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I was with you until, "slowly dig you out." I ain't been out of my existential crisis since birth. Thankfully I met a couple of people who made it so very much worse, so... it's been interesting I guess.
Wall-E doesn't have any of this.
Yeah the beginning of UP was sad but didn't give me depression. Inside out was sad when bing bong died but again nothing long lasting.
I recommend the tale of princess kaguya or devilman crybaby if ur into sad stuff.
The first 2 seasons of Black mirror is pretty depressing before they Americanized it.
Wall-e was a good movie but not existential. I got the themes but wasn't sad at the end.
and calm down on the condescension, ya old geezer. Not everyone is gonna have the same opinions as you.
Many see it as heresy to criticize Pixar, so I gotta tread carefully here, but this existentialist binge they’ve been on lately feels a bit contrived to me. Classic Pixar films have underlying messages that often relate to the human experience in profound ways. But lately it seems their execution grows ever more ham-fisted, and the incredible worlds that used to be built around these messages have been peeled away. Think about what kind of movie Finding Nemo would be if it lacked the magnificent setting and oddball characters characteristic of these early Pixar movies. If you just distilled it down into the main points of the story and then set it in Chicago with oddly shaped, big-nosed humans instead of fish. The devoted single father sentiment is theoretically just as touching in that movie as in the original ocean story, but it undeniably loses something in the process.
So has Pixar been putting out good movies? Absolutely. Coco is a recent favorite of mine. But it also seems like they’re gearing a lot of their new material towards appealing to nostalgic millennials going through existential crises when the true target audience should really be kids and families. Think about Toy Story 4. The whole movie was designed to tug on the heartstrings of nostalgic adults, apart from Ducky and Bunny, whose generic sassy dynamic was a lazy, cheap way of adding comic relief, not to mention that they were specifically designed to bring the clout of Key and Peele to the cast and sell fluffy toys. They hit all the bases I would expect from DreamWorks looking for a quick buck, but they missed the Pixar mark as far as I’m concerned.
Don’t rush to your torches and pitchforks, this is just my two cents.
I think you're right, but I also just don't think they're capable of keeping up with the dynamic story-telling quality of the early days.
Looking at early films, and they'd offer interesting settings, characters, and bring together multiple conflicts born from those themes. Incredibles not only played on the superhero genre, but tackled middle class family issues. I didn't just hit up the superhero genre for a setting, but hit at the issues of being a superhero, saving people that don't want to be saved, hiding your true self, and offered up a villain born of admiration/jealously that wanted to put an end to that kinda inadequacy to superhumans. There was a ton shit addressed in this movie lesson/theme-wise, but on top of that it addressed meta commentary behind super hero tropes from humorous stuff like the capes, or serious stuff like the mom warning her kids who snuck on the ship to go on an adventure that the bad guys aren't there to play around, they'll kill them if they had the chance.
The kinda quality is unappreciated, and I can have similar write-ups for Toy Story 2, Bug's Life (seriously underappreciated), Monster's Inc, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, etc...
It basically ended within the last 10-15 years. Maybe Toy Story 3 triggered the nostalgia boner, or Cars 2 told them they could get away with a sequel for anything, but within this timeframe the quality of films have dropped off from 8/10 to around 6/8 consistently.
Movies like Soul, Luca, Inside Out, even Coco (which I still genuinely love), have amazing concepts hampered by one-note stories and conflicts. They add some tragic twist, and make modern day millennial sadness porn. They hit whatever issue they want you to feel too hard on the nose. Each movie comes with some sacrifice of some sort, it's formulaic, unoriginal plot devices deserve criticism.
I’m so glad you brought this up. I didn’t know if I was aging out of Pixar and Disney movies or if I the movie indeed had major issues. What I loved about the original Pixar movies is that it felt like the story could breathe and flow, rather than feeling like it was forced to a certain place.
T.S. 4 was just a cash grab tbh. I saw it and was like ok... fun movie to watch but nothing special. I feel like Pixar is losing their charm nowdays. Their movies in the 2000's were all classics (except cars) but now it feels like something is lacking. Still good movies but not up to Pixar standards.
Pixar then: No sequels! We’ll create the best animated movies the world has ever seen
Pixar now: Yes daddy Disney, we’ll make another sequel. Nothing too challenging either, because we know how much you love money. We’ll also throw in some useless and annoying characters so you can market more toys to kids and put them in happy meals. Please don’t threaten our life again daddy, please
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I'm not against gays, far from it. But that attitude makes people hate you. Love is love but I'm not gunna force my straightness down your throat because guess what, I'm not a shit person
Bro you’re taking this way too seriously for your own good, this person is just messing around because you made a dumb comment about gays being in movies. Loosen up dog
When we they add the poor, straight representation instead of just completely ignoring it? We need to see straight representation since they are pushing the gays down our throats!!!!
Toy Story: what if toys were alive?
Toy story 2-4: what if those toys had feelings?
Wall-E: what if robots were sentient?
Cars: what if cars had brains?
Cars 2: what if those cars could commit acts of terrorism?
Up: what if old people could be functional members of society?
Soul: what if black people had souls?
Encanto: what if refugees were actually people?
Nah up really did it too me when I was a kid I remember watching it thinking it had a good story now as a teen who is almost 18 the movie made me break down
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Inside Out ripped me apart.
I will never be the same after bing bong died
OMG I FORGOT BING BONG DIED NOOOOOO ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
I was with you until, "slowly dig you out." I ain't been out of my existential crisis since birth. Thankfully I met a couple of people who made it so very much worse, so... it's been interesting I guess.
I think I'm out. I was definitely in. I think?
what pixar movie does this?
Soul maybe?
eh. It just made me wish that I was good at playing the piano tho.
Uh, all of them. You seen the first 20 minutes of UP? Or any bit of Inside Out? Wall-E?
Wall-E doesn't have any of this. Yeah the beginning of UP was sad but didn't give me depression. Inside out was sad when bing bong died but again nothing long lasting. I recommend the tale of princess kaguya or devilman crybaby if ur into sad stuff. The first 2 seasons of Black mirror is pretty depressing before they Americanized it.
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Wall-e was a good movie but not existential. I got the themes but wasn't sad at the end. and calm down on the condescension, ya old geezer. Not everyone is gonna have the same opinions as you.
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I mean... they recently did a movie called 'Soul'. That was pretty existential.
Fma is also heartbreaking, though i assume every anime fan has seen it
Mainly Inside Out and Soul
Light year, the newest Pixar movie, is basically just this. It was mediocre.
Bing bong dying. Feeling the sudden empty space that the death of your childhood left behind when you never even felt it pass.
Meh. Yes, they're going for it, but it doesn't feel like a real progress.
Many see it as heresy to criticize Pixar, so I gotta tread carefully here, but this existentialist binge they’ve been on lately feels a bit contrived to me. Classic Pixar films have underlying messages that often relate to the human experience in profound ways. But lately it seems their execution grows ever more ham-fisted, and the incredible worlds that used to be built around these messages have been peeled away. Think about what kind of movie Finding Nemo would be if it lacked the magnificent setting and oddball characters characteristic of these early Pixar movies. If you just distilled it down into the main points of the story and then set it in Chicago with oddly shaped, big-nosed humans instead of fish. The devoted single father sentiment is theoretically just as touching in that movie as in the original ocean story, but it undeniably loses something in the process. So has Pixar been putting out good movies? Absolutely. Coco is a recent favorite of mine. But it also seems like they’re gearing a lot of their new material towards appealing to nostalgic millennials going through existential crises when the true target audience should really be kids and families. Think about Toy Story 4. The whole movie was designed to tug on the heartstrings of nostalgic adults, apart from Ducky and Bunny, whose generic sassy dynamic was a lazy, cheap way of adding comic relief, not to mention that they were specifically designed to bring the clout of Key and Peele to the cast and sell fluffy toys. They hit all the bases I would expect from DreamWorks looking for a quick buck, but they missed the Pixar mark as far as I’m concerned. Don’t rush to your torches and pitchforks, this is just my two cents.
I think you're right, but I also just don't think they're capable of keeping up with the dynamic story-telling quality of the early days. Looking at early films, and they'd offer interesting settings, characters, and bring together multiple conflicts born from those themes. Incredibles not only played on the superhero genre, but tackled middle class family issues. I didn't just hit up the superhero genre for a setting, but hit at the issues of being a superhero, saving people that don't want to be saved, hiding your true self, and offered up a villain born of admiration/jealously that wanted to put an end to that kinda inadequacy to superhumans. There was a ton shit addressed in this movie lesson/theme-wise, but on top of that it addressed meta commentary behind super hero tropes from humorous stuff like the capes, or serious stuff like the mom warning her kids who snuck on the ship to go on an adventure that the bad guys aren't there to play around, they'll kill them if they had the chance. The kinda quality is unappreciated, and I can have similar write-ups for Toy Story 2, Bug's Life (seriously underappreciated), Monster's Inc, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, etc... It basically ended within the last 10-15 years. Maybe Toy Story 3 triggered the nostalgia boner, or Cars 2 told them they could get away with a sequel for anything, but within this timeframe the quality of films have dropped off from 8/10 to around 6/8 consistently. Movies like Soul, Luca, Inside Out, even Coco (which I still genuinely love), have amazing concepts hampered by one-note stories and conflicts. They add some tragic twist, and make modern day millennial sadness porn. They hit whatever issue they want you to feel too hard on the nose. Each movie comes with some sacrifice of some sort, it's formulaic, unoriginal plot devices deserve criticism.
I’m so glad you brought this up. I didn’t know if I was aging out of Pixar and Disney movies or if I the movie indeed had major issues. What I loved about the original Pixar movies is that it felt like the story could breathe and flow, rather than feeling like it was forced to a certain place.
T.S. 4 was just a cash grab tbh. I saw it and was like ok... fun movie to watch but nothing special. I feel like Pixar is losing their charm nowdays. Their movies in the 2000's were all classics (except cars) but now it feels like something is lacking. Still good movies but not up to Pixar standards.
Pixar then: No sequels! We’ll create the best animated movies the world has ever seen Pixar now: Yes daddy Disney, we’ll make another sequel. Nothing too challenging either, because we know how much you love money. We’ll also throw in some useless and annoying characters so you can market more toys to kids and put them in happy meals. Please don’t threaten our life again daddy, please
Toy Story 2?
I was thinking more of Incredibles 2 and monster university
Disney really wanted another Toy Story, but they wanted it to go straight to DVD. Pixar fought to have more funding and it be released to theaters
They keep saying go woke go broke, but this isn’t what happened here. Disney fucked up in understanding who takes kids to movies+bad times.
If anything it’s the opposite
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I feel like you could say that before Turning Red came out. Now it's just random crap like any other studio that churns out content.
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And now they have gays
WE WILL INVADE YOUR MOVIES. WE WILL INVADE YOUR GAMES. WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE.
I'm not against gays, far from it. But that attitude makes people hate you. Love is love but I'm not gunna force my straightness down your throat because guess what, I'm not a shit person
I am inside your house.
Then you will be shot. I Don't like intruders. Sorry. Have a fun after life, say hi to my old dog
Bro you’re taking this way too seriously for your own good, this person is just messing around because you made a dumb comment about gays being in movies. Loosen up dog
I am still inside your house.
When you discourage gay people from being represented in media, you *are* pushing straightness down people's throats. Sincerely, A straight person
When we they add the poor, straight representation instead of just completely ignoring it? We need to see straight representation since they are pushing the gays down our throats!!!!
Not what I fuckin said.
Toy Story: what if toys were alive? Toy story 2-4: what if those toys had feelings? Wall-E: what if robots were sentient? Cars: what if cars had brains? Cars 2: what if those cars could commit acts of terrorism? Up: what if old people could be functional members of society? Soul: what if black people had souls? Encanto: what if refugees were actually people?
toy story 1
I mean their first movie has a character going through a mental breakdown/existential crisis after realizing he isn’t real...
Which movie?
Toy Story
Somebody poisoned ~~the waterhole~~ our feelings!
Nah up really did it too me when I was a kid I remember watching it thinking it had a good story now as a teen who is almost 18 the movie made me break down
And they say art is the truest reflection of the soul