Pixar movies

[The Beast]

Can I just think that Toy Story 3's entirety was good?

Ken Doll was my favorite character and I liked the day care.

I think all of Toy Story is basically on equal footing. It's the most consistent film trilogy I can think of.

[Dryish]

Rating Pixar's productions is tough, as everyone of them is quite good. The only one I personally never enjoyed was Toy Story 2. It felt just like almost every Disney movie sequel - forced and made only for profit. Haven't seen it for years, though, so it could feel slightly different today.


1. Ratatouille
2. Finding Nemo
3. Monsters INC.
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4. Toy Story (Has the best music)
5. Incredibles
6. A Bug's life
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7. Toy Story 2

The lines indicate a jump in quality. The first three movies are all masterpieces, which have had a strong influence on me. They are the ones that made me laugh, cry, be scared, etcetera.. The next three are mid-tier. Good movies without a doubt, but not so enthralling that I would think of rewatching them, had I nothing else to do. The last one was, in my opinion, the only bad, or mediocre, movie Pixar has ever made. I just didn't like it.

I haven't seen Up, Wall-e, Cars nor Toy Story 3, so I couldn't place them anywhere. One should probably consider spending some time watching them.

[Smudger]

Can I just think that Toy Story 3's entirety was good?

Ken Doll was my favorite character and I liked the day care.

I think all of Toy Story is basically on equal footing. It's the most consistent film trilogy I can think of.

Pretty much.

The only major difference worth mentioning is the secondary characters. Most of them just annoyed me, whilst other surpassed my expectations.

e.g. spanish buzz.

At least Woody has remained pretty consistant with his attitiude throughout.

Side note: why the hell is bugs life even being mentioned, let alone rated above movies of legendary status?

[RobbyBevard]

That was something I really liked about it at first, but when I got into following baseball (whose writers love to do the same thing) it didn't feel quite as special as when watching that.

First you hate Iron Giant for being like a 50's monster movie... then Incredibles for being like baseball? Do you dislike Ratatouille for being too similar to Star Wars?

[Cyber-Robin]

Possibly because 'A Bugs Life' is surprisingly a Pixar film. And people are ranking Pixar films.

I'll certainly be buying it on Blu-Ray when its out in a week or two and seeing how it goes. I do remember it being somewhat good when I saw it last....about 10+ years ago.

[Dryish]

It had a sufficient plot, a few good characters, good animation and mediocre music. It's not a particularly amazing Pixar movie, but overall a good film. Its ending was too cliché, but that is pretty much all there is against it.

[Insider2000]

For me.

Personal Favorite Tier:
1. Incredibles
2. Monster's Inc
3. UP

Damn Good Movies Tier:
4. Wall - E
5. Toy Story 2
6. Bug's Life
7. Toy Story

Liked It, But Not As Much As Everyone Else Tier:
8. Ratatouille

Ruined By Everyone Tier:
9. Finding Nemo

Not A Fan Tier:
10. Cars

I haven't seen Toy Story 3 yet.

[Cyan D. Funk]

First you hate Iron Giant for being like a 50's monster movie... then Incredibles for being like baseball? Do you dislike Ratatouille for being too similar to Star Wars?

How do you get superhero = baseball.

[Nobodyman]

How do you get superhero = baseball.

Well, obviously the Incredibles family represents the batter and Syndrome represents the opposing team.

Mr. Incredible represents the strength needed to hit the ball as hard as you can. Dash represents the speed needed to run to each base. Elastigirl represents the flexibility needed to change directions at each base. And Violet represents the "shield" and "invisibility" you need to not get tagged out by the opposing team (Syndrome).

.........seriously, wtf?

[Ubiq]

brad bird characters rule

Truest thing said in the thread so far. The Dog is one of the greatest animated characters to come along in the last few decades.

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[Smudger]

This is by far one of the best animation shorts ive seen in years. Every character was just perfect beyond belief. Not to mention the simple yet great story.

I honestly can't fault it.

Side note: How many weapons did they give that boy? I counted 10.

[Ubiq]

There was a hell of a lot of talent working on that short.

Spielberg produced it, Tim Burton did the character designs, Bird wrote, directed, and voiced the dog. The Dad is Stan Freberg, The Mom is Annie Potts, and, of course, Little Billy is played by Scott Menville. Looking at the list of animators, there's at least four of them with feature film director credits and a couple more with television credits.

[Malintex_Terek]

First you hate Iron Giant for being like a 50's monster movie... then Incredibles for being like baseball? Do you dislike Ratatouille for being too similar to Star Wars?

Let me put it this way.

When I first saw Iron Giant, my impression of Bird was he was an Akira Toriyama.

Now I know him to be an Eiichiro Oda.

Of sorts.

I like what he does, but the truth that he didn't invent the conventions he so proudly marched in his movies has hampered my enjoyment of them, and lowered my opinion of the people who take a blind-eye to it.

It probably wouldn't be the case if I knew Iron Giant was a homage in the first place, but if that was the case I don't think it would have been as spell-binding to me when I first saw it.

Kind of appropriate coincidence a baseball analogy was worked into this, 'cause we could always bring up the steroids scandals...

[RobbyBevard]

I like what he does, but the truth that he didn't invent the conventions he so proudly marched in his movies has hampered my enjoyment of them, and lowered my opinion of the people who take a blind-eye to it.

Sorry if the man didn't INVENT giant monsters or superheroes and that somehow takes away from it for you.

Kind of appropriate coincidence a baseball analogy was worked into this,

That's not a coincidence at all! YOU brought up the baseball analogy! And you still didn't explain it!

[Ubiq]

That's not a coincidence at all! YOU brought up the baseball analogy! And you still didn't explain it!

Man, you're expecting logic out of somebody who just said that Oda is less inventive than Akira Toriyama because he... hell, I don't know. Hasn't created a completely new genre to replace the one Toriyama didn't create either? Didn't base his most successful series on Journey Into the West?

At this point, it's best to think of Terek's posts as an exercise in Dadaism and move on.

[Nobodyman]

What the fuck does "inventing" even mean in storytelling?

Did the producers of King Kong invent giant monsters?
Did J.R.R. Tolkien invent fantasy?
Did Stephen King invent horror?
Did Stan Lee invent superheroes?
Did Shakespeare invent comedy and tragedy?

[taboo]

Went to a pixar presentation at Tx A&M about TS3


Talked to a TD who is working on The Brave. He couldn't talk about it though

oh how I wanted to hop into his brain and read his thoughts

[Cyber-Robin]

Re-watching Toy Story. It's still amazing but looks kinda out-dated graphically compared to the new one, which is even more noticeable on the Blu-Ray. Still so many scenes I love and can appreciate a lot more on here tho.

The Reg on the number plate on Andy Mom's car is A113. Which is the same code as the one for Auto in Wall-E XD

I love all of the little easter eggs

[Vegard Aune]

Rating Pixar's productions is tough, as everyone of them is quite good.

Yeah, same here. I think Toy Story 3 would have to be my favourite, whereas Cars and A Bug's Life were their weakest efforts, (not bad by any means, just not as great as their other stuff) but all the other ones in between? No idea. They were all great.

[Lazzie]

My favorites are The Incredibles and Ratatouille, but really, just about every Pixar movie is great. My least-favorites are probably Cars and A Bug's Life, but they're both very, very good movies. And Toy Story is probably the most consistent trilogy, ever (paraphrasing an above post). Now that Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Spider-Man were ruined by their most recent films, the only other film trilogy that comes close is Back to the Future.