I can completely understand this being a valid end game to their long squabble.
But it’s terrifying. Disney today is nowhere close to the Disney everyone associates with the Disney name. Walt. The old classics. Hell, even the early Eisner era successes at the box office. Disney puts the stock price above all else now, just like any old regular company. Creativity, _quality_, and entertaining people take a far back seat. Imagineer budgets and staff continue to get slaughtered; cheap sequels continue to sully the names of the true Disney classics.
As I’m sure you’re aware if you’re here, when Disney tried to provide ‘notes’ on the progressing development of Toy Story (and Pixar listened) they just about destroyed it. It was only after they decided to throw all the ‘advice’ they got from Disney out the window and fix it that it worked.
I hope this rumor isn’t true. Disney will destroy the fun and creativity that fuel the success of Pixar.
Don’t get me wrong, though, I’m not a Disney hater. They’ve gone very far astray lately, but I do hope they come around someday. I do still love the good things they’ve done in the past. I just don’t think where they’re at right now is any good for Pixar at all.
]]>It seems that Chicken Little will be very successful because Disney is making SURE everyone knows about it. Chicken Little is their ‘Pixar-killer’ but it doesn’t seem like they will have that kind of dedication to all of their films.
When you release a film every 2-3 years, you make sure it is good and you make sure people know about it. This seems not to be the case when it comes to Disney. They released their first CG film, Valiant, but then it was quickly shoved out of the spotlight when Chicken Little was done.
How many ‘Valiants’ will we end up seeing before we see another classic?
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