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PDown It's easy, mmkay? Since: Jan, 2012
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#351: Sep 26th 2011 at 5:09:21 PM

Eh, IMO Monster's Inc > Finding Nemo, Cars, A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and the first two Toy Stories, maybe the third one, too. Of course, I think that Finding Nemo's vastly overrated.

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#352: Sep 26th 2011 at 5:21:06 PM

[up] You mean you rank the movies in that order, or just that you prefer Monsters Inc to the rest?

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#353: Sep 26th 2011 at 5:36:16 PM

Just that I prefer Monster's Inc to the rest. I put the rest in no particular order.

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#354: Sep 26th 2011 at 5:49:27 PM

I guess I should've made it even more obvious for you guys then

[[SARCASM: Toy Story is easily the worst PIXAR film ever made. ]]

edited 26th Sep '11 5:50:16 PM by Mattonymy

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#355: Sep 26th 2011 at 8:48:35 PM

I'm actually not a big fan of the second Toy Story film, but I understand that I'm relatively lonely in that regard and am not seeking converts.

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#356: Sep 26th 2011 at 9:47:57 PM

Picking the Worst Pixar movie is like looking for the smallest gold brick in Fort Knox, IMO.

—R.J.

Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#357: Sep 26th 2011 at 10:30:40 PM

Except for Cars 2, which is just like an ordinary brick

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#358: Sep 27th 2011 at 7:58:48 AM

[up] Except of course being made entirely of gold. tongue

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#359: Sep 27th 2011 at 12:34:35 PM

There will never been a full unanimious opionon on Cars 2. Love It or Hate It

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#360: Sep 27th 2011 at 1:01:40 PM

I think Cars 2 is just ok, I don't love it.

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#361: Nov 15th 2011 at 9:16:49 PM

Finally saw it. My main complaints are that Mater isn't a character for carrying a movie, and I would have preferred not to mix up "car spies" into the Cars world.

I have a friend who's complained that one reason Pixar is usually excellent is because their messages are more unique than the standard "be true to yourself" or "protect the environment" Aesops, and Cars 2 used both of them.

My father, who is thoroughly against sequels on principle ("stories should end"), said he thought it was a pretty successful sequel, because the characters weren't compromised and "they found more story without stretching it out of the last one".

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#362: Nov 15th 2011 at 11:03:21 PM

I think i'm on the father's side.

Btw, the DVD has audio commentary, so someone should check that out and see if we can shed more light on why they made the decisions they did.

Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#363: Nov 16th 2011 at 11:09:00 AM

Still think the movie would've been infintely better if it had starred Sally. She, along with Doc Hudson, was one of the few characters I really had any investment in the first one.

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#364: Nov 16th 2011 at 11:20:01 AM

Of course, in this one, Doc is... well, you know.

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#365: Nov 16th 2011 at 5:54:28 PM

Well Doc obviously couldn't have come back- they wanted to pay tribute to Newman. Sally is inexcusable, for me.

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#366: Nov 16th 2011 at 9:50:33 PM

I never really cared too much for sally. But you can blame Fanfic and Shipping for that

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#367: Nov 17th 2011 at 8:21:31 AM

[up] What do you mean?

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#368: Nov 20th 2011 at 8:45:49 PM

Am I the only one who absolutely LOVED seeing this movie?! Honestly, I saw it TWICE! I went into this, wanting just a fun ride, corny message or no, and that' what I got. I wasn't expecting a Tear Jerker, I just wanted to have fun and I did. I like Mater too ya know.

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#369: Nov 20th 2011 at 8:52:02 PM

Rewatched today. Realized that half of my friend's critique, that it used the played out "protect the environment message" is only as true as it is for Wall-E, which he loves and always explains that it's not "about" environmentalism, but pollution to get the story started.

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#370: Nov 20th 2011 at 11:08:18 PM

[up][up] I enjoyed the movie and I thought it got too much unwarranted hatedom from folks who expect everything Pixar does to be deep meaningful art... as if they can't just cut back once in a while and just do a fun movie just for the sake of having fun.

—R.J.

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#371: Nov 21st 2011 at 4:10:40 AM

The backgrounds were awesome.

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#372: Nov 21st 2011 at 4:18:07 AM

[up][up][up] They seemed to be a lot more blunt about the environmental message this time though. The first just had Earth happen to be covered in garbage. The second is a lot more specific, with major characters saying things like "once big oil, always big oil." Quite frankly, it's what neocons get for Crying Wolf about Wall E. tongue

[up][up] Nearly everything they've done was meaningful to some extent, even the first cars movie. Hell, I think the second one was too (see aforementioned message) but it is a bit more action-centric and a bit less sentimental.

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#373: Nov 21st 2011 at 9:19:39 PM

major characters saying things like "once big oil, always big oil."

And the main thrust of Wall-E concerned planting a tree.

(I also wouldn't call Sarge a major character even in the first movie)

edited 21st Nov '11 9:20:40 PM by TParadox

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#374: Nov 22nd 2011 at 5:32:38 AM

[up] There's a difference, in hostility, political implications, etc... between encouraging tree-planting and encouraging permanent distrust of big oil. As it was put in the comments to this article...

I don’t think that teaching kids that alternative energy should replace oil is a liberal value, but teaching them to hate the oil industry definitely is.

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#375: Nov 22nd 2011 at 6:10:09 AM

Conservative bloggers say everything is liberal propaganda. If things were up to them, every cartoon would be Time Travel Academy or something stupid.

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