Wall-E

[innerSpaceman]

Toy Story was one of the best buddy movies ever made. I suppose it revolutionized the animation industry and put Pixar on the map because it was just a computer generated film.






Or was that Tron?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Toy Story was one of the best buddy movies ever made. I suppose it revolutionized the animation industry and put Pixar on the map because it was just a computer generated film.

Pssh. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was the best buddy film ever.
The most interesting thing about buddy movies is to decide at what point in the film the characters had butt sex off screen. In BCATSK, it was after the jump from the cliff. "I can't swim" is code for "I'm a virgin. Teach me."

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Or was that Tron?

I bet you love that piece of dreck as well.

[innerSpaceman]

Perhaps that's why Toy Story was only ONE OF the best buddy movies, and not THE best. I don't think Woody even had a butt.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Perhaps that's why Toy Story was only ONE OF the best buddy movies, and not THE best. I don't think Woody even had a butt.

Bah, clearly you changed your post. With characters without butt cracks, the Toy Story movies don't even qualify as buddy movies.

[Gemini Cricket]

Back to Wall-E:
It made $62.5 mil this weekend.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Back to Wall-E:
It made $62.5 mil this weekend.

Glad our $17.00 could help (we went to a matinee).

[innerSpaceman]

Back to backsides.


Only butty movies require butt cracks. Buddy movies do not.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Obviously Pixar brings out people's strong tastes. They're very specific movies with very specific voices; it's no wonder one over another appeals to different people. To me, Brad Bird's movies have never touched me as emotionally as Stanton's. It's a clear, clear winner. While I enjoy Ratatouille, Incredibles, and Giant, I have to admit: each of them leaves me a little bit cold.* None of Stanton's ever have. My top Pixar choices would be:

1: Finding Nemo/Wall-E (tie)
2: Toy Story 2 (if you think it's bad, maybe take another look, there's a lot of heart.)
3: Toy Story
4: Ratatouille
5: Incredibles
6: Monster's Inc
7: Cars
8: Bug's Life

I really think the list is going to vary highly for everyone.

*cold in comparison with the higher films on my list. Certainly they kick the asses of most films being made these days.

[Gemini Cricket]

I really liked the dialogue in Ratatouille, which is why it was higher up the list than Wall-E for me. But I was thinking about how much Wall-E conveyed without using dialogue. That's quite an accomplishment. I also think that Wall-E is the first environment that Pixar created that I would not want to live in or visit.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

2: Toy Story 2 (if you think it's bad, maybe take another look, there's a lot of heart.)

Meh, I've seen it several times (more than I've seen the first) and I think I like it a little less each time.

My Pixar list is an ever-morphing beast, but currently it would look something like:

1. Ratatouille
2. WALL E
3. Nemo
4. Monster's Inc.
5. Cars
6. Incredibles
7. Toy Story
8. Bug's Life
9. Toy Story 2

the two in bold are likely to ping back and forth depending on my mood, and the 3 in italics are highly unstable in their position and definitely flip around on a whim.

As I said before, Stanton's got the lead in raw numbers (which is an unfair fight seeing as he's got more credits than Bird, both in general and at Pixar) and that does speak to some amount of admirable consistency from him, but when Bird gets it right, he outshines Stanton in my eyes. If I were to put Iron Giant in there, just for kicks, it'd settle in between the #1&#2 spots.