Topic: Disney/Pixar Discussion

@OwlHighway1Revisited
If they want to stay operational in Europe, they'll have to keep making European productions or buy them from other producers, otherwise their license will be revoked.

You know, with these strikes going on, I was considering boycotting the big studios because of how they're treating the WGA and SAG-AFTRA members. But in all honesty, I can't do it. Especially not with Disney.

Disney has been with me all my life, and it might be a bit crazy to say this, but it feels like they're a part of me. Almost like family in a way. I grew up with their movies and animated tv shows. I've laughed and cried with them. I shared emotions with them. And yes, sometimes they do something that I don't agree with. Sometimes they can make me feel angry or sad for what they've done, and at times I maybe want to put some distance between us. But that doesn't stop me from loving them for everything else they've done for me. They haven't betrayed me. They haven't attacked me personally. Quite the contrary even. Some of their movies have strengthened me, telling me it's normal to feel sad or lonely, but they always left me with a sense of hope and comfort no other movie studio has given me. And therefore, I can't let them go.

There's only one other company in existence that I feel the same about: Nintendo. They too have been with me all my life, and while Disney fulfilled the role of the older family members, like a sweet aunt or caring grandmother, Nintendo fulfilled the role of the playful cousins, the ones you couldn't wait to see again to play hide-and-seek with or go to the swimming pool with.

Perhaps many people will write this off as brand loyalty, but I feel it goes much deeper than that. These companies are such a part of who I am that I can't imagine my life without them. They've stuck by me in my darkest moments, like only the most devoted family members would. And I'd be in mourning if either of these seize to exist.

"Turning Red" is the best Pixar movie and nobody can make me say otherwise. In fact, it's a catalyst that led to me studying Japanese language and culture, and my persona being part kitsune (except with three tails instead of nine).

@HenryKibble
Turning Red might not be my number 1, but it is in my Top 5 Pixar movies.
It's a gorgeous, hilarious and emotional film.

Yo...!
I also like some Pixar movies such as Monster Inc, Up, Inside Out 1 & 2, etc.
Up was the most melancholy Pixar movie that gave me tears while watching.

i really just want an animated disney movie thats animated like it used to in the 1950s. im just kinda tired of all the disney recently. it all seems the same to me ☹️ excited for deadpool tho !

Eeeeh...I'm tired of Disney & Pixar CGI films. All I want is a 2-D animated film. Is that too much to ask...?

I mean that's how the company THEMSELVES started out with & what made them great.

Even though I pretty much have watched Disney and Pixar films for my entire life and having a few as my favorites, I haven’t really been keeping up with their recent movies and even haven’t been liking them a ton, mostly cause their movies didn’t really interest me and lacked the same magic as their previous films did.

I have heard that Inside Out 2 is good, but I surprisingly have no interest in watching it right now despite loving the first a ton, but it’s good to hear it was great, especially since it seemed Pixar was on a small losing streak starting with Lightyear (which I did watch randomly and thought was boring because of the writing) and a few box office bombs or good but not entirely great box office numbers, plus I think weeks before Inside Out 2 released they made these statements about how they were going to stray away from having personal experiences of directors and creatives influence the stories of their films, and many interpreted that as anti-art and how they were going to push for sequels more, like how they are giving Toy Story yet another sequel despite having two already good endings in 4 and 3. Sequels are fine, but only if they are necessary.

And I also feel that a full 2D animated Disney films are never coming back sadly. I am not tired of 3D animation, but 2D animation is so great too, and it’s disappointing to see less feature-length movies animated that way. Wish was going to be 2D animated (which would have been way more fitting given it was a centennial film) but they went for 3D animation and tried to give it a watercolor look and coloring to replicate that feeling of 2D. While I didn’t think the animation was bad, it makes the film look less detailed and more flatter than the animation in their previous films, and I just think that the watercolor look with the 3D animation sort of failed, since I can’t really see it. It would have been so cool if 2D did make a comeback, even just for one time in Wish, but alas, we cannot have good things…