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[Soulliard]

There needs to be a thread for this.

I just saw Toy Story 3 this morning, and all I can say is that it was absolutely incredible. It had a creative premise, great writing, laugh-out-loud comedy, and a surprising amount of action. And, of course, superb animation. I'd say it's Pixar's best film in years.

Has anyone else seen this yet? If not, you should go out and watch it right away. It's that good. 

[Gimym JIMBERT]

  i hate envy you so much

[Mr. LL]

I was surprised. I REALLY enjoyed this. I mean, REALLY. What Soulliard said basically.

I will most surely buy it when it comes out on DVD 

(Also, Totoro plushie. WANT SO MUCH)

[Hangedman]

Goddamn you Pixar with your doing really damn good no matter how many sequels you make.

[Melly]

It's like they just get better with them. Some kind of freakish anomaly of space and time that should not be.

By the time they release Toy Story 10 and Wall-E 6 they'll have transcended their mortal flesh and become beings of pure awesome.

[Hangedman]

I totally called them actually getting the Apple designer behind the iPod to design EVE from WALL-E.

[Gimym JIMBERT]

  Well apple and pixar was founded by the same man

[Ness Kain]

I was wondering when we were going to see a thread about this. I was going to start one, but I haven't seen it yet, so it seemed dumb.

I was surprised.

Why? this is Pixar! My expectations are massive.

I don't normally watch movies while they're in theaters. I feel like it's too expensive (a lot of money just to watch something once), so I wait until the DVD release and I borrow it from the library.
(That probably seems crazy, but I am on a seriously tight budget... Pretty much since birth, and it will undoubtedly last until I die.)
This, however, will be one of the occasions for which I will make an exception. Hopefully I will get to see it pretty soon.

[Kren]

REALLY REALLY great movie I was expecting something more along the lines of the first one, meaning more songs and such, but surprisely this was amazing .

[Brother Android]

I was surprised.

Why? this is Pixar! My expectations are massive.

My expectations are always high for their films, but in this case it was tempered at least a little bit by fear of second sequels.

I'm sure it's excellent, though. And I'm sure their upcoming films will be quality too; it just upsets me a bit that three of the four films of theirs I have to look forward to (i.e. this one and the three that have been announced) are sequels, because I enjoy having no idea what to expect from their films. Ah well; I'm sure they'll do great, although I'm skeptical about Cars 2.

[lowpoly]

saw it this morning, thought it was pretty damn good. Pixar's movies are always impressive both technically and creatively. That being said, my 5 year old spent a majority of the second half of the movie crying in fear. Basically 2 things got to her:

Huge block o' spoiler below:








The entire garbage sequence, for a 5 year old, was fucking terrifying. She's at a point in her life where she's starting to understand the concept of death, so a 15 minute sequence of her favorite toys heading towards their inevitable, excruciating death was pretty unbearable. I got an idea, let's top off this death march with a giant, horrifying incinerator in Hell where everyone joins hand and accepts their demise? You and I know that they're going to be rescued in the nick of time, but to a 5 year old? non stop crying. That was a over the top for the amount of peril you need in a movie like that.

Now, Sid was spastic and stupid. Al was comically fat and bumbling. Stinky Pete, also bumbling and childishly bitter. But Lotso... Lotso was a fucking supervillain. He had deep seeded psychological problems and resentment (of a child no less) that he manifested into a fascist regime of terror and torture upon anyone he deemed a threat. He didn't even bother with the facade like Stinky Pete did, showing his true colors in the first act of the movie. They even gave him an opportunity to redeem himself, when others risked their lives for him, and he schemes a way to save himself and enjoyably leave the others to die...

Seriously, that's some fucked up villain shit for a movie marketed towards children.


Look, I love their movies (even if they sometimes get a bit heavyhanded in the message) and they are a large part of why I got into the work I do now. But as a parent, it's impossible to explain to a child that in order for a story to be really good, the main character needs to struggle through conflict to ultimately prevail. Otherwise, the tearjerker, happy ending wouldn't be as satisfying.

Personally, I'm hoping they tone it back a bit in the next movie they do. You gotta remember your audience.

[chromex]

lowpoly: I want to say that I agree with you that it is an extreme movie that introduces a lot of scary concepts, but is it a bad thing? I understand that having your daughter go through that probably was not fun as a parent but I can remember more than a few movies I saw as a child that introduced death, loss, sadistic nature in people, etc.

These were all terrifying experiences but  looking back they allowed me to grow as an individual. I don't think a single one of those ever really hit me immediately, however as  you go through life having observed such experiences can make them more manageable when you encounter them yourself.

It really felt as if Pixar was fighting back against the current idea that we protect children. Maybe they went too far? I don't think so but that does not necessarily make it more palatable as a parent.

[lowpoly]

lowpoly: I want to say that I agree with you that it is an extreme movie that introduces a lot of scary concepts, but is it a bad thing? I understand that having your daughter go through that probably was not fun as a parent but I can remember more than a few movies I saw as a child that introduced death, loss, sadistic nature in people, etc.

These were all terrifying experiences but  looking back they allowed me to grow as an individual. I don't think a single one of those ever really hit me immediately, however as  you go through life having observed such experiences can make them more manageable when you encounter them yourself.

It really felt as if Pixar was fighting back against the current idea that we protect children. Maybe they went too far? I don't think so but that does not necessarily make it more palatable as a parent.

it's not a bad thing and to be honest, I saw much, much worse things myself when I was roughly her age. Like Poltergeist. Poltergeist scared the living fuck out of me for a long time,  but that was a horror movie made for adults. With Toy Story 3 and really any third movie in a trilogy for that matter, you kinda go in expecting a cash-in. Considering the arcs of 1 and 2, I didn't expect the movie go in that direction and as a parent, that's frustrating. Kudos for Pixar for bucking the trend but a little warning would be nice.

My wife was actually lamenting the fact that someone got us a kid's book of the movie before it came out and reading it to the kids was going to spoil the movie for her since she knew the plot going in. After the movie tho, I joked with her, 'bet THAT wasn't in the book'.

So from that point of view, that's really my only issue with the movie. I fall heavily on the side of 'kids are pussies, in my day we walked to school uphills both ways in the snow' but in the case of a movie marketed towards kids, you have certain expectations going in and as a parent those expectations allow you to decide what is and isn't appropriate for your kids. Having known what happens, I probably still would have taken them, but at least I could have prepared her for the scary parts and covered her eyes. Is it better that she experienced it uncensored tho? That remains to be seen I guess.

[KM]

'In my day all shows were black and white, on little 5 inch screens in a tv that was mostly made of wood with a radio built in it that only got AM radio that gave off more radiation than a dentists x-ray and had so much fuzz on the screen that you weren't sure if you were watching people or just watching a channel full of static.'

You know, back in the day.

And honestly, I shouldn't even mention the kind of shows I watched as a child... Definitely not PG shows, that's for sure.

[Taiko]

I never saw Toy Story 2 - will I be completely lost if I show up to see Toy Story 3?

[Renton]

I never saw Toy Story 2 - will I be completely lost if I show up to see Toy Story 3?

Well, there are new characters from the second movie.

[Mr. LL]

I was surprised because it was far better then I expected, considering it's a second sequel and all

And yea, friggin' skies that was way darker then I thought it was going to be  . BUT MAN, THE CROWD APPLAUDED AFTER SPOILER SPOILER SAVED SPOILER IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER.

[Melly]

I feel hollywood, television and games in general coddle children too much. It's an influence in their lives, and when that influence always seem to say that the world is a magical place where all your dream will always come true if you just believe enough, I don't feel it prepares kids for what the world is really like, and how to truly succeed and live a good life in it without massive disappointments.

So yeah, though I haven't seen the movie and am not sure just how dark they made it, I still commend kids' shows that try to steer away from the happily-ever-after route somewhat.

[Soulliard]

I never saw Toy Story 2 - will I be completely lost if I show up to see Toy Story 3?

Not really. The movie is marketed at kids who probably haven't seen the earlier films, after all.

But, seriously, why haven't you seen Toy Story 2 yet? It's one of Pixar's best.

[JHJS4LIFE]

loved it. will be seeing it again shortly. best trilogy ever.