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Lightyear (Pixar, 2022)

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  • #32
    silverharp
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    A solid flop by all accounts, seems like the money men at Disney will need to take the creatives out to the wood chipper lol

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  • #33
    Agent Coulson
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    Drops August 3rd on Disney+

    It was a major box office flop.

    https://twitter.com/DisneyPlusUK/status/1549431611699216393?s=20&t=UYlJ6NvhkY0e4-bTN_olPA




  • #34
    TheIrishGrover
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    Yeah, that's a CRAZY quick turnaround. TBH though, once upon a time this would have been a straight-to-video/DVD release. Not saying that is a cheap and nasty poorly-animated product to churn out just to make a few bob..... Well... Not EXACTLY saying that.

    I mean this did smack of an easy, if not stellar (No pun intended) cash-in. Sort of like the stuff Disney used to churn out: Sequels concentrating on side characters or retelling the same story from different points of view (So they can re-use/copy animation from original).Which is a pity because there are obviously some very talented animators/technical teams involved.

    Pixar just about got away with Toy Story 4: It wasn't needed but it didn't tarnish the brand (And Keanu Reeves was hilarious). But come on now."Live action" remake after remake, inferior sequel after sequel (Monsters University was a SPECTACULARLY missed opportunity. So much potential but barely touched).

    In the breath of 15 years Pixar gave us:

    • A perfect Toy Story trilogy with a very definite start, middle and finish. A heartbreaking but uplifiting trilogy that aged along with its audience.
    • An insect version of The Magnificent 7 (My least favourite of early Pixar)
    • A story about blue-collar 9-5 workers who just so happen to scare kids for a living
    • A very simple story about family and loss and moving on... with fish
    • A superhero movie
    • A story about the benefits of slowing down and appreciating life... as a car
    • A chef rat (I must watch that again. Haven't seen it in years)
    • A lost and abandoned robot who finds love
    • Another heartbreaking story about loss and moving on but at a VERY human level.... plus talking dogs


    I'm not gonna go all Scorsese and shake my fist as sequels and remakes..... Just POINTLESS sequels ad remakes 😀. I mean, honest to god, did we NEED a "live action" version of The Lion King? THE LION KING!!!! IMHO, the pinnacle of Disney. I remember seeing first time round and then a few years ago when re-released. The cinema was packed even second time round. Kids clung to the seat in front. More than a few sniffles (From kids and adults) when Mufasa died. Really? You want to remake that with uncanny-valley digital animals?

    And they (And Disney) have released some great animated movies since, of course. Turning Red, Frozen (OK, OK, we know "that" song was played to death but it is still a good movie with a nice message), Moana.


    But.... I don't know, there sems to be a stagnation at the moment. Maybe it IS just cheap-and-nasty stuff to fill in the Disney+ hours.....

    TLDR: Old man (me) bemoaning the latest stagnation of Disney/Pixar



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