TLM Blu-Ray Discussion

[UmbrellaFish]

NOTE: This is not in reference to an announced upcoming release. We'll probably have to wait another seven years, folks. :(


Is it really fair, after waiting six years for a (somewhat lackluster) 2-Disc DVD release, Blu-Ray technology comes knocking the door?

For those that have a Blu-Ray player, or have seen a Blu-Ray movie, you know just how amazing the quality is. When watching "Sleeping Beauty", the years seemed erased away. It's gorgeous, and TLM, with the colors, and animation will be no less than spectacular if a 50 year old film looks new.

So what do you expect for TLM's next release, a Diamond Edition Blu-Ray.

[arielfan22]

It sucks big time that we always have to wait another 6 years until the movie gets released again...
Hmmm. what do I expect...
I expect from it thtat the movie is in great and brilliant quality. I expect nice animated menus although I already love the menu of LM-1 disc with Ariel sitting on the rock. I think it was a bit uncreative to use LM II-clips for the Bonus DVD menu. I'd change that.

Maybe the longer movie version that was promised for the Special Edition release ( with one more scene in it as in Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast).

[macgregor]

I'm actually really glad we'll have to wait longer. Sleeping Beauty only looked so good because the effort they put into making that movie and the fact that it was done in Disney animation's prime. Although the animation is wonderful in TLM, there are parts that are so horribly wobbly (ahem...Part Of Your World Reprise close-up, anyone?) that I hope they take the time to fix it up 100%. I'm also hoping they find a way to spruce it up a bit, but not a complete reworking like they are planning for Fantasia's IMAX re-release. Maybe some more depth to the backgrounds and the animated cels themselves, making it look like 3D 2D animation...get what I'm saying? Give it a lot more physical depth.

Back to Sleeping Beauty, watching the behind the scenes on the SP Edition you learn a lot of critical information! Like the fact it took roughly 1 hour to draw a single cel of Aurora = roughly 8 cels a day which means roughly 3 days of work to produce one second of animation, 24 frames. Disney almost went bankrupt multiple times but pulled thru with their most spectacular animation ever. Although TLM's animation is so incredible in the fact that every aspect of each character is constantly moving (they did some really awesome angles as the characters would be so free moving underwater). I know I've said it before but I really wish Disney would open it's own school for animation, even if it was small and hard to get into. They need to teach the masses! Get the dreamers' dreams out into reality!