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Re: How Pixar Bosses Saved Their Employees from Layoffs

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Post by pchristensen » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

knowledgesale wrote: post #57

tomjen3 wrote: post #43

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How can the company get people to see their movies if they are not know for making good ones? Politicians can lie because you are not the target, cinemas have you as a target.

All I am saying is that they may have their own motivations and, well, they are more likely to know what they are doing than all of us as it is their primary occupation and business. In general, we don't have strong opinions on how to run the chemical engineering companies but everyone is eager to tell Pixar what movies to produce. This is a good manifestation of the Bike shed rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_s…

I'm not telling anyone what kind of movies to produce. The Shrek movies made about a zillion dollars even though I didn't buy any tickets to see them. It was good business for them to ignore my preference.

Re: How Pixar Bosses Saved Their Employees from Layoffs

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Post by vl » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 5:04 AM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #18

vl wrote: post #7

I'm worried about future of Pixar, they always valued original and insightful stories. All of their early and recent productions were delightful to watch. Understandably, this approach left not so many space for sequels. They recently committed to making of Monsters 2 and Cars 2. Story outline for Cars 2 is just terrible. It seems that financial concerns under Disney leadership are prevailing and bits of integrity ar…

I didn't like Cars 1 and it doesn't look like I'll like Cars 2. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the studio is losing integrity. As another commenter pointed out, Pixar rarely pumps out sloppy sequels -- while the motivation to make Toy Story 2 or 3 may be money initially, they make sure that the sequels have legitimate stories and are generally enjoyable. If they didn't, they would quickly become just-ano…

I actually like Cars - while story is quite cheesy, it has good character development and just fun to watch. Racing is just done well - it gives you the same feeling as watching real racing on TV.

I enjoyed Toy Story 2 and it has very decent jokes, but I think that story-wise it is quite inferior to Toy Story 1 - the entire story setup just feels artificial. I'm afraid that same thing on larger scale is going to happen to Cars 2.

Re: How Pixar Bosses Saved Their Employees from Layoffs

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Post by vl » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 5:12 AM UTC

JabavuAdams wrote: post #53

axod wrote: post #28

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I liked Cars. I absolutely hated Up! and Wall-e with a passion. Cars is obviously a reasonably simple storyline, but it's a good movie with good characters. Kids like cars shrug it's a movie about toy cars... what's not to like? Better than an obese highly irritating boy scout kid hitching a lift on a house with an old guy :/

UP was strange. It was like two different movies that never quite came together. I like slapstick, but man, slapstick and cancer doesn't work. It's like there was a great and weird (good) movie in there but it got cheapened by the clowny Disney mascot kid thing. I couldn't stand the kid and the bizarre dog voice, but I haven't thought enough about it to see a solution. Wall-E had some nice moments -- mostly when it w…

Ratatouille just doesn't cut it for me, I don't care if it's a rat cooking food or not, the entire story just leaves me thinking "whateva".

Incredibles on other hand is perfect in every way. BTW, given the premise of this movie it's possible to make good sequel for it without resorting to "international spies in the world of racing cars".