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So, I would like to know:

1. how often do you watch the Disney movies

2. We´re looking/asking/complaining for the best release/edition in order to have all the Extras possible. But, how often you make use of those?

Currently I´m watching all the movies again in chronological order. About to watch Fantasia today. As for Extras have to admit that I don´t watch them that much after the first time; even though I´m glad I have the best editions. But I hope I´ll get to them again eventually.

I generally used to read before bed, but I've been reading so much in my downtime at work that I've been watching Disney movies before bed. I'm not going in any order...I'll just go through my discs and think 'This sounds good,' or just pick one randomly beforehand. It takes me 2-4 nights to finish them... I haven't sat down to watch bonus features in a while; generally when I do, I'll just watch bonus features, not the movie, too.

It's actually been a while since I've watched bonus features...the last time I really sat down to watch them was 2013/2014, when I watched Waking Sleeping Beauty, The Sweatbox, and the ABC Making of Frozen (documentaries, extras, same difference). But I always make sure to watch the trailers! And once I go through the films, I'll have many nights of bonus-watching to come.

The last rounds of movie watching included:

Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Black Cauldron, The Princess and the Frog, Winnie the Pooh

The Three Caballeros, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid, Treasure Planet, Bolt

Fantasia 2000, Brother Bear, Tarzan, The Rescuers Down Under, Frozen

Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Lady and the Tramp, Bambi, Big Hero 6, The Fox and the Hound, Oliver and Company (what I'm watching now)

I wish I had all the Extras possible, but I don't; I haven't upgraded to Blu-ray. YouTube has a lot of great documentaries, whether from the early '80s on Disney Channel through now.

I tend to watch one or two Disney movies every few weeks. This week I rewatched The Emperor's New Groove because I was reading about Kingdom of the Sun, and I even ended up watching some Emperor's New School episodes because I was feeling kind of nostalgic. Last week I rewatched Big Hero 6 because I haven't watched it since early 2015 and I wanted to reassess my opinion on it (it is indeed well-written). Since my next few weeks are looking to be pretty busy, the next Disney movie I will watch will probably be Moana. I like rewatching classic films, but I prefer expanding my horizons and trying out new stuff, Disney or not. Plus, I'm currently binging all the Ghibli movies, many of which I have not seen.

The last time I used a purchased movie to watch bonus features was for Zootopia back in June, and even then it was a long time since I last did that. I watched far more bonus features when I was a kid, which was before Blu-Ray and Youtube became popular things. If more movies these days came with audio commentary I would probably be more inclined to bother. Otherwise, most of the bonus features are quite easy to find online anyway so I find myself watching them before I can buy a movie. Last year, however, I went on a binge watch of a bunch of making-of documentaries (including Waking Sleeping Beauty, The Sweatbox, and The Pixar Story) during a long car ride, and those are way more informative than whatever Disney throws on a Blu-Ray.

What's The Sweatbox?

Disney Duster wrote:What's The Sweatbox?

When Sting agreed to do music for Kingdom Of/In the Sun, he made it a condition that his wife gets to make a documentary about the making of it. Disney never released it, and it has been floating around the Internet in the past few years.

Oh. Then I heard of it. I just forgot the title because the Sweatbox was what they called the place where Walt Disney would review things for movies and people would sweat over the cramped hot space and worrying about what he would say, right? So Disney still does that? Anyway, I wish I could see that movie.

Disney Duster wrote:Oh. Then I heard of it. I just forgot the title because the Sweatbox was what they called the place where Walt Disney would review things for movies and people would sweat over the cramped hot space and worrying about what he would say, right? So Disney still does that? Anyway, I wish I could see that movie.

Yup, that's where the name comes from...and I bet that they enjoy the 'dailies' (the footage they check at those meetings) in air conditioning these days!

Yea, I bet they have air conditioning in there. I certainly hope!