Didn't think there wee talented artists out there gunning for Pixar, but the internet surprises me once again.

In a journal posted by
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in which he attacked Pixar for "sucking" because they are under Disney's contractual thumb to do no R rated features. Well, I responded and in fear that it would be deleted and not heard I'm posting it here openly as my opinion and a topic of discussion.


My Response:

**I understand your view on the "whip of Disney" issue. Not that it's my view too but I understand it. However, I don't feel video games were the best example to illustrate your point. I could understand Ghost In The Shell, Apple Seed, Cowboy Beebop as valid points towards breaking free of the booster seat theater.

Video games being used to compare against a feature length film is moot because the genre itself is subject to a repetitive formula regardless of it's new edgy interface, graphics, plot and style. Prince of Persia is Tomb Raider with different interaction. Shadow Of The Colossus is any FF only without the grinding and hours of musically scored introspective dialogs. Don't get me wrong I love action adventure so much I loved ICO.

Games are interaction while movies are observation. Through both we can be entertained, humiliated, outraged and brought home again all in one sitting. It shouldn't have to use vulgarity and parental ratings to be new and edgy. Let Helen Par shout out "Their are children aboard! Repeat, there are children aboard this ship!" and anyone who has a pulse and younger siblings is immediately thrown into that real life and death situation. No swear words and no one had to die. Even that movie shows the deaths of multiple heroes, but no gore. The reason being is we don't need the excessive gore or swear words to get the point.

F this and 5h17 in your face and all of New York blows up and babies' flesh peeling off from the blast as ink pens from a news stand impale teenagers' faces and throats at 200 mile an hour speeds. There creative, never done before, rated R and in my mind its rendered beautifully. No need Pixar, no need for Japan-animation, no graphic novel and best of all no plot. Just pointless gore and violence. But the R rating doesn't make it better. It's like finger painting in that it's just another style of story telling. Some use more gore in their story telling and others use it to elaborate the realism and others use it to get under your skin.

Just because Pixar doesn't use as much "rated R" as you want doesn't mean they suck. It's their style.
Leonardo Di Vinci didn't paint pornography as much as I would have hoped, but it doesn't mean he sucks. He painted his style.

By the way, great choice of games.
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