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Maurice Picarda said:
I wanted to be moved but remained unaffected. Essentially, the way it's supposed to get you is to play on every parent's fear that their children will grow up and no longer need them, leaving mum and dad as archaic and irrelevant as Woody and Buzz. But I long for the day when this happens, and would be overjoyed to pack Goneril and Regan's spotted hankerchiefs and see them bugger off to seek their fortunes. So the emotional manipulation failed rather. I felt rather sorry for Lotso, though, when his henchmen turned on him and withdrew their support. That was a poignant scene.
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Lol!!! I think I love you! :D

I loved Toy Story. And I shed a little tear...
 
Maurice Picarda said:
I wanted to be moved but remained unaffected. Essentially, the way it's supposed to get you is to play on every parent's fear that their children will grow up and no longer need them, leaving mum and dad as archaic and irrelevant as Woody and Buzz. But I long for the day when this happens, and would be overjoyed to pack Goneril and Regan's spotted hankerchiefs and see them bugger off to seek their fortunes. So the emotional manipulation failed rather. I felt rather sorry for Lotso, though, when his henchmen turned on him and withdrew their support. That was a poignant scene.
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Bollocks to the humans, it's the toys you're supposed to care about.
 
indeed, there was only one moment in which the mother says goodbye. it was all about andy and the toys.
 
Orang Utan said:
indeed, there was only one moment in which the mother says goodbye. it was all about andy and the toys.
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I went to school with someone like you. We were discussing a classic work of literature, and this chap was getting increasingly riled by my analysis. Eventually he could take it no more and remonstrated: "for Christ's sake, Picarda, it's just a story about some talking animals on a farm. Why do you have to bring politics into everything?".

He's in IT now, of course. They all are.
 
Maurice Picarda said:
I went to school with someone like you. We were discussing a classic work of literature, and this chap was getting increasingly riled by my analysis. Eventually he could take it no more and remonstrated: "for Christ's sake, Picarda, it's just a story about some talking animals on a farm. Why do you have to bring politics into everything?".

He's in IT now, of course. They all are.
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If you compare this to Orwell then you seem to mistake what is a secondary storyline in the Toy Story films for the subtext. If anything the films can be read as an allegory of growing old, being replaced and becoming redundant and like nearly all Pixar films it's about how you achieve more if you work as a group rather than as an individual. The whole "kids growing up and leaving" thing is right there for anyone to see, but it concerns relatively minor characters at the margins of the films. It would be like saying that Animal Farm is actually about the farmers and farming rather than saying it's an allegory about Stalinism.

That said I was also less moved by Andy saying goodbye to his toys because I couldn't wait to grow ap and I feel little nostalgia for my childhood, but I did respond by the whole growing old thing and the way the characters prepare themselves for imminent death at one point.
 
thought it was excellent, and was on the verge of tears for the furnace bit... I watched it in Spanish, so would've missed a lot of the performances you heard, but we did get Antonio Banderas 8) Might have to watch it again in English...

Loved the Vader/Palpatine reference with Lotso/the big baby ;)
 
Reno said:
If you compare this to Orwell then you seem to mistake what is a secondary storyline in the Toy Story films for the subtext. If anything the films can be read as an allegory of growing old, being replaced and becoming redundant and like nearly all Pixar films it's about how you achieve more if you work as a group rather than as an individual. The whole "kids growing up and leaving" thing is right there for anyone to see, but it concerns relatively minor characters at the margins of the films. It would be like saying that Animal Farm is actually about the farmers and farming rather than saying it's an allegory about Stalinism.

That said I was also less moved by Andy saying goodbye to his toys because I couldn't wait to grow ap and I feel little nostalgia for my childhood, but I did respond by the whole growing old thing and the way the characters prepare themselves for imminent death at one point.
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i responded to all the emotional moments just because they were done so well AND because i'm very easily moved. i well up just reading single paragraphs describing emotional moments or news events
 
Lo Siento. said:
thought it was excellent, and was on the verge of tears for the furnace bit... I watched it in Spanish, so would've missed a lot of the performances you heard, but we did get Antonio Banderas 8) Might have to watch it again in English...

Loved the Vader/Palpatine reference with Lotso/the big baby ;)
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What happened to Buzz when he went into Spanish mode?
 
Orang Utan said:
i responded to all the emotional moments just because they were done so well AND because i'm very easily moved. i well up just reading single paragraphs describing emotional moments or news events
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Me too. I only have to say "this is falling with style" and I'm misty.
 
Santino said:
What happened to Buzz when he went into Spanish mode?
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does he speak spanish in the english version when that happens? I was wondering. In the Spanish version he changes accent and starts talking differently, Jessie refers to it as "romantic mode". Some dispute as to what accent he's doing.
 
Lo Siento. said:
does he speak spanish in the english version when that happens? I was wondering. In the Spanish version he changes accent and starts talking differently, Jessie refers to it as "romantic mode". Some dispute as to what accent he's doing.
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brilliant - does he go catalan?
he speaks spanish in the english version, but it ain't antonio banderas
 
Lo Siento. said:
I thought he sounded Mexican (a friend agreed), but the girlf said he sounded Andalucian (AB is from Malaga so that makes sense)
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ah right, it would have to be a different spanish accent to work i suppose.
a catalan friend of mine told be that the dubbed fawlty towers has a catalan manuel (well he is from barcelona)
 
another friend who saw it in english said that the actor in spanish mode had "no accent" (ie. had the same madrileño RP accent as he did) (he's called Javier Fernandez Pena the actor apparently)
 
Reno said:
That's the way I saw it first. :D
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that must have been odd. are most english language films dubbed in germany?
i've been to the cinema in france and most english language films seems to be subtitled
i have also seen woody allen's sleeper dubbed on french telly and they got woody allen's french voice soooo wrong
 
I fucking love this film!

Seeing as I am about to turn 22, I watched the first one when I was 7, and the second when I was 11 I have grew up with the characters. When I saw the second film 11 years ago I was kinda disappointed, I thought at the time it was probably because I was getting older. I kinda put off watching this as I did not think it was going to be much cop but gave it a go anyway. Boy was I in for a shock, I bloody loved it. I have never cried so much at the end of a film before in my life (although my current 52hour wakeful stint due to insomnia probably has not helped emotionally at all).

That scene in the furnace thing got me going emotionally first and went downhill from there! There was one point I actually thought they were all goners and when that claw came I thought wtf!? When I saw it was the aliens it was tears of joy that came over me, and then at the end when I realised what woody wrote and that they were going to Daisy that got me going again!

Brilliant!
 
Saw it last night in 3D. Another work of genius from Pixar. Seriously, those people can do no wrong (cars. SHUTUP SHUTUP WE DO NOT TALK OF IT). They must have a machine at Pixar HQ, where they hire 300 brilliant young minds each year, sacrifice them and distill their mindforce into an elixir of awesomeness.

The short film at the beginning (Night & Day) was also spectacular. Clever idea followed through with unrelenting creativity. Also remarkable for the very clever use of 3D. I doubt it would be as good viewed flat.
 
The contrast between the 3d landscapes and the 2d silhouettes that frame them. and then, then moving of those 2d planes, so the characters can move infront and behind each other. I was dazzled :)
 
Crispy said:
The contrast between the 3d landscapes and the 2d silhouettes that frame them. and then, then moving of those 2d planes, so the characters can move infront and behind each other. I was dazzled :)
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Tbf, you're dazzled by shiny beads.
 
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