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by EricJ
October 9th, 2023, 7:24 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: The state and future of animation
Replies: 588
Views: 214069

Re: The state and future of animation

Dacey wrote:
October 9th, 2023, 5:50 pm
And DreamWorks has had plenty of commercial and critical hits, including two last year alone!
...DRINK! :wink:
Farerb wrote:
October 9th, 2023, 4:48 pm
\Same. The only DreamWorks movie I like is The Prince of Egypt.
Yeah, but that's their pre-Sinbad 2-D days. Doesn't count.
by EricJ
October 9th, 2023, 1:06 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: The state and future of animation
Replies: 588
Views: 214069

Re: The state and future of animation

Well…Ben’s being just a little harsh on influencers. A LITTLE. I know "influencers", ie. YouTube movie reactors, have pretty much supplanted much of streaming TV for me, but not movies. DreamWorks was basically hit by two problems: 1) The pandemic-era studio fascination with streaming, where the In...
by EricJ
October 3rd, 2023, 8:25 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney Pixar's Elemental
Replies: 196
Views: 54255

Re: Disney Pixar's Elemental

No, TS5 is not going to “pretend that TS4 didn’t happen.” TS4 won an Oscar and made a billion dollars, it’s not a “hated” sequel by any stretch. Dacey says "No, fans did NOT hate it, it made a million shmillion dollars on its opening weekend, so there, that proves it!"....DRINK!! Which is why I thi...
by EricJ
October 3rd, 2023, 1:40 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney Pixar's Elemental
Replies: 196
Views: 54255

Re: Disney Pixar's Elemental

Well, not so much throwing Bonnie under the bus as Bonnie throwing Woody under the bus. (Leaving aside current management that wanted to toss Woody completely offscreen and make the entire movie about Liberated Superheroine-Caped Bo Peep traveling the world to do whatever she wants without personal ...
by EricJ
October 2nd, 2023, 6:55 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney Pixar's Elemental
Replies: 196
Views: 54255

Re: Disney Pixar's Elemental

Finally got around to starting it-- Here, we get the " Ethnic daily life in fantasy environment" with the second-generation-immigrant metaphor laid on from the first scene, and clearly Indian, from the Bollywood music that erupts on the soundtrack every time Ember goes into action. But...it's a STEP...
by EricJ
October 1st, 2023, 3:57 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66055

Re: Disney's Wish

And Princess Leia was never a Disney Princess. Except in the equally "original" minds of a hundred Internet memers and Park Armchair-Imagineers, the MINUTE and second they heard Disney bought Lucas. Hence the pre-emptive pronouncement, since Disney had already gone through the problems of putting G...
by EricJ
September 30th, 2023, 5:53 am
Forum: On Television
Topic: Looney Tunes Golden/Platinum Collections
Replies: 343
Views: 204558

Re: Looney Tunes Golden/Platinum Collections

I see the Texes are mixed in (Cross Country Detours, Hamateur Night, I Wanna Be a Sailor), so I can stop asking for that "Tex at Warner" collection to go with the Tex at MGMs. But yeah, this list is definitely for the Archive obscure-toon connoisseur crowd, that doesn't want a lot of corporate Bugs ...
by EricJ
September 30th, 2023, 5:43 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66055

Re: Disney's Wish

Poor princess Eilonwy from black cauldron is forgot again. She makes 4. Nope, officially disqualified-- Disney's official canonical answer to smartypants is: A) Eilonwy and Leia both had their kingdoms(/planets) destroyed, and aren't princesses of anything anymore, B) Kida gave up her throne to go ...
by EricJ
September 28th, 2023, 2:41 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66055

Re: Disney's Wish

It's funny because they used the word heroine instead of princess, that's because the term "Disney Princess" wasn't widely used back then because the franchise only started in 2000. Probably because they only had three before the 90's Renaissance added five by 1998. Asha is like Mirabel like Anna l...
by EricJ
September 27th, 2023, 3:54 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66055

Re: Disney's Wish

gaastra wrote:
September 21st, 2023, 12:51 pm
The live action animated once upon a studio short in front of wish will now air on abc. But why?
Probably because the last time they aired a half-hour ABC special in front of "Coco" in theaters, it didn't work out so well?
by EricJ
September 23rd, 2023, 2:06 am
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: YouTube Goodness
Replies: 1029
Views: 458429

Re: YouTube Goodness

A pre-October sample of some of the perfect synergy that happens when Universal Studios Hollywood jams multiple different IP character meets into one area:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MnfrT00l8e4 :lol:
by EricJ
September 22nd, 2023, 11:55 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66055

Re: Disney's Wish

I know it's become a bit of a running joke, but the way the Studio treats Hans from Frozen, you would expect him to be the most sinister and evil villain they have ever created. The, ahem, "new management" wants to keep Elsa's running misandrist "Sor-ree, Hans, not this time! ;) " joke from Frozen ...
by EricJ
September 21st, 2023, 2:25 am
Forum: Off the Shelf
Topic: Disney Movie Rewards
Replies: 1293
Views: 545584

Re: Disney Movie Rewards

A note to follow So.
by EricJ
September 19th, 2023, 6:03 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: WB Archive Collection: Discs On Demand!
Replies: 1136
Views: 504637

Re: WB Archive Collection: DVDs On Demand!

I got all excited when you cited Devil Doll, but it’s THE Devil Doll coming from WB, not Devil Doll, which is still awaiting an HD release. (I know, you did say Browning, but I couldn’t remember who directed it and excitement got the better of me…) Only MST3K fanboys would picture something OTHER t...
by EricJ
September 19th, 2023, 5:56 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Criterion Collection
Replies: 312
Views: 162375

Re: Criterion Collection

I wanted a different Pinocchio to be released on 4K :( Yeah, when are we going to get that 2020 Italian version with old Roberto Benigni as Gepetto (and doing it right this time*), another actual wooden-CGI Pinocchio, and no cheap Pan's Labyrinth callbacks on the Blue Fairy and Mussolini settings? ...