News Paradise Pier Becoming Pixar Pier

[Disney Irish]

Hell no. Maybe in 10 or 11 years.

I haven't even had a kid yet, let alone one old enough to provide me a grandkid.

 

[Curious Constance]

I haven't even had a kid yet, let alone one old enough to provide me a grandkid.

Kids are great! Unless they aren't yours. Then they're horrid, vile, little creatures that your kids have to deal with at school.

 

[Disney Irish]

Kids are great! Unless they aren't yours. Then they're horrid, vile, little creatures that your kids have to deal with at school.

One day I'll have a horrid, vile, little creature of my own....

 

[Phroobar]

Kids are great! Unless they aren't yours. Then they're horrid, vile, little creatures that your kids have to deal with at school.

They are fun until they get to be about 15. Then it's like dealing with the results of feeding mogwais after midnight.

 

[dweezil78]

Um, (sigh), yes, dweezil78, I realize that. I respect Brad Bird. But I still think putting a baby in peril in any film, live or animated, is about as cheap a shot for developing tension as you can get. And this is coming from someone who can't stand JakandDaxter or whatever his stupid name is.

I hear ya. Totally cool to murder kids' mothers and fathers though, amirite?

 

[Rich T]

I hear ya. Totally cool to murder kids' mothers and fathers though, amirite?

I guess it's just a matter of taste. A lot of parents can't stand seeing human kids and babies endangered in films (to the extend a baby was put in peril at the climax of Incredibles). And as far as killing off parents in films...well, that's what Disney has always done best!

 

[dweezil78]

I guess it's just a matter of taste. A lot of parents can't stand seeing human kids and babies endangered in films (to the extend a baby was put in peril at the climax of Incredibles). And as far as killing off parents in films...well, that's what Disney has always done best!

Matter of taste aside, I'd gladly argue that it's far more traumatic for a child to see a parent murdered than for any member of the family, old or young, to see a baby in jeopardy (and be ultimately fine).

 

[Rich T]

Matter of taste aside, I'd gladly argue that it's far more traumatic for a child to see a parent murdered than for any member of the family, old or young, to see a baby in jeopardy (and be ultimately fine).

I agree. I never said viewers wouldn't be ultimately fine. I just happen to find scenes of endangered babies unpleasant. Nobody likes everything. I'm so bored by cars exploding and flipping over in movies that that's my moment of getting up and leaving. Unless it's Ready Player One.

 

[BD-Anaheim]

I'll wait for streaming. The first movie was great fun, but--I gotta say--putting the baby in mortal peril at the end was a bit cheap.

You do realize that the Incredibles is about as Freudian as Pixar has ever gone? Cheap, really?

 

[Rich T]

You do realize that the Incredibles is about as Freudian as Pixar has ever gone? Cheap, really?

On a basic narrative level, yeah. Putting a baby in danger in any film is a cheap way to build tension. Maybe in this one they'll put a puppy in peril. Or send JakYak cascading down the Odessa steps in a runaway buggy. And are you saying Freudian themes automatically make a film flawless? What???

 

[Disney Irish]

On a basic narrative level, yeah. Putting a baby in danger in any film is a cheap way to build tension. Maybe in this one they'll put a puppy in peril. Or send JakYak cascading down the Odessa steps in a runaway buggy. And are you saying Freudian themes automatically make a film flawless? What???

Just to provide a counter point, putting kids/babies in peril has been a storytelling device since the beginning of time. Biblical stories are full of stories of putting kids/babies in peril.

Not saying you have to like it, but I wouldn't call it cheap. So maybe cheap is not the word you wanna use here.

 

[TP2000]

Here's a walk-thru video of the Pixar Pier construction. It does look like they are going to cut it close, or some of this isn't going to open until later this summer.

WARNING: This video is narrated by a 45 year old man who dresses like a 16 year old boy, and his botoxed middle aged date who is perpetually on a voyage of discovery as various things come into her line of vision. Brain cells may be stolen during viewing.

 

[Kram Sacul]

If there was a solid reason to get rid of the AP program it would be them. Almost as cringey as a Fresh Baked video.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Here's a walk-thru video of the Pixar Pier construction. It does look like they are going to cut it close, or some of this isn't going to open until later this summer.

WARNING: This video is narrated by a 45 year old man who dresses like a 16 year old boy, and his botoxed middle aged date who is perpetually on a voyage of discovery as various things come into her line of vision. Brain cells may be stolen during viewing.

 

[smile]

Here's a walk-thru video of the Pixar Pier construction. It does look like they are going to cut it close, or some of this isn't going to open until later this summer.

WARNING: This video is narrated by a 45 year old man who dresses like a 16 year old boy, and his botoxed middle aged date who is perpetually on a voyage of discovery as various things come into her line of vision. Brain cells may be stolen during viewing.

i will reply in the form of a poem...

and here i was thinking you had an air of
class
about you

 

[Phroobar]

No self conscience 16 year old boy would dress that badly. I think the girl had some kind brain injury.

 

[vancee]

i will reply in the form of a poem...

and here i was thinking you had an air of
class
about you

What kind of poetry is that?

 

[smile]

What kind of poetry is that?

i never said it was a good poem


but it's apparently the kind you have yet to meet in your scholastic career...
which, i can guess, is a good thing from your perspective.

 

[Rich T]

Just to provide a counter point, putting kids/babies in peril has been a storytelling device since the beginning of time. Biblical stories are full of stories of putting kids/babies in peril.

Not saying you have to like it, but I wouldn't call it cheap. So maybe cheap is not the word you wanna use here.

Okay... it's "discounted." Hey it was "discounted" in olden times, too. It's an audience-grabber. All this started because the woman I saw the film with had recently given birth and she basically had to look away from the screen for that entire sequence. Her hatred for the scene rubbed off on me; I totally empathize and see her point. Back to the start of all this, though: The Incredibles is a solid and groundbreaking film. The sequel looks just about as interesting as Finding Dory, Monsters U. and Cars 2. Pass. I can wait for home streaming, for sure. The fact that it's a sequel that's junking up one of my favorite roller coasters certainly plays a part.

 

[Rich T]

Here's a walk-thru video of the Pixar Pier construction. It does look like they are going to cut it close, or some of this isn't going to open until later this summer.

WARNING: This video is narrated by a 45 year old man who dresses like a 16 year old boy, and his botoxed middle aged date who is perpetually on a voyage of discovery as various things come into her line of vision. Brain cells may be stolen during viewing.

"Increeeeeedicoasterrrrrrrrrr!"
"Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww."
That's where I stopped.