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Apr 8, 2011 8:42:53 GMT -5
Post by littlerascal4891 on Apr 8, 2011 8:42:53 GMT -5
I'd rather have a sequel to Monsters Inc rather than a prequel, but I'll take what I can get.
Cars is good, but it might be my least favorite Pixar film (of those I've seen, obviously). Like I said before, I think they just want to appeal to little boys, even though most (if not all) Pixar movies can easily appeal to both genders.
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Apr 9, 2011 0:49:02 GMT -5
Post by mickeygubitosifan on Apr 9, 2011 0:49:02 GMT -5
I'd rather have a sequel to Monsters Inc rather than a prequel, but I'll take what I can get. I was actually just watching Monsters, Inc. a couple of nights ago, and I noticed for the first time that in one of the movie's scenes, when Boo is showing some of her toys to Sully as he takes her back home, one of the toys that she hands to him is a Jessie, the Yodeling Cowgirl doll. Overall, I think that I prefer for studios to concentrate on creating original productions rather than sequels, but I have to say that Pixar has lifted the art of the sequel to nearly unparalleled heights. One big reason for that success is the tenacity that Pixar has consistently shown in holding on to all of the voice actors who played the roles in the original movies.
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Apr 10, 2011 8:00:50 GMT -5
Post by littlerascal4891 on Apr 10, 2011 8:00:50 GMT -5
I'd rather have a sequel to Monsters Inc rather than a prequel, but I'll take what I can get. I was actually just watching Monsters, Inc. a couple of nights ago, and I noticed for the first time that in one of the movie's scenes, when Boo is showing some of her toys to Sully as he takes her back home, one of the toys that she hands to him is a Jessie, the Yodeling Cowgirl doll. Overall, I think that I prefer for studios to concentrate on creating original productions rather than sequels, but I have to say that Pixar has lifted the art of the sequel to nearly unparalleled heights. One big reason for that success is the tenacity that Pixar has consistently shown in holding on to all of the voice actors who played the roles in the original movies. Yeah, Pixar does that a lot. Pixar characters tend to make little cameos in other films. I agree, I'd rather have Pixar working on new ideas, but their Toy Story sequels were amazing. So I have pretty good faith in them when it comes to sequels.
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Apr 11, 2011 0:00:12 GMT -5
Post by mickeygubitosifan on Apr 11, 2011 0:00:12 GMT -5
but their Toy Story sequels were amazing. So I have pretty good faith in them when it comes to sequels. Toy Story 2 is an especially impressive sequel, considering all of the trouble that is said to have gone on behind the scenes during production. From what I know, Toy Story 2 was at first planned to be a direct-to-video release, the kind of animated sequel that we see all the time, which never lives up to the original film. In fact, the movie wasn't even going to count as a regular feature film in the multi-picture deal that Disney had in place with Pixar at the time. After working on the project for a while, though, the people in charge at Pixar realized that the movie as it was taking shape just was not working out well, and they went to Disney to ask for a postponement of the deadline for completion, to give them time to create a better movie. Pixar's new plan was to bring back the minds that had so perfectly crafted the original Toy Story, so that a feature film worthy of the original could be made. Disney wouldn't agree to the idea of allowing more time so as to come up with a Toy Story 2 film of enhanced quality, but Pixar didn't give up hope. They immediately implemented their plan to bring back the original Toy Story team of creators for the new movie, and set to work on a tornado-paced production schedule to meet Disney's looming deadline for the sequel's release without compromising the integrity of the project. So strenuous was the speeded-up pace of labor that some of the computer animators developed repetitive stress injuries, but somehow they were able to complete Toy Story 2 within the parameters mandated by Disney. And just look at what a fine job they did with the project. I think that Toy Story 2 might be the best of all the Pixar films that I've yet seen.
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Apr 20, 2011 2:03:26 GMT -5
Post by mickeygubitosifan on Apr 20, 2011 2:03:26 GMT -5
I watched Cars for the first time last night, and was pleasantly surprised by the finished product. I considered the writing to be complex and imaginative, and I thought that the characters were fantastic. I also would highlight the gags involving Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and A Bug's Life that were created to show during the end credits as some of the funniest that I've ever seen from Pixar.
The only weakness that I perceived in the movie had to do with the way that the climactic race finishes. I won't spell it out, so as not to spoil the conclusion for anyone who hasn't seen the film, but I would have definitely chosen to go a different way with how that race reaches its end.
Nonetheless, I was happy with Cars. No one does it like John Lasseter.
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Sept 14, 2011 1:08:57 GMT -5
Post by mickeygubitosifan on Sept 14, 2011 1:08:57 GMT -5
Leading up to my watching of Cars 2 a couple of times in the theater this past June and July, I went through all of the first eleven Pixar feature films and saw them again. After thinking it over for a long time, this is how I would rank them in order, ascending to number one as the very best.
#12 Ratatouille #11 A Bug's Life #10 WALL·E #9 The Incredibles #8 Monsters, Inc. #7 Cars 2 #6 Cars #5 Finding Nemo #4 Toy Story #3 Toy Story 3 #2 Toy Story 2 #1 Up
From top to bottom of the list, I found that the quality of all twelve films was so superb that there wasn't really a whole lot of separation. The movies that I've put in the first two positions especially, though, Toy Story 2 and Up, were almost impossible for me to choose between for the top slot. I'm not particularly a fan of computer animation, much preferring the hand-drawn cell art of Disney's masterpieces down through the decades, but Pixar creates stories, atmosphere and the possibility for real emotional resonance as well as any maker of animated films whose work I've ever encountered. I look forward to the two new Pixar films slated for release in 2012.
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Sept 14, 2011 20:53:54 GMT -5
Post by mtw12055 on Sept 14, 2011 20:53:54 GMT -5
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Sept 15, 2011 2:23:33 GMT -5
Post by mickeygubitosifan on Sept 15, 2011 2:23:33 GMT -5
I liked Hawaiian Vacation. It doesn't have the depth of the three feature films, of course, but the story is creative, very funny, and of course the entire regular vocal cast was brought back for it, including Emily Hahn as Bonnie from Toy Story 3. What I thought was an even better short, though, was The Ballad of Nessie, the traditionally animated Disney short that was attached to this summer's Winnie the Pooh movie. It was one of the best Disney shorts I've ever seen, evocative of some of the great pieces that Walt Disney himself helped create, such as Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet, Johnny Appleseed and The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met.
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Sept 15, 2011 17:33:20 GMT -5
Post by littlerascal4891 on Sept 15, 2011 17:33:20 GMT -5
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Sept 15, 2011 18:09:58 GMT -5
Post by mickeygubitosifan on Sept 15, 2011 18:09:58 GMT -5
It is quite convincing! I'm sure that Spencer Tracy would have been stellar in that role, as he was in virtually everything he did. I've long thought that he was one of the best actors whose career began before the Marlon Brando era and then stretched a fair amount into that era, as well.
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Sept 15, 2011 21:27:13 GMT -5
Post by littlerascal4891 on Sept 15, 2011 21:27:13 GMT -5
I looked through some more of those premakes (really, really well-done) and I think adult Ernie appears in the Ghostbuster one. Oh, and that video reminded me of the Lots-O-Huggin' Bear commerical that Pixar created: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dZtNYGlLM
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Sept 16, 2011 18:48:55 GMT -5
Post by mtw12055 on Sept 16, 2011 18:48:55 GMT -5
I looked through some more of those premakes (really, really well-done) and I think adult Ernie appears in the Ghostbuster one. Yep, that was Ernie alright. That was a clip from "Ghosts on the Loose", his last (official) film as one of the "East Side Kids". It made sense to use Spencer Tracy as "Carl" for the "Up" Premake. After all, Carl was based on Tracy's character in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Though I don't quite understand why Pixar's name is included in that trailer, as they weren't around in the 1960s. Another premake that I thought had really good casting was the "Forrest Gump" one. Who would not want to see James Stewart interacting with Marlon Brando? Incidentally, I wonder who would have played "Bubba".
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Sept 18, 2011 23:51:19 GMT -5
Post by mickeygubitosifan on Sept 18, 2011 23:51:19 GMT -5
Though I don't quite understand why Pixar's name is included in that trailer, as they weren't around in the 1960s. I think that inclusion of the Pixar name was probably done just for the sake of maintaining the playful illusion that the movie could have been created in almost exactly the same way back in the 1960s, except of course for the difference of it being live-action. I didn't realize that Carl was based on a Spencer Tracy character, though I haven't yet actually seen Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. By the way, Happy Birthday to Michael James (Vincenzo?) Gubitosi, born September 18, 1933. His is a birthday I never forget. :-)
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Apr 23, 2016 14:12:59 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 14:12:59 GMT -5
Of the Pixar films, I like the original Toy Story the most. Some of the Pixar films were produced by a woman named Darla Anderson, and of the movies she produced, Monsters, Inc. is the only one I saw, and I never was interested in her other productions.
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Feb 26, 2018 9:23:03 GMT -5
Post by Buppster on Feb 26, 2018 9:23:03 GMT -5
There was no option for None Of The Above. I honestly don't like any Pixar movies, they're far too formulaic. They change the appearances of the characters but essentially it's always the same basic characters who behave in cliched ways and often the plot is repeated too, the weird outsider who comes good and saves the day? How many times have they used that one?
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