No memorable characters. No memorable plot. Not much that resembles the book. Character designs were weak or even bad, except for one. The person who I can clearly see did that one left his name off the credits, and I understand why.
The talent is dispersing, the creativity, at least from Burbank, is now gone. Six and a half decades of feature animation is now over. No more classics will come from this studio. It's over.
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Treasure Planet
The disaster and disolution of the Burbank studio was in the cardsmore than two years ago, now with >nothing< inthe pipe, we cansee that the rumorsfrom then are true now. Bummer days. But then if the medium is still viable someindependants wil keep it moving, though without the glory and production values that the great name invokes. Lots of animation, but most of it will probably be ugly, stylized and short. and Bambi willbecome the greatest work of moving art, never tobe duplicated again. well time to buy up DVD"s and LDs f Disney fetures, just so thy don't fade with studio revisionism, and marketing ineptitude. It will take years to get people trained uptothat kind of standards again.
Scott
Scott
Both of them are out of work now as far as I know.
Scott
As for Disney's treatment of Spirited Away, the plan was to increase the exposure of the film if it passed a stepped series of box office milestones. It didn't do strong enough business in the opening theater locations and consequently it never made it to the next series of wider releases. The general US audience doesn't know enough about Miyazaki to see it for anything more than an art-house, or foreign film. Disney needs to do more exposure on ABC and the Disney channel to acquaint their audiences with these films.
Sergio Pablos is gainfully employed in his home country of Spain. He left Disney voluntarily after Treasure Planet wrapped as he wanted to continue doing 2D animation rather than move to CGI.
And Treasure Planet is FAR more enjoyable than Dwight lets on; it's a quality film made by people who enjoyed both the original story and animation as an art form. It's a good film despite being made at Disney.
I think you are correct on "Spirited Away" as well.
I had no doubt Sergio Pablos would continue to do 2D animation somewhere other than Disney.
I'm glad you liked "Treasure Planet".
I didn't.
#2: It's anime
#3: It doesn't have a recognizable star that will bring in American audiences
#4: It's not a story that is easily sellable (it's not an action, or comedy, etc)
#5: It's not a Disney product, meaning the public isn't going to automatically assume that it's a good film just because it has Disney's name on it.
You may as well argue why it's so hard to get people to eat their vegetables and brush after every meal. The answers are the same.
And regardless of how good Miyazaki's films are, they, and Anime as a whole, remain a niche market in the US. Disney's failure lies in not cultivating a broader sense of awareness and appreciation for the value of Miyazaki's films. The anime fans out there just don't comprise a large enough audience to command more of Disney's current business attention than has already been given.
But to look at it another way, if all they intended to do was hide the films away from the US market, surely there are cheaper ways to do it.