Elemental: ANOTHER Box Office DISASTER for Pixar...

[Music] folks I think it's safe to say that Pixar has been struggling and it's really weird to say it because like this is the studio who had a unprecedented and I mean that like name one other company or Studio or just anybody who came close to the winning streak that Pixar LED during the 2000s it is unrivaled like the best I can think of is maybe like the Disney Renaissance and I'm even thinking out outside of Animation well I'm thinking of like you know I guess the Harry Potter you know I'm like I'll count that that was a Clear Vision Pixar was dropping hit after hit after hit of original content original ideas and movies and stories that were critically acclaimed and financially juggernauts they were Unstoppable like there's no wonder why we look at Pixar and say you're one of the greatest of all time once I say that and I unjust but I think it's also fair to say that Pixar assembled this past you know decade or so they started to stumble in the 2010s and they had their hits they 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the code saber for five dollars off or go to magicspoon.com saber to save five dollars off your order today also for my Canadian and British viewers magicspoon is now shipping to Canada and the UK go hit them up today Elemental a movie where like just judging the lay of the land a lot of folks are like yo screw this movie I don't care it looks awful I'm like whoa hold on whoa hold on what's going on here when I first saw the like the concept for Elemental I thought hey it looks kind of cute kind of fun fire and water and elements okay that's something that's very Universal to us humans you know we we all know what a fire is fire R we don't know we know about Earth I watched avatar The Last Airbender I know what's up guys elements are currently hot in the streets right now James Cameron is trying to do the same thing with the water tribe and his own avatar but honest to God you know elements fire water ground air it's just things that we know everyone it's very very accessible and I think that ended up being a bit of a detriment and a weird twist of fate for the marketing and the I guess concept being introduced to audiences and consumers for Pixar because I mean I just I'm surprised how many people online and even friends of mine who are like I don't care this seems like such a novelty concept you know what if what if elements what emotions and that's always been the thing for like the running joke with Pixar like I saw this pop up in the 2010s where folks are like new Pixar their their formula is what if blank but emotions you know what a toy is but have emotions what a fish what if emotions had emotions you know and I'm like that's funny you know I I get it but now it's starting to become a bit more obvious where it's like yeah it's a very formulaic approach and it's to say like because folks are like well you need emotions you your movie because Pixar's never made a terrible movie alright even cars too I know what a bad movie looks like folks trust me look at my channel and you would know that I'm an authority on that matter Pixar's never made a terrible movie they've made underwhelming films and it's only Amplified because they've made fantastic movies but like that's the problem is it's Pixar's Legacy and how Pixar nowadays is trying to live up to it and how it's been very difficult but it's also a lot of internal politics and issues can ignore the mouse can ignore you know the that jerk with Lassiter there's just It's just tough they're in tough Waters right now and if anything Elemental is kind of being thrown under the bus and it's a shame because the movie's not bad as I'll talk about here now because I'm just kind of ranting now I will say this though the box office projections for Elemental do not look good this movie costs more than both spider-verse 2 and the Mario movie combined uh Elemental costs 200 million to make I think this was the projection it might make 30 million back its first weekend that's bad it's not good and and Pixar's been having really bad luck with just you know theatrical releases because of covet because of streaming because of Disney and it's also like that conspiracy theory of folks saying like it's Disney's sabotaging Pixar I don't believe that because that would work against Disney's you know like shareholders and and making money no why would you do that to yourself but like as far as this being a very expensive project that's not clicking whether it's because of the marketing or lack thereof or maybe this is just a concept folks just aren't clicking with that seems to be a very common thing right now I've been noticing where people are just like meh I'm good I don't care which wasn't the case for turning red um but also like light year came out afterwards and folks were just kind of like meh to that as well including myself I thought light year was a big letdown it's been interesting it's been an interesting Journey for Pixar ever since like Toy Story 4 but I digress I'll talk about that some other time by the way spoilers going into this um if you want to avoid spoilers then don't watch this video uh but I will say that I did enjoy this movie I thought it was a good film I thought it was better than Luca and Seoul and definitely better than onward much better than light year uh it's one of the better films that come from Pixar as of late and my expectations though we're low so I can't discount that you know I went to see a spider verse two and I'm like my expectations are high and they were met Mario movie my expectations were low and I was whelmed though after the fact I'm just kind of like that was really just a very very plain generic average movie but who would have guessed it's illumination of course for Elemental I went into it I'm like is this not going to be good oh man everyone else is saying it's gonna be bad okay here we go watched it I'm like okay you know it said solid but it was definitely a Pixar film you know watching I'm like Yep this is a Pixar movie uh it hits all the Bingo you know points how do you play bingo I don't know it got my bingo card it's like family issues check you know inner introspective emotional turmoil check you know uh taking uh some fictional lens and applying a very humanizing storytelling element to it check you know Pixar and it's a it's a formula that has worked and it's not a bad formula I think it's just that it's getting kind of derivative just a bit uh I mean I think it's because people are growing up and cultures shift and and the landscape is changing and and Pixar needs to shift with it but I digress all right so my big thing about this film is asking myself how does this world work all right I saw the trailer oh my God it's like a dytopia but with elements because I remember like watching zootopia I'm like how does this world work in zootopia with Disney Animation those folks went above and beyond to explain the world like there's even an entire intro sequence where they're like you got Judy Hopps going through like the on the train traveling through zootopia all the different kind of like uh environments for different animals and all the uh just the degree that the city goes to to help accommodate this and make it work and I'm like that's a lot of cool effort that's neat I love it I I'm I there's still a question where I'm like how's the economy work with like elephants versus mice but like I'm like you know what you've done enough homework and enough effort to make me believe this let's go well for Elemental I'm like wait it sounds like a water can just straight up kill fire like just Ai and there's a there's a part of the city where there's like a water train that goes over fire town and the water just blasts off the side of the train tracks and I'm like that could kill people that's a lawsuit how is there not some class action lawsuit right now the synopsis of the film when that gets concept and its premise it doesn't really make sense to me because it's like okay how does the city work how are not people every second because of how elements don't really mix that well and I know that's kind of like the point of the movie like the metaphor fire and water don't mix uh let's okay let's take that lens and apply it to human culture and and stereotypes and bigotry where like the fire people are like it's a Koreans because like the direction of this movie uh Peterson he directed a good dinosaur he's worth a Pixar for 23 years and this is a very personal story for him because he's a uh a Korean immigrant his parents were the first generation that went to New York and instead of shop there and this is a very much so part of his story and his very personal life and I really respect it I appreciate that it's also really sad because his parents died during the production of this movie and it's like oh it's really bitter like it's a Bittersweet beautiful sadness to it and Peter like did a good job like Peter's a good Creator uh I just feel like sometimes it's just like the climate of Pixar right now isn't working to his favor and a lot of folks are taking this compounded frustration with Pixar and just dumping it on Elemental um but hey you know I think there's layers that peel back for that and ask why I digress again I'm sorry um I'm just reading with bullet points here Folks by the way I'm stupid but yeah the entire Logistics of the city how it works uh it just doesn't make sense to me um I I just I'm constantly questioning it how does fire not burn down everything there's a scene where like Ember and her father to flashback they're trying to go into like some kind of like uh exhibit to see a flower and like they're like you can't come in here you'll burn everything down and they're like you can't do that you know it's a discrimination I'm like well you know you're fire you're you're actively destructive I actually don't even know how you're walking and not burning the road like that's that's that's something I kind of just rubbed me the wrong way where I'm like how do I explain this fire is uh it hurts if you touch it and it can be destructive uh and to take that as a conduit and then say it's like a Korean immigrated family um that's what it's like I'm just kind of like oh that's an interesting way of putting it because like humans are humans are humans but fire and water are like physically speaking you know of course very different they're they're completely different so I just kind of felt this really weird like I see what you're getting at movie with your themes I see what you're trying to do with your metaphors and your allegories but it's just kind of weird to me and I just don't know if it makes much sense in the grand scheme it works I guess at the end you know when they stick to the landing but to me I'm like this feels just it feels almost like there's too much of a divide being like people are profoundly different almost to the point of Fire and Water they can't even mix and I'm like okay but like but we're humans all of us are humans we actually can mix actually if anything if reality is worse because we humans will have a bunch of an excuse we're just but just let's just stick through the fire walking around I'm like yeah you burn everything down I can kind of understand why you need your own corner of the city to survive and so much of this is uh paying homage and it's based on like immigrant families like Koreans who we come over uh because that's what happened for for Peter his family left Korea during a very turbulent time in that country a lot of folks did came to America looking for possibilities looking for hopes and and just a chance to build a life that's safer and how there's a lot of discrimination in that process where other Americans were there before are just being flat out racist and jerks and and being bigots and how there was a struggle and how a lot of these immigrants needed to cut out their own little town just so they could have some of the former nucleus around and and that makes sense you see that in this movie with the fire family who comes over I just think it's kind of weird because like in the movie they're like why did the fire parents leave the Firelands a storm came by oh okay uh why didn't you just stay and again maybe I'm speaking of a place of ignorance maybe so maybe maybe this is a story that doesn't really resonate with me with my questions compared to others uh and I'm pretty sure that's that is you know the case I I think this is a very much so a perspective thing and I have to remind myself and I'm not trying to say I actively discredited it but me as a consumer as a viewer I think it's fair I can only share my perspective where I'm like huh uh if the fire folks were fleeing their land because there was a active threat and there was more fire people on the boat who arrived with them then I know that there was a community that arrived to set up shop not just two parents who had nothing because to me I'm like man it's really fortunate again that the other fire folks eventually showed up too because if not you would have been screwed because uh I I in this world that is just like literally death at every corner with water I don't know why you moved here and didn't just stay at home and build up again uh but I I feel like I'm splitting ends here Amber's the daughter of the parents who arrived uh she grows up and there's a shop that they have and she takes a lot of Pride from her father uh helping to run the shop and eventually it's she's like inheriting the shop she wants her father to retire because he's been working himself to death and for a lot of immigrant families that is the case everybody's like you have you work yourself to the bone that first wave of immigrants of people trying to build something out of nothing they are some of the most determined people period and they do it to leave a legacy and help their children it's a very very noble cause and that's the premise of the story is how Ember doesn't really want to work at the store that it's not what she she can't really even bring herself to admit it she feels the pressure from her father of of this mantle being placed upon her that it's her family's Legacy that she's afraid that if she like lets it down it'll just collapse everything it was all for nothing she's a bad daughter that she can't live her own life it's like these are really very human emotions and and like to No Surprise there's no villain in the movie there hasn't been a villain a real villain a Pixar film I think in a long time um but there was something that somebody that did uh show up where I'm like has pics I've ever done this before it's a love story uh I can't really think that there has been a love story for a Pixar film I can't really think what I mean I guess flick you know if A Bug's Life kind of maybe but like it doesn't really come to mind um Wade is the water guy he's the city inspector he shows up after Embers like taking over the building and uh there's all this water pouring in because of like bad pipes and he has to close down like ember's place and she's like no this will kill my dad literally please don't shut it down they're trying to figure out why the water's pouring in the entire time they're growing closer uh Ember is fiery duh she's got a lot of like you know inspiration and drive and passion while weight is more you know he's more crying he's more empathetic he's a bit of a pushover and sad and emotionally like just taking it all in so you see their strengths you see their quote unquote weaknesses how they complement each other they work together Inspire one another but opposite lives you know you're fire on water how could we be together the parents aren't a fan of the water especially the parents uh the dad the dad's like I don't want this water guy he sucks but you see over time how they're trying to open up about their emotions how Wade lost his father how he learns from Ember that there is like um life is brief and you have to seize the moment and how they both just rub off at each other and fall in love and I'm like wow I love starting a Pixar film you know cool uh and also there's like I guess I guess I mean tell me if I'm wrong folks but this is like an interracial thing I would imagine you know I actually have no other way of of how to even like you know how else do you spit it um with just the vehemently opposite uh cultures and people and and how it's like oh you're you're a water guy you know you're you're your bougie Tower with your family we are all insulated and it's like you know there's some friction there and it works and and you see Amber kind of struggle with trying to accept the reality of the situation where she like doesn't want to run the shop she wants to be a glass blower she wants to use the glass to build homes for the water folks again this is a very uh where's Utopia I felt like the world kind of took into account like things to protect the small animals and this world it's like if you're fired do not come to the city you will die and also I'm a little bit confused by the other elements too like the ground you know that the fire like eats wood to like repair themselves unlike is the wood from the plant people and there's water and then there's water people so is that just dead water like Waits and his dad died how does water die how does this work this world doesn't make sense I'm confused how can the Firefox even go anywhere without burning feeding down what's the cloud people their air but it's a cloud that's just water in a different form what's does it makes and I was asking myself am I overthinking this am I being am I being a jerk am I am I specifically asking too many questions and not letting my my uh you know I need to suspend my disbelief and I'm like no it's just there's just so many things where it doesn't make sense and you better believe there's a lot of gags in this film but I'd say we're like a negligible degree of like you know fire water what if you know water person gets hit by a car oh they're fine but uh I was just asking a lot of questions the entire time and I'm like city inspector uh OSHA more like close this city down when everyone's done everyone's dying but I will say this though the characterization is great I think there's some really fantastic designs I think the designs are great I think the concepts it really needs I think they got really creative with like using like Ember with how she her her form will change the color the way she flickers same thing with Wade with crying and how he takes different shapes there's a lot of creativity uh that's not just cliches or tropes or or grabbing the lowest hanging fruit to make a very you know whole joke about elements there's there's some you know there's some thought there's something that's the thing is Pixar never has fallen off when it comes to like inspiration purpose passion dedication because visually speaking this film's beautiful I mean there's a lot of thought there's a lot of some of those things where we have to admit as viewers who don't know animation where we don't we don't work in the industry there's a lot of things we take for granted where if someone broke it down like who worked on this film they'd be like you have no idea how hard this is you have no idea uh and that's I guess that's just the way it is because we're consumers we we don't have the time to get you know to know how the sausage gets made we just want to eat it and move on so it's a interesting Dynamic but that being said like seeing how ember's body and Wade's body are constantly shifting like it's always moving uh they're features their eyes their body it's that's really fascinating I think it's a really neat that's a neat idea and I enjoyed it a lot and again ember's design I think she's hot oh my God no I did not just say that was enough me dude where do I go from there on but I suppose overall uh because I'm just ranting at this point I can see the themes I can see the metaphors I can see the sincere authentic very personal story from Peter and what he's trying to share I can see how this is a movie that came from the heart I can see how there's a lot of effort and and Merit in this movie but man it it really just goes to show that I think it's just Pixar's filmography in a macro sense that is making it really hard for folks to really care about Elemental and that sucks it sucks to see a film you know be holding the bag and and there's this this accrued sense of of just like I'm good from viewers who are like I've seen this before we're good you know it's like inside out meets zootopia but with water and fire I'm good man that sucks because this movie is not bad at all it's good I actually think it's really really good but like also the music and the audio mixing really good isn't one there's a Wonderful soundtrack I think it's fantastic so I guess overall all uh this movie I was satisfied good pacing solid themes uh logistically a nightmare with the world and it's a problem it took me out of it a lot I think against Utopia did a better job but at the heart of it all with the characters the story and the journey I think it's pretty damn good I just think that Pixar right now is stuck I think they need to get bold I think this the fact that folks got more hyped for a for a sequel to a Shrek spin-off and said movie Puss in Boots 2 was unbelievably good and and felt new both on a narrative level and Visually says it can be done people are just hungry for something different and Pixar keeps giving up they keep serving up their signature dish that we've been having for like you know only 30 years so change it up get bold try something different you all can do it I know you can uh I think you need a spider verse you need you need something to really kick into high gear and go and I know like the folks who work their care and I'll talk about more in my future video I want to have empathy here with the same time like there's a reason why we have a standard for Pixar because they defined 3D animated films in a way that no one else will ever come close to ever again but those are my overall thoughts about um Elemental where there's some predictable uh plot points and and things on my bingo card yeah you betcha but uh still done well uh Hey folks if you saw the film let me know what you think Down Below in the comments uh would you bang Ember are you more of a Wade kind of guy I mean look at that cake I should go to church all right uh see you all next time [Music] thank you

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Length: 23min 9sec (1389 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 20 2023