I always thought the reason Toy Story works for adults and children is that the toys are the 'parents': caring for their child, but with the awareness that their job is to render themselves unnecessary.
Not having watched the reboot yet, what are your thoughts?
I'm not sure I understood this criticism since it will be filmed in HD this time... is it that the sets mimic, but imperfectly and look wrong now?
I've also definitely wondered how it works with the actors. When I saw the trailer, my first thought was that Zach Braff looked old -- not in the age sense, but his haircut and clothes were simply... ones that didn't suit him.
That does make me wonder if anyone has started shooting in SD again to make things look "nostalgic". The only ones I'm aware of are some art films that used super 8 for that effect.
Individual games do. Characters don't. Tifa and Cloud don't age even when you republish Final Fantasy VII decades over. The Toy Story characters and Mickey Mouse are ageless.
Hollywood has the problem that is has to resurrect actors from the dead or painfully de-age them and they still move like old people. It makes the morbid character and false economy of nostalgia very hard to ignore. If animation and game characters had creaky knees and sagging skin because they've been doing the same thing for 40 years maybe we'd let them retire and focus on something new.
Today's Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox (blegh) will be tomorrow's nostalgia. I just don't know if there will be cheap hardware available for future adults to experience it though. Plus it seems that pop culture is so much more fragmented now thanks to social media, so it's harder to capitalize on a single IP to milk later on.
I suppose that will change for the games if truly high fidelity head mounted displays ever take off. For the hardware I'm less certain because aside from pointlessly bloated web frontends nothing that I do on a day to day basis actually consumes more resources than it did in 2015. Perhaps local AI on low power devices will be the critical point for me there?
I read somewhere that nostalgia is just bitterness towards the present. It's an emotional trap and best not to linger in nostalgia too long. Change is inevitable, we can't go backwards.
Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36465528
Mark Fisher/K-punk on hauntology.
I guess that's normal? I dunno, I dont have any further conclusions. Maybe we should be concerned about it?
For me it is kind of hard to like the things I produce, because of the obvious egocentrism bias. Do I like it, because I like it, or do I like it, because I made it and had to sacrifice something for it?
When I'm judging other people's work and I like it, I consider that feeling to be more genuine, even if the creator outright panders to my preferences.