How To Train Your Dragon (Review Thread)

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

How can we know this? A crystal ball? All the dreamworks bashing for the sake of bashing really irks me. They make some good movies and they make some weaker ones. Enjoy the good ones. Why do people feel the need to bash a studio that trys hard? Do they come up short sometimes? Yes. But, even now, when they have a credible success, some people cant just compliment them on their acheivment, they have to rehash their previous shortcomings. I feel sorry for these people that need to clutch so tightly to past negatives. Let it go.

When it comes down to the Pixar vs. Dreamworks "war", I put it this way:
Look at Civilization--The Greeks invented math, science and drama out of their own smart heads; the Romans stole every other civilization's idea and bullied their way to the top, but couldn't write a poem or play to save their lives...Which would you rather be?

The point was, DW made a good movie, but they made one by getting everyone ELSE's good ingredients and hoping it'll work as well as it did for them.
Whereas Pixar finds a director who happens to love cars, old toys or cooking enough to tell a story about it, and lets them follow that idea by getting the whole studio to see whether the story has enough shape and structure to survive the long process of making it.

When we like a DW movie, we like the movie and good luck with next year's; when we like a Pixar movie, it's the creators who get the credit.