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With John Lassiter heading up SkyDance animation and Apple now promoting their stuff, is Pixar even really Pixar anymore?

I remember when Steve Jobs heavily promoted Pixar movies.
Pete Docter is now Chief Creative Officer at Pixar, having taken over from Lasseter. He's been there since 1990, employee number 10. I think Pixar is still Pixar.
 
Created by a team founded by a guy fired from Pixar for sexual harassment
Whatever you think of Lasseter and his involvement, the movie was already in pre-production before Skydance hired him.

Having said that, the art style is very obviously influenced by Pixar's, and the story feels rather derivative, too: A bit like a mashup of Monsters Inc., Soul, and Coco, with a sprinkle of Inside Out on top. Not sure how much original mileage is left in the genre of "fish-out-of-water in a supernatural organization that controls parts of our existence" stories.
 
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Hmm. Isn't this leveraging your position in the hardware market to prop your other businesses? I.e. competition abuse?
How so? From what I can see, they're using characters from a movie to advertise hardware. (EDIT: And/or their front page to advertise a movie they released on their streaming platform.) That seems to be perfectly legal to me.

It would be different, if, for example, using an Apple device required a subscription to Apple TV+ and/or Apple Music, or if Apple offered these services for free to their users. That'd be anticompetitive, because it would make Apple users far less likely to use any of the competing services.

This, on the other hand, looks just like plain old tie-in advertising.
 
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Perhaps Apple should have spent more money on this instead of bombarding the Emmy's with a truckload of moneybags.
 
A lot of negativity in here.
Looking past the controversy around Lasseter for a moment, it doesn't necessarily seem to be an outright bad movie – it's just that Pixar's best films have set the bar very high by creating family films with a surprising emotional depth. This, by comparison, looks like a competently-done Pixar clone that doesn't seem to bring much new to the table. (Which, to be fair, also goes for a lot of Disney's non-Pixar releases and even some of Pixar's own creations.)

Am I going to watch it at some point? Probably yes, because I have an Apple TV+ subscription. Am I as curious about it as I was about Soul, Up, or Inside Out? No, because it just doesn't look like this movie has much to say beyond the events of its plot.
 
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Wouldn't it be wild if Jobs started a "Pixar" for Apple TV+, personally funding it with the sale of the Disney shares he got from the sale of Pixar to Disney in the first place...
Being dead might prevent that from happening...
 
This has been my frustration. I don’t understand why all adult oriented content needs to be TV-MA these days. As an adult, I have no desire to have my ears assaulted by overly vulgar language or to watch soft porn. Sure I occasionally watch things I wouldn’t want my young kids to see, but most of the reasons I wouldn’t want my kids to watch something apply just as much to adults who just want to watch a good story without any indecency.
You forget to mention gun violence and endless scenes of death and destruction. As a European I’m fare more shocked by this than some vulgar language or nakedness.

In the end you can’t please everyone.
 
Looking forward to seeing!

It’s a shame there are so many here who have to add a toxic comment to any post… can’t you all go and moan on Truth Social?
I would expect more from a user since 2010, long absence from Macrumors or have you just been off the Internet for a while?
 
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