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[apocalypsos]

My favorite line from Miss Alli's summary of this week's TAR:

But Jonathan and Victoria have arrived safely with their donkeys. Er, "donkey." Yeah. They discover when they go to turn in the donkey that they're supposed to have two. "You were so panicked," says Jonathan, who read the words "two donkeys" out loud. "I told you to calm down," repeats Jonathan, who read the words "two donkeys" out loud. "It's over; we're done," says Victoria, always the defeatist. "Why didn't you help me read?" she asks Jonathan, who read the words "two donkeys" out loud.

*snerk* And the best part is that he totally did. Bwahahaha.

I know I don't want to even think about those bastards anymore, but I can't help but laugh at them over that one. Idiots.

In other news, if ABC could lay off pimping the version of Aladdin they fucked up with new music, that would be really, really nice. Much like Star Wars, I'm not buying your tired DVDs until you give me the version I fell in love with in the first place. If you're that desperate to hear Clay Aiken sing Disney songs, I'm sure it'd be easier than you'd think to get his phone number, call him up, and request a personal rendition of whatever song best fits him. Is there a Disney song about being a gigantic dork?

Comments

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

The original of Aladdin os on the DVD. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bought it. Unlike Mr "I'm so important I don't need all the people who made me righ in the first place" Lucas, Disney makes the original of something it's fucked up available as well.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, at least it's got that going for it. Although why they'd bother with the fucked-up version is beyond me. *eye roll*

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I don't know either. As soon as they did the first altered DVD (Beauty and the Beast?) with a "brand new song," I knew, just knew, they'd do it to every other as well. And they have. But at least I get the old versions on the discs, so that I can still watch the movies of long-disintegrated videotapes.

Also, I got a free Abu with my Aladdin DVD. Monkey!

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Is it the real original version (with the "ear" line in "Arabian Nights") or the video version?

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

The home video version. They never restored that line.

(I had issue with the VHS I got for Christmas in 1992 saying "the original" on the lower right-hand corner. I knew they'd changed the line -- and I had the soundtrack cassette to prove it -- and therefore it wasn't original. The CD has the original line in the song still, though.)

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

That's what I figured, but I wanted to confirm it.

(The CD was one of the first CDs I ever got - the purist I've become is eternally happy.)

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Also, it had to have been for Christmas in 1993, as the film was released in theatres Christmas '92.

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[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Huh, really? Heh, I couldn't remember what time of year the movie came out... I know that Lion King was summer, so I was hazarding a memory that Aladdin kicked off the Annual Summer Release era. I was sort of eleven at the time... it's all hazy. ;)

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Nope, TLK was the first Summer release. I was ten at the time, but I have that kind of trivial memory.

(I remember, for example, that on the way home from the movie, we stopped at the video store I was then renting games from, and my mom offereed to rent me the store's Genesis system because Sonic 2 was in

...and I just bored you to death)

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

What's the "ear" line?

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

When the film was originally released ot theatres, "Arabian Nights" included the line "Where they cut off your ear/If they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but hey, it's home." Various Arab groups took offense at this, and for the video release it was changed to "Where it's hot and immense/And the heat is intense," or something like that.

It's redundant and it screws with the rhyme scheme. Grr argh.

[rachelmap.livejournal.com]

Why didn't Victoria claim Jonathan as the other donkey?

[prettybird.livejournal.com]

In other news, if ABC could lay off pimping the version of Aladdin they fucked up with new music, that would be really, really nice.

Umm...what? Did I miss something?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The newly released version of Aladdin on DVD replaced the old version of "A Whole New World" with a version done by Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey and brought in some song by Clay Aiken. And during tonight's showing of it on ABC, I kept seeing little comments and clips of them during every commercial break. Ugh. Blech.

[thebitterguy]

I thought they just included them on the disc as 'extras'. They changed it? Thas fuked OP, mahn.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

As far as I'd last heard, "A Whole New World" was replaced but Clay Aiken's song was an extra. But then again, I could be wrong, because the fact that's even on the DVD at all pisses me off too much to even look at it. I love that movie, damn it. *grumble*

[howielove2101.livejournal.com]

Replaced? As far as I know, it's still Brad Kane and Lea Salonga(sp?) singing on the movie... and Peabo Bryson and Regina (?) singing on the end credits... I do know that they made a new video starring everyone's favorite newlyweds (gag me)...

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

The "some song by Clay Aiken," for the record, is "Proud of Your Boy," a song that was cut from the score when Aladdin's mother was cut as a character.

It's a lovely song, although probably not in Aiken's hands and voice.