Comment on Pixar CCO Says Live-Action Remakes Bother Him: “I Like Making Movies That Are Original”
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 months ago
Part of our strategy is to try to balance our output with more sequels. It’s hard. Everybody says, ‘Why don’t they do more original stuff?’ And then when we do, people don’t see it because they’re not familiar with it,” he said.
What nonsense. Pixar used to do only new IP back then saving for Toys Story, and they have hit after hit after hit.
vaquedoso@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That was almost 2 decades back. The movie going experience has been permanently changed, for better or for worse, after the pandemic. He isn’t wrong when he says people won’t go to theaters for a new IP. That, plus all the rage clic bait that bashes any new thing even before it release, regardless of quality, that plagues the internet nowadays paints a grim enviroment for the movie industry.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The movies changed. Moviegoes only reflected the change back.
vaquedoso@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Movies (or movie style, more properly said) changes all the time. I don’t get what are you trying to say here. But just because animation has gotten considerably better, it doesn’t mean they are different. As an example: luca (one of recent pixar films) has the same style and charm as brave (pixar movie from 10+ years back) and as toy story (pixar movie from 20+ yeara back). All of them capable of making me cry. Their animation style has gotten better and more polished, but they beat with the same heart
marcos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I haven’t seen Luca, and never planned to. Disney destroyed a huge amount of goodwill by making mindless live-action reenactions and low quality sequels. I just didn’t plan on betting my time on a Disney movie without somebody recommending it.
And yes, this is what changed. All the movie studios consolidated on a handful, and that handful got a reputation of only pushing shit to the theaters. Added to that, the theater experience got worse and worse for decades, to the point that people don’t really want to go there, they only go for the movie. And on top of that, the theaters have competition nowadays.
People keep blaming it on the pandemic, but I don’t think it’s even relevant.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
People will go for new IP it just has to be actually good. And also marketed well. It seems like movie marketing hasn’t changed since the 2000s.
vaquedoso@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The thing is that ‘actually good’ is something subjective, and that it WILL change what it means person to person. What happens nowadays is that every piece of media will be analized extensively for every possible flaw (and if none, create some), which will be magnified online as negativity promotes engagement. You can see this happening daily online, with everything. Then, the way the online hivemind works, people will associate these ‘flaws’ with the media product and society will enforce its opinion on the average user. It’s a meme to be negative about something, and our brains like to be part of the ‘in-group’ so it also feels good. You can see examples of this on every cult classic that was hated when it came out.