^^
I suppose it's a combination of dialect and board cynicism

. When I read it as written, the "one" modifies "act" rather than "Pixar," and I questioned that of all the things they've done and said, anyone would consider any act of theirs
less than class. To say, "Pixar is one class act," sounds, to me, a bit old-fashioned, like the dialogue in films from the '40s and '50s; no real rational reason for it - that's just how it sounds in my head. And on this board, and the media in general, we've become so used to seeing success rewarded with cynicism that it's easy for me to expect that some might blame Pixar for being so consistently successful and look for ways to 'take them down a peg or two' - we see this all the time around us, that some people and organizations are simply too good to be true and thus must be harboring some darkness, so that, occasionally, we must grudgingly accept that one thing they did
was actually so good it couldn't be dismissed. Heck, even in this thread, the question was raised as to Pixar's motivation possibly being a self-serving PR ploy.
It's all about perception, and sometimes, we don't see the obvious - as I didn't with the contraction.
