So this is only a bit off topic - but we went to see the TCM airing of "Singing in the Rain" this weekend. Anytime I see a movie that's featured in the Great Movie Ride, I'm always amazed how poorly the movie is protrayed into the ride. Singing In The Rain is such a dynamic movie - and it's so tight. A lot of movie musicals drag on forever, even the good ones. (Did the Sound of Music really need to be 3 hours long?) Singing in the Rain runs a lean hour and forty minutes, tells a concise story using the songs, and has very little fat in it. (Though I admit the "Broadway Melody" number at the end does sag a bit.) Yet in the ride - it's Gene Kelly standing still hanging on a lamp-post. It gives you almost no feel for the actual movie, or even the actual scene.
Seeing the movie spurs me to want them to change this ride so much. Not to a Mickey Mouse attraction but to a dynamic movie ride. Everyone complains about Universals over-reliance on screens, but I completely want to see them manage to incorporate ACTUAL SCENES from movies into a ride, while at the same time using a trackless ride system (watch a video from Mystic Manor for an example of what this entails). Then you watch Gene Kelly actually dance around...while you move around in your car. How great would that be!
This is why the ONLY scene that works for me in the GMR is the Wizard of Oz scene - the only one that makes you feel like you are part of a movie, as opposed to being in a wax museum.