I've been watching ABC's hokey "Once Upon a Time". It started out all well and good, mostly about Prince Charming, Snow White and the Queen. Then they added Jiminy Cricket, then Tinkerbell. I thought, "Oh well, it's all Disney, let's see how this plays out." Then came the Mad Hatter, Mulan, Captain Hook, and, in this week's episode, Dr. Frankenstein. Never mind that Universal actually owns the copyright on the image of the Frankenstein monster image (the story itself is
Years ago I saw a parody piece in Mad or Cracked about Disney running out of children's stories to bastardize so they moved on to grown up movies to create children's films of. The examples given were Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List (not entirely sure on this one), Braveheart (not entirely sure on this one) plus some others. Some how that memory is all that came to mind when I read this news.
God now I feel old as I was in college working at a gas station doing overnight shifts at the time when I read that.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force (Score:5, Funny)
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
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Like they'll sell out more than Lucas?
buncha depraved mammon worshippers (Score:3, Funny)
Like they'll sell out more than Lucas?
Disney, please stop raping our childhoods [slashdot.org].
Re:buncha depraved mammon worshippers (Score:5, Insightful)
Disney glorifies piracy (Score:1)
In the same way that people who copy movies are 'Pirates',
Of the Caribbean?
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I've been watching ABC's hokey "Once Upon a Time". It started out all well and good, mostly about Prince Charming, Snow White and the Queen. Then they added Jiminy Cricket, then Tinkerbell. I thought, "Oh well, it's all Disney, let's see how this plays out." Then came the Mad Hatter, Mulan, Captain Hook, and, in this week's episode, Dr. Frankenstein. Never mind that Universal actually owns the copyright on the image of the Frankenstein monster image (the story itself is
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God now I feel old as I was in college working at a gas station doing overnight shifts at the time when I read that.