Toy Story 3

[flippyshark]

Would that be one in which the ark takes everybody, including the two tied to a post? I'd pay extra to see that ending. The lid of the ark thumps down, roll credits.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Would that be one in which the ark takes everybody, including the two tied to a post? I'd pay extra to see that ending. The lid of the ark thumps down, roll credits.

That would be interesting too.... Andy and his mom finally exorcize their house of the creepy moving toys after discovering via camera the goings-on of Woody and the gang, so they have to tie themselves to a post in the front yard while the toy-ark takes everybody, which promptly gets sucked into the upstairs closet along with the rest of the house.

Seriously! Moving toys! Creepy!

If your childhood Buzz went all Talky-Tina on you, you'd whip out a blowtorch and go all wrath-of-God on his ass real quick.

[scaeagles]

That's why you will never catch your toys doing this. Think of how creeped out Sid was when the revealed themselves to him.

[flippyshark]

I know somebody (not a kid) who was seriously freaked out by that moment in the first movie.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Oh I'm just picturing the "non-claw" ending:

Yeah, I was thinking that by the point they were holding hands, Woody and the gang should be beginning to have some serious plastic melt issues.

[Strangler Lewis]

Well, heck, I cried, too, at all the emotional moments. I also yawned a great deal and scratched my head into a bald spot at the basic set-up, but differences of opinions make horse races.

I do question the suggestion that nailing the toys from our youth makes for good cinema. It's just another example of "getting the period right," something that Hollywood does very easily in many movies we would not hesitate to pan.

As for childhood toys I think I'm down to my old baseball bat, autographed by Bobby Murcer back when he was still the next Mickey Mantle. Now, well, he's dead. I kept my childhood baseball glove (Ted Sizemore) until it molded in the closet. I think I would still have my childhood baseball cards, except my mother threw them out one year in a cleaning fit. I still haven't forgiven her. I worked hard stealing those.

[Strangler Lewis]

Aaaaand another thing . . . . about the ending. In keeping all the toys together at Bonnie's house, they went for both the less realistic and less emotional ending. Why? Probably to make it easier to make Toy Story 4 if the mood strikes them.

The better and more realistic ending: the toys go to a toy drive, and each poor kid who participates gets a toy. The toys get separated, but to a good and necessary end.

One can imagine the Pixar crowd doing an animated Fiddler on the Roof but changing the ending so that instead of dispersing, the entire village of Anatevka goes to live with Eloise at the Plaza. The better to make Fiddler 2.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

The better and more realistic ending: the toys go to a toy drive, and each poor kid who participates gets a toy. The toys get separated, but to a good and necessary end.

One can imagine the Pixar crowd doing an animated Fiddler on the Roof but changing the ending so that instead of dispersing, the entire village of Anatevka goes to live with Eloise at the Plaza. The better to make Fiddler 2.

You got me to laugh with the Fiddler joke but I'm still interested in your grudge against the "toys stay together" concept. Since the very beginning of the series they have harped on the concept of the toys being friends and helping each other through everything. "You've Got a Friend In Me" isn't just Andy and Woody, it's Woody and Buzz, and all the rest. No matter where they ended up, if they had been separated it would have been a sad ending.

I'm intrigued that you think it's "unfair" that Bonnie gets more toys when she already has some. "Andy learns of the plight of toyless children and is moved" doesn't sound like fun to me. Wall-E got bogged down in similar horrifically sad concepts. As I said before, the movie celebrates a certain type of consumerist childhood, one which millions of us grew up in, and we don't have to feel guilty about it.

In case you think I had a few too many toys myself - my first toys were cardboard oatmeal canisters and cereal boxes. My parents were not well off, and I remember those days clearly. Yes, I did end up accumulating quite the pile of plastic over the years, thanks in large part to yard sales and hand-me-downs, (augmented by birthdays and Hanukkah gifts of course) and only years after I was Bonnie's age. I do not begrudge her the toys at all. I'm glad she is living in that lovely house full of fun, even in the face of other children playing with whatever their parents can pull together for them.

[I Heart Disneyland!]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

So I guess the question is are you a geek or is everyone callous?

Both!

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I've been avoiding this thread until I saw TS3 but having just returned from the matinee, I can finally talk about it.

I liked it quite a lot. Going into the film I fully expected to have my heart strings tugged, but even though I thought I was girded against it, I definitely got choked up.

I agree with Strangler Lewis on one count: I also think Lotso is pretty much Stinky Pete in a furry costume.

Do you folks think Big Baby is creepy because of the Uncanny Valley or some other reason?

What happened to Bo Peep? I don't recall her demise in TS2.

I loved Night and Day! I thought it was incredibly imaginative, original, and perfectly hybridized 2D and 3D animation styles.

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear Commercial (Circa 1983)

So that was a real toy?!? I saw that commercial on actual broadcasts twice last month and just thought it was a sly promo for TS3.