Escape to the Movies: Toy Story 3
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Is it so wrong to anticipate every summer, knowing that there will be a new Pixar movie waiting?
I was sobbing, you guys. There were fat, gushing tears that would not stop. Not just during the last fifteen minutes, either, when all the water works usually start for people, but certain points at the beginning were just so devastatingly well written that I couldn't help but cry.
I won't spoil anything, but... Wow, my god. There is a scene at the climax that is just fucking... haunting. Beautiful, awful, and terrifying. I can also say that you feel this genuine tangible sense that, no matter what happens, those toys are true friends and will ALWAYS be together. The whole scene tugged at my gut like you can't even imagine.
I am also of the mind that kids shouldn't be sheltered from disturbing scenes - from this movie and The Brave Little Toaster. Slapstick humor is fine, but when peppered with a certain depth and primal fear? That turns it from a funny little kid flick to something mature and thoughtful. Toy Story always had some of that dark texture to it. It's what separates DreamWorks films from Pixar films, I think.
And, yeah, I grew up with Andy. I am in his shoes. Seeing him leave through Woody's eyes was also like seeing myself go. It was both a cathartic and depressing experience, and more personal than I ever expected it to be.
Really guys. Go see this movie. I know it's just a cartoon, but Pixar made magic today.
I won't spoil anything, but... Wow, my god. There is a scene at the climax that is just fucking... haunting. Beautiful, awful, and terrifying. I can also say that you feel this genuine tangible sense that, no matter what happens, those toys are true friends and will ALWAYS be together. The whole scene tugged at my gut like you can't even imagine.
I am also of the mind that kids shouldn't be sheltered from disturbing scenes - from this movie and The Brave Little Toaster. Slapstick humor is fine, but when peppered with a certain depth and primal fear? That turns it from a funny little kid flick to something mature and thoughtful. Toy Story always had some of that dark texture to it. It's what separates DreamWorks films from Pixar films, I think.
And, yeah, I grew up with Andy. I am in his shoes. Seeing him leave through Woody's eyes was also like seeing myself go. It was both a cathartic and depressing experience, and more personal than I ever expected it to be.
Really guys. Go see this movie. I know it's just a cartoon, but Pixar made magic today.
WOW...I didn't know it was that deep. Also, I FUCKIN HATE THAT SCENE FROM BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER! DAMMIT BOB!
I just GRADUATED University from a 5 year program so I guess I'm a little older than their target audience.
I'm thinking of going to see this movie alone (I've never seen a movie alone in the theaters) as my friends will give me quite a hassle for when I inevitably break down in tears.
I'm thinking of going to see this movie alone (I've never seen a movie alone in the theaters) as my friends will give me quite a hassle for when I inevitably break down in tears.
It's a damn good movie. I know a lot of people here are saying that, but it's usually followed or preceded by "I'm the same age as Andy" or "I grew up with this."
Well I'm not and I didn't. I'm 29 years old. I saw the first two movies last week because my unemployed ass was flipping through the channels and somehow my best choices were Toy Story on Disney or ICarly on Nick. Not a fan of tweenage hi jinks, I watched Toy Story and then TS 2. I enjoyed both, but from a different perspective than those who saw them as children.
Ok, ok, about halfway through TS 2 I was trying to hold back tears while saying out loud, "This movie is kicking my ass." I guess that phrase needs some explaining. No matter how "manly" a man you are, there's someone out there that can beat on you until you cry. So when I say "This movie is kicking my ass," it means that despite all my resistance a movie is making me act "unmanly."
Go see Toy Story 3; Watch 1 and 2 if you never have first. As I've said I'm not nostalgic about it at all but it's a damn good movie. It might not kick your ass, but it's gonna try hard. If it doesn't move you in the least, then I pity you. It's well written; You will never say to yourself, "That decision is so Highlander 2."
This is getting long but I saw Jonah Hex before I saw TS 3. Hex wasn't bad, but it felt like it was hastily put together. It seemed like the "Revenge Gets Ugly" premise couldn't last an entire movie, so it was padded, and then the padding was cut down. It's full of Highlander 2 decisions. Yeah, someone nerdfamous reviewed that recently which is why I keep referring to it.
This is officially long now, and what I am about to say is off topic, but I need catharsis. In between the movies I saw there were police officers outside my movie theater. A movie patron told me that someone had been taking pictures in the men's bathroom. Pictures of the people who came to see Toy Story 3. Yeah, those kind of pictures. I want to(need to) say publicly that I want to beat the shit out of that guy then brand his face with PF(pedophile, it's an F sound!)
Well I'm not and I didn't. I'm 29 years old. I saw the first two movies last week because my unemployed ass was flipping through the channels and somehow my best choices were Toy Story on Disney or ICarly on Nick. Not a fan of tweenage hi jinks, I watched Toy Story and then TS 2. I enjoyed both, but from a different perspective than those who saw them as children.
Ok, ok, about halfway through TS 2 I was trying to hold back tears while saying out loud, "This movie is kicking my ass." I guess that phrase needs some explaining. No matter how "manly" a man you are, there's someone out there that can beat on you until you cry. So when I say "This movie is kicking my ass," it means that despite all my resistance a movie is making me act "unmanly."
Go see Toy Story 3; Watch 1 and 2 if you never have first. As I've said I'm not nostalgic about it at all but it's a damn good movie. It might not kick your ass, but it's gonna try hard. If it doesn't move you in the least, then I pity you. It's well written; You will never say to yourself, "That decision is so Highlander 2."
This is getting long but I saw Jonah Hex before I saw TS 3. Hex wasn't bad, but it felt like it was hastily put together. It seemed like the "Revenge Gets Ugly" premise couldn't last an entire movie, so it was padded, and then the padding was cut down. It's full of Highlander 2 decisions. Yeah, someone nerdfamous reviewed that recently which is why I keep referring to it.
This is officially long now, and what I am about to say is off topic, but I need catharsis. In between the movies I saw there were police officers outside my movie theater. A movie patron told me that someone had been taking pictures in the men's bathroom. Pictures of the people who came to see Toy Story 3. Yeah, those kind of pictures. I want to(need to) say publicly that I want to beat the shit out of that guy then brand his face with PF(pedophile, it's an F sound!)
When Toy Story started, I was around one-year-old. Sadly, though, the movie didn't stick in my memory, and even though my parents tell me that I loved it and watched it dozens of times on tape, since I saw it so early in my youth, there were no memories to be nostalgic about.
I ended up seeing it for the first time in memory only after Finding Nemo, what I still consider the best Pixar movie. After so much more that Pixar had done, it didn't stand out to me as any more of a masterpiece than the rest, and Toy Story 2 ended up making me resent the series.
In a way, I hate Pixar making sequels. What I love more than anything they do are the worlds they create, and with a sequel, there's not a new world to explore. Sure, there are new concepts within the story to discuss, but in the end, a new setting will always allow more depth.
I plan on seeing Toy Story 3, and since it's a Pixar movie, I know it will be amazing, but I resent that I can't look back on the series with as much love and adoration as those who were older and could remember the original, and I resent that it's no a new world. Next summer, maybe we'll get to see another beautiful setting from Pixar.
I ended up seeing it for the first time in memory only after Finding Nemo, what I still consider the best Pixar movie. After so much more that Pixar had done, it didn't stand out to me as any more of a masterpiece than the rest, and Toy Story 2 ended up making me resent the series.
In a way, I hate Pixar making sequels. What I love more than anything they do are the worlds they create, and with a sequel, there's not a new world to explore. Sure, there are new concepts within the story to discuss, but in the end, a new setting will always allow more depth.
I plan on seeing Toy Story 3, and since it's a Pixar movie, I know it will be amazing, but I resent that I can't look back on the series with as much love and adoration as those who were older and could remember the original, and I resent that it's no a new world. Next summer, maybe we'll get to see another beautiful setting from Pixar.
Holy Crap Toy Story 2 was like the first movie I ever saw back before I was even in school(dont ask how I remember that). I thought the third one would be bad because its been so long, but watching this has really uped my look on this movie.
I can't believe he said "The Brave Little Toaster," because I was thinking bout it & then he said it.
Yeah, they can't make Buzz gay, so why not pair him up with a female Woody?
Most of pixar's gag humor annoys the snot out of me. I grew up watching horror movies & mature cartoons as a little girl, & reading the dark undisnified versions of fairy tales told among medival housewives to scare their kids into obidience, so kid stuff basicly sickens me.
I can't help but think you're overthinking things though, like those damn neonazis who somehow think Lord of the Rings is symbolic of naziizm & the prolifers who thought Horton Hears a Who was about antiabortion.
Yeah, they can't make Buzz gay, so why not pair him up with a female Woody?
Most of pixar's gag humor annoys the snot out of me. I grew up watching horror movies & mature cartoons as a little girl, & reading the dark undisnified versions of fairy tales told among medival housewives to scare their kids into obidience, so kid stuff basicly sickens me.
I can't help but think you're overthinking things though, like those damn neonazis who somehow think Lord of the Rings is symbolic of naziizm & the prolifers who thought Horton Hears a Who was about antiabortion.
Wow, I've got to say, I think I enjoyed that movie even more than I enjoyed the original Toy Story. Everything about it was just so great. It's also the only movie I've ever seen to almost make me cry.
Absolute respect for Pixar. Everything they make is just gold.
Absolute respect for Pixar. Everything they make is just gold.
I was 2 years old when Toy Story came out, but I still feel a little old. Also, I think I pertain the right to watch it in priority those damned kids.
Thank you for drawing attention to the fact that i have grown up in exact tandem with Andy. Its unnerving realising that this is the end of the first pixar franchise i genuinely loved as a kid. Was 2 back then and I'm seventeen now.....jesus
Ah, damn it. I don't normally admit it but I cried at the beginning of "Up", I cried at the end of "Pans Labyrinth" and now this?
They should give out free kleenex at the theater or something, although I'd feel sorry for the guy who's got to clean those all up at the end. Ew.
They should give out free kleenex at the theater or something, although I'd feel sorry for the guy who's got to clean those all up at the end. Ew.