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VHS : The Lion King (A Walt Disney Masterpiece)
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- Lion King fan
WOW! We love this movie, so glad I thought to look on Amazon when I couldn't find it elsewhere. You just can't get much better than this!
Rating: - GOOD GOOD
This seller was VERY good in sending the movie in GREAT condition and it was FAST! It was still in the wrapper and everything! The movie itself is such a classic, I'm glad I found it at such a great price! I'm trying to get all those Disney classics but some have already gone back into the vault, but this is a must have!
Rating:
- Ok DVD
This DVD does work but skips at times. We are able to watch it, but I am very dissapointed in AMazon for allowing people to sell things that don't work correctly.
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- Lion King DVD
This movie was pretty good i have a VHS and it was being wore out by replay after replay so i thought the DVD would be a better option.
Rating: - LION KING NO LONGER PRESERVED IN HISTORY!
I am a great fan and admirer of Disney animation. As a child, I would watch the movies of the new generation (starting with The Little Mermaid) religiously and enjoy the songs and characters. As an adult, I appreciate them even more for their moving storylines and deep meanings. To preserve these movies in my collection, I re-purchased certain limited edition DVD's even though I already had all of the VHS. The Lion King was no exception. However, I doubt that I will ever watch the DVD release again...
Many viewers may not notice this, and some may not even care, but I cringed when I found this out: When The Lion King was released to IMAX theatres a couple of years ago, the animators decided to "enhance" the film experience, partly because the film's dimensions would now have to accomodate a larger format screen. What started out as a few color touch-ups and brush-ups ended up a RE-ANIMATION of some of the scenes.
Let's start with the opening castle logo: It used to be blue/white, and now, it's black/orange. OK, Disney is constanly changing its image and wanted to match it to the color scheme of the IMAX release. That's understandable...
What about the "Just Can't Wait to be King" sequence? The CROCODILES with the birds in their mouths have completely been re-animated! This may sound stupid, but I never forgot how the original crocs looked; that image was imprinted in my mind all this time. When I saw the ugly green things with the deformed noses they put in now, I was surprised.
But that's not all...Watch the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" sequence. Remember the part when Nala and Simba are climbing down to the waterfalls to get a drink? That whole background is now completely changed! Everything from the waterfalls, to the rock, to the colors is different.
The part where Mufasa re-appears in the clouds has been re-animated, though that's not as butchered as the other parts I just mentioned. When Simba falls down in despair and blows away the petals and moss in the wind, they fly to Rafiki. The movement and patterns of that has been re-drawn.
Supposedly, the Disney team thought these would make the IMAX experience better. At least they promised us the original theatrical version on the DVD, so rest assure, you'll see the first animation... Oh no, wait, that's gone too! Their idea of the original version is the same re-animated scenes minus the "Morning Report" song. Everything that you remember about the movie is now gone.
I think that when a movie is released and experiences as big of a success as The Lion King did, it goes down in history and should be respectfully preserved. It's one thing to change something for a re-release and call it a "Special Edition" version, but it's another to tamper with the original film in terms of its animation and exclude the first animation altogether. It's not so much what they changed, but the principle of the thing.
FINAL THOUGHT: The original 11-year old film is now gone! The only way you can see the actual animation is to watch your old VHS tape or laser disc. Both the Special Edition and the Theatrical are the changed versions on the DVD. When the Lion King comes out many years from now as a 25th edition or whatever, it's hard to say if that will mean 25 years after the 1995 release or the IMAX re-release. History has now been altered!
- Lion King fanWOW! We love this movie, so glad I thought to look on Amazon when I couldn't find it elsewhere. You just can't get much better than this!
Rating:
- GOOD GOODThis seller was VERY good in sending the movie in GREAT condition and it was FAST! It was still in the wrapper and everything! The movie itself is such a classic, I'm glad I found it at such a great price! I'm trying to get all those Disney classics but some have already gone back into the vault, but this is a must have!
Rating:
- Ok DVDThis DVD does work but skips at times. We are able to watch it, but I am very dissapointed in AMazon for allowing people to sell things that don't work correctly.
Rating:
- Lion King DVDThis movie was pretty good i have a VHS and it was being wore out by replay after replay so i thought the DVD would be a better option.
Rating:
- LION KING NO LONGER PRESERVED IN HISTORY!I am a great fan and admirer of Disney animation. As a child, I would watch the movies of the new generation (starting with The Little Mermaid) religiously and enjoy the songs and characters. As an adult, I appreciate them even more for their moving storylines and deep meanings. To preserve these movies in my collection, I re-purchased certain limited edition DVD's even though I already had all of the VHS. The Lion King was no exception. However, I doubt that I will ever watch the DVD release again...
Many viewers may not notice this, and some may not even care, but I cringed when I found this out: When The Lion King was released to IMAX theatres a couple of years ago, the animators decided to "enhance" the film experience, partly because the film's dimensions would now have to accomodate a larger format screen. What started out as a few color touch-ups and brush-ups ended up a RE-ANIMATION of some of the scenes.
Let's start with the opening castle logo: It used to be blue/white, and now, it's black/orange. OK, Disney is constanly changing its image and wanted to match it to the color scheme of the IMAX release. That's understandable...
What about the "Just Can't Wait to be King" sequence? The CROCODILES with the birds in their mouths have completely been re-animated! This may sound stupid, but I never forgot how the original crocs looked; that image was imprinted in my mind all this time. When I saw the ugly green things with the deformed noses they put in now, I was surprised.
But that's not all...Watch the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" sequence. Remember the part when Nala and Simba are climbing down to the waterfalls to get a drink? That whole background is now completely changed! Everything from the waterfalls, to the rock, to the colors is different.
The part where Mufasa re-appears in the clouds has been re-animated, though that's not as butchered as the other parts I just mentioned. When Simba falls down in despair and blows away the petals and moss in the wind, they fly to Rafiki. The movement and patterns of that has been re-drawn.
Supposedly, the Disney team thought these would make the IMAX experience better. At least they promised us the original theatrical version on the DVD, so rest assure, you'll see the first animation... Oh no, wait, that's gone too! Their idea of the original version is the same re-animated scenes minus the "Morning Report" song. Everything that you remember about the movie is now gone.
I think that when a movie is released and experiences as big of a success as The Lion King did, it goes down in history and should be respectfully preserved. It's one thing to change something for a re-release and call it a "Special Edition" version, but it's another to tamper with the original film in terms of its animation and exclude the first animation altogether. It's not so much what they changed, but the principle of the thing.
FINAL THOUGHT: The original 11-year old film is now gone! The only way you can see the actual animation is to watch your old VHS tape or laser disc. Both the Special Edition and the Theatrical are the changed versions on the DVD. When the Lion King comes out many years from now as a 25th edition or whatever, it's hard to say if that will mean 25 years after the 1995 release or the IMAX re-release. History has now been altered!