Will you people please stop trusting companies and politicians.
It's a company and the only goal of it is to make profits for its investors and its employees. If you believe that making artistic movies and maintaining a company's good reputation is a good way to run their business, let it happen with starting up your company and risking your own money or career.
My point is that commenting on how some company's business decisions didn't justify your expectations is tad garish.
How can the company get people to see their movies if they are not know for making good ones? Politicians can lie because you are not the target, cinemas have you as a target.
Yeah, but if you have good feelings about the brand, you'll excuse some not so great offerings. So, they can get away with it for a time.
This is a classic problem: to be really successful you need to create a kind of brand mythology. The problem is once you do that, people stop honestly appraising your work, until it's too late.
Ed Catmull (Pixar CEO) is a huge inspiration to me, and he seems to understand the importance of getting accurate feedback (especially negative feedback). The problem is that once you're Pixar/Disney, the audience isn't really providing you with accurate feedback on the time-scale of a single release.
If your quality is slipping, they'll give you the benefit of the doubt, until it's too late to ignore.
I'm very much a "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Pixar has never made a movie I didn't LOVE, so until they do, I'll see their movies sight unseen.
In contrast, the digital animated movies from other companies (Dreamworks, etc) have been so BAD that I won't even consider seeing them unless I hear great word of mouth.
Both companies (Pixar and ^Pixar) have earned the reputation they have.
All I am saying is that they may have their own motivations and, well, they are more likely to know what they are doing than all of us as it is their primary occupation and business.
In general, we don't have strong opinions on how to run the chemical engineering companies but everyone is eager to tell Pixar what movies to produce. This is a good manifestation of the Bike shed rule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_shed
I'm not telling anyone what kind of movies to produce. The Shrek movies made about a zillion dollars even though I didn't buy any tickets to see them. It was good business for them to ignore my preference.
I don't understand what you're saying. My business relationship is with Pixar is that I pay one of their distributors and I expect 90-120 minutes of good entertainment. They have help up their end of the bargain every time. If I accept their value proposition and trust based on history that they will continue to deliver, why would I not continue to do business with them?
It's a company and the only goal of it is to make profits for its investors and its employees. If you believe that making artistic movies and maintaining a company's good reputation is a good way to run their business, let it happen with starting up your company and risking your own money or career.
My point is that commenting on how some company's business decisions didn't justify your expectations is tad garish.