What do you do when you need to stimulate your creativity?
Stop talking to people is a good start. Go out by myself someplace I've never been before. Watch a good movie that I haven't seen before. Get some new music. Move across the country.
Are you pleased or disappointed with your movie's performance in theaters? Do you think its any good?
The animation is good, the plot is crap. It would be cool if it was doing better, but I'm more glad that people as a whole are smart enough to notice and give a damn about the mess the director made of the subtext. Every time a bad review comes out, someone posts it to the company mailing list and people start trashing the reviewer. They're as bad as bully kids themselves - and they call this shit "team spirit". Yeah - maybe if people (including myself of course) had been more willing to give honest opinions instead of making fun of anyone who complained about the message and preachiness because "it's just a kids' movie", more could have been salvaged. Because the reviewers are right - it
does play like a Red propaganda film.
All through production, people were eyeing each other and quietly asking "Another ant movie?" but what could be done? Tom Hanks wanted this movie for his kid, and Tom Hanks has the money and connections. I loved working on my first movie, and I still love Zoc despite the fact they cut his flashback scene. But I didn't write this "crude, joyless and unfunny piece of altruistic propaganda" (
Box Office Mojo).
At least its main competition is
Monster House.
