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System 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Yep, I finally said it. They're an overrated animation studio. They've had their hits. Toy Story was great and the Incredibles was their crowning achievement. But each movie is called their greatest movie before its even out. What kind of blind loyalty is that? Disney has raped that studio for all its worth. I keep hearing how Ratatouille is the greatest Pixar movie ever. But for every commercial I've seen, I just don't care. Commercials are geared to MAKE you want to see the movie. This just made me shrug and flip the channel. I'm not saying Pixar is a bad animation studio. I'm just saying its overrated and not everything they do is great.

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RetroToon 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 759	They're only overrated cause they hold the title of making the first CG movies. I mean Toy Story's a classic and The Incredibles are awesome, but what's so big about Ratatouille? The Incredibles was big for them cause it was their first human movie but after that they're down to smaller scale stuff like mice and robots and even if they haven't done them yet some other studio probably already did. One thing I do give them credit for though is good storytelling, but even the greatest studios will run out of original ideas sooner or later.

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Rainbow Bright
6 years 10 months ago
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What movies have been done by pixar recently, i haven't even seen any
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System 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Rainbow_Bright wrote: What movies have been done by pixar recently, i haven't even seen any Ratatouille and the upcoming Wall*E. Which does nothing for me either.

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Captain Howdy
6 years 10 months ago
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I agree. Go see some Miyazaki films instead.
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19PK74 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 52	Whether you enjoy all of Pixar's films or not...they are the touchstone in regards to brilliant story telling in the past fifteen years. It doesn't matter the film or characters...the writers have an uncanny ability to create well thought out characters that audiences can truly care about. The posters in this thread sound like so many of the 'net sheep I found on line that hate and tear down just because they feel it makes them "intellecutally superior". What it really does is make them appear sad. Especially when you consider none of the posts have anything to say other than "they're overrated"...with nothing to really back such a critique up.

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Rainbow Bright
6 years 10 months ago
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Ohh right the rat movie, i thought that was done by Disney.
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pikachulover 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 2932	I think Disney just distributed it. But I think they own Pixar now.
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Shazbot 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 2882	I want to start an adult film company called Dick-star. Any females who wanna ty out, send pics of your girl parts to my PM box.

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System 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Actually, yeah, I think Pixar has become extremely overrated and I do have reasons to back it up, thank you very much. I rented Ratatouille from Netflix and I just found it to be a child safe rehash of Sideways (Remmy's life crisis and his passion for food/wine). The Incredibles was a rehash of Mystery Men and the independent superhero comedy The Specials (Strange/different superheroes return from "Retirement" to save the world)... again made child safe. It's come to the point where the animators at Pixar just want to remake their favorite independent films and convert them into family friendly fair. Wall*E is a blatant remake of Short Circuit with the Pixar "formula".

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Saradomin 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 582 Globally Banned	I agree with you there Ekkostar. I would much rather watch the Disney classic movies from Snow White to the Lion King, rather than watch another Pixar movie that holds similar references to Toy Story, which is still the only movie I have personally liked from them.

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19PK74 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 52	Ekkostar wrote: Actually, yeah, I think Pixar has become extremely overrated and I do have reasons to back it up, thank you very much. I rented Ratatouille from Netflix and I just found it to be a child safe rehash of Sideways (Remmy's life crisis and his passion for food/wine). The Incredibles was a rehash of Mystery Men and the independent superhero comedy The Specials (Strange/different superheroes return from "Retirement" to save the world)... again made child safe. It's come to the point where the animators at Pixar just want to remake their favorite independent films and convert them into family friendly fair. WallE is a blatant remake of Short Circuit with the Pixar "formula". Ok here's the deal, there's no way The Incredibles can be compared to Mystery Men. As far as its comparison to The Specials, the only similarities are the concept of heros returning from obscurity. What Pixar and John Lassiter do well is write well crafted stories with multi-dimensional characters that allow an audience to run the gammut of emotions. If you don't enjoy the films...fine...but discounting their ability to direct and create engaging films out of either ordinary or very obscure material is second to none. And how can you even say what WallE when the film isn't due out until this summer? So it is a story that deals with a robot that developes self awareness...I hate to tell you but Short Circuit sure as hell wasn't the first film to use that theme. All in all any of the comments I've read have been weak at best and simply sound like the same rehashed critisisms that come from basement dwellers who thrive on nothing more than just pissing on anything that's successful.

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nippy
6 years 10 months ago
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Pixar is outstanding. Ratatouille sucked, however.
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vintagefantasy 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 1038	in ratatouille I loved anton ego plus the beginning of the this trailer I found very interesting, not that everyone watches the videos that I post but if they did it might bring a little more discussion to this thead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWIIlXNGwY
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SharonTheJedi 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 317	We rented Ratatouille recently on the 360 and I LOVED IT!! It didn't catch my attention during it's run in theaters but we watched it with the kids and I would recommend it highly.
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voltron82 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 999	nippy wrote: Pixar is outstanding. Ratatouille sucked, however. i agree.. that movie was awful!! i thought CARS was great
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Spongeroks 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 224	voltron82 wrote: nippy wrote: Pixar is outstanding. Ratatouille sucked, however. i agree.. that movie was awful!! i thought CARS was great Was that sarcasm? I'm not saying that it's bad to say that, I'm just saying that for some reason, it sounded like sarcasm.

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COOLHAND 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 2942	Saradomin wrote: I agree with you there Ekkostar. I would much rather watch the Disney classic movies from Snow White to the Lion King, rather than watch another Pixar movie that holds similar references to Toy Story, which is still the only movie I have personally liked from them. agreed toy story is the only one worth watching and its damn good

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Spongeroks 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 224	COOLHAND wrote: Saradomin wrote: I agree with you there Ekkostar. I would much rather watch the Disney classic movies from Snow White to the Lion King, rather than watch another Pixar movie that holds similar references to Toy Story, which is still the only movie I have personally liked from them. agreed toy story is the only one worth watching and its damn good I personally liked all of them, but that's your opinion and I'm fine with that.

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WileE2005 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 5	I agree that Pixar is highly overrated. They are like Microsoft or the New York Yankees. But I DID like the Toy Story movies and "The Incredibles." But I think "Ratatouille" DID NOT deserve to win the Oscar! Not because Pixar made it, but because it's a CGI TALKING ANIMAL MOVIE, like the many hundreds that Hollywood's been churning out since 2002, with formulaic plots, cheap crude humor and annoying characters. I hope Pixar never makes another talking animal movie. If they do, I'll go crazy! Daffy Duck has worse problems with Pixar in my "Hard Times for Daffy" fanfics... http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3365583/1/Hard_Times_For_Daffy_II_A_Possible_Future

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