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by autoexec 2403 days ago
> there's no attempts at making something special, they're just the McDonalds of entertainment.

They used to be much more experimental as an animation studio but some of those projects didn't do as well. It'd be great if they could alternate between telling "safe" stories and passion projects like Fantasia or even films like Tron but I guess it's hard to pitch something risky when you can get a guaranteed hit by doing it by the numbers. The last movie I think they really took a chance with was Treasure Planet and that movie was pitched over and over for more than a decade before they agreed to make it.

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I wish they'd done a live-action remake of treasure planet, The art direction would really lend itself to Disney's animation capabilities.
The absence of competition reinforces conservatism.

Bluth leaving Disney was the best thing to happen to them.