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Which Run Is Better

Disney (1989-1996)
12 (31.6%)
Pixar (2003-2009)
26 (68.4%)

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Author Topic: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar  (Read 6708 times)

PJ Martinez

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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #20 on: April 19, 2010, 11:12:30 AM »
Yeah, I considered mentioning the James Earl Jones thing. Doesn't really change the good neighborhood/bad neighborhood dynamic, though, or the whole patrilineal monarchy business, for that matter.

In general, I think Disney has often re-purposed old (or sometimes just old-fashioned) stories without a great deal of apparent thought for what those stories mean today.

Which is not necessarily a big deal, and doesn't mean The Lion King, for instance, isn't a good movie. But when you compare it to most of Pixar's movies, you see what can be gained by writing genuinely new stories.
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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2010, 11:34:22 AM »
Nothing in any Pixar movie - not even the married sequence in Up - is as emotionally effective or devestating as the moment Simba lifts up Mufasa's paw and wraps it around himself. Original story or not. It's what they do with it. And in the case of BatB, Aladdin and Lion King they do wonders.
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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2010, 12:04:25 PM »
Beauty and the Beast > Finding Nemo
Hunchback of Notre Dame > Wall-E
The Lion King > The Incredibles
The Little Mermaid > Ratatouille
Aladdin > Up
Pocahontas > Cars

It's closer than the final score would indicate, but still.

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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2010, 12:32:57 PM »
I really only like 1 film from early 90s Disney, but it is my favorite animated film.

Still, I gotta go with Pixar.

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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2010, 01:37:16 PM »
I suppose this is determined to a fairly significant degree by how much one likes musicals, no?

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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2010, 02:07:23 PM »
I think more by how old you were when those Disney films came out.
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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2010, 02:12:49 PM »
Pixar, definitely.

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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2010, 02:33:07 PM »
Disney was good and all, but Pixar just took it to another level.

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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2010, 03:01:50 PM »
I think more by how old you were when those Disney films came out.
hmmm interesting...What's the correlation, you think?

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Re: Early 90s Disney vs. Late 00s Pixar
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2010, 03:05:45 PM »
I think the older you were then, the less likely you are now to like them as much as the Pixar films.

Not a perfect correlation of course, but seems like a general trend.
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