tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post7329638989700837436..comments2024-03-24T16:25:05.751-04:00Comments on Mayerson on Animation: Various LinksMark Mayersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-16314995985282738612008-11-10T08:42:00.000-05:002008-11-10T08:42:00.000-05:00Regarding Disney Consumer Products, I'm afraid tha...Regarding Disney Consumer Products, I'm afraid that division of the company has become too pompous and pretentious under the direction of its current president, Andy Mooney. Mr. Mooney is a former Nike guy, and unfortunately he likes to sell Disney just like it was overpriced shoeware.<BR/><BR/>Ever since he took over, the Disney artists have not been listened to. The Disney Consumer Products art department was severely whittled down some years ago with a bunch of artist layoffs, and more recently the Disney Stores art department was dissolved altogether. In both cases, friends of mine who were employed as character artists in both these departments told me that the brass never would listen to their expertise and good advice regarding the usage of the characters, instead putting out high priced trinkets like are mentioned in the article, that have little or nothing to do with the films or characters.<BR/><BR/>Yet know-nothings like Mooney and his brand managers keep on raking in their high salaries for continuing to water down the Disney name.Pete Emsliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451607722482352366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-77492275537060066362008-11-06T18:28:00.000-05:002008-11-06T18:28:00.000-05:00Talented people working on films below them is a s...Talented people working on films below them is a staple of cinema. It's been around forever. I see no harm in criticizing mediocre crass while acknowledging that the artists deserve to work on better.<BR/><BR/>I have no interest in seeing this movie, nor anything else that comes out of the studio. I can turn on a rerun of "Friends" and get the same amount of substance and quality of acting for free.Thadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04443425643665474645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-39654059186226262152008-11-06T13:02:00.000-05:002008-11-06T13:02:00.000-05:00I tried to make sense of the Madagascar review on ...I tried to make sense of the Madagascar review on "popmatters" and failed; it's a mess. <BR/><BR/>The reviewer contradicts himself several times over, and I was never quite clear what point he wanted to make-unless it was simply to get across how disdainful he was of the thing. Heavy-handed writing, attempts to be "clever" and one backhanded compliment about how a film that's nothing more than a commercial crapfast also has visual "splendors" that "shimmer"? Thanks but no thanks.<BR/><BR/>I'm past tired of these knee-jerk "reviews" that beat a tired old POV to death. Oooh, crass commercialism! "Shrek" is "shrill"!--daring. Except the original Shrek was quite a good movie, which is WHY it was a hi, and audiences who'd never heard of the thing before flocked to it for months--all summer, in fact. <BR/> You really <I>can't</I> fool 50 million frenchmen, and whether one would like to indulge one's artistic snobbery or not many of the supposedly anything-for-a-buck films obviously please audiences. Even "family" ones.<BR/><BR/>I didn't work on either Madacascar film, but I'm still insulted at the way they're dismissed or pilloried out of hand. I'm insulted for the story artists and the directors who I know to be exceptionally talented.Jenny Lerewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06668171465801333811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-40765967552146879342008-11-06T11:22:00.000-05:002008-11-06T11:22:00.000-05:00ten million Blue ray's in use by the end of this y...ten million Blue ray's in use by the end of this year?<BR/><BR/>Yeah...I'll get right on that. within the last year I FINALLY converted all my old VHS into DVD's <BR/>Now all that will be offered is blue ray, and I'll have to get it when DVD's are not around, a new TV to watch it on, oh and of course a blue ray player. <BR/>Yup, I'll just go on down to the store and pick up all those things I'll need heading in to this recession.<BR/><BR/>-'nuff said.Andrew Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15192578332671402281noreply@blogger.com