75 employees laid off at Pixar, including the director of Lightyear

[Smugpugmug]

Thought Inside Out was a boring movie and probably one of Pixar worst.

One of Pixar's worst? When Cars 2, Good Dinosaur and Lightyear exist?

 

[starlite_]

One of Pixar's worst? When Cars 2, Good Dinosaur and Lightyear exist?

I had forgotten about Cars 2, how mean of you to remind me.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Good Dinosaur was pretty terrible, but it still had a better opening weekend than Elemental.....let that sink in.

 

[Smugpugmug]

I had forgotten about Cars 2, how mean of you to remind me.

Cars 2 is the only Pixar film where I can confidently say that it was 100% made to make money and was absolutely a corporate product. There is NO other explanation as to why it exists otherwise.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Cars 2 is the only Pixar film where I can confidently say that it was 100% made to make money and was absolutely a corporate product. There is NO other explanation as to why it exists otherwise.

My kids still watched the crap out of that piece of junk.

 

[BrianL]

Good Dinosaur was pretty terrible, but it still had a better opening weekend than Elemental.....let that sink in.

Yeah, but that doesn't speak purely to the quality of the movie.

 

[Smugpugmug]

My kids still watched the crap out of that piece of junk.

Yeah and I watched the hell out of the Little Mermaid 2 Return to the Sea as a kid but that doesn't make that movie Citizen Kane lol /s

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Yeah, but that doesn't speak purely to the quality of the movie.

Agreed, much different time and place now versus then.

 

[BrianL]

Yeah and I watched the hell out of the Little Mermaid 2 Return to the Sea as a kid but that doesn't make that movie Citizen Kane lol /s

Yeah, but it doesn't make it bad either. Some of those DTV sequels get overly trashed in my opinion. They are decent. Cars 2 is decent enough too had it been a DTV type thing of a TV series or something. There's nothing really WRONG with it, there's just nothing really GREAT about it either.

 

[nancipants]

One of Pixar's worst? When Cars 2, Good Dinosaur and Lightyear exist?

Cars 2 is bananapants crazy.

I've watched Good Dinosaur a few times with my son and I will admit that it made me cry.

 

[HokieRaven5]

Yeah, but it doesn't make it bad either. Some of those DTV sequels get overly trashed in my opinion. They are decent. Cars 2 is decent enough too had it been a DTV type thing of a TV series or something. There's nothing really WRONG with it, there's just nothing really GREAT about it either.

Aladdin and the King of Thieves was my go to

 

[nancipants]

Yeah, but it doesn't make it bad either. Some of those DTV sequels get overly trashed in my opinion. They are decent. Cars 2 is decent enough too had it been a DTV type thing of a TV series or something. There's nothing really WRONG with it, there's just nothing really GREAT about it either.

Cars 2's biggest problem (besides the script!) is going all-in on Mater. Kids don't care about an unwitting spy, they want racing!

 

[BrianL]

Cars 2's biggest problem (besides the script!) is going all-in on Mater. Kids don't care about an unwitting spy, they want racing!

Actually, I might argue that kids love Mater. He can be annoying to adults, and I agree that a little of him goes a long way, but he was indeed very popular with the younger set.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

That was just an era where sequels were designed to be direct to video and to sell to parents and movie rental stores. Rember those places?

We had a Dollar-A-Day Video. Rental's were you guessed it, $1 a day.

 

[nancipants]

Actually, I might argue that kids love Mater. He can be annoying to adults, and I agree that a little of him goes a long way, but he was indeed very popular with the younger set.

Thankfully my son doesn't care about him.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Actually, I might argue that kids love Mater. He can be annoying to adults, and I agree that a little of him goes a long way, but he was indeed very popular with the younger set.

Lots of Mater themed toys in my house back in the day. My kids loved Mater!!!

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Cars 2 is bananapants crazy.

I've watched Good Dinosaur a few times with my son and I will admit that it made me cry.

I am stealing that one: bananapants crazy, is pretty darn funny!

 

[DefnotDLav]

Our son loved the first 10 mins of Cars 2. Would watch it and as soon as they got off that oil rig, would rewind and start over. Which was fine because it never got any better

 

[Smugpugmug]

Yeah, but it doesn't make it bad either. Some of those DTV sequels get overly trashed in my opinion. They are decent. Cars 2 is decent enough too had it been a DTV type thing of a TV series or something. There's nothing really WRONG with it, there's just nothing really GREAT about it either.

Little Mermaid 2 is trash but it's MY trash. There's a difference.

Cars 2 is bananapants crazy.

I've watched Good Dinosaur a few times with my son and I will admit that it made me cry.

I saw Good Dinosaur in theaters and I kind of regret it. It's not a good movie at all.

 

[HopperFan]

One of Pixar's worst? When Cars 2, Good Dinosaur and Lightyear exist?

I did say ONE of the worst.

I'll admit I didn't see Cars 2, and I did like Lightyear. But I like background movies, which it seems many had a difficult time with it, so kept looking for toy Buzz. And when toy Buzz wasn't in it, automatically hated the movie.

I think for the Cars series and a Dinosaur movie, they are right up kid's entertainment alley. That goes back to Elemental. I don't think it was a kids' movie. But the adults in the theater were highly entertained. Very much which POV you are viewing it with.