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Everyone who has read your comments here knows what your position is/was on sequels but I guess Pixar has changed its mind so yours has naturally changed as well. BTW, do you remember the little known movie Cars2 and how much they spent (200m) to make it? You would think making that much of an investment would result in a better quality movie. All money that comes into the coffers eventually turns into green. I know Pixar movies doesn't usually do well overseas but when that changes (and it will sooner or later) I'm sure Disney/Pixar will not be so dismissing of it. That isn't the argument at all, it is you who feels that Pixar is superior and if isn't like TS3 then the next best thing is that it wins domestically. If it doesn't win either market than the argument falls back to the quality or sequel argument. You have all the based (excuses) covered.

Yeah, but the guy make a distinction "non-sequels" but his expectation is that Pixar always takes the high (better) road. A true politicians who slices and dices.

Again, you like to live in the past.What you as a fan want and what Disney decides to do are two different thing. I think the writing is on the wall as far as what Disney's new direction is and the evidence is MU, FN2 and TI2(probably) is happening. I don't need to tell you what JL used to say but now he's is singing another tune (or should I say chirp chirp for silence).As to your comment about the rest world, I won't touch the insensitive part except to say growth isn't happening here anymore so lets' not look a gift horse in the mouth. Oh wait, Pixar isn't popular there so let's do the political thing and downplay it. You'd make a good politician. If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?" Oh wait, what did you say about the shellacking DW would get for putting three sequels in a row. We all have opinions and thoughts but you don't have to market cornered on being right all of the time.

You made it about both but that's not were the conversation started. What you say above may be true but I wonder where all of those movies stand when you factor in budget. It's puzzling to me when people talk country by country numbers and reaching conclusion by it. Let's ask Fox or Disney/Pixar to give away the overseas box office receipts for Avatar, TA or TS3. Do you think they'd do it? What would your position be if a studio makes a movie for 50 million dollar and makes a billion dollar overseas but barely makes anything stateside. Would you go around calling it a failure? If someone asks you how much money you have, do you only count what's in your left pocket?As far as DW future movies goes, I'm intrigued by a few of them but mostly with Croods, Me and My Shadow and Trolls (because I'm pretty sure it will based on the Bromeliad Trilogy). I'm less hot on the musical because I'm not a fan of the genre and also because I don't think it'll translate well outside of India. And for Pixar I think the Dinosaur movie looks interesting. I'm hoping MU is good but without Boo it's got an uphill battle because she was the heart of that movie. If you think the house of cards will crumble because DW makes one more movie a year then I have to wonder what your take is on what Marvel is doing for the superhero genre. I'm curious to me that when DW announcement came through that your "envied" it but now the thinking is different. I guess it's Jekyll and Hyde in you. A little while ago, Whoot, suggested that maybe Disney would buyout DW and put Katzenberg at the helm of the company when Iger retires. I bet if that prediction were to happen all of the ilk you have against DW would vaporize.

Ah yes, the old switcheroo. We go from a discussion about the box office to talking about reviews. You know as well as I that reviews means shit f'all as far as box office is concerned. You can't finance future movies with review accolades.I think DW is upping their game as opposed to your favorite who seems to resorting to DW's old playbook. A playbook that you once skewered DW for at every opportunity. You like to talk about the past victories and that's good but the past is no predictor of what will happen in the future especially with an overlord calling the shots.As far as your prediction about DW slate, I'm not surprised to hear that from you, it's expected. If there is to be some over-saturation, it will affect all players and not only those you dislike.

All studios has its share of flops but there are flops and there are flops. If DW were to disappear today, I doubt the post-mortem would be talking about those so called flops. It's funny man, you are quick to jump to the slightest possible knock against Pixar but haven't the slightest problem participating in the narrative that DW is a lesser than and unworthy of its successes. BTW, I doubt Firedeep was talking about the past because this whole sub-thread started when he said this:

I wasn't really talking about the 2D stuff and as far as those two movies, they didn't do well but it's not like they lost huge dollars. I'm pretty sure with Antz they made tons on the DVD's.

Monsters Vs. AliensBudget: 175mDomestic: $198,351,526+ Foreign: $183,158,344= Worldwide: $381,509,870

I don't know about the future but it's never happened before even when they did three movies in one year (2010). The only movies were they lost money was when they partnered with Aardman.

What is your definition of a bomb?

I'm more convinced than ever that t this will be the "Truckers" movie that I was so looking for in a long time.I now find out that "Andrew Adamson" is exec producing it and that's important because he was instrumental in convincing DWA in acquiring the right to the film rights.http://www.writenews.com/2001/050201_dreamworks_bromeliad.htm

Do you like to rub it in my nose or something?

Sure enough "Anand Tucker" is mentioned in the Wikipedia link here: http://en.wikipedia....he_Nome_Trilogy and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Tucker

It's possible that gnome characters in the Truckers will be played by Troll dolls. I guess we'll find out more in due time. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679335/ If we find out the Gemma or Grimma's character is being played by Chloë Grace Moretz then we'll know for sure.

I think you'll have second thought on the Troll movie.

After further investigation I think we are all wrong about this movie. The main character in the movie is called "Masklin" and he's being played by Jason Schwartzman and just an fyi that character is in the same name as the main character in "The Bromeliad Trilogy".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy

^^^ Can you please start a thread on that movie and only speak about it in that thread so I don't have to read about it.PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease I beg you PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease

No problem, it's all good.

Let's not dredge up crap from ages ago. It was crap then and its still crap now.Edit: Just to be clear I have no bias against any studio. I pretty much like all animated movies except for a few.

Relax Tribe, I wasn't being serious with it all but when Neo said what he said I just sort of couldn't help it. I actually had to go back and look that at the word he used and just repeated it. I don't think what I said at all.Edit: BTW, I wasn't talking about Monsters Inc and Boo U. It was Neo who suggested that Boo U was possibly going to be perceived as a ripoff of MU.

It's possible that Trolls is Trollhunters instead.http://screenrant.com/guillermo-del-toro-dreamsworks-animation-trollhunters-ross-80227/

I think all studios copy one another in one way or another but in this case, I think they wont't be anything alike if I remember the synopsis of Boo U correctly.

You mean like Antz and Bugs Life?Do you remember the stink all about those movies?

Boo U has been in development a long time at DWA. If anything, I'd say it is Pixar that could be accused of ripping off.I think now that DWA own Classic Media, I bet they'll probably include Casper in the movie.

So they'll put out three movies a year from next year forward and in 2015 they'll put out four movie.All I can say is Wow.