Disney makes Self-distructing DVD's

[Spriggan]

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=123042

basicaly it's a DVD that you can buy for about $5 then after 48 hours a chemical is released that will distroy the silicon inside.

[Tage]

It'll never sell. Or, if it does, will only cause more piracy than just selling normal DVDs would.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Disney inspires piracy, I think.

[42]

Disney is evil! Eeeeeeevil!

And also really paranoid.

[Arathorn]

I know some of their childrens movies have bad subliminal messages... I can only think of Aladdin and the Lion King.

[Mr_Pleasington]

Ironic since they take their story ideas and give no credit where it is due.

Did anyone else see any acknowledgment that Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Little Mermaid?

How about credit for Tarzan?  Or The Hunchback?

[Spriggan]

There was still credit on Tarzan.  Mainly because the authors family still has the copyright.  It's in the opening and closeing credits.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Ironic since they take their story ideas and give no credit where it is due.

Did anyone else see any acknowledgment that Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Little Mermaid?

How about credit for Tarzan?  Or The Hunchback?

(note, some measure of sarcasm here) Quite frankly I'm not sure there *should* be credit, as Anderson certainly didn't write THAT Little Mermaid, and Victor Hugo CERTAINLY didn't write that Hunchback story.

And as for "subliminal" images... I think I ruined the Little Mermaid for my sister-in-law the other weak when I pointed out that there probably weren't subliminal messages in the movie: the erotic imagery is so fricking obvious and omnipresent they wouldn't need it.

[42]

Disney massacres stories, places subliminal messages in their products and are willing to take school children to court for drawing Mickey Mouse in their text books.

[Entsuropi]

I can't remember the stories in question.

What subliminal messages? I figure i should take notes from the masters after all...

[Brian]

Supposedly there actually was an issue with The Little Mermaid on the cover of the original release of the video, which was later changed do to complaints. Thats more of a rumour, but considering Disney's track record, it wouldn't surprise me.

[Mr_Pleasington]

I remember when the Little Mermaid cover issue came up.  My friend's little sister had it and, sure enough, when we looked there was an unmistakeably a penis on the cover.

[stacer]

The polite term, I think, would be phallic symbol. And yes, the original cover did have one. Very obvious when you looked at it.

[EUOL]

Check snopes.  They have a whole catagory dealing with Disney urban legends.  The Little Mermaid problem was indeed a real issue, though the artist talks about it on Snopes, explaining his embarassment.  He was hired just to do the cover of the video release, and apperantly wasn't paying much attention to what he was drawing...

Anyway, I'll defend Disney.  Yes, they changed the original stories.  So did Shakespeare.  The finished product may not be very similar to the original, but the product itself isn't half bad.  I watched their movies.  While some of them--admittedly--were unwatchable, those bombs are few.  Most Disney fair is entertaining.  Not ground-breaking, but very little out of Hollywood is.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Tarzan was fun. LM was fun as soon as you block out how suggestive it is. B&tB is also well done (if still over rated.

However, Pocahontas and Hunchback both sucked dirty rocks.

Anyway, I didn't say they were inherantly bad, just that they didn't necessarily NEED to refer to the author with the fundamental changes they make.