This should be called “Reputation Rehabilitation of a Sex Pest.”
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Apple TV+ Animated Film 'Luck' Now Streaming, Takes Over Apple's Homepage
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Hmm. Isn't this leveraging your position in the hardware market to prop your other businesses? I.e. competition abuse?
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.
It’s not getting good review on IMDb but I’ll give it a shot later, I can’t enjoy Pixar anymore because of certain reasons
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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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.
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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Probably give this a watch, as well as the new Buzz Lightyear film and Prey film on Disney Plus.
The cat looks like Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service.
The lead character as got an apple Animoji face.
Does Pixar even make decent movies anymore? I think the last one I watched was Toy Story 3.
It's a bit of a mixed bag, and there have been a few misfires, but some of the more recent ones are definitely worth a watch. Especially Soul and Inside Out are (IMHO) just as good as their earlier efforts.
Don't know if I can listen to Whoopie Goldberg for longer then couple minutes
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.
I was under the impression that when he sold Pixar to Disney he became Disney’s largest shareholder.
No, the word you‘re looking for is „synergy“. Which is not illegal (yet), not even in the EU.
Reviews have been pretty bad so far…
I think I'll spend my 2 hours this weekend on Hulu's "Prey" (which is getting great reviews). And, it has Amber Midthunder starring. She was great in "Legion."
I think I'll spend my 2 hours this weekend on Hulu's "Prey" (which is getting great reviews). And, it has Amber Midthunder starring. She was great in "Legion."
I would expect more from a user since 2010, long absence from Macrumors or have you just been off the Internet for a while?
That looks so cute. Can't wait to see it...