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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 12-28-2006, 09:26 AM:

I just received this DVD for Christmas, and I think this is my favorite Pixar movie. I enjoyed watching it in the theaters and marveling at the outstanding animation work. But I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed that Pixar hasn't done any commentary tracks on their past few movies, this one included. And the behind the scenes stuff was really lacking I thought. I wanted to hear about all of the hard work they put into this, and how they had to upgrade all of their servers to speed up the rendering, etc. They had to have had some enormous technical challenges doing some of those shots, and I'd really like to hear their stories.

Is anyone else disappointed by the lack of commentaries from Pixar lately?

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-28-2006, 02:02 PM:

I guess I'm a little disappointed, but not too surprised. Although I felt The Incredibles was an awesome, fun movie it did not do anywhere near as well as expected on DVD. Millions of unsold discs were returned and both Disney and Pixar lost a bunch of money.

I guess we're having to pay for those losses by way of a more svelte version of Cars. Betcha Disney will come up with a real 2-disc SE of the movie later on for some old fashioned double dipping action.

Posted by Ron Curran (Member # 3631) on 12-28-2006, 09:11 PM:

In the dark days before films were available in bus shelters, stormwater drains and pop-up toasters, Disney used to re-issue his films to theatres on a 7 year cycle. These re-runs made more money than many new releases.

Then Disney recycled them in bits on his television show, virtually an extended promotion for the re-issue.

Was this scheme more profitable than dvd sales? Once the sales of the dvd peter out, isn’t that feature dead forever?

Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 12-28-2006, 09:24 PM:

Not when Disney releases them "for a limited time only" once every ten years.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-28-2006, 10:44 PM:

DVDs and such go into the "Disney Vault" where Walt Disney's head is stored (with evil Nazi powers).

Personally, I don't like running commentaries. I really don't care what the filmmakers have to say. I want to enjoy the movie for the movie itself, not because of an extra gigahertz they so disparately needed to get the movie out on time. In just about any commentary, you'll hear about how hard the movie was to complete and what crazy obstacles they had to overcome. I guess movie making is fraught with adversity in every single instance.

Also, Cars was enjoyable to watch once, but like A Bugs Life and Monsters, I don't think I could sit through it again. Pixar seems to be on a "every other movie is good" kick, which means Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles are actually good movies.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 12-28-2006, 11:08 PM:

Cars was a great movie but it would suck on TV. Maybe the reason "The Incredibles" did less than spectacular DVD business is because people are realizing that Pixar movies are best experienced on the big screen? I'm just sayin'.

I'm sure Bobby is right though...how many times has Toy Story been released to video now...half a dozen?

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 12-29-2006, 03:19 AM:

quote: Mark J. Marshall
and how they had to upgrade all of their servers to speed up the rendering, etc

I heard that, in the section of the canyon shots outside Radiator Springs, that these shots couldn't be rendered in real time due to that there was so much information there that the systems would crash from overloaded memory allocations, thus this information had to be stepped up in speed then somehow the character info was added in later,to prevent their systems from crashing so these particular scenes could be completed.

..going to be fun and interesting on how "Ratatouille" will do for "the House of Mouse" and Pixar this summer...

= Monte

Posted by Phil Blake (Member # 2012) on 12-29-2006, 04:21 AM:

I am curious as to the running time , I have just picked up a Cars DVD it states the running time at 86 minutes , the 35mm feature we screened was 116 minutes , so what have they cut out ?

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 12-29-2006, 05:00 AM:

Ron, I had just started at my theatre when Disney re-realesed 'The Little Mermaid' as a counter to Fox's 'Annastasia'. If I recall correctly 'Anastasia was the first major animated release from a studio besides Disney.

We got 'Little Mermaid', the competition got 'Anastasia'. Needless to say, we kicked ass [Smile]

. Its hard to believe that was only 10 years ago. How things have changed.

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 12-30-2006, 08:33 AM:

quote: Phil Blake
I am curious as to the running time , I have just picked up a Cars DVD it states the running time at 86 minutes , the 35mm feature we screened was 116 minutes , so what have they cut out ?

Mine (Region 1) says it runs 116 minutes, and it does indeed run 116 minutes.

Posted by Phil Blake (Member # 2012) on 01-01-2007, 08:43 AM:

Mine region 4 (pal) 86 minutes , have yet toi run it to see what the difference is.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-01-2007, 09:27 AM:

I think it may be a typo Phil. The Ezydvd site has it at 120mins. I seriously doubt Pixar would edit it for anyone.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-02-2007, 08:50 AM:

One thing I've noticed different on the French version of CARS is when the two Mini Vans are riding through the town and the old black car slaps a bumper sticker on the bumper of one of them. In my memory the sticker said 'Nice Butt' or something...in the French version, it says 'Radiator Springs'.

Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 01-04-2007, 04:48 AM:

"Nice Butte"

Edie McClurg.