A Freak Like Me

Saw this unre­leased Toy Story trailer and thought it was pretty awesome -

It’s cool how they even got the lips to sync up, like in the GI Joe Par­ody PSAs -

But in all seri­ous­ness, I really wish Pixar could make movies for more mature audi­ences. No, I’m not ask­ing for CG porn. I mean, it’s been done before… Final Fan­tasy: Spir­its Within and Final Fan­tasy: Advent Chil­dren weren’t kids movies. And there’s been a lot of good CG shorts out there, both big com­mer­cial ones like Final Flight Of the Osiris from the Animatrix -

and artsy indie ones like 50% Grey -

Square has shown that they are able to make fea­ture length movies, but I doubt they will step out­side their com­fort zone of Final Fan­tasy IP to make a gen­eral release movie instead of a straight-to-DVD ones aimed at the gamer niche mar­ket. Lots of other peo­ple seem to have the poten­tial to make great CG movies, but I doubt they have the resources to release a fea­ture film.

Pixar is in a unique posi­tion. I wish Dis­ney wouldn’t keep them locked up away from the world and slav­ing away for them like Cin­derella. Dis­ney has released more mature films in the past, and they also own labels such as Touch­stone that they could release mature Pixar films under.

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