A 3D movie starring a strangely feline character? Step aside, James Cameron – Francis Ford Coppola beat you to that punch by decades. The genius director slummed it (during his epic slumming it period – see Jack) and made a movie for Disneyland back in the 80s. Called Captain EO, the film was the sort of thing that really epitomized both the 80s and Michael Jackson: garish, expensive, weird, silly, and not very good while at the same time somehow being brilliant.
Now Captain EO, which has been dormant for a decade, is coming back. The movie starts playing at Disneyland tomorrow, and it runs through… who knows when. When the short film (17 minutes) first started at Disneyland it was touted as being a 4D experience, as they would have smoke and wind and lasers in the theater, but Heather Hust Rivera, the keeper of the Disneyland blog, says that they won’t have all of the original elements (which makes it sound like they didn’t want to spend money on this).
Captain EO is going to be shown as a 70mm print, so it should look pretty amazing. Apparently the sound mix has been upgraded as well; the film is well worth seeing as a FFC curiosity, but it’s hard to recommend plunking down all the money that’s required to go to a Disney park. I’ve never quite seen the appeal of these overpriced hellholes except for pederasts and people hoping to lose their children.
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FINALLY! someone and said or done SOMETHING for Captian EO since MJ's death. I thought i was the sole soul who remembered seeing this as a kid. People all looked at me like WTF? when i'd say remember Capt. EO!?! HUH GUYS?!?!…………..
Now if they would just do something with the equally terrible Moonwalker movie.
"I've never quite seen the appeal of these overpriced hellholes except for pederasts and people hoping to lose their children."
maybe because It's fun? I have no children (yet) so I guess Im a pedo.
what's a pederast?
It's appealing, you mean old bastard.
A pederast is a person who walks. There's a lot of walking at Disney.
If you go to Disneyland as an adult without children it doesn't necessarily make you a pervert but it does mean you have severe developmental problems.
D.F.'s got a lot of nerve calling people pederasts.
The rides at Disney parks are awesome. Like, "Six Flags is for bitches"-awesome. Fuck the haters.
It's also been up on youtube split across two parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AstW05bDiQU
Yeah, fat people usually hate going to theme parks because it requires them to walk(gasp!) as well as constantly be reminded of how fat they are when they wait in line for 2 hours only to find out the seat doesn't quite fit there huge ass. Better to make it seem like they aren't cool and deride them, then to admit they are too fat for the rides. Roller Coasters are a lot of fun for adults…. skinny adults.
Shut the fuck up #4.
I saw this right after it hit the park. The 3D was actually pretty cool and the movie wasn't so long it created a migraine. The in-house "effects" were quite stupid. And this was before the idea of putting MJ in a children's movie was, well, bad. "Hey kids! Want to see Captain Eo's rocket?!?!" All this being said, I'd barely cross the street to see it now. BTW, I'm guessing that being told you're too fat to get on a ride at Disney would make your boner sad.
Lotta fat people at Disneyland. Fat fucking dullards and their dim bulb children wandering a fake-ass expensive wonderland.
Anyone who actually takes the time to submit comments at CHUD — an entire Web site devoted to "fake-ass expensive wonderlands" — should probably think twice about criticizing people who like Disneyland.
I fuckin love it man, in today's negative nerd culture you gotta take your hatred to the next level to stand out, so why not choose something impossible to hate? Good work coming up with Disneyland. So who here hates chocolate cake the most?
Hate is the new awesome. Fuck you
Devin just likes to get a reaction. He's one of those kids in your grade school who picks on you just to get you mad because somehow that gives him a self-esteem boost, to see you react. So everybody chill out. This is the guy who loves Harry Potter with wild passion, and is now calling other people pedos. But he doesn't mean it. He's just fuckin' with you to get a reaction.
Pedo = "fart" in espanol senores.
I think there's a lot of pedo in here, cabrones.
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