Babe (was Crying)

[David Andignac]

Actually Gordy hit theatres about the same time (if not slightly before
Babe) was apparently inferior and disappeared quickly. I think it was the
same sort of Hollywood phenomena that puts out several movies on the same
topic at once. See the flood of Jane Austen novels or the four "fresh
takes" on Shakespeare that appeared last year. (Not that I'm complaining,
most of those have been good movies). In this same vein, there are three
volcano movies coming out in the next month - Dante's Peak, Volcano and a
TV movie Volcano, Fire on the Mountain. 

I agree that the animated video bait and switch is evil.

David A. 


>  
> I haven't seen _Babe_, but I do notice that Disney have just put out 
> a video about a cute pig called _Gordy_. I can't help thinking 
> they're sinking to the same level as the foax who recently released, 
> on the SA market at least, a series of animated videos: _Pocahontas_, 
> _Aladdin_, _Beauty and the Beast_, _The Little Mermaid_, _The Lion 
> King_, etc., all very lovingly packaged to look like other videos with 
> similar titles but bearing a tiny piece of small print at the back 
> which sez something like "Of course, this isn't the Disney version of 
> the film which you enjoyed so much but we're sure you'll like this 
> version just as much". All of this seems rather relevant to the issue 
> of the behaviour of multinational capitalist corporations which is a 
> major theme of _GR_ IMHO. Speaking of which, I have identified a 
> third S African tentacle of the Starbucks/Steers Burgers/Blockbuster 
> Video cosnpiracy: Debonair Pizza. You foax got this one over there?
> 
> Craig Clark
> 
> "Living inside the system is like driving across
>  the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
>  on suicide."
>    - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"