Comments on: Amen!

By: doug r

doug r — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:46:50 +0000

I loved Lilo and Stitch, hated that sequel. The Pixar stuff is great, I agree Cars is one of the weaker tries, along with A Bug’s Life.
I dunno-but I loved watching Chicken Little. Maybe it was the 3-d…it tied in well with the frenetic energy of the piece-that real d stuff is amazing…better than IMAX 3-d, IMHO.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:33:46 +0000

They’re actually killing the straight to video movies. And yeah I haven’t really liked any Disney stuff since Tarzan. I really hate Lilo & Stitch. What Disney seems to not have understood is that people don’t go to Pixar movies for the 3d stuff but because the stories were good.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:55:18 +0000

It’s not even fair to the people at Pixar to say that Disney made ‘The Incredibles.’ As far as I am concerned, the two entities are completely different despite Disney’s ownership.

Pixar’s animation is not only a wonder, but their movies are also well written. The eye candy is great, but it still has to have a good story and Pixar’s movies always do. While I thought ‘Cars’ was the weakest of the bunch thus far (due more to length than anything else), Pixar has churned out some of the best movies of the last decade despite them being animated.

I do agree with Rex that those straight to DVD productions are complete crap. It’s done to make a quick and tidy profit and it works because parents will keep buying that junk for their kids.

I think a lot of it has to do with the story. When Disney was on a roll and producing great movies like ‘Aladdin’, ‘The Lion King’, and ‘Beauty & The Beast’, they had a great team of writers doing great things with the stories and the scripts. ‘Beauty & The Beast’ came out in 1991. ‘The Lion King’ came out three years later with ‘Aladdin’ in between. After that they were more concerned about making sure they had a summer release than they were about making good movies.

By: Rex Mundane

Rex Mundane — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:27:14 +0000

My problem with disney isnt that they rely on CGI over hand drawn animation, its that by and large they cant help but produce cinematic abortions nonstop. The Incredibles (as with most of the Pixar properties) is probably the best thing theyve done in a long while, but the rest? I guess Emperors New Groove was kinda funny but Treasure Planet? Atlantis? And the hell was Chicken Little? Whats the point anymore of them being around if its just to produce one good film every fifty tries or so? And goddam dont even get me started on the straight-to-dvd crimes against humanity they keep pulling with Peter Pan 2 and Aladdin 3 and Bambi 5: The Bambining, and jesus goddam you know theyve just made a sequel to Fox and the Hound?! FOX AND THE HOUND!! And they play in a freaking country band! How the… God freaking… GAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
*has glass of “festive” egg nog to calm nerves*
eesh… Pirates 3 is the only thing I can even look forward to at this point… sad to see how the house of mouse has crumbled.

By: Eric the Political Hack

Eric the Political Hack — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:55:39 +0000

You know this is something I complained about to some buddies a few years ago. But for some reason I’m finding it hard to really care about now. Perhaps it’s because even the more recent Disney cartoons haven’t seemed to match the ones from my youth (and I’m not that old).

Call me cynical but it seems that both the recent computerized and hand drawn movies just seem to lack an onstensible magic I find in the cartoons of my childhood.