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Post by Viced on Jul 20, 2019 22:03:33 GMT
The last 5 minutes elevate it to greatness. How could anyone not love those fucking toys? Woody giving Buzz a big ass hug... so many emotions. And Keanu was MVP of course...
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Post by Pasquale on Jan 19, 2020 16:42:57 GMT
Most likely, the best animated flick of the past decade. 'Toy Story 3', was a cash grab.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 22, 2020 0:37:26 GMT
I've always *liked* the Toy Story movies, but was never emotionally involved with them. They were fun. This film makes the wise decision to focus on Woody and a bunch of entirely new characters (well, Bo is practically new considering how minor she always was): no coasting on nostalgia the way TS3 did. And you know what? It's the best film in the series. It takes a while to get started, but it has so much more *focus* than the other movies. This is about Woody growing as a person, while the other movies were about gags. I honestly was not expecting the first thirty minutes to be about a toy on suicide watch, though. Pleasantly surprised by that. .... PLUSH RUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 22, 2020 2:05:55 GMT
Oh, a couple other hings: Gabby is the best TS character ever. And Forky needs to crossover with The Brave Little Toaster for the world's scariest existential horror film.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 22, 2020 2:14:24 GMT
Oh, a couple other hings: Gabby is the best TS character ever. And Forky needs to crossover with The Brave Little Toaster for the world's scariest existential horror film. Holy crap! I just realized something. From my review... I didn’t plan that! That was just an example I thought up off the top of my head. Subconscious thinking, man!
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 22, 2020 4:46:54 GMT
I've never connected with the metaphor of the TS movies. The characters' motivations always felt one-dimensional to me: Woody wants to be top dog, learns the lesson of friendship, whatever. Woody has to wrestle with the idea of... sacrificing Andy's love for becoming a respected celebrity or something? Okaaaaay. Woody has to learn to let go of Andy? Fine. But in this, everyone's arcs are reflections of each other: Forky learns to become a toy because he loves bringing joy to Bonnie (once he realizes that he is to her what trash is to him: he learns that making Bonnie happy makes him happy). Gabby has wanted this connection all her life and will possibly never get it, sinking further into despair, shutting herself off from any connection until she wants to be trash. Bo has learned to accept that perhaps she'll never be anyone's toy again, and that if this is what is in store for her, she can still be happy and driven and just as capable of love as any other toy. She can still remember the good days as Molly and Andy's toy, but she has allowed herself to face the new day. And so long as she does that, she will never be trash. Woody wants his child to be happy and has accepted that he'll never be her favorite, but he still wants Andy, and this longing for when things were better can make him like Gabby, broken and hopeless. Heck, even Duke Kaboom (funniest character in any TS btw) ties into this, as a toy who was trashed and still can't accept that he's "good enough" to be loved again. Everyone is obsolete. Everyone is worthless. But as we learned in It's a Wonderful Life, "No man is a suicidal spork failure who has friends." Oh, and one more thing. This scene below... Can you imagine going back in time and trying to explain this scene to someone who has no concept of what Toy Story is?
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