Least Favorite Directors/Producers

I find his work to be fake and contrived. I was reading a review (about something different) that used the phrase "synthetic sunshine". It's a pretty good way to describe his work, and Pixar in general.

He said something along the lines of "the way to keep an audience entertained is to keep throwing things at them". And yes, a quick plot is appreciated. But after watching his films I feel like I've spent two hours in a dark room with a shirtless guy yelling at the top of his lungs and waving glow sticks. It's loud and bright, and it gets your attention, but there's just not that much there.

Armageddon (one example) felt more like Oil Drillers On Asteroid X than anything else. I think if he had less characters and developed them more he'd have stronger movies.

Artistically and personally speaking I find his films flat and boring. I've never liked movies having an obvious point or message, and he does a lot of that. I do, however, love his film A. I. Artificial Intelligence. And I like the group-of-kids-as-the-protagonists that he did for a few movies.

I actually owe a lot to George Lucas. Without Star Wars we wouldn't have nearly as many visually extreme/out there movies as we do. And that's a lot of what I want to do in my career. But I find none of his films after A New Hope to be any good (especially the second Star Wars trilogy).

The problem with his movies is that they're good, but they're just lacking something. There's a level of mediocrity in his films that keep them from being as good as they could be.

I think her films are flat and depressing. There wasn't a lot of emotional variety in Virgin Suicides or Marie Antoinette, and maybe that was the point, but it just doesn't work for me. In Grave of the Fireflies the first half or so was happier than it had to be, which is what made the ending so tragic. In Virgin Suicides we had the same thing the whole time.

His films are very colorful, and that's not a bad thing, but he has that piss-colored tint over everything. And as an animation director, the visual effect is more important, which he does a very poor job of. Even though there's happiness in his films the color scheme keeps it depressed. If he had some colorful scenes and some yellow/brown scenes it would have the effect of more emotional variety.

The way the soundtracks are used in his movies keep the film from being as funny (or scary, dramatic, suspenseful,) as they could be. His films don't pull in the viewer as much as they should, and almost seem like they're trying to keep the audience at a distance.

Please see above.

I can't quite place a finger on it, but I just don't find his films enjoyable. I'll update later when I the words come to me.