[ SECRET POST #4333 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4333 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

I've really come to despise Illumination Entertainment.

Not because they make outright bad films, but because they're almost aggressively mediocre. All their films feel so calculated and mass-market tested to be as appealing and inoffensive as possible, while putting as little money in as possible. And they're consistently rewarded for that mediocrity by making metric fucktons of cash.

I'm worried that other animation studios are going to start taking their cue from IE's success and make their films as bland and cheap as possible. It's already hard enough to make it as an animator or artist in the film industry, we don't need further excuses to slash salaries or artistic development in the name of cost-cutting/profit.

(and that's not even touching how fucking obnoxious their marketing is)

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make

[(Anonymous)]

You reminded me of this comment I saw on the AV Club's review for "The Grinch" this past week:

'I feel like a C grade is par the course for this studio. Illumination settles for “passable enough” to fill seats... I think they’ve even gone on record with saying they’re not trying to make art, but just content that have mass appeal. They make good money but their films offer no emotional highs or lows enough to leave an impact with any audience young or old alike.'

So IA. I loved The Peanuts Movie, but everything else of their has left me cold.

Re: Secrets You're Too Lazy to Make (AYRT)

[(Anonymous)]

Peanuts was Blue Sky not IE :P

I actually really like the first DM, and ngl I was into the batshit insanity that was the Lorax fandom. But everything else is just...meh.

And the "not making art" thing is kind of BS in my opinion. "The Peanuts Movie" and "Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse" aren't exactly artistically daring either, but the creatives at least put effort into making them look visually distinct. IE can't even be bothered to give there films anything beyond "generic cartoon".