#ofc theres some standouts

[humblemediagenius]

incredibles 3. frozen 3. zootopia and moana 2. live action snow white and lilo and stitch. TOY STORY 5.????? i dont get it!

i mean, i do get it. this is what brings disney guarunteed money. but it HURTS. i’m so tired of seeing nothing but sequels come out of this company. i’ve been so tired of what they’ve released lately. they barely give their original content a chance (ie strange world, the covid pixar movies) and reading the article interviewing pete docter from a few months ago is hard to see as a creative myself.

this is one of the reasons in the article given about passing up movies with specifics, and it just. i understand this, but it feels like its an excuse to not try new things.

we can’t say all recent disney movies are bad, as much as i think most everything thats come out the last few years haven’t been incredible. encanto, whether you like it or not, was a smash hit— but it took a song getting viral to get people to talk about how good it was. i remember seeing the trailer for it before the movie came out and I found it quite boring. i didnt even watch it until after it came out on disney+, but it was worth it bc now it’s one of my favorite movies of all time! and 2022’s strange world got done SO. dirty. by the marketing team, i saw very little about it when it came out and the only press it got was having “disney’s first gay character” (yet again) but i actually really enjoyed it even if it wasn’t a stand out. but with no marketing it underperformed. and other movies, like wish, just were messy and needed more time in the oven.

this brings me to my next point about rushing artists; if you’ve watched the documentary about the making of frozen 2, you’ll see how rushed and weird everything was. its why the movie came out like *that*. (by the way i watched the trailer for moana 2, and for some reason, the plot seems to be REALLY close to frozen 2– familiar characters travelling to an ~unknown place~ and learning about their ancestors, doesn’t that sound very similar?) the back to back to back of all these sequels worry me; they have to live up to the original but very likely will not have the same impact that the originals did. if you’re gonna make a sequel, why not make it the best it could possibly be??? we all know incredibles 2 was not really what people were wanting, frozen 2 was a mixed bag, zootopia was fine but like do we really need a sequel… and . do we SERIOUSLY want ANOTHER toy story? another one??? (i will admit i’m biased here, i never found toy story to be the best, but i respect how crucial the first 3 movies are to pixar and disney’s history as well as the legacy toy story carries as being the first feature length 3d movie. i think it’s unfair to keep beating a dead horse when the series ended perfectly with the 3rd movie…)

inside out 2’s success at the box office really, really worries me; i hear that, for all intents and purposes, it was a fine movie (i have yet to watch it myself and probably will not for a while). but the fact it succeeded so much makes me see that disney will just keep greenlighting sequels and pushing down original ideas. elio was supposed to be pixar’s 2024 release, but it got silently pushed back in favor of inside out, which had made me very upset because of how thrilled i was for elio. i think to right now how a LOT of different animation studios are shelving movies or shows that have started or have even been finished just because they can, and i worry disney will start to do this. (remember gigantic? i’m still bitter it got canned.)

now.. about the live action remakes. i havent watched any of them (except aladdin— i was forced to while in a dentists office) and i plan to keep it that way. the idea was novel at first, i was around for cinderella’s release, but it just has become so oversaturated and uninteresting over time. i see a major argument be made that parts of these classic movies could have been executed better and more respectfully, and i wholeheartedly agree… if only the movies weren’t so soulless! i feel nothing when i see cgi realistic animals sing and dance and all that. everything feels so boring and all the color has been drained out, compared to the original animations! its not even like HUGE changes have been made to most of them. i think disney is veering more into the “we’re making these just because we can” territory than the “there were things we wanted to correct from the original”. like, lilo and stitch live action? REALLY? I am so, so angry about this desicion. the original movie is amazing (also with some very good deleted scenes). why drain everything fun about the original? (i won’t talk too much about snow white; i think it looks boring as hell and is completely unneeded. when it was first announced i found the vibes atrocious.)

this isnt very coherent and i’m sorry. i want to see disney do better. i want to see more original things. elio and win or lose look very promising, and i’m excited to see what they’re like once they release. and seeing that a pixar movie will be directed by the guy who made we bare bears is VERY cool, i am really curious as to how it will turn out! there’s some hope left. but seeing almost all the headlining announcements be sequels took a lot of excitement out of me. there’s nothing wrong with wanting to expand the world of a movie; disney has been doing this for years with TV shows based on movies (which are pretty fun, at least the ones i’ve seen) or direct to DVD sequels (which were mostly bad but had some hidden gems). why not keep it up with disney+? there’s an obvious issue disney+ has regarding the removal of content and all that but that’s a topic for another day. they have the PERFECT place to release series based on movies. like, the tiana series sounds SUPER fun, and stuff that came before d+ but are still recent (tangled the series, big hero 6; the former i quite enjoy and the latter ive never seen but heard was good)… why not follow in those shows’ footsteps? it can be done in the modern age! remember moana 2 was supposed to be a tv show. sigh…

i guess my call to action is that if you want to see disney do better, make sure to support the things you want and ignore the things you dont. i’ve done my part by ignoring like 70% of what disney has put out in the last 7 years or so— the only movie by them of the 2020s ive seen in theater was strange world, and i’ve only seen encanto and the 3 quarantine pixar movies on disney+. everything else, i dont give my time to. and if youre an artist of any kind, like i am, don’t let this discourage you; whatever you have in your mind, whatever story you want to tell, its important and people will want to see it. no matter how you convey it— movie, tv show, comic, book, messages with your friends— it doesnt have to be ”universally understood” to mean so much. in such a hard time in the animation and film industry, all i can say is keep working. i want to be able to be a part of a big studio like disney some day and bring back the love they used to have. but for now, don’t give a corporation your love, and support creatives both at studios or not. good night tri state area

i’m so, so disappointed by almost everything film related disney has announced today at d23. it just hurts so badly. what the hell are they doing

[sho-minamimoto]

neo neku's ntwewy design is so whatever for me the gatto nero jacket idea is cute and all but idk he looks so sauceless to me. It felt like the only Distinguishing design element they brought back was the colour scheme and nothing else. the other outfits he had in the concept art book looked so so much better and more like him im so upset they didnt use any of these

more rambling abt nekus outfit under the cut i didnt meant to type this much

ok after looking at these side by side i think i pinpointed why i dislike neo neku's design so much and like his concepts a lot better

his neo design is so utterly uninteresting to me and devoid of any personality and uniqueness he had in his previous design and a lot of it has to do with the plaid jacket. Both in that it looks ugly and feels incongruous to his character but also in that it feels like a band aid fix to add some visual interest to his design bc literally everything else is so boring.

like, take away the jacket, and hes just wearing Solid Colour purple shirt with Solid Colour black pants. beyond the story/sentimental element the jacket itself as a pure design choice doesn't really say anything about him as a character it feels so generic and plain.

in his og design theres a cohesive element with the way stripes are used in his weird collar shirt and the pockets of his shorts, and you can definitely pick out that he has an attitude + is individualistic with his sense of style. i get that they wanted to update his design in neo to both incorporate a Better fashion sense (bc of shiki's influence) and show his maturity while keeping the same visual elements of his old design, but i feel like the concept designs do that job much better, AND they look way cooler.

they look more subdued than his og design and stand out less (what with them being mostly black + white and having purple and yellow as accent colours) but still maintain the stripes motif and have more visual interest than his official neo design. i like how he layers his shorts over some leggings in the first concept to the far left, and the way the pants arent completely solid black + have very slight tone variation is neat too.

but the standout is ofc the jacket, the first one on the left isnt half bad and i like how they have some layering going on there too but the ones used in the other two is really slick-looking to me. i love how this would've been an inverse of neku's og design in that he has a white top (jacket) with black pants when it was the other way around in his younger design. maybe they tried to achieve the same effect with the design they went with but bc of the plaid + how grey it is it doesn't come across as strong imo.

also the concept art looks like og neku's shoes but way less goofy and neo neku's shoes are just kind of dull in comparison.

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

spg songs that undoubtedly hold huge lore reveals that yall just aren’t ready to discuss

blue portals

dream machine

eat your heart

[zanguntsu]

no like bleach fights aren’t necessarily always great. sure there are standouts but sometimes im watching a fight and i go why did this even need to happen u could remove the fight and literally nothing would change storywise. and i do wish there was more strategy involved from people other than fucking kisuke and aizen. its just sort of difficult to differentiate fights too hard because theyre all ‘ay these are some swords swords vs swords’ and ofc theres different weapons to switch it up but i wish there were more power applications other than secret power reveal or a deus ex machina that conveniently renders the the opponent weak

are the fights in bleach even good honestly