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The animation is poorly done. The dialogue is awful and the voice acting is worse. They generally don't have songs, which are the kids' favorite parts of the movies. And parents get nostalgic watching the Disney ones with their kids. I can tell you from experience that the knockoffs aren't good enough to sustain interest for multiple viewings. |
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If I remember correctly, Disney started the bundles. At the time it made sense - most people didn't own a Blu-ray player yet, so you could buy the bundle and build a little bit of a collection so that when you did upgrade a device you already had some material. Also, homes with multiple players (but only the main TV had a Blu-ray player connected) had copies for the DVD players too.
Personally, I like the bundles as DVDs are simpler to rip for viewing on a mobile device. I like having both the DVD for ripping and the Blu-ray for viewing on the TV. |
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Yes, of course. More than I care to remember.
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Tod Browning's Dracula and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula are worlds different. If one person watched one of those movies and another person watched the other, they would have a very difficult time comparing notes. Sharing the same title doesn't mean the two movies will be anything alike. I don't even know why I'm arguing this. I think you know this and are just having fun. |
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Fortunately Disney does not own any copyrights on the (classic) fairy tales themselves. |
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But that also means that going back to the original isn't going to be very close to the Disneyfied versions in most cases; people want to watch Ariel live happily ever after, not commit suicide, or hear the Let it Go song and see sisters supporting each other rather than the (unrelated) friendship of the original and hearts turning to ice. Personally I prefer the original stories most of the time, but they're not really interchangeable given the level of alteration Disney generally layers into their adaptations. |
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I like the Italian animated take of Pinocchio as much as the Disney version. But that doesn't mean that any bottom-of-the-barrel adaptation churned out by a studio trying to cash in is of equal quality to one of the top animation studios in the world. Quote:
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A more general point is that titles are not protected by copyright, regardless of the copyright status of the work that the title applies to.
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