{"id":2539,"date":"2004-05-28T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/28\/disney-vs-pixar\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:51:57","slug":"disney-vs-pixar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/28\/disney-vs-pixar\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney vs. Pixar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The continuing animosity between Disney and Pixar amuses me to no end &#8212; it&#8217;s amazing how snarky the comments have been getting. For instance, this one, from a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macminute.com\/2004\/05\/28\/pixar\" title=\"Disney sequels could hurt Pixar\">the possibility of Disney making sequels to the Pixar films that they have the rights to<\/a> on MacMinute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;The unproven writing and graphics quality of Disney&#8217;s work with computer-guided-image animation may have an unintentional &#8216;contagion&#8217; impact since consumers may subconsciously associate these films as Pixar product,&#8221; Reif Cohen said in a report Thursday. &#8220;In addition, too many releases may fatigue CGI&#8217;s scarcity value, which has created consumer intrigue for this &#8216;event&#8217; animation format.&#8221; Her comments mirror those made by Pixar (and Apple) CEO Steve Jobs. &#8220;We feel sick about Disney doing sequels because if you look at the quality of their sequels&#8230; it&#8217;s been pretty embarrassing,&#8221; Jobs said during Pixar&#8217;s fourth-quarter earnings call in February.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s certainly not wrong, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Bless You&#8221; by Orlando, Tony from the album <em>Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975<\/em> (1961, 2:09).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We feel sick about Disney doing sequels because if you look at the quality of their sequels&#8230; it&#8217;s been pretty embarrassing,&#8217; [Steve] Jobs said during Pixar&#8217;s fourth-quarter earnings call in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2037],"tags":[43,23,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}