Baumann and Burch Conversations #16: Disney/Pixar Rankings Roundup, Part 2 (The One Where We Grill Josh About Frozen II)

Tim: This is the story of something that began nine months ago, something that Matt and I conceived, you might say, and now we’re adding a third person to make our duo a trio. I am very proud of this introductory statement, and a little horrified that we’re getting back to the Disney… Read More Baumann and Burch Conversations #16: Disney/Pixar Rankings Roundup, Part 2 (The One Where We Grill Josh About Frozen II)

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Baumann and Burch Conversations #14: Disney/Pixar Rankings Roundup, Part 1 (The One Where We Pump Up A Bug’s Life)

Tim: Hi, Matt, and welcome back to the closest I think we’ve come to an actual podcast in a long time. We almost fired up Audacity for this. Matt: Maybe there will still be one of those, who knows. We’re back with something that “demands” a lot of space so……stay tuned for our 10-part series… Read More Baumann and Burch Conversations #14: Disney/Pixar Rankings Roundup, Part 1 (The One Where We Pump Up A Bug’s Life)

July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 1

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Toy Story 3 is a movie about death. Towards the end of that picture, the toys are sliding, it seems inexorably, towards an incinerator. They have badly miscalculated the cost-benefit analyis of staying in the attic at Andy’s house, probably… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 1

June 26, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities2 Comments

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 5-2

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Before we start, a little inside baseball about my process. I like the research angle of these big ol’ lists I do. There’s a lot of watching and rewatching, and maybe even more time poring through the work that… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 5-2

June 26, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 10-6

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Most of what I said in my last post about Toy Story 2 carries over to Ratatouille, with the caveat that the theoretical in this movie comes out more strongly, and Ratatouille cuts out a lot of the silliness that Toy Story 2 didn’t benefit… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 10-6

June 25, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 15-11

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. When people get worked up about Pixar not being what it used to be, here’s what they mean. The premise of Monsters, Inc. could, in the wrong hands, be absolutely opaque. Some wonderful person has the clip on YouTube which, frankly,… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 15-11

June 24, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 20-16

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. If Alice is here for a reason, it’s sheer trippiness. Sure, it’s not Jodorowsky, but it’s pretty good for a Disney movie produced in the same year as A Place in the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire. The film knows… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 20-16

June 23, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 25-21

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. The great romantic comedy of 1977 was never Annie Hall, but The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Let’s see Alvy Singer love himself as much as Pooh loves pots of honey during the middle of a flash flood. (“What I… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 25-21

June 21, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 30-26

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Like Winnie the Pooh, Dumbo is a short movie that probably would have been a little better if it’d had a little more going on. Unlike Winnie the Pooh, Dumbo has little things like “labor disputes” and “the onset of World War II” which get… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 30-26

June 18, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Disney/Pixar Rankings: 35-31

The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. I think when The Good Dinosaur was released in the fall of 2015, we were all so emotionally exhausted by Inside Out that summer that just about anything would have been extraneous. Certainly viewers rejected The Good Dinosaur, which is a good, solid movie… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 35-31

June 18, 2019May 12, 2021 speakerformediocrities2 Comments

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