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[b]What do you guys think about
this?[/b]
I felt this would happen
someday.
DW=quantity
Aardman & Pixar=quality
Box office failure of [i]Curse of the
Were-rabbit[/i]? That’s news to me. Last I heard, it was a hit. And a rightly deserved hit too. If
Cars was released in November 2005 like originally planned, Wallace and Gromit would
have walked over them, come award time.
Hey, maybe this means Pixar and Aardman can work together on
something. They’re bound to come up with a pure belter.
Yep, that’s for certain. This split doesn’t
surprise me at all- Aardman’s too good for Dreamworks.
I am not surprised either. I think it
would be cool if Pixar and Aardman made a movie together, mabye they would go to Disney. I am not happy that the
article said, "it sadly means that the stone-age John Cleese comedy Crood Awakening and the
long-in-development The Tortoise And The Hare won’t be happening after all". 
Well, critically, yes, but as far as B.O. earnings go, well…Even Bambi 2 made
more money.
Even with the box office failure (I suspect it did a lot
better here than in the US?) it still took the Oscar for best animated feature. Which pretty much goes to
highlight where Dreamworks is most concerned - money and failed attempts to show up the competition 
As
if Shark Tale wasn’t proof enough.
I did a quick look at Mojo:
Domestic (US &
Canada): $53m
Other (Everywhere else): $153m
I see what they mean.
Still, Aardman’s too good
for Dreamworks. May they get together with someone who appreciates that story > all.
And I hope no-one
hates me for thinking CotWR would have beaten Cars. I just feel it to be true. That, and I’m a longtime W&G
fan. The Wrong Trousers has one of the best chase sequences ever!
I don’t hate you for
saying that, but even though I’m a fan of the old W&G episodes, I couldn’t imagine the movie standing a
chance against Cars. But yes, the show was really funny. I hope the company does well on its own, unless they
have plans to team up with somebody else.
Yes, now I can complete and utterly despise them, seeing as they are no longer tied to my other favourite
studio. (I’m talking about hating Dreamworks BTW, check my sig)
I don’t “hate”
Dreamworks. I just find most of the time, their work is a poor second to Pixar. Their 2D stuff, like
Prince of Egypt and Road to El Dorado, is actually
rather entertaining. As is most of their 3D stuff, but not as much as Pixar.
[Blasphemy]I have to
disagree.[/Blasphemy]
Wallace and Gromit are old Academy Favourites. The only time they didn’t win an
Oscar when they were nominated, was when another Aardman classic, Creature Comforts,
won it instead. CotWR is W&G at their peak, while Cars, painful to admit as it
is, is not Pixar’s best work.
But remember, “Not best work” != “Bad Movie”
"I felt this would happen
someday.
DW=quantity
Aardman & Pixar=quality" truest thing I’ve heard all day
Aardman and
Pixar are both amazing studios. With amazing quality. It doesnt matter the how it’s done… both studios films
are fill of life.
I’ve always known that Aardman was a great Studio, but the moment I heard this I
feared that without the Big name of Dreamworks, it may have been the end of Stop-Motion
Animation.
However, after reading such positive comments from y’all that it’ll do just fine if not
better after this separation, I’m feeling confident for them too!
haha - the only thing that could have come good from that relationship would have been if it had gone the way of
Pixar and Disney and DreamWorks “bought” Aardman and put all their executives at top (with the
exception of JK - he can stay). But without doing that this was definitely best - maybe they can hook up with
Disney - I’d love to see Aardman and Pixar colaborate.
That indeed is my dream as well. However, I don’t see it
happening, because on the CotWR DVD, it explains that Disney saw Aardman’s potential in the 1980’s, with things
like the Sledgehammer Music Video. Aardman felt a bit scared of Disney, because it would have been far too easy
for the Disney of the era to assimilate Aardman entirely, as we feared they would do to Pixar. One of the
founders of Dreamworks (Katzenberg? The guy who used to work at Disney) contacted Aardman after Dreamworks was
founded, and Aardman was more receptive to working with them 'cause Dreamworks would be far less likely to buy
and homogenize Aardman.
Of course, things may be different ten years on. Who knows?