janstett
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I never thought of cars as "story driven" (lul driven, you see what i did there) for me pixar movies are hugely about how far they're taking cgi, Tangled is a typical story but the FX are hugely amazing, and then cars has... cars, win-win for me, personally nothing beats Monsters inc and Finding Nemo for the best cgi movies of the last decade
I've followed Pixar since the early days of SIGGRAPH shorts and Luxo and loved it from a CGI perspective.
But along the way I also discovered they had good solid stories behind them too, they'd stand with the best of Disney regardless of whether they're rendered or hand drawn on cells. Credit John Lasseter.
Now with the Disney takeover the Pixar brain trust is being flung around the Disney empire and the flood of patronizing sequels have begun. Next up Monsters Inc. sequel.
Tangled wasn't pixar, by the way.
I want to know which jackoff reviewer didn't give Toy Story 3 a perfect rating. That movie is goddamn incredible, and heartbreaking, and poignant.
The magic of Pixar movies is that, like classic Disney and Warner animation, it works on multiple levels for kids and adults.
TS3 was too heavily on the adult nostalgia side -- 5 year olds won't understand college kids throwing out their toys and moving on; they won't understand that, as kids, they DESTROY toys. Finally, the whole sequence in the garbage dump was way too dark and heavy -- the gang facing their impending death by immolation and/or crushing and especially resigning themselves to accept their fate and holding hands like frigging Holocaust victims marching into the gas chambers is just way too over the top heavy for preschoolers to be dealing with.
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