In fairness, for the longest time, neither film was in the Disney+ library for a decade!

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TBF Black Hole and Something Wicked are still there in the Disney+ library. Not marketing doesn’t equal erased from history - they only save that treatment for Song of the South (defensibly) and the banned trans episodes of their cartoons (indefensibly)

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Should also go without saying- But they recently inducted WALL-E into the Criterion Collection! WALL-E! They are *not* wholly the province of film snobs, and to pretend otherwise is to be deliberately obtuse.

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It's *incredibly* egalitarian. Meanwhile, Disney will milk the shit out of Star Wars but actively pull a Stalin on their own cult hits from the era they're ashamed of, like Black Hole and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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Sidebar- It's wild to even lobby this, considering Criterion frequently highlights "trash" and other such lowbrow cinema. They've had exploitation curations, Hong Kong action curations, celebrations of gore-tastic horror... Hell, they've spotlighted kids movies, too!

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