The Great Movie Ride

[rmorton50]

I'd be ok with adding a few more recent movies. But, we have to be carefull - is the newer film really a classic? It takes a while to tell. Certainly films like Star Wars deserve to be in there. Even then, Star Wars is 30 years old.

[Captain Schnemo]

Your approach is the way I would go. It's just Disney management doesn't have a real go track record with this sort of thing.

I completely agree there. Given whoever is currently in charge of the creative decisions, I'd rather they do nothing for the moment.

But in the infinitely improbable future where things get better, I don't have any philosophical objection to updating the attraction.

The Big Sleep...Total classic!

A movie where the plot doesn't make any sense, any way you slice it...and it doesn't matter. Good movie.

I thought of a couple more contemporary possible "classics". I would say that Ghostbusters fits the bill for being both extremely popular and extremely good. Just about any line in that film is comedy gold, in or out of context, and it's held up very well.

Another possible contender would be Spider-Man 2, although it might be a little weak to include a sequel. Then again, sequels are representative of our times, so maybe it makes sense.

The original Die Hard has held up, and has one of the best movie villains of all time.

Of course there are a ton of off-beat movie I think were fantastic, but they aren't the kind of "classics" this ride is celebrating.

Some kind of attraction dedicated to great indie films could be extremely cool, but given that the Studios doesn't really pretend to be about the movies any more, that's an unlikely premise.

For what it's worth, I can't remember ever having a better time at the movies than the first Harold & Kumar flick, but it's not exactly proper material for Disney. We actually considered sitting around and waiting for the next showing of the movie. Not that it's a Great movie, by any means, but it made me laugh like I haven't in ages, so in that sense it's lowercase great.

The only other movies I can remember wanting to watch again right away after seeing them were Amélie and Slumdog Millionaire, neither of which are from Hollywood.

Any other suggestions for contemporary classics? They are hard to come by.

[Soarin08]

There should be infinitely more Spielberg in there!!! Come on!!! Where's E.T.? Jurassic Park? Schindler's List? Close Encounters of the Third Kind? I only see the brief Indy scene in the ride and I think there's a bit from Jaws in the end.... please! They need to overhaul GMR and put some more Spielberg in there than they have, IMO.

[MadEye]

There should be infinitely more Spielberg in there!!! Come on!!! Where's E.T.? Jurassic Park? Schindler's List? Close Encounters of the Third Kind? I only see the brief Indy scene in the ride and I think there's a bit from Jaws in the end.... please! They need to overhaul GMR and put some more Spielberg in there than they have, IMO.

E.T. JP and Jaws are at Universal... Before the Dreamworks deal, Disney and Spielberg were not on good speaking terms. True Spielberg directed Indiana Jones, but it is owned by George Lucas and they already had a contract before any bad feelings between Eisner and Lucas.