Brad Bird's Tomorrowland - May 22, 2015

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

He's an annoying tool. I pick up the annual release of The Unauthorized Guide to Walt Disney World and Disneyland every year, because it's a fantastic resource, but I get a pit in my stomach everytime they quote Jim Hill, along with that little sketch of him holding binoculars like he's some sort of insider expert letting us in on his knowledge of Disneyland and Disney World "secrets".

Over on the official union board for the Animators Guild, there's a little cadre of "flop cheer squad" of Disney/Pixar under-animators that wants, like deranged Cubs fans in reverse, to see Pixar finally have its first megaflop and kick John Lasseter out on his rear, so they can replace him with someone looser about working schedules, like Jeffrey Katzenberg at Dreamworks. Thus any bad propaganda about Pixar ("Massive fail for Brave! Down goes Lasseter!") or good propaganda about DW is Fox-News'ed to the skies, and everyone groans, oh, them again.
And while we used to kid Jim Hill about his "insiders" that kept mysteriously sounding like his own writing style, now we know who he was the mouthpiece patsy for, naively believing every word of Pixar D&G that got handed to his "private" inbox like a little child whenever he published a "Target cuts back on Cars marketing!--Is this the first step?" post. That's what gullibility will get ya.