I don't think it's a call out to the Pixar and Lightyear. He's just saying that in general if you try to please everyone it can harm the creative process.I just saw this statement from Illumination's director in my feed... feels kind of like a call out cause the main reason why the kiss was put back into Lightyear was due to outside circumstances with the "don't say gay bill". Maybe I am thinking too deeply about it
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Allen’s Buzz is not the same character as Evans’ Buzz, so using the same voice wouldn’t have made sense.
Tim Allen's Buzz voice would have worked fine with this movie. I get they wanted Evans so he could play the straight man to balance out with his team members quirks. But Tim's Buzz is the Toy version of this movies character it would make sense if they sounded the same.
Not necessarily, as using different voices happen all the time. I had many talking toys with seemingly random voices. Whenever a movie or television show was made, they used different voices.
My toys had different voices from their media versions.
I don’t mean the metric doesn’t make sense for the industry. I meant for a Disney fan to write off a movie based on opening weekend sales, which they didn’t attempt to help, is odd. I’d expect them to view the movie first.Thank you for getting it!
Opening weekend is the well known barometer of a movie's box office success. It's also the weekend where studios earn the most from ticket sales, before they start having to share more profits with theaters in the second through eighth weeks of a release.
When a movie bombs at the box office on opening weekend, as Lightyear just did, things don't get better for the studio in the following weeks. In fact, things get much worse financially.
As a reminder, we are discussing the financial success of Lightyear backed by hard data, not the artistic merits of Lightyear that are entirely subjective and personal.
Consumers in the free marketplace do not owe it to any studio to attend their movie. If you feel you personally owe something to Disney for making Lightyear, you should just buy a few extra tickets online at your local theater. You don't even have to go sit in the seat, just buy the tickets online and give Disney some of your money as thanks for making Lightyear. Problem solved!
To be honest, using Tim Allen would have helped their ticket sales with certain demographics.
Yes, this to me seems like people looking for something to get annoyed about. It makes perfect sense to get an action star rather than a comedian to voice the character in this context, where the character also doesn't even really look that much like Buzz in the Toy Story films.
While I agree it would not have been odd for a toy to be voiced by the same actor as the movie, my guess is that Tim Allen, older now, and his voice and pacing might reflect that too which could sound odd.
To be clear, this is parody of a sign a theater posted for the art film Tree of Life.
