Opinion of Pocahontas

[bedstuy]

Pixar and Studio Ghibli supported slavery and segregation in the 1860s.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Pixar and Studio Ghibli supported slavery and segregation in the 1860s.

You win this thread!

[Lief 🗽]

POCAHONTAS is a film I've never seen. Does not look that good.

On the subject of THE INCREDIBLES, that movie is of course a bunch of fascist garbage and should be banned.

[Frodo]

I didn't like Disney films as a child, but that didn't stop my Grandma from buying VCR after VCR for us .

I hated and still hate Hunchback; that movie scared the hell out of me.

You were frightened by the Hunchback of Notre Dame?  By chance, did your grandmother also buy you that 1959 classic Darby O'Gill and the Little People?  Now that was frightening!  They did a damn good job with that banshee, IMHO....

[Bacon King]

Pocahantas produced one of the greatest tumblr movie stills of all time:

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Pixar and Studio Ghibli supported slavery and segregation in the 1860s.

Um, no.  I have nothing against Studio Ghibli; in fact, I admire the fact that they're trying to keep traditional animation and animation techniques alive in the CGI age. 

Other than the Lion King, the Pixar movies (with the exception of the cars/assorted talking vehicles movies, Toy Story 2, and The Incredibles which were HMs), and Bambi, all of Disney's movies have been HMs.

I don't know how you can think ANY Pixar films other than Toy Story 1-3 are FMs.  And with the exception of Mulan, The Princess and the Frog, and possibly Tangled and Frozen (which I still need to see), nearly every Disney film has been an HM.

Really? So you don't like Wall-E or Up? Why not?

I've never seen Wall-E, and I don't care to see it.  I saw Up with my little cousins when it first came out, but I thought it was the same old Pixar/CGI formula (post-Toy Story): cold, lifeless animation stuffed with vapid, juvenile, grade school garbage.  I miss seeing traditional animation on the big screen.  CGI is like saltwater; the more you drink, the more thirsty you get.

Seriously? Even people I know who don't normally like animation liked Up. I fail to see how this is lifeless or juvenile.

I thought that scene was decent, but I just thought, "Oh, that's sad."  On the other hand, I cry whenever I see Dumbo's mother locked in the "Mad Elephant" cage or Bambi's mother get killed by the hunter.  I would have been more sad if Carl's wife had died later in the film rather than at the beginning.  She only appears in the film for a few minutes; we don't get time to be acquainted with her.  It's almost as if Pixar intentionally added that scene in an attempt to shed its "kiddie" image. 

Traditional animation also has a warmth and life that CGI simply cannot match.  It can come close (e.g. Toy Story), but it can't reach the same level.  I wish I could find Jerry Beck's comments on the opening scenes of Up, because it summarized this well.

[Goldwater]

Pixar and Studio Ghibli supported slavery and segregation in the 1860s.

Um, no.  I have nothing against Studio Ghibli; in fact, I admire the fact that they're trying to keep traditional animation and animation techniques alive in the CGI age. 

Other than the Lion King, the Pixar movies (with the exception of the cars/assorted talking vehicles movies, Toy Story 2, and The Incredibles which were HMs), and Bambi, all of Disney's movies have been HMs.

I don't know how you can think ANY Pixar films other than Toy Story 1-3 are FMs.  And with the exception of Mulan, The Princess and the Frog, and possibly Tangled and Frozen (which I still need to see), nearly every Disney film has been an HM.

Really? So you don't like Wall-E or Up? Why not?

I've never seen Wall-E, and I don't care to see it.  I saw Up with my little cousins when it first came out, but I thought it was the same old Pixar/CGI formula (post-Toy Story): cold, lifeless animation stuffed with vapid, juvenile, grade school garbage.  I miss seeing traditional animation on the big screen.  CGI is like saltwater; the more you drink, the more thirsty you get.

Seriously? Even people I know who don't normally like animation liked Up. I fail to see how this is lifeless or juvenile.

I thought that scene was decent, but I just thought, "Oh, that's sad."  On the other hand, I cry whenever I see Dumbo's mother locked in the "Mad Elephant" cage or Bambi's mother get killed by the hunter.  I would have been more sad if Carl's wife had died later in the film rather than at the beginning.  She only appears in the film for a few minutes; we don't get time to be acquainted with her.  It's almost as if Pixar intentionally added that scene in an attempt to shed its "kiddie" image. 

Traditional animation also has a warmth and life that CGI simply cannot match.  It can come close (e.g. Toy Story), but it can't reach the same level.  I wish I could find Jerry Beck's comments on the opening scenes of Up, because it summarized this well.

Interesting. It seems like the problem has less to do with the quality of Pixar's films, and more to do with your hatred of CGI as a medium.