part of the staying power of great older films is that they weren't trying so hard. So many films today are self-consciously trying either to be "great" or "big events." They usually end up too long, too overstuffed with ideas, action, and plot. A movie like Casablanca concentrates on the basics: script, acting, classic cinematography rules. The scenes have room to breathe, and the great quotable moments come and go naturally. If Casablanca were being made for the first time today, it would be an hour longer, and Claude Rains character would be mostly cut to give more emphasis to the leads, and it would announce itself as Oscar bait from the moment it arrived.
 

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