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Apparently Bob Iger does know what he's doing, and realizes that he can't do it alone. Disney just bought Pixar for 7.4 billion dollars. It also made Steve Jobs, head of Pixar, the largest shareholder of Disney shares.
While I am glad that Disney was able to salvage its relationship with Pixar, and I do think that Pixar has produced some of the best animated films in the past decade, I almost feel like we're saying goodbye to the what was the Walt Disney Company.
CGI is awesome, but the beauty that is hand-drawn cartoons is something much more beautiful, and it seems that with this purchase, the Disney board has decided to no longer dedicate time to this timeless art, but rather let Pixar make all of its future blockbuster kids movies.
Gone will be the classic art that made Disney the great powerhouse it once was.
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[Manic Webb]

[quote name='Tracer Bullet][COLOR=Green][FONT=Comic Sans MS]CGI is awesome, but the beauty that is hand-drawn cartoons is something much more beautiful, and it seems that with this purchase, the Disney board has decided to no longer dedicate time to this timeless art, but rather let Pixar make all of its future blockbuster kids movies.[/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote]
Disney made the decision to give up traditional animation long before they purchased Pixar. We're talking 2004 (at least), here.

When [i]Home on the Range[/i] and [i]Brother Bear[/i] bombed, then-CEO Michael Eisner lost hold of all of his senses, and came to the conclusion that those movies failed because people want CGI-animated films. Heaven forbid either movie failed because they were just bad. Anyway, Eisner then shut down all of Disney's major animation studios. I'm talking Japan, Florida, Burbank-- all of them. This was then followed by several Disney board members walking out on the company (but keeping their stock shares, of course), and protesting against Eisner himself. Eventually, the rest of the board caved in, and Iger is the current CEO.

The studios are still shut down, though. Disney built a new studio in Burbank made exclusively for CGI-animated films ([i]Chicken Little[/i] being the first), and I can't remember whether or not the made-for-television animation studio is still up & running in Australia.

Anyway, I'm fed up with Disney. They haven't seen a dime from me in a while-- not including the Miramax films I've seen.

[Sara]

[quote name='Manic Webb]When [i]Home on the Range[/i] and [i]Brother Bear[/i'] bombed, then-CEO Michael Eisner lost hold of all of his senses, and came to the conclusion that those movies failed because people want CGI-animated films.[/quote][color=33333][font=trebuchet ms]They really were awful, weren't they?[/font][/color]

[Satoru]

Disney can't keep up on classic animations? Why? Because we're living in a time where classical animation is the past. Kids these days don't want to see that stuff.

[EVA Unit 100]

[quote name='Satoru']Disney can't keep up on classic animations? Why? Because we're living in a time where classical animation is the past. Kids these days don't want to see that stuff.[/quote]

No, kids do. Otherwise, Lilo and Stitch would have bombed and Spongebob wouldn't be one of the highest rated shows on TV.

And despite the fact that they're hand-drawn, I don't think anyone can call Brother Bear and Home on the Range "classics" simply because they suck. Despite using CGI, Pixar's movies are more deserving of that title.

Anyway, this is awesome news. 2D was going to die at Disney anway, so it's better we have awesome 3D movies instead of crappy 3D ones. Brad Bird has been trying to pitch a PG-13 2D action movie for years, and Pixar is willing to take enough risks to get that done. Also, with Lasseter's dedicated love of Miyazaki we might end up with a wide release of Gendo Senki and other future Ghibli films.

[TheShinje]

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While I am glad that Disney was able to salvage its relationship with Pixar, and I do think that Pixar has produced some of the best animated films in the past decade, I almost feel like we're saying goodbye to the what was the Walt Disney Company.
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[color=crimson] I'm not that glad that Pixar made up with Disney, I was hoping to see Pixar work with some other studios and seeing what they could come up with.

I still like the look of the classic 2-D films, I really thought that the style had years of life left in it, it's not like it was going radically out of fashion more than it was lacking decent plots.[/color]

[hey_love]

[size=1]I don't know. I am such a fan towards the classic disney movies, such as Bambi, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid... A lot of the movies that were originally based off of previously written movies.

I grew up reading these stories, and watching these movies alike. Disney just seems to be losing it's touch because the society these days are just demanding so much more.

Younger children these days are either into [b][i]stupid, silly, violent humor[/b][/i] or something that isn't even meant for their age group!

I thought Brother Bear was an okay movie, not the best, but the plot idea was nice.

I just wish that there could be a bit more in life these days than what is out there right now.

And with competition of rebuilding and remaking books/stories into movies, and Disney isn't really doing that anymore, I think there wasn't really any other choice but to make up and move forward into the new age.[/size]