Toy Story 3

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

making audience members laugh not only at the gag but at themselves for getting so emotionally wrought by some toys at a garbage dump....and not in a "gotcha" or demeaning way, either. Just, perfect.

Still, I wonder if the Raiders of the Lost Ark ending will be a Blu-ray easter egg.

[flippyshark]

I'm missing something with the Raiders reference here. Was there some other ending?

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

I'm missing something with the Raiders reference here. Was there some other ending?

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

[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.

[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.

[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.