Click on “Lou” and it takes you to his blog, but surely anybody could have done that.
Not saying it’s not possible for Lou Romano to really feel this way - just wondering why he would publicly post something that other Pixar folk might read. I mean, he works with Andrew Stanton. This is something you tell your close friends, not tell the whole world. Just for politics’ sake… Or if he meant to do it, is there some stuff going on behind the scenes? It’s just weird to me. (But what do I know.)
Then again, cartoonbrew.com is using the post as it’s “comment of the moment” in posts like this. I don’t think Jerry Beck (owner of cartoonbrew) would just post anything from an impostor.
Can we get Lou to verify this comment? Because if he really didn’t post this, then he should be alerted so he can clear this up.
I find it surprising not that he works for Pixar and is rooting for the supposed “enemy,” but that he actually believes (according to the comment, that is) Kung Fu Panda is a better quality film than Wall-E. Never! =(
Everyone has a right to their own opinion, though I guess this opinion is pretty controversial. It sounds so blatent and almost forced, which leads me to think that someone else wrote it, and not Lou Romano himself, but if what you said about the website is true, E.S, then maybe Lou Romano did write it. But still, a part of me doesn’t buy the whole “Pixar can take a lesson from Dreamworks” bit. It sounds like someone from Dreamworks has written it, or something.
Yeah, it sounds more like one of those people on YouTube who go on others videos and comment about how much they dislike the subject to me. And if you are wondering why I have an entire category for those people, I have seen so many that I can fully pick out their work.
Seriously, I don’t see how someone could see KFP, though I fully enjoyed the movie, “bolder” or “more inspired” than WALL-E. I could understand someone ENJOYING KFP more, but how on Earth could a movie about a panda that does Kung Fu be considered bolder then a movie about a love story between two robots and a look into the negative future if commercialization continues the path it’s going? It… it just CAN’T! And for the “more inspired” bit, Archibald posted part of an article saying that a Dreamworks employee was like “I like pandas and I like Kung Fu, so who don’t we do a movie about a panda doing Kung Fu?” and for WALL-E, it was how Andrew Stanton was playing with some binoculars at a baseball game and saw how much expression they could show, and then thought about if humans left Earth and yadda yadda yadda.
Honestly, I think this one was posted by some bored teenager who wanted to “make a statement wah wah wah!”
I agree. Besides, wouldn’t he just go and work for Dreamworks if he think they’re better than Pixar? I assume the latter company would be much more difficult to get into.
I don’t get why it has to be such a rivalry between KFP and WALL-E, much less Pixar and Dreamworks. I enjoyed them both.
I agree that KFP was the best of Dreamworks (while with Pixar, they’re all so good I can’t pick a favorite). But Lou Ramono has a right to have an opinion different than ours. Just because he worked with Pixar doesn’t mean he can’t compliment Dreamworks on their work, too. Know what I mean?
bright dot-dasher- There’s complimenting, and there’s clearly choosing one company over another, and practically insulting the other company while he’s at it. I think it’s fair enough for him to have enjoyed Kung Fu Panda and other Dreamworks films, but to say out-and-out that he prefers Dreamworks films just seems a tad…strange, I guess.
Plus, there are several bits in the paragraph that seemed to have been written as positive points for Dreamworks, but can actually be seen as pretty negative as well. Like the first line about how Jaws has several sequels, but no-one remembers them; on the one hand, he’s saying it’s okay for Kung Fu Panda to have sequels, but on the other hand, he’s saying that Dreamworks might as well not bother because no-one will remember them anyway, so he’s admitting that Dreamworks are making these sequels purely for money. Which is a bad thing. Right? Same thing with the quoted “cartoon”. It’s almost as if he’s being sarcastic.
I loved Kung Fu Panda, WALL•E and Bolt, but just because they’re animated doesn’t mean they should be compared. Comparing Pixar and Dreamworks is like saying animation is a genre. While WALL•E touched on more serious issues, I still enjoyed every second of KFP, but if I had to compare them, WALL•E would come out on top.
You’re right in one regard, because it’s sad that people compare WALL-E to Kung Fu Panda when the two films are really about very different things. If these were live action films, there’d be no comparison whatsoever. KFP would be compared with other feel-good comedies, and WALL-E would probably be compared with dramas or something. I too hate that people think of animation as a ‘genre’. So these films should not be compared in ‘how good they are on a whole’- they stories have no relevence to each other at all. Here, let’s start comparing Sleepless in Seattle to James Bond.
But the thing is, as there are only so many animated movies released per year, people will compare them because they still have one big thing in common. As it is right now, 99.9% of animated films that hit the theater are kid-friendly. Not FOR KIDS, but kid-friendly. People will compare animated movies based on how much the kids liked 'em, and I don’t see anything wrong with that. But then people will compare them in other areas, because by golly they’re already comparing them.
So it’s kind of a toxic cycle. One that I too participate in. I compare the animation quality in Pixar and Dreamworks films, I compare them in ways that I think are comparable and I’ve been known to compare their stories; that’s silly, and I haven’t been doing it much lately.
But the thing is that Lou Romano’s supposed comment just doesn’t make a lick of sense, because simply put Kung Fu Panda was a safe film, safe as Bolt. It was a comedy, a feel-good and pretty simple story. A GOOD ONE! But it was not as ‘brave’ as WALL-E was. Honestly, I think the whole controversy over WALL-E is a load of ehem bullpoo. People getting offended because two robots saved the earth in an imaginary world? It’s ridiculous. PIXAR is not calling the world fat, they told a story. Still, robots in space falling in love saving humans that looked like baby beached whales… that’s a little further out there than “Panda wants to learn Kung Fu!” (Though, dare I say it, it reminds me of a certain mouse who wanted to cook! In this case, if we wanted to compare Pixar/ Dreamworks movies we should compare KFP with Ratatouille before WALL-E.)
Blahblahblah, I highly doubt Lou Romano wrote that. But if he did, you know… whatever. As it’s been stated people are entitled to their opinions.
I do kind of wish the rivalry would stop though. If you liked KFP more than WALL-E, fine. That doesn’t make it a better a movie, and it doesn’t make WALL-E a bad movie, and who cares- really? If you like something, fine. If you don’t like something, LET IT GO! Jeez. (This is why I doubt it’s Romono. Whoever wrote that seems rather childishly in love with KFP to the point they want to publicly degrade WALL-E for no reason other than that they didn’t like it.)
I actually don’t care if Lou or anyone working for Pixar thought KFP was better than WALL-E. Everybody has a right to their own opinions and I’m not questioning that.
I just care if that comment posted on cartoonbrew was legitimately from Lou Romano - and if it was - I am curious as to why he’d choose to be so blatant about it.
Like someone earlier pointed out, what’s with the “Pixar can learn something from Dreamworks” comment? Just sounds forced, or sarcastic even. Makes it sound illegiitimate… and if it was legit, makes Lou sound like he’s got a vendetta against someone at Pixar like Stanton or something…
Doesn’t affect me any, but it sure could affect office politics over there in Emeryville. First step would be to verify if Lou really wrote it. If he did, well, then it’s out of any of our hands…
Same thing with the quoted “cartoon”. It’s almost as if he’s being sarcastic.