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okr on 15 October 2012
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spurgeonryan said:
AndrewWK said:
okr said:
Watched Shrek Forever After and How to Train Your Dragon today, both for the first time.

Shrek 4 was good, but in the end just more of the same. Shrek 1 is still by far the best.

Dragon was great. Best animation movie of recent years imo along with Toy Story 3 and Tangled. Too bad Dragon will get at least 2 sequels as well. Dreamworks is not as good as Pixar when it comes to sequels.

I wished every animation studio would take the Disney route and not (or only very rarely) make sequels for cinematic release. But who am I kidding, this is the Age of Sequelitis.

Pixar has struggled recently. With movies like Cars, Brave and the biggest animated piece of shit in recent history Cars 2 -.-

But then they made Ratatouille and Wall-E as well in the last few years. It has been an up and down.

Disney owns them now. Since Cars 2 which was a pile of human crap made much much more than Cars did they are happy with it. They know how to sell shit. Add in formula 1 and overseas will eat it up. They knew this would happen. Now the movie is at 559 worldwide I think.  The videogame sold well too! Disney does not care as long as they are making money. Just like when Microsoft bought Rare out. Their soul was devoured and they are now only in place to make money.

I actually liked Cars, but it made a lot of money as well. Same with Brave. The magic is gone but it is still better than a lot of the crap we get such as Madagascar 3....puke!!!

As long as disney keeps making money they will continue to pump out the sequels which is exactly why they bought the company in the first place. To have more control, make sequels, and pad their bottom line. By the way it was a very good risk. 2.1 billion or whatever it is tat they paid for it was probably made back in the first year with merchandise alone.

Disney payed $7.4 billion (in an all-stock transaction) for Pixar, not $2 billion.

These are the two well-known Pixar key people:
John Lasseter - current position: Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios and at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Ed Catmull - current position: President at Pixar Animation Studios and at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

If you guys really think that Pixar struggled recently (the company which had the - unadjusted - highest grossing animation movie of all time just 2 years ago) and/or that it's the Disney executives who force Pixar to do sequels, then Lasseter and Catmull must be schizophrenic, because these two are (together with Disney boss Robert Iger) the guys who decide everything now at Disney-Pixar. Lasseter and Catmull greenlight upcoming Disney-Pixar projects, they decide which Pixar movies get sequels. In addition to his two CCO positions Lasseter is also "Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering", i.e. he supervises all of Disney's worlwide theme parks. Lasseter also directed two of the three released pixar sequels and the unloved Cars franchise is his very own baby. This isn't: Disney = Sith, Pixar = Jedi, Disney and Pixar are two sides of the same medal now.