infamous_emijayne said:

Eisner is nothing more than a power hungry, greedy bastard and should have been tossed out of Disney the day after he got there. I hate that guy more than I hate Bryan Singer and my feelings towards him are no secret in here.

Longshot said:

infamous_emijayne said:

Eisner is nothing more than a power hungry, greedy bastard and should have been tossed out of Disney the day after he got there. I hate that guy more than I hate Bryan Singer and my feelings towards him are no secret in here.

Yes, Eisner is a greedy power hungry meglomaniac. And yes, he wore out his welcome and I am glad he is no longer running the show.

That said, he made some very smart moves for Disney that can't be ignored. He returned a focus to animated films after a disasterous 2 decades of garbage. He opened more theme parks and added adult oriented rides to existing parks. He purchased ABC and ESPN (along with Soap Net and a few other crappy cabel networks). He started releasing the Disney Classics on video (and then DVD) for consumer purchase. Before that, a few were released exclusively to video stores and schools (the black box and the hard white box series). He also started Touchstone pictures, which started making decent live action films for the first time for Disney since the days of Haley Mills. Let's also not forget that he engeniered the deal that did the unthinkable and got Warner Brothers (as well as Tex Avery Studios and others) to lend their classic cartoon characters to Disney for Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Seeing Bugs and Mickey together is like seeing a western with Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Gene Autry all together. It would be like seeing the Enterprise taking on a Star Destroyer.