Do we even need this article?

How Pixar Lost Its Way
For 15 years, the animation studio was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ay/524484/
Pretty much my feeling on the whole thing. Don't misunderstand me. I realize Disney is not without its skeletons in the closet but it's almost become a bit of a childish joke to just pin the blame all on Disney for someone else's problems. People have blamed Disney for the way Brave turned out even though as we know it was JOHN LASSETER who fired Brenda Chapman because it was "not Pixar enough."Disney's Divinity wrote:Why am I not surprised that Pixar’s missteps are getting blamed on Big Bad Evil Disney despite Lasseter being in control of both studios? Such an easy way to deflect any actual blame from falling on Pixar.
And only fanboyism could make the neverending director replacements/firings that plague Pixar seem like a good thing.
Other than the Book of Life knock-off they have nothing original for the rest of this decade. They have those 2 features coming out 90 days from each other: March 2020/June 2020, Pixar can piss offSotiris wrote:I've noticed that too. They like to pretend like they're not like ~other~ studios and that to them "story is king".
Source: https://twitter.com/cartoonbrew/status/ ... 3425695744
And it's this kind of attitude is why I don't frequent these threads due to how negative and sour people have become.thedisneyspirit wrote:John Lassiter is a fucking hack, he doesn't seem to know how to write any story that isn't a dumb buddy comedy road trip. Change the setting and a little of the characters, but they're all essentially Toy Story In Disguise.
When Pixar has 3 new animated features in a year's time & WDAS has nothing, something there just doesn't seem right.jazzflower92 wrote:And it's this kind of attitude is why I don't frequent these threads due to how negative and sour people have become.thedisneyspirit wrote:John Lassiter is a fucking hack, he doesn't seem to know how to write any story that isn't a dumb buddy comedy road trip. Change the setting and a little of the characters, but they're all essentially Toy Story In Disguise.
Truer words have never been spoken.thedisneyspirit wrote:John Lasseter is a fucking hack, he doesn't seem to know how to write any story that isn't a dumb buddy comedy road trip. Change the setting and a little of the characters, but they're all essentially Toy Story In Disguise.
Oh brother.Sotiris wrote:Truer words have never been spoken.thedisneyspirit wrote:John Lasseter is a fucking hack, he doesn't seem to know how to write any story that isn't a dumb buddy comedy road trip. Change the setting and a little of the characters, but they're all essentially Toy Story In Disguise.I'm glad people are finally starting to see through Lasseter's brand of storytelling.
Why would they push Gigantic for remakes of movies?blackcauldron85 wrote:Maybe John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, etc., want Disney to only make live-action films (hence all the re-makes and pushing back Gigantic? Maybe it's a long-shot, maybe it's true. But then Disney couldn't make Pixar look bad or something.
I can imagine this is John Lasseter's reaction:Pixar to focus on "original films" after Toy Story 4
Pixar producer Mark Nielsen has now admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that there is "a lot of optimism about the future of the studio", and that the focus will be on originals going forward.
"Docter's really looking out for the new voices and really loading up the development pool. It's all original films after this one right now."