Originally Posted By MousDad >>and Iger has basically said heads will role if this doesn't do Pixar money ... and it won't! Take it to the bank!)<< Consider your check cashed! Partly Cloudy would do well to wish for How To Train Your Dragon money, or Despicable Me money (or quality of either for that matter). As far as heads rolling - if we're talking marketing heads, than bring it on. (Yeah right, MousDad, that's about as likely as a New York press event resulting in something more substantial than a high school SNL skit gone bad.) So whose heads? Animators? Directors? Animation executives? Chief Creative Officers?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> << Iger has basically said heads will role if this doesn't do Pixar money ... and it won't! Take it to the bank!>> They're crazy to think it'll do Pixar money. Pixar is the leader of the industry currently. That being said, I'm much more excited to see Tangled than PatF. The name change was a success! (Kidding. Not about being excited for the film, about the name change)<<<<< I'm not as excited,probably because I was let down by PATF, but I do hope and think that this movie will do well. Not over the top well, but enough so as to hold it's own, and maybe be adopted as a franchise for the parks. The music, however, for this film, seems like it will be better than PATF, simply because who is composing it.
Originally Posted By Christi22222 Wow, glad to hear I'm not the only person unimpressed with Avatar and PatF. I've started wondering if I just can't appreciate fantasy anymore because I really didn't love TS3, either. LOVED number one and enjoyed number 2. Problem with Avatar could have been that I was OFFENDED that they could ever compare it to the original Star Wars. I am not a sci-fi geek in any way, but I will remember to my dying day being 10 years old, sitting in the best theater for sound my parents could find in OC, and being completely blown away by the opening scene of Star WArs, and then again and again for the next 2 hours. We paid to see that movie many more times. Back in the day with no DVD's of course... (Yeah, I just totally dated myself!) Until a movie does that, don't tell me it is even in the league. And, no, I don't own a single Star Wars action figure. lol! So in marketing, do you just have to have enough nerve to claim your movie is a classic before anyone has a clue? Then why don't all studios do this? Why don't they just "own" the crap and claim it's a modern classic before folks ever see it? How come that works sometimes, but not others? I rather liked PofP, but it sure didn't seem to hit with folks. Was that marketing, or the film?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper << I've started wondering if I just can't appreciate fantasy anymore because I really didn't love TS3, either.>> And I thought I was the only one who thought like this! Haha. I thought TS3 was way to melodramatic for my taste. It was decent, but man I was waiting to laugh. << Problem with Avatar could have been that I was OFFENDED that they could ever compare it to the original Star Wars.>> I never saw them comparing the movie to Star Wars. But personally I agree. Not from a quality of movie standpoint, but from a filming technology stand point.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I never saw them comparing the movie to Star Wars. But personally I agree. Not from a quality of movie standpoint, but from a filming technology stand point.<<<< Consider yourself lucky, there were tons of Avatar fanbois offing themselves over the SW comparisons. In cinematics, yeah, I can see how they would think that. In story? NO WAY. LOL.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<In cinematics, yeah, I can see how they would think that. In story? NO WAY. >> Eh...Star Wars really isn't that original in story to be quite honest. It's basically built on 100 different stories that came before it(as all movies are these days). But the Jedi/Sith and characters are really what brings it above a normal space epic.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Not that that's a bad thing by any stretch of the means(I am a Star Wars fanboi after all).
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Eh...Star Wars really isn't that original in story to be quite honest. It's basically built on 100 different stories that came before it(as all movies are these days). But the Jedi/Sith and characters are really what brings it above a normal space epic.<<< It's built on religion and mythology and basic class struggle. Transplanting that to SciFi Space Action is pretty unique. Then again, Avatar did much of the same...but...it's kinda expected now. SW was first.
