Um…no. I assure you you’re way off in your characterization of me here, but it’s not worth a hijack, so I’ll leave it at that.
Perhaps I have muddled the Dreamworks stuff with the Pixar stuff, as I did in the beginning.
It’s been a long time since I saw Toy Story, so I couldn’t point out specifics, but the situations provided suffice.
To each their own, I suppose. I most likely won’t be seeing any of the Pixar films I’ve missed. They’d have to come on late at night and there’d have to be nothing else on. Now that I think of it, I think I saw a little bit A Bug’s Life. Maybe it was Antz. Don’t know.
My knowledge of the rest of the Pixar movies comes from reviews I’ve heard from said movies. Perhaps I’ve mixed Pixar with Dreamworks.
Still, that’s a distinction in which I see little difference.
Ah yes, Equipoise. I won’t Pit you, but then again, I wouldn’t pit anyone on this board. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
I am sorry LOUNE but you do not know what you are talking about, and I suggest you quit digging, before you look any more like an adolescent poser than you already do. Frankly, the “mea culpa I was wrong but I stand by my word” you just did was pretty weak. By the way, so you know, ANTZ is an incredibly lame animated Woodie Allen movie, which I had finally mostly managed to get out of my head. Thanks for bringing it back up. A Bug’s Life is a remake of The Seventh Samari. Somehow they are a bit different, although I think the timing of ANTZ was to try to directly compete with A Bug’s Life.
I think Iwould put my favorites this way
Incredibles.
Finding Nemo
Toy Story 2
Toy story
A Bug’s Life
Monster’s Inc.
That’s kind of the problem. I’m not an adolescent poser.
I just don’t dig the movies as much as you respondents seem to.
Awful lot of defensiveness for a tiny thing, isn’t it?
Not all cars, just those of the '50s & '60s. You know, the sort of cars that travelled Route 66–which was the original title of Cars but Pixar was afraid that audiences would confuse it with the old TV series.
Rather than adult jokes (although those are there as well) the Pixar and Dreamworks films at their best manage to appeal to parents on a completely separate level than they do to children. Finding Nemo, for instance, is partly about letting your children go out on their own as they grow up. And in Toy Story 2, Woody has to decide whether it’s better to be untouched in a museum exhibit (and live forever) or be played with and loved by a child, but get worn. Basically, it’s a debate on how to live one’s life. And Shrek 2 is about in-law issues, which many people can relate to.
I think this is the biggest reason you’re getting into trouble with this thread. That’s sort of like saying “Perhaps I’ve mixed Dickens with Dan Brown”, because they both write books. The medium has nothing to do with the quality of the movies; Pixar movies are near-universally hailed as good movies, while Dreamworks flicks are much more hit-and-miss. The only similarities between the two are that they are kid-friendly and animated, neither of which has anything to do with content. Now, these last few sentences have been repeated by others earlier in this topic. However, what’s getting you into trouble is the quoted reply, where you’re basically saying “Even if Dickens and Brown are different, I don’t think it matters”. Which is such a patently absurd statement that… well, it’s getting you into trouble.
For the record, I was unimpressed by A Bug’s Life, never saw Toy Story 2… but loved the others, particularly The Incredibles (even though I am pretty prejudiced against the superhero genre in general). Not REALLY looking forward to Cars because the subject matter doesn’t interest me… but neither did the Incredibles, so I’ll likely be out there seeing Cars one of these weekends anyways.
But that’s also the problem. I’m not drawing a giant difference between Pixar and Dreamworks. My detractors are drawing a difference. Pixar is “Disney”, Dreamworks is Disney-run.
We’re struggling with defining our terms. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no reason to separate them. If someone wishes to, have at it.
Huh? Pixar was an independent studio that had a distribution deal with Disney until the buy last month and it’s questionable about who really bought who when you look at it anyway. DreamWorks Animation formed by a merger with PDI and then was spun off of DreamWorks. DreamWorks Animation has a distribution deal with Paramount, but I don’t think they’re owned by Viacom.
I was always under the assumption that Dreamworks was a Disney extension.
Dreamworks is Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen. Originally independent, but now a part of Paramount.
Oops. Didn’t need to say that.
It’s sad that people get Pixar and Dreamworks confused. And not to mention Blue Sky, who made Ice Age and Robots. In many people’s eyes, they all blur into one.
That sucks.
Whew… you really need to stop doing that because you are basically the poster boy for “ass out of you and me”.
this thread is just getting uncomfortable.
Refreshing to know that I’m still a kid, because this one is apparently too adult for me. How is calling a hockey puck a hockey puck a joke?
Blue Sky Studios, of course, is owned by 20th Century Fox, which is owned by News Corp. I haven’t seen anything made by Blue Sky.
Never heard of Don Rickles? Read “Puck enters the language” here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_puck
Re: The OP. Never bet against Pixar and John Lasseter. I’ve never doubted the final result of Cars for one nanosecond, and the early praise is just reaffirmation of the studio’s craftsmanship.
Re: LOUNE’s “They’re all the same… aren’t they?” – I have nought but pity for someone who so willingly denies themselves the pleasure of the depth and diversity of the Pixar film library.
Re:
It’s a Don “Mr. Potato Head” Rickles catchphrase.
In addition, adding to the hilarious/apparent obscurity, Don Rickles actually voiced Mr. Potato Head
Yargh, I was beaten to the clarification by rjung. I swear that post wasn’t there upon preview 
And we have told you over and over again that they are different. They are competitors. While Disney was Pixar’s distributor for a while, they had nothing to do with the production of those movies. Disney also owns US distribution rights to Miyazaki films, and believe me, evem though each of them has imaginary creatures in them, **My Neighbor Totoro ** has damn little in common with Shrek.
Yes Disney currently owns Pixar. Michael Jackson currently owns the Beatle catolog. It does not make him a Beatle.
No one suggests you have to like these movies on our say so, but you are arguing from a place of ignorance.