Post #2427196

2026-03-09 18:01 UTC

I read the piece again and became even more disappointed. 2026: &quot;Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said.&quot; 2009:

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@tvaziri@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 18:03

apple news link: https://apple.news/ApTh-esEtQp-Ah-LvHzc40A

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@louie@pdx.social 2026-03-09 18:06

@tvaziri@mastodon.social I gotta say it: I dislike how Christian he is. He may think he’s not wanting to push any agenda with Pixar films but he does it when he guides the studio away from telling stories about humans that he disagrees with. He once said that people go to movies to see themselves in it, not to be preached to. So why does he not want everyone to see themselves? It’s awful. I do not like it. He’s not right for this job.

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@benjamincox@writing.exchange 2026-03-09 18:09

@tvaziri@mastodon.social Pixar was always at its best doing unconventional, original storytelling that children could understand - WALL-E, Up, Inside Out, etc. If they intend to dumb things down again, we end up with dross like Cars 2 🤮

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@rick_baumhauer@toad.social 2026-03-09 18:10

Man, I miss the days when a Pixar movie was an opening weekend must-see. I haven’t even seen most of the recent releases at all.

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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 18:47

@tvaziri@mastodon.social Just imagine if Star Trek had led to "We've stopped including Uhura because parents didn't want to have a conversation about why there was a black woman in an important job"

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@joacim@mastodon.melin.org 2026-03-09 18:53

@tvaziri@mastodon.social Indeed. Pixar, Like Apple, used to stand for something. Quality and taste, to name two examples.

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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-03-09 19:24

@tvaziri@mastodon.social

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@a@pdx.social 2026-03-09 19:41

@tvaziri@mastodon.social “Hey, y’know the thing that makes Pixar movies interesting, emotionally resonant, and genuinely loved? We’re going to stop doing that because some shitty parents told us in a focus group they’re afraid of feelings.”

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@ajs@toot.community 2026-03-09 22:19

@tvaziri@mastodon.social That sequence from Up is so powerful, amazing storytelling and not a word was spoken. It’s one of my favorite pieces of cinema. I cry every time.

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