What is it about sci-fi animated features that Hollywood just can't get right?

What is it about sci-fi animated features that Hollywood just can't get right?

Uh Jimmy Neutron the Movie??????????

Got BTFO by Shrek, Monsters Inc. and Atlantis.

I thought Treasure Planet was good tho

Nobody wants them. Straight up, nobody wants them. Without tentpole names like Star Wars and Star Trek attached modern sci-fi is too derivative and outplayed in modern pop culture to really take hold, live action or animation.

People can't relate, so they hate

>What is Wall-E, and Iron Giant?

And that's supposed to make JN bad?

Iron Giant sold like shit, leaving Wall-E as an anomaly that sold on perfect character design and clever advertising that also just so happened to be a masterpiece.

>young fish out of water teen boy is whisked away on a quest to save something on the other side of the galaxy and then rush home

They all use this same insipid plot that was never good to begin with.

Oh so, you're looking for financial success as well then, OP.

Above 2 a mostly right, feck off.

What about Meet the Robinsons?

Neutron got an Oscar nomination instead of Atlantis

I admit Titan AE had many flaws, but that and Treasure Planet are leagues way above than those other two.

That's...astouding.

What was nominated in 2006 when there were literally no good animated movies whatsoever? Barnyard?

That's more of a time-travel movie.

'escape from' is a sequel, right?

>time travel
>not sci fi

HEY. Hey.

First two are great. The bottom two are unexcusable.

First two have legitimate excuses:
Treasure Planet came at the wrong time, and was sabotaged by not getting enough publicity.

Titan A.E. is one of Bluth's last "hurrahs" of 2D animation. It was clear at that point that 3D is what was selling, but still choose to stick with making the film anyways.

People always say they loved those two.
No one ever says the like the latter two.

Not really, the academy is a bunch of old timers who only watch the cartoons that their kids and grandkids make them watch.

Treasure planet is pretty fucking good

>Have an idea for animated sci-fi movie taking place in alternate present where EPCOT was built as a self-sustaining city like Walt Disney intended, resulting in a futuristic world with a strong '60s atompunk aesthetic where free-market capitalism rules all.
>Know it will never be made because it's way too weird and experimental, plus Disney would never allow it because it'd conflict with their image so much
>mfw

>tfw Blade Runner 2049 doing poorly basically killed any hope we had at getting some good animated cyberpunk

>being an "idea guy"
Get some real craft skills or quit whining.

>mfw read that in Homer's voice

Tomorrowland already exists.

90% of the time they are made by people who are totally shit at portraying a scifi story. They are just people who are decent at making animation.

nigga that's tomorrowland
and it was utter shit

But treasure planet was great.

But that film only failed because it was shit.
Although losing parents who only rarely watch films to them taking their children to the mlp movie must have knocked a few hundred thousand off the profit lines.

Nevermind. I misread blade runners box office. It made enough those few hundred thousand wouldn't matter.

Escape from planet earth could have been good in the right competent hands

Even if that exact idea wasn't already made into a movie in 2015, there's no reason you still couldn't have made the movie. Now it's a movie about a self sustaining city named DEPCOT like media giant Micheal Frizzleby intended.

>What is it about sci-fi animated features that Hollywood just can't get right?
Get people to see it.

the anime short for the film is great

Japan does better cyberpunk cartoons than we are lately.

That's Tomorrowland and the first scene of any Fallout game.