NintendoPie said:
Zim said:
I personally feel pixar became bad about 11 years ago lol.
Bugs life? Yup good. All 3 Toy Stories? Great. Monsters Inc.? Good.
Everything else? Ranges from meh i.e.Finding Nemo to utterly dreadful and should have been direct to video i.e.Cars, Ratatouille(He's a rat but he can cook and wants to be a chef!!!!). I honestly think Cars is one of the worst mainstream movies ever made. I don't think I have ever seen any movie where every single aspect of it is so blatantly trying to sell merchandise. Where the story and world the movie is set in have been given zero thought at all and instead all of it devoted to selling toy cars.
Film critics are as ridiculously pro pixar as tech critics are pro apple though. If half their movies simply changed the studio name the reviews would be far less positive. Seriously cars is 74% positive? Ratatouille 94%? Both were nominated for best animated feature?! It seems like they get an utterly comical amount of leeway based purely on their name and the fact their movies have good cgi.
High hopes for Monsters University though. They managed to make Toy Story 3 good and that was a sequel to their earlier movies so I'm hoping the same happens with MU. |
How does Cars try to sell you toy cars? I never got that impression.
And I thought Ratatouille was a really charming and fun movie!
And Finding Nemo is not "meh"! 
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I had typed up a pretty big reply earlier about the themes and qualities behind Cars and Ratatouille but I just wound up deleting it. If, after watching the movies, all Zim got out of it was "Sell toy cars" and "A rat that can cook", my post wasn't going to change his mind. I enjoyed both of them a lot. My low expectations were smashed and I wound up buying both movies for my permanent collection (and Finding Nemo, too). I guess he'd say The Lion King was about "I'm a lion and I eat bugs". To each, his own.
