Ne Zha II is the biggest movie in the world
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Narratively, about as on par with the story of Elio, so close to the bottom of the barrel compared to Pixar. It's confusing even to Chinese audiences. It's tonal whiplash would give you a severe concussion if you experienced it in real life. It's basically Minions but with 10000x the toilet humor interspersed with the self-seriousness of B-grade flicks like the Clash of the Titans remake or Gods of Egypt.
I didn’t think Elio was one of Pixar’s best, but it was leagues better than Cars 2 or The Good Dinosaur.
It really wouldn't surprise me if China has made many Pixar-level or Oscar-level films, or shows and books for that matter, and we just haven't gotten to properly see them, since they were never officially dubbed and released outside of China, and it takes quite a lot for the noise to make it outside of China, and China's just been assuming that the world just wasn't that interested in Chinese culture (and were probably proven right by western media never really talking about it; when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?), and just didn't bother to even try that much to get it out there. But now that it's out there, and people think it's good, we're probably going to get a lot more of it. Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation.
Three Body Problem
Flavors of Youth
House of Flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Quite a lot more if you include Hong Kong, but a lot of those films were developed under British rule.
That’s a good point, I guess by thriving I meant, continuously producing works that are popular outside of the place they were created.
> Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation.
That’s what I’m hoping, anyway. Disney and Pixar do best when they’ve got competition.
Hollywood needed several decades to break that. It was Shrek eventually.