Best Pixar feature

"The Incredibles" vs "Finding Nemo"

Nemo in a landslide.

no it is a bug's life, guys.

i like them all. but nemo might win my vote. wait, i didn't see cars. i like all the rest.

A Bug's Life has been seriously played to death by my children and I will never be able to like it again.

So, Nemo.

Myself, I'm torn between Toy Story, Nemo and Incredibles.

no wai! nemo was loud and sorta ugly. monsters, inc. by a nautical mile.

WTF THIS IS CLEARLY "THE INCREDIBLES", THAT IS THE ONLY ANIMATED MOVIE THAT HAS APPEALED TO MY FATHER

(Nemo is good, tho)

Monster's inc. was so intense/gentle/original/imaginative.

TOY STORY GODDAMMIT, ur all crazy for nemo

'The Incredibles' 2nd

A Bug's Life has been seriously played to death by my children

Yeah, I can't even think about it without vomitting on my keybrd.

remy otm. nemo is my least favorite (it is good though). haven't seen bug's life.

no wai! nemo was loud and sorta ugly. monsters, inc. by a nautical mile.

Because you are disparaging Nemo you are barred from using oceanic terminology.

I think I am partially influenced by the brilliant Crush the turtle show at Disney World. I like how he taught my kids to say, "totally."

Toy Story 2 holla

I didn't see "Monsters Inc" because of Billy Crystal, much like I didn't see either "Toy Story" because of the perfect storm of awfulness that is Tom Hanks + Tim Allen.

Yeah, I can't even think about it without vomitting on my keybrd.

Reason I stopped watching movies at home with my kids.

LOL. Yeah, I should try that instead of going through SO MANY keyboards.

(yeah, i do like nemo a lot anyhow)

Toy Story movies are pretty good, but you have to pretend you don't know who is voicing the characters. Oh, except for the manipulative song in Toy Story 2 that Jessie sings that makes me cry like a big idiot.

Dan, that is bigotry, WATCH TOY STORY NOW, it is one of the most fundamenta movies of the past 10 years.

*fundamental

"I didn't see "Monsters Inc" because of Billy Crystal"

nobody despises billy more than me, but he doesn't ruin monsters inc. he's fine in it. he should be forced to do nothing but voices forever.

rittin is fundamenta

I believe you mean "fundamentalist."

My son had me pick Cars. He watches it over and over again. But he likes Finding Nemo a lot too.

I probably would have picked Nemo myself.

Billy Crystal is pretty good in Monsters, but not so great in Howl's Moving Castle...

oh god no. the japanese voices weren't so hot either iirc tho

or did they even have them on there? there has to be some reason i chose a soundtrack with billy crystal on it

i think there are fairly objectionable people in every pixar movie

I didn't see either "Toy Story" because of the perfect storm of awfulness that is Tom Hanks + Tim Allen.

Yeah Dan, get over it and just fucking watch Toy Story, it's great. In fact I've decided to vote for it.

"The Incredibles" is superlative on pretty much every level, though.

You're right on that, Dan, but if you like it so much YOU MUST SEE TOY STORY.

Chap, is it me or do Brits vote for certain American films way more readily than the Americans do? First we both go for Being John Malkovitch when nobody else raises an eyebrow, then we're all over Toy Story. Is there something in the Limey mentality we're discovering here?

(someone else can tap-in the open goal zing)

I think the difference here is that "Being John Malkovich" is awesome but "Toy Story" has two of the biggest penises in Hollywood in it.

Maybe you want to rephrase that.

Louis - maybe it's a raised-in-North-London mentality (you're a North London boy, right?). Though I can't really see much of a thematic link between Malkovich and Toy Story, and I'm thinking about it - er, they're both kind of about identity, I suppose.

xpost - Dan, godammit, WATCH TOY STORY

MAYBE I DON'T

oh wait maybe I do

but I didn't know they were two of the biggest penises in Hollywood, so i thought it was (and still think it is) one of the greatest children's films of all-time, possibly THE greatest. storyline, script, animation, acting, the lot.

I'm a South London boy (with plenty of N.London friends/acquaintances). Same Malkovitch, different Who, clearly. :-D

Tom Hanks is such a cock, someone kick him in the pussy.

my favourite film EVAH, Oldboy, is far more beloved of Brits than it is Americans (many of whom loathe it for some unfathomable reason), and it has a great deal to do with identity as well. let me get my magnifying glass out...

oh, and Fight Club! all arty british student-types worship Fight Club. i am no exception.

OH MY GOD WE HAVE NO EMPIRE ANYMORE AND WE CRAVE A NEW IDENTITY.

Cracked it.

toy storys aint all that. not bad though.

or maybe they are simply awesome, entertaining films which a load of americans 'hate' because they're scared of liking something the teensiest bit crass or populist. :-P

american college doofuses have fight club boners too i promise. and maybe you didn't realize that oldboy was directly responsible for a black day that broke our nation's heart

i thought that was some crazy kid

"Fight Club" is awesome, plz get one (1) thesis that makes sense.

Toy Story is good, the rest I can do without.

nah everything else was good too.

the abominable snowmman looked weird everything else was good

laaaaaaaaaaaaaame

HA

feel good family films have nothing on THE MOST EXCITING ACTION ADVENTURE OF DECADE

Incredibles was both of those things though; hence (probably) it's win.

Abominable's lemon snowcones was a great gag!

'licious otm.

TOY STORY 2

(I didn't vote)

The Incredibles is the only one I can imagine owning my own copy of. Which I do.

hay guys: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20012203,00.html

''I can say that among third installments, nobody wants another Bad News Bears Go To Japan.''

Story Line: Bo Peep finds out that she's accepted into the Toys Beauty Contest, but the gang has no way to get there...Buzz Lightyear reminds everyone that he can fly.
"Hey Dipshit," says Woody. "That was just some fuckin' terrible uplifting plot device used by the last screenwriter."
Everyone leaves via RC. Buzz Lightyear is upset, but he still thinks he can fly. So he jumps out of RC and lands in the middle of Route 66, dead. Everyone gathers around and cries; they ruminate on the mysteries of toy life and discuss Hasbro. Then Ham makes a funny joke.
"Dude, this is totally not the time, you asswipe," says Slinky Dog.
"You talked!" Everyone screams.
But now is not the time. Bo Peep needs to get to pageant. But no one knows how to get there. So, Etch-A-Sketch draws them a map. They get there on time. Everything's going well. Then it's time for the talent portion. Bo Peep's Sheep come up with her, and she does a striptease to "Space Jam." All the other toys boo, but then Woody comes up and starts dancing. When Woody hits Bo Peep (accidentally, mind you), Mr. Potato Head comes up and arrests him.
"I'm the Sheriff! You're just a plastic tuber!" Woody shouts.
Woody goes to prison for 5-10 years, and the gang goes home.

storyline shepherded by Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter Michael Arndt

eep

God Toy Story 2 is so totally the best yall are cum garglers

I voted for Toy Story 2 (so I'm not a cum gargler!), but there should be some kind of rule against doing a sequel more than 10 years after the previous movie in the series. Especially when it's a kids movie and the target audience wasn't even born when the first one came out! Hell, by 2010 it'll be 11 years after Toy Story 2, even worse than when Tim Allen did the third Santa Clause movie more than 12 years after the first one.

They weren't necessarily connected statements

and yeah I thought the fifth-ninth grade gap between toy stories one and two was huge, this is ridic.

Nah, you're looking at it all wrong. There's a whole generation of tots now who've seen the first two Toy Story movies on dvd at least 100 times each, so when Toy Story 3 rolls out it'll just be a continuation. I mean, it's not like the characters will have aged or anything.

Or, there'll be a whole generation of tots who loved Finding Nemo or Ratatouille or whatever they're putting out next year, and the teenagers who grew up with the Toy Story flicks won't be as interested.

I'll be 36 when Toy Story 3 opens and I'll probably be there opening weekend. So fuck the kids and teenagers.

I'm not saying that Pixar movies aren't beloved by plenty of adults and teenagers, they are and way more than animated family movies traditionally have been, but they still need the youngster appeal to pull in the big big bucks (and justify a sequel like TS3). Finding Nemo was HUGE and I think a lot of that had to do with it skewing younger than, say, The Incredibles.

Toy Story 5

Didn't know Toy Story 5 was out yet sry dude.

There's a four disc edition of Monster's Inc...this is baffling to me!

btw has anyone seen the 3-D Toy Story movies in the theater? Worth going?

x-post -- Two whole extra discs of nothing but Billy Crystal!

*cuts off ears*

tough luck, it's subtitled

I love Monsters but what is on those discs?

"Bonus Features Include: MONSTERS, INC. Ride And Go Seek: Building Monstropolis In Japan Go Behind The Scenes Of The New Attraction In Tokyo Disneyland, Filmmaker's Round Table Filmmakers Reflect On The Creation Of The Film, Audio Commentary, Pixar Fun Factory Tour, Banished Concepts, DVD Of Film Plus Original DVD Bonus, DisneyFile Digital Copy."

Abbott: It was definitely nice to see Toy Story 1+2 in 3D in the theater, especially since I never saw the second one. Admittedly, though, the 3D wasn't that great, since they weren't made for it in mind. But even Up had pretty mediocre/uneffective 3D use, too. Still, if you like the films, you might as well do it - it's cheap and in the theater!

http://i.imgur.com/9FuaF.png

I wonder how the Pixar employees under the head people really feel about it.

Original poll is incomprehensible to me. Seriously, The Incredibles by a 4x margin over either Toy Story? Crazy talk...

GUYS

http://jonnegroni.com/2013/07/11/the-pixar-theory/

Okay there is a a lot of contention over the idea that A Bug's Life takes place post-apocalypse, but hear me out.

So what happens? Humanity, machines, and animals grow in harmony to the point where a new super species is born. Monsters. The monsters civilization is actually Earth in the incredibly distant future.

Where did they come from? It’s possible that the monsters are simply the personified animals mutated after the diseased earth was radiated for 800 years. [Not during Wall-E. I would guess that it took hundreds of years after Wall-E for the animals to become monsters] The alternative could be that humans and animals had to interbreed to save themselves. Gross, I know, but plausible since the lines between animals and humans are constantly up for debate in Pixar.

please someone else read this :(

Okay, at first I was all "yeah, right" and by the end I was all "HOLY FUCKING SHIT"

795 responses on “The Pixar Theory”

Several months ago, I watched a fun-filled video on Cracked.com

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Plus

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Equals

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Nobody said (at least in this thread) that they believe the theory. But this shit is fun, right?

Don't be a killjoy, dude.

Me? I think the theory is awesome! Einstein is a genius. Get it? Conspiracy hat plus pot equals genius.

Like, why not? He makes a strong case for it.

lol I totally misunderstood your triptych. Carry on!

http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/all-15-pixar-movies-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html?cx_navSource=top-stories-cx&cx_tag=pop

https://www.avclub.com/bad-buzz-disney-lays-off-lightyear-director-in-first-p-1850503777

seems like a fall guy for lightyear's weak box office. after reading all the tepid reviews for it, i was kinda surprised how solid it was. it wasn't top tier pixar but it was fun. i feel like folks were more put off by the premise than anything, maybe. it's solid animated sci-fi.

It would be interesting to rerun this poll now. A couple of their recent efforts (Soul and Coco) have been quite good. And, of course, Up and Inside Out should rank very highly.

Elemental looks absolutely terrible to me.

It looks like a retread of ideas they've already done.