Disney Buys Pixar

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Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

In other words, Pixar is going to be making Disney based movies rather than original creations, and you can kiss the Pixar name goodbye as Disney loved to permote themselves. As I said, it sucks ass. The pixar I knew just died and became another branch to farm out Disney sequels. Now they're just going to be really pretty sequels. This sh*t happens in the gaming industry all the time. They're doomed.

Two words: Eisner. Gone.

I do not doubt your knowledge of the gaming industry. But at least in the movie industry, anything can happen. Pixar has not died yet. There is no indication that this has happened. Disney has bought Pixar. True. But you seemed to have ignored the fact that several major positions have gone over to people at Pixar. The largest shareholder and new member of Board of Directors is Steve Jobs. Who is from Pixar. It seems to me that Disney is allowing Pixar to take over, or at least be directly involved in the big-decision making, which is part of what aggravated them in the first place.

This kind of scheiss happens all the time -- not only in the videogame/entertainment industry, but in the management of schools and companies. All the time. People think their position of authority makes them wiser than those dedicated to the craft. So what do we get? Idiot supervisors who have neither experience nor insight into what works calling most of the shots. Sequel after tedious sequel, in the case of Disney.

All right. We don't know the precise future of this ordeal. Whether the gesture of giving authority to Pixar was bogus or genuine, I think, is the issue upon which we have divergent opinions. I would like to believe that there is hope for Disney, that Pixar will help to mend the things that have gone wrong. I would like to believe that the board of directors at Disney (a fair portion of whom hated Eisner's guts) are NOT going to continue Eisner and Katzenberg method of managing Disney and excreting animated whorethongs. They're both gone, hopefully taking their flamboyant cockiness/type-A insanity with them.

Here. Have a flower.