Jubenhimer
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When you look at the animated films that release in theaters, the vast majority of them are cut from the same exact templates, molds, and styles. Trailers and advertisements always make them look like silly, wise-cracking' talking animal nonsense for 7 year olds, and more often than not the film itself is exactly what those promised. Sure, once or twice a year, you'll get a Zootopia or Into the Spider-Verse. But the vast majority of theatrical animation is the same. Same storytelling methods, same tropes, same structure, same jokes. I guess this is no real surprise, Hollywood hates risk taking more than they hate fun. So why take a risk on some weird, strange concept that people might actually like, when you can slap some corny one-liners and fart jokes on a Talking Polar Bear, plaster it on every Happy Meal and Chuck e Cheese ad imaginable, and call it a day. Honestly, it's amazing a film like Spider Man Into the Spider-Verse was able to get released at all. It's so strikingly different from what's been shoveled into theaters lately that it makes me think the suits at Sony were asleep at the switch. This honestly isn't a recent thing tbh. Hollywood always runs a formula into the ground each generation. Like how everybody desperately wanted to be Disney in the 90s, or how every TV cartoon ever can also be a theatrical film in the 2000s, Now everyone wants to be DreamWorks, or Illumination.
I think we all know this at this point, but I now you know why I'm not the biggest fan of theatrical animation. a large portion of it is banal, design-by-committee dreck that substitutes good story telling and characters, with catchphrases and over-commercialism to compensate for a lack of creativity.
I think we all know this at this point, but I now you know why I'm not the biggest fan of theatrical animation. a large portion of it is banal, design-by-committee dreck that substitutes good story telling and characters, with catchphrases and over-commercialism to compensate for a lack of creativity.
