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    Brave Discussion

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    LOL Brave is locked to beat Mad 3.

    Brave is doing much better than Mad3 early on, but I'm hesitant to use "lock" until I see how much damage IA4 is going to wreak. I doubt Brave has a better hold than Mad3 in their 4th weekends, and Mad3 is likely going to have a stronger finish than Brave.

    COMPUTER ANIMATED FILMS thread | SOUL (Jan 12), TURNING RED (Feb 09), and LUCA (Mar 22) return to theaters in 2024

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    - Could Newt reborn in another form?

    Well, Tangled took what, two decades to finally release? It had so many forms before the final product. If someone decides to dust it off the shelf and take it on, maybe? I doubt it though. Seems like Rio took the concept already.

    - If we take off humans and animals, we have what....only cars?

    Trees? Rocks? Aliens?

    Brave Discussion

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    A symptom of WHAT though? IMO it's a symptom of growing pains at Pixar. They're losing a lot of the main people over the last few years, and we're relying on the next generation to get it done. NEWT was canceled. Cars 2 got moved up a year. I SHUDDER to think if Brave had been forced into 2011 instead. Plus their last 2 films have both needed director-changes mid-production.

    I agree on the growing pains. I said before that from a fanboy perspective, a swing and a miss by someone up and coming at Pixar would be easier to forgive if they were allowed to work on their own original movie than if they were just shoving them onto ready-made suit-requested sequels... But there were some unconfirmed reports of some issues with the top, which is why both Pixar and Disney lost out on some major talent recently, which is another symptom.

    And the symptoms i am talking about are of Disney's corporate marketing side taking over the creative side little by little, and of leadership issues at Pixar. I think it's slowly getting better though; Pixar's slate after MU looks really interesting, all originals. Disney's animation studio is on fire lately... Obviously again, this is all from a fanboy perspective, so I have to talk about this like I know everything.

    Brave Discussion

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    Pixar's last 4 movies: Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2 and Brave.

    And you guys can't stop bitching about Cars 2? 1 out of the last 4 you didn't like, and it's "Fuck Madagascar and Cars" as BK put it and "Disney pandering to the lowest common denominator" and that garbage. If you're going to complain about the movie, at least try to avoid insulting the audience.

    And they didn't stoop nothing, damn. One of their movies finally missed that adult audience. Get over it. You don't own pixar. Again, 1 in their last 4 movies you didn't like and you still can't stop <_<

    Cars 2 is a symptom. We had many posts on this before and it's not as simple as "1 movie out of 13 you hated so STFU already." Remember that we know nothing about how Monsters U is going to turn out even tho at the moment it's looking really interesting... But before, it was - "3 out of their next 4 movies are sequels. What happened to their taking pride in not making unnecessary sequels?"

    Brave Discussion

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    Furthermore, commercial calculation doesn't have to come at the expense of solid filmmaking. I actually really enjoyed Madagascar 3.

    Well I grudgingly went to Mad 2 after hating the first and thought it was miles better than the first, so I wouldn't be surprised if I liked Mad3. I think DWA bringing G del Toro into the fold to be their own "Lasseter" is helping them a lot lately. And to be honest, at this point I'd trust del Toro more... But that's for a different thread.

    COMPUTER ANIMATED FILMS thread | SOUL (Jan 12), TURNING RED (Feb 09), and LUCA (Mar 22) return to theaters in 2024

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    I'm saying Snow White released today would not have the same admissions it did back in 1937 and therefore break the all-time mark of Avatar and score 800M domestic. -- or re-explain the process to logically conclude it would? :blink:

    That said though, if you want to simulate Snow White's novelty back then to the present, it'd have to be something like an animated version of SWATH in holograms and in 4D, like the rides at Disneyland that move the seats when it's an action sequence and blow wind in your face when there's flying, etc. At least that's my understanding of how big Snow White was.

    COMPUTER ANIMATED FILMS thread | SOUL (Jan 12), TURNING RED (Feb 09), and LUCA (Mar 22) return to theaters in 2024

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    Animation isn't a genre. It's a medium.

    Yeah... I've given up on repeating this though. It's really the major studios' fault for marketing animated movies to be kiddie fare for so long. I'm really curious about what artists can do if they weren't restricted to making only G to PG rated fare for animated movies. Doubt we'll ever see that from the big players.
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