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Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:

Tiny Timous wrote:

Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Pixar movies are almost universally excellent (if only they'd never indulged Lasseter with the Cars franchise!) and it's bizarre to suggest that people liking them is just bowing down to some kind of societal pressure to conform!

They are fundamentally "family" films though and I do think those with less of a link to the themes of family and the particular elements of the human experience related to growing up, family connections, losing that feeling of unity with loved ones etc. will probably see the films resonate with them less. (although it feels odd saying that as the themes are pretty much universal to everyone)

I always thought they kept making Cars films because they make Disney so much money....

Oh absolutely they are a cash cow, but it was Lasseters baby to start with and I think nobody had the clout to stand up and say "Hey John, maybe this Cars thing is a bit gooseberry fool, y'know as a movie?"

Tidings of Cuttooth and Joy wrote:

Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:

Tiny Timous wrote:

Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Pixar movies are almost universally excellent (if only they'd never indulged Lasseter with the Cars franchise!) and it's bizarre to suggest that people liking them is just bowing down to some kind of societal pressure to conform!

They are fundamentally "family" films though and I do think those with less of a link to the themes of family and the particular elements of the human experience related to growing up, family connections, losing that feeling of unity with loved ones etc. will probably see the films resonate with them less. (although it feels odd saying that as the themes are pretty much universal to everyone)

I always thought they kept making Cars films because they make Disney so much money....

Oh absolutely they are a cash cow, but it was Lasseters baby to start with and I think nobody had the clout to stand up and say "Hey John, maybe this Cars thing is a bit gooseberry fool, y'know as a movie?"

To be fair to Disney, society as a whole is still waiting for someone brave enough to stand up and make it known that they don't think Cars is a good movie.

One day maybe, but not right now.

Edd wrote:They made Cars 2 and 3 to prove to everyone that the first one wasn't really as bad as we thought it was.

Harry Ellis wrote:I don't hate all animated films. There are some that are, whisper it, not bad, some even actually good but those are very few and far between.

Most people only jizz over Disney/Pixar because it's what society at large dictates. People are too afraid to rock the boat by having a different opinion and being seen as an outcast; they insist they like these films because they think they are supposed to.

Same with pop music. People like most the regurgitated rubbish in the charts because it's popular and they want to seem like they fit in. Ed Sheeran's a classic case; absolutely bog standard musician but he got popular and all the mindless drones latched onto him because it was the thing to be seen doing.

Harry Ellis wrote:Huh? I never said cartoons are for kids. I still watch the Pokémon anime

Harry Ellis wrote:I still watch the Pokémon anime

Pedz wrote:I didn't say you did. I said most adults I know say that.

Moggy wrote:

Harry Ellis wrote:Huh? I never said cartoons are for kids. I still watch the Pokémon anime

Yes but you only watch that because society has pressured you into thinking it's good.

BORbles wrote:Parasite

Wow! It was a brilliant film. I'd recommend anybody to watch it if you haven't seen it yet.

Harry Ellis wrote:I don't hate all animated films. There are some that are, whisper it, not bad, some even actually good but those are very few and far between.

Waitrose Richly Fruited Christmas Cake wrote:

Harry Ellis wrote:I don't hate all animated films. There are some that are, whisper it, not bad, some even actually good but those are very few and far between.

This is true of all films though, right? Why would you focus on animated films unless you have some sort of prejudice against them?

Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Nah, it's actually pretty average but everyone is caving into the pressure to like it

Harry Ellis wrote:What if we replaced animated with Will Smith? Because I feel the same way about the films I've seen starring him. I don't like most of them, he happens to be the common denominator. Am I then prejudiced against him?

Harry Ellis wrote:What if we replaced animated with Will Smith? Because I feel the same way about the films I've seen starring him. I don't like most of them, he happens to be the common denominator.