Submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.ee
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.
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.
The movies changed. Moviegoes only reflected the change back.
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.
Had to check this wasn’t c/theonion or something similar.
On the week when inside out 2 releases, this is irony turned all the way up to 11.
Damn. Like the only remake I really want to see is Toy Story but with Pixar’s modern tech. Same voice acting, same soundtrack, but no more uncanny valley Sid.
Yeah, original, like Toy Story 2, 3, 4, 5
Car 2, 3
Planes 1, 2
Monster Inc 2
A sequel is still an original story. At least compared to “the same movie we sold you in the 90s but now with soulless photorealistic CGI rather than charming 2d animation”
oh, right. You mean like… EVERY Disney’s live action adaptations? There are a lot of them lately indeed.
What in the fuck there’s a planes movie
Planes was just… wtf. Like they might as well just make movies about an incredible mule that plays hocky, after all the rule book doesn’t say a speed boat can’t be in the Olympics.
Alternative article: variety.com/…/pixar-pete-docter-shoots-down-live-…
I haven’t gone out of my way to see the move action Disney films but you can’t blame them for literally printing money
You can’t critisize them, only if you solely view films as products to be sold and judged on profitability. It is ironic though coming from someone who, 2 sentences later says:
“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. “With sequels, people think, ‘Oh, I’ve seen that. I know that I like it.’ Sequels are very valuable that way.”
as if regurgitation of ideas just for familiarity’s sake is any better.
Other interview: time.com/…/inside-out-2-peter-docter-interview/
Kill the Pixar wedigo.
PineRune@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Instead of making live action remakes of animated movies, we should make more Muppets remakes of live action movies.
toast@retrolemmy.com 5 months ago
Muppet John Wick Muppet Gattaca Muppet Mean Girls Muppet Die Hard
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 5 months ago
Muppet Oppenheimer
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I would totally watch Muppet Gattaca!
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Muppet Fifty Shades of Grey
theedqueen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m still hoping for Muppet Princess Bride
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Sweetums as Fezzik!
yuri@pawb.social 5 months ago
oh my GOD
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Best we can do is a 20 year old theatre attraction in our park that we may or may not be tearing down at some point.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean that’s kind of the Lego movies direction/fad right?
noxy@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Saved me making the same comment!
fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I will watch every muppet retelling I can get my eyes on
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s why Muppet Treasure Island and A Muppet Christmas Carol are among my favorite movies.
Blaze@reddthat.com 5 months ago
That would be nice indeed