Best Pixar Movie?

[OleMissCub]

A Bugs Life is a metaphor for the Communist overthrow of the Bourgouisie.

 

I think you are thinking about ANTZ...which was a superior movie to a Bug's Life, but was done by Dreamworks, not Pixar.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Let's not be silly here, Antz was not better than A Bug's Life.

[biittner77]

A Bugs Life is a metaphor for the Communist overthrow of the Bourgouisie.

 

I think you are thinking about ANTZ...which was a superior movie to a Bug's Life, but was done by Dreamworks, not Pixar.

 

I've seen a Bugs Life at least a dozen times. I'm not thinking of Antz which was more about blindly following the crowd.

[mhuber92211]

Let's not be silly here, Antz was not better than A Bug's Life.

 

Really? I would like to hear your reasoning as I agree, ANTZ was better

[biittner77]

Let's not be silly here, Antz was not better than A Bug's Life.

 

Really? I would like to hear your reasoning as I agree, ANTZ was better

 

Antz had Woody Allen and it's hard to get past his personal life. Also the Antz were kind of scary looking for the kids.

[Balsa]

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[Careless]

Let's not be silly here, Antz was not better than A Bug's Life.

 

Really? I would like to hear your reasoning as I agree, ANTZ was better

 

Antz had Woody Allen and it's hard to get past his personal life. Also the Antz were kind of scary looking for the kids.

Do you really have a hard time getting past the personal life of a voice in a cartoon?

[seanimal]

[Worker ants unite to overthrow their useless overlords. Then they start an ideallistic society that thrives and makes unbriddled progress. Flick's epiphany is the very embodiment of class consciousness.

 

so, nothing like the Communist overthrow of the Bourgeoisie.

 

all jokes aside, I earnestly believe you're looking for something that isn't there. In general, the Pixar films stick to rather basic conceptual frameworks. In this case, A Bug's Life is a simple tale about a group of oppressed individuals overcoming their oppressors. You could probably shoehorn many historical analogues into this framework, from American Revolutionaries to, as you assert, communists. Hell, you could probably fit Jesus in there somewhere if you were so inclined.

 

That being said, I really need to see this one again. I'm moving it towards the top of my netflix queue.

[Derwood]

[Worker ants unite to overthrow their useless overlords. Then they start an ideallistic society that thrives and makes unbriddled progress. Flick's epiphany is the very embodiment of class consciousness.

 

so, nothing like the Communist overthrow of the Bourgeoisie.

 

all jokes aside, I earnestly believe you're looking for something that isn't there. In general, the Pixar films stick to rather basic conceptual frameworks. In this case, A Bug's Life is a simple tale about a group of oppressed individuals overcoming their oppressors. You could probably shoehorn many historical analogues into this framework, from American Revolutionaries to, as you assert, communists. Hell, you could probably fit Jesus in there somewhere if you were so inclined.

 

That being said, I really need to see this one again. I'm moving it towards the top of my netflix queue.

 

even more simply, it's a bug-version of The Seven Samurai

[seanimal]

there are similarities

[Derwood]

there are similarities

 

one thing that's different is that A Bug's Life is good

[biittner77]

Let's not be silly here, Antz was not better than A Bug's Life.

 

Really? I would like to hear your reasoning as I agree, ANTZ was better

 

Antz had Woody Allen and it's hard to get past his personal life. Also the Antz were kind of scary looking for the kids.

Do you really have a hard time getting past the personal life of a voice in a cartoon?

 

Only when that voice is Woody Allen. We're not talking about Joey from Full House here; Woody Allen has a very distinct voice. So yes, after he started having sex with his wife's teenage daughter that kind of ruined it for me.

 

Then there's the part where Antz just isn't as good as Bug's Life

[seanimal]

there are similarities

 

one thing that's different is that A Bug's Life is good

 

not this again.

 

just because a movie is 2 1/2 hours beyond the limits of your attention span does not mean it's a "bad" movie.

 

but anyway, the basic premise is similar (distraught group seeks warriors to help fight off oppressive others), but diverges from Kurosawa's classic in some pretty obvious ways, most notably it's almost completely different beyond the basic premise.

[Derwood]

there are similarities

 

one thing that's different is that A Bug's Life is good

 

not this again.

 

just because a movie is 2 1/2 hours beyond the limits of your attention span does not mean it's a "bad" movie.

 

but anyway, the basic premise is similar (distraught group seeks warriors to help fight off oppressive others), but diverges from Kurosawa's classic in some pretty obvious ways, most notably it's almost completely different beyond the basic premise.

 

no, not this again, but I've seen really great long movies. That just wasn't one of them.

[hardcorecubfan]

A Bugs Life is a metaphor for the Communist overthrow of the Bourgouisie.

 

that's kind of a stretch. I haven't seen it in a while, but I think the metaphor is much more general than that. The ants have their own ordered society, so they don't really fit into a strict "proletariat" mold, and the grasshoppers or katydids or whatever those things are don't wear culottes, so they clearly aren't the bourgeoisie.

 

either way, it's a tired metaphor

 

Monsters Inc. ftw

 

By 1848 no one was wearing culottes.

 

Worker ants unite to overthrow their useless overlords. Then they start an ideallistic society that thrives and makes unbriddled progress. Flick's epiphany is the very embodiment of class consciousness.

 

or it could be an entertaining kids movie we all liked.

[laurens]

At first, I voted for Rattatouille (because I hadn't seen Wall-E yet), but now I wish I'd have chosen Wall-E. Best movie of he year, and best by pixar ever.