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Is it possible to love the TOY STORY movies any more? Capone says the 3-D double-feature makes it happen!!!
Hey everyone. Capone in Austin here, a day away from departing my first-ever Fantastic Fest. This has been a truly remarkable week for me, but if you'd asked me before I got here what I thought one of the highlights would be, I never would have guessed that watching two films that I've probably seen 50 times each would have been among my most memorable moments.
I thought I knew the TOY STORY movies inside and out. The fully-loaded DVD box set has been watched many times in my household. All of my friends with kids have introduced their offspring to the films as being two of the greatest films about friendship, childhood, and the power of cooperation ever made. Director and Pixar co-founder John Lasseter's uncanny ability to tap into my guilt at throwing away or otherwise shelving old and beaten-up childhood playthings was one of the most primal emotions I've ever felt watching a movie. Plus the voice actors in the films are beyond perfect. Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear are only the tip of the iceberg. And I challenge any right-thinking human being to make it through "When She Loved Me" in TOY STORY 2 without getting a little misty.
It's no secret that TOY STORY 3 is hitting screening on June 18, 2010, and it'll be in glorious 3-D. So for many of you, I'm guessing that this limited-run 3-D double-feature of TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2 seems obligatory and optional. I'm hear to tell you how wrong you are. One of the most enjoyable parts of watching the first two films on DVD (or the collection of Pixar shorts) is marveling at how far Pixar's animation has come with its more recent films. I remember watching TOY STORY 2 for the first time and thinking how poorly rendered the human characters were, despite how life like the toys appeared. But one of the joys of seeing the first two films at Fantastic Fest last weekend was that the animation looks so much better and more realistic than I'd remembered. It's very clear that the sound has been souped up, and it's a wonderful improvement, but seeing the colors and surreal quality of the TOY STORY world thanks to a flawless 3-D transfer really shocked me into a full-on giddy state.
For those who take in the double feature, you get some really fun Intermission entertainment that I don't want to spoil, and there's a cute introductory card that tells you exactly when to put on your 3-D glasses. But honestly, just hearing Jim Varney, Don Rickles, R. Lee Ermey, Joan Cusack, Annie Potts, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, and all the rest of the gang. Each one of them adds to the comedy and the emotional resonance of the entire TOY STORY experience. I'd also forgotten just how sadistic the next door neighbor kid Sid really is with his toys, and all of the outright bizarre creatures he creates from different pieces of his dismantled toys. It was clear that that segment of the film was freaking out some of the kids in my audience, and I was loving the Tim Burton-ish nature of the whole thing.
And as an older, wiser gentleman, I can look at these toys as a cross section of paranoia. They are all desperately afraid of young Andy getting tired with them and forgetting them or getting rid of them. It's a horrible, death-row-like way to live, yet they make it look like a party. Only Pixar! I know how easy it is to simply review the TOY STORY world at home, but I wouldn't be doing my job unless I implore you to check out these two exquisite films on the big screen in 3-D. It truly is a rediscovery. I didn't think it was humanly possible for me to love these movies any more than I already did, but that's exactly what I feel after seeing them this go 'round. Take the time to see the TOY STORY movies again for the very first time.
-- Capone
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Appreciate the heads up,Capone. Oh, and Rickles Rules.
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Love the Toy Story movies. I'm very excited for the 3D element. I will definitely be seeing these on Friday.
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I'm just afraid it's going to be packed with wailing and running children.
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I'm going Friday night at 7:45. I've been looking forward to this since they announced it as two separate releases way back...I became more pumped when they said double feature! I love Toy Story and fondly remember seeing both films in the theater (though I was shocked at how short the first one was compared to the lengthier movies I'd been watching before it). I can't wait to see these in 3D and definitely am looking forward to the new one next summer!
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Man I remember seeing toy story for the first time in what I thought was a beautiful theater (it was actually in the bronx) when I was 5 years old...Ahh sweet memories
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gets me teary eyed everytime. Thats the thing that Pixar can do in a heartbeat, present a universal emotional theme so precise that it gets you in a second.
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...and none of the traditional AICN vitriolic spewage. Is it possible that the wonderful Toy Story movies are spared the slings and arrows of even the most jaded AICN talkbacker?
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Please fit the "hear" to here.
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annnd of course I typed fit rather than fix. Ah well, it's contagious I guess.
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I may catch this in 3D. http://sickpicks.blogspot.com/
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A pretentious, snobby douche who shits on everything that is pure and wonderful in the world.I remember seeing Toy Story at six years old, it's right there with Aladdin and Lion King as the movies of my youth. I will be at this double feature friday like my life depended on it.
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i was very young when th first toy story cam out 5 or 6 maybe and sid terrified me. then agian i was scared of just about everything
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then my 3 year old got into them right before we went to Disney this summer. Just magical.
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Just kidding! I fucking loved these movies. I love those little aliens that worship the Claw. Fucking hilarious.
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Never saw the second one. Maybe I'll check out this double feature stuff.
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I'm actually thinking of Toy Story 2. One of those rare sequels better than the original. I don't even remember much of the first one.
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Let's just hope that Toy Story 3 isn't the Godfather 3.
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Coping with your mortality is a really unexpected subject in a family film. And the movie handles it brilliantly. Really curious to see what they do with the third one.
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Jesus, poor kids being stalked by his own toys. Leave him alone fellas' kid has to grow up sometime!
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Just kidding, I can't wait to see these in 3-D
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....and I love the Toy Story films.
BTW Onin Solstice,I just off a shiatty day at work, thanks for the laugh. -
good sequels are rare but doable, but i can't think of a single exception to the third movie curse, except i guess harry potter (which almost doesn't really count). i love "last crusade" but i realize it is hated by many. am i forgetting something?
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Return of the King, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly... there's prob more out there.
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Mission Impossible III, best of the trilogy. Agreed on Last Crusade, I actually liked it better than Indy 1 (love Connery as the Dad). Batman 3 was great, loved bringing in Robin and Kilmer (not to be confused with "Batman and Robin [4], that was garbage), Revenge of the Sith was another good III. But yea, 3's for the most part suck.
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Bourne Ultimatum and Return of the Jedi... any more out there?
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Have only seen 'The Incredibles' and wasn't really impressed. Computer animation doesn't really do it for me.
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About as glorious as shitty Quicktime is. Toy Story, on the other, is BADASS. Can't wait to see the two films this weekend.
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Definite Cum Fart Cocktails 3. Brianna Love really brought home man's struggle against the inequities of class expectations.
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Jedi
Back to the Future III
Revenge of the Sith
Rocky III
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Sep 30, 2009 9:40:56 PM CDT
Looking forward to SEX TOY STORY, the inevitable porn spoof
by yackbacker
Lots of strap ons. Lots of "bzzzzzzzzzz" noises.
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I'd give you sentimental twats more crap, but when I'm boning my Catholic neighbor when her husband's out of town, I usually flip the crucifix above the bed over...I don't like Jesus "watching" all the nasty things we do.
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Just happen to be headed down there for the weekend. Taking the kids to see it Saturday after dinner.
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The adultery thing, is it worth it?
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Fuck yeah. Never miss it. Life's too short.
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Is this chick older or younger? Give me some details!
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...has the animation been "improved" (***coughlucascough***) in any way? Also, how long is the intermission? I'd like to run out to take a piss between movies, but not if I'm gonna miss anything fun (like Grindhouse).Anyways, I'll be taking my 12-year-old nephew to see this (he was MAD for Buzz Lightyear when he was about five). Can't wait...!"Prepare to meet Mr. Angry Eyes! AHHHHHH....!!!!!" [runs into wall]
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and say Whedon wrote the screenplays for all three.
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George Lucas would like his promo phrase back.
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Token Whedonite, present and accounted for.
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Obligatory. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. It can't be both, Capone.
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"Howdy, Howdy, Howdy"! Man, movies dont get much better. I must see these in 3-D. I will be there!
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maybe he meant it was obligatory in the sense that they pretty much had to make it, but optional in the sense that we needn't buy it to truly enjoy the Toy Story series? (which he disagrees with).
would be clearer with "inevitable and yet optional" in place of "obligatory and optional", I guess. but still, Avatar and the eyeballs and all that. -
Return Of The Jedi- Take out the ewoks and the film comes truly alive with epic battles and true menace!
In a similar vein, Revenge Of The Sith, say what you want about some of the acting but that film is crammed full of provocative images and is the Star Wars we deserved.
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, I challenge anyone to not sit through that film without a grin on their face
The third Bond movie is Goldfinger, enough said.
And a contreversial choice, Batman Forever, yes it has problems, but if you see the deleted scenes and then think about the story again, there is a fantastic Batman flick hidden in there.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
I'm out, might throw in Rocky 3 for good measure
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Surely this was deliberate? As seen in Zemeckis' recent, erm, work, it seems the more you try to perfect CG humans the more lifeless they become.
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Can't fault the original though.
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What's the word.. oxymoronic?
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It's just a thing to make piracy difficult, and to help companies sell us the same thing again and again - not unlike the whole 'Extended Edition'/'Director's Cut' craze. It also brings movies further from storytelling, and closer to the theme-park.
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Nahh, just moronic. :)
More good threequels - Army of Darkness, Halloween III (loved it), Cube Zero, Hellraiser III (not the best but not the worst) -
so which is it?
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You people write for a living?
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That gag was lifted from a Far Side cartoon. Homage or ripoff? I couldn't say, I'd guess the former.
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Because let's be honest, the movie was a shadow of its true potential. But then you mention BATMAN FOREVER! Have you actually watched that trainwreck? Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey working scenes together is like a trip to the dentist's chair. The script is soooo dumb. Eliot Goldenthal's tone-deaf score... wow, I haven't even gotten to the big stuff either... terrible film, a harbinger of the end of Bats (until Bale's resurrection)
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Watch the puppet creator scene
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What is Far Side by the way?
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I think my point about Batman Forever was this, have you seen the cut footage??? Hopefully one day we will all see the directors cut because it will be something special. The film was clearly intefered with by the studio, and no i would never class it in the same league as the Nolan flicks, but it earns its place along side the two by Burton.
ROTS, is not a perfect flick, but it is filled with some amazing scenes and some achingly beautiful shots i never thought Lucas possible of conjuring. Also the special effects are better than some new movies.
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3d. Not a gimmick. Here to stay. Move along. It's not even an argument anymore.
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Live Free Or Die Hard was MUCH better (pussy PG-13 and all). It's kind of shocking how poorly-directed WAV is, considering it's McTiernan. Check out that AWFUL boat explosion, which looks as bad as the helicopter explosions in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever. And DAF sure as shit didn't cost $100 million. Now, if they put Sam Jackson and the R-rated violence and language into LFODH, they would have had one sequel that was as good as the first two movies.
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BurnHollywood is GOB Bluth and his girlfriend is Egg. I mean Pig. I mean Ann Veal.
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But think of it this way... the 3d they tried before, it was for 3d what wax cylinders were for audio recordings. It was cute and fun until hi-fi and stereo came along. Then it was just dead-on obvious. This new 3d is so much better.
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Here in Ireland we are only getting the original movie, at least at the moment, I guess we will see Toy Story 2 further down the road.
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Looks like we'll have to do them one at a time here in the UK. Probably a good thing, to be honest, as I'd only have a fidgety sugar overload and start crying part-way through number 2, then pee myself on the way out when Stinky Pete turns up.Woo - I luuuuurve Toy Story! I bet Newman's sausage fingers covered in cheesy dust look AMAAAAAAZING in 3D.
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as the Toy Story films. I will not be seeing the 3-D, as I only get to the theater about 3 times a year, since having kids. BUT I will be at the theater opening day for Toy Story 3. So much has been made about the animation, emotions and themes brought forth in the TS movies, but what always captured me was the outright comedy. These rank with the funniest movies of all time.
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Yes i agree it isnt perfect, but is way better than two! I love the games he makes them play, and while it is clear it was a lethal weapon script, it is still a good die hard film.
My Die Hard 4.0 isnt a pusssy version, all swearing and violence back in the movie. -
Best film of 2009.
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A circle of feasting vultures in the desert, one wearing a cowboy hat. Caption: "Look at me, I'm a cowboy. Howdy, howdy, howdy". Much darker than the Toy Story version.
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Wow, guess I'm old. It's a classic one-panel comic from the 80s.
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Much better than DIE HARD 4.0. Come on, people- Sam Jackson c. 1994 >>>>> Mac Boy. Do I even need to write that sentence? I didn't think I did, but you all forced me to!
But Drsam- you lost me at your criticism of His Holiness of Anger, Sr. Bale. The man is our Glory on Earth. Now, say three "Fucking Distractings" and be on your way. -
Michael Bay's TF2 made so much fucking money. Kids don't know good if it slapped them in their genitals.
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They'd still have an audience. Even his own site doesn't have any of the cartoons. I'm surprised they allow stores to display Far Side greeting cards where anyone can walk by and see them.
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I used to think he was an awesome actor, Batman Begins, The Machinist, even Reign Of Fire... But his recent work has been awful, his performance in T4 ruined what could have been a decent popcorn blockbuster, and in Dark Knight his constantly growling Batman was irritating beyond belief. He was crap in Public Enemies too.
Problem is, they keep putting Bale in films with amazing actors he cannot compete against. Being angry all the time doesnt make a good performance.
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but Thunderdome was a pretty decent number 3.
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Best 3rd part movie ever,best general movie eveeeeeeerrrrrr
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I saw this at FF 09 and it was awesome. The opening minutes of TS2 with the "serious" Buzz Lightyear adventure (actually Dinosaur playing the video game) alone is worth the price of admission.
The intermission is 10 minutes long (there's even an on-screen clock) and features a trivia game hosted by the original cast in-character.
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I thought I heard a rumor it was only out for a weekend? Or a week? Or even a day? Anyone know?
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That would be important to add in your review, Capone.
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I understand everyone has differing tastes, and while some of Revolutions had some depth of imagination lacking in Reloaded,there is no doubt that Rev is a terrible film, terrible sequel, terrible end to a triology that should never have existed in the first place.
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"Die Hard With A Vengeance" is easily the worst of the series. Awful, awful movie. Bad caricatured characters, clumsy direction, hackneyed dialogue, laughably implausible plot, and — like some kind of rotten cherry on top — the villain is the brother of Gruber. *Really?* Some of you people like this movie?
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Matrix should have ended in the first movie.something tells me that if the wachowski bro continue making flops,they will go for a new Matrix trilogy at the end.in 3D ofc.
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Matrix should have ended in the first movie.something tells me that if the wachowski bro continue making flops,they will go for a new Matrix trilogy at the end.in 3D ofc.
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I love the original but TS2 just amps everything up: animation, comedy, pathos, action. It is to this day the best film in the Pixar canon. That's pretty remarkable considering it started life as Disney direct-to-video fodder.
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was the tip, but you had me going at first also.I have fond memories of the three Creature From The Black Lagoon movies from the fifties...
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Hahaha! My favorite line from Toy Story 2 right there.
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thanks guys. of course toy story 3 will not fail us, it's pixar.
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That's what should be on the Toy Story & Toy Story 2 movie posters.
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Oct 01, 2009 10:44:19 AM CDT
Redoing old films in 3D, is a fucking con worthy of Lucas!
by scriptgirl_nipples
Bet that little money grabbing fucker is behind the idea.
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Just knowing that Emilio Esteves banged Paula Abdul in her prime made that movie Baleworthy.
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Back to the Future III, Alien 3 (I know a lot of people don't like it, but I've always enjoyed it), Robocop 3 (just kidding - it sucked), The Bourne Ultimatum rocked, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Nightmare of Elm Street: The Dream Warriors
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a shot in the dark,the one with the doomsday machine and the other with christopher plummer as the phantom.Hilarious stuff.
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is no3 and the doosmday day is no4 if i am not mistaken.there is also one more with robert loggia as the crime boss,it wasnt very good but still enough funny.the rest after Sellers death were atrocities.
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Chris Carter personally goes to the home of each audience member who paid to see I Want To Believe in the theater to pay them back.
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Just kidding, that sucked major dick. I'm really pumped to see the Toy Stories again though, even though 3D is completely overrated. I'm really jazzed to see the TS3 trailer too. God I love Toy Story.
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I thought TF2 was one of the worst things I have ever seen. Im not part of the problem. And im a grown ass man dog! A young man, but far from a kid. A little respect please! Thanks for the info though Bah. Have to look into Far Side.
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I hate to say this, but I kinda want to see the first matrix redone in 3d, bow that would truly fuck ones eyesballs!!!
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Woody has his girl, give Buzz his.
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for Turd Stooly 3.
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You guys are talking good threequels, and you don't include Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
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Or did you not notice him flirting with Jesse at the end of Toy Story 2 (replete with boner joke)?
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The Search for Spock. I found it somewhat frustrating at the time, a lull between the excitement of Wrath of Khan and the joy of STIV, a two-hour means to get Leonard Nimoy back in the role. But it's held up well over the years. Just today in a meeting, as several people struggled to make streaming video work for a presentation (and thinking of the simplicity of slides and a person talking) I quoted STIII: "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." But the best third movie of all time, as someone has pointed out, is "Goldfinger."
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"Plus the voice actors in the films are beyond perfect." Just think how this could have been a proper sentence were it one word shorter. I know that everyone out there is sick of people like me trying to make a case for the English language, and I don't care. It is repulsive to me that "journalists" like Capone continue to slaughter our common tongue while getting paid. It's ridiculous. Everyone involved deserves better. The tools are there, Mr. Capone. All you have to do is use them.
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Oct 02, 2009 3:15:26 AM CDT
Loved Toy Story 1. Walked out of #2 about 30 minutes in...
by flip63hole
What a disappointing money grab. Have tried watching the sequel several times now, never made it through the whole thing... Ended up throwing away the DVD a friend gave me since I doubt I'd ever finish it...
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Utterly bewildering. Did we see the same movie? It's hard to see how it could be better. Maybe you should watch it with some kids present, and see their reactions.
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bait fans to spend more money on a franchise?
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He deserves it! The man has given the world more than we deserve to have
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from an early matinee showing of the two movies, and it was incredible. The intermission just has some random trivia facts and a few clips from the ABC Saturday Morning interstitials from the mid-90s and one or two clips from the extra features on the DVD. Fun stuff, overall. Surprisingly, there wasn't even a trailer for Toy Story 3. I was expecting some kind of extended trailer of some sort. Is this consistent with all showings?
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getting to see these movies again in theaters and in 3D was a dream come true, it also doesn't hurt that I hadn't seen either movie in 8 years
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The new Toy Story 3 trailer was attached to the prints I saw. Should have played before TS1. That's an oversight by your theatre.
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