1/7/2024 0 Comments Recent disney movies not pixar![]() ![]() Then again, I don’t think you can feel hollow for the right reasons, but I digress. Writing that sentence just made me feel hollow inside for all of the wrong reasons. We’re seeing a studio once known for box office prestige slowly, but surely, being relegated by Disney to being a studio that makes Disney+ original movies. ![]() The news this week of Turning Red suddenly abandoning its theatrical run two months beforehand feels wrong. Theaters had been open for a fair amount of time by then and theater capacities were beginning to increase. It’s when we got to Luca going straight to Disney+ that my head began to tilt. I can even understand that with Soul, which received a Christmas Day release on Disney+ since, while theaters were slowly reopening, Disney felt it was safer to release the film on their streaming service as a Christmas gift. I get that during that particular moment in time, there was no way to show the film in theaters, so quickly shifting it to a digital release made sense. In the case of Onward, its shift to VOD was understandable, given that it was released in theaters only a week before the pandemic forced theaters to close for months. Onward, Soul, Luca, and now, Turning Red. Since the pandemic began, we’ve had three, technically four, Pixar films that have been unceremoniously shuffled onto Disney+ for audience consumption. Trust me, no one thinks that’s a good thing. Or at least, that’s what I would have liked to say before Disney decided Pixar wasn’t worth screening in theaters anymore. There’s an indescribable feeling whenever you sit down in a theater to watch the latest Pixar movie. ![]() Even when it become more reliant on franchising and only relying on cutting-edge animation above originality, I still went to see every single one of its films because there’s just something unique about Pixar. Pixar films touched upon themes and ideas that, at the time, made them stand out from the cheap family comedies that Dreamworks was pushing out. There was a beauty and artistry in those earlier works that impacted audiences no matter their age. I love Pixar from an animation standpoint, even if I find a lot of its modern work underwhelming and not as good as its output in the 2000s. Even though I don’t care about the MCU, Star Wars, or whatever other franchises it decides to consume in its evergrowing maw, I often defend Pixar. I don’t want to talk about the house of mouse, but because it has pop culture monopolized at this point, it’s impossible not to talk about the company. I’ve made it clear over the past several years my complete and utter disdain for Disney and always struggle whenever I have to cover it. Disney is now strictly a business, and it will do whatever it can to make money, even tarnish the reputation of Pixar, one of the most beloved animation studios in the world. ![]() It especially doesn’t care about its own studios or the creative processes that go into filmmaking. Oh sure, it’ll show off bright and happy-go-lucky animated films and have all of your favorite properties under its ever-expanding thumb, but Disney doesn’t care about you. The company never has been and it never will be. ![]()
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