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Martin Scorsese’s The Departed has rather expectedly taken the number one spot in the buzz rankings for movies now in theaters, but the release has also ignated quite some discussion of the director’s earlier masterpiece, Goodfellas. The film now finds itself second in the buzz rankings for classic films, only second to Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

The reason why The Little Mermaid has so suddenly taken over the number one ranking in the classics list is Disney’s new Platinum Edition double DVD release, which has sold over four million copies in North America in its first week on release.

The Little Mermaid has also boosted the discussion of other Disney classics, with the modern classics top ten now including three Disney movies: The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.

Disney is clearly still able to make people talk. In Movie Say’s film buzz rankings, the company has top 10 movies in both the Classic Movies and Modern Classic Movies in Movie Say’s film buzz rankings.

It is, however, perhaps somewhat surprising that the most talked about classic Disney film (i.e. Disney film made before 1991) is not one of the company’s celebrated old animated films, but instead that unforgettably sweet Mary Poppins from 1964. The film is currently the 8th most talked about classic movie overall.

In the Modern Classics section, meanwhile, Disney holds number two spot with The Lion King, while yet another one of the company’s celebrated early 1990’s animated features, Aladdin, makes an appearance as the 13th most talked about movie on the Internet at the moment. Curiously, both of these hand-animated films beat any computer animated movie, with Pixar’s Finding Nemo (also released through Disney) finding itself just below Aladding at number 14.