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[MattW]

Uhmmm there's plenty of likeable human characters in those movies.

Name one in the Toy Stories or Finding Nemo.

Billy, in Toy Story

There's no Billy in Toy Story.

[petras]

Uhmmm there's plenty of likeable human characters in those movies.

Name one in the Toy Stories or Finding Nemo.

Billy, in Toy Story

There's no Billy in Toy Story.

I'm going to assume he means Andy.

There were hardly any humans in Finding Nemo or Toy story and the movies were in no way about how humans are an epidemic. Toy Story was about acceptance and friendship and Finding Nemo was about a fathers love for his son and the father accepting that his son is going to grow up. If you got "humans are an epidemic" out of finding nemo...then you are just not paying attention even in the least.

[Guy]

Yeah, Andy. He looked like a Billy to me.

[MattW]

Andy betrayed Woody when he got the Buzz doll. And then he carelessly lost his two most prized toys. I wasn't rooting for that kid at all.

[petras]

Andy betrayed Woody when he got the Buzz doll. And then he carelessly lost his two most prized toys.

I wasn't rooting for that kid at all.

Andy did not force buzz and woody into getting into a fight and then tumbling out of the car....and his loss was hardly careless in fact he was concerned and didn't want to stop looking for them but his mother made him stop looking.

He didn't betray woody, as far as andy knew woody was just a toy...you can't betray an inanimate object.

You strike me as either arguing for the sake of arguing or you dismissed these movies as nothing more then kids movies and didn't even pay attention to them when you watched them.

[Tony]

Andy betrayed Woody when he got the Buzz doll. And then he carelessly lost his two most prized toys.

I wasn't rooting for that kid at all.

Andy did not force buzz and woody into getting into a fight and then tumbling out of the car....and his loss was hardly careless in fact he was concerned and didn't want to stop looking for them but his mother made him stop looking.

He didn't betray woody, as far as andy knew woody was just a toy...you can't betray an inanimate object.

You strike me as either arguing for the sake of arguing or you dismissed these movies as nothing more then kids movies and didn't even pay attention to them when you watched them.

Andy sold out the old toys that schtroontz. I don't want see him again. Make that first on your list.

[Finn McCool]

You guys are fighting over cartoons.

[elcorazon]

Andy betrayed Woody when he got the Buzz doll. And then he carelessly lost his two most prized toys.

I wasn't rooting for that kid at all.

Andy did not force buzz and woody into getting into a fight and then tumbling out of the car....and his loss was hardly careless in fact he was concerned and didn't want to stop looking for them but his mother made him stop looking.

He didn't betray woody, as far as andy knew woody was just a toy...you can't betray an inanimate object.

You strike me as either arguing for the sake of arguing or you dismissed these movies as nothing more then kids movies and didn't even pay attention to them when you watched them.

Andy sold out the old toys that schtroontz. I don't want see him again. Make that first on your list.

have you been drinking tony?

[MattW]

Andy did not force buzz and woody into getting into a fight and then tumbling out of the car.....

Didn't he, petras? Didn't he?


But seriously, I think this premise is clearly supported by Pixar's work, you don't. To each their own.

[MattW]

You guys are fighting over cartoons.

What? Doesn't that make more sense than waxing and debating them like adults?

[Finn McCool]

You guys are fighting over cartoons.

What? Doesn't that make more sense than waxing and debating them like adults?

Aw, I was just laughing is all. People who get redfaced over comic books and stuff make me chuckle - I can't help it. Sorry.

[Tony]

You guys are fighting over cartoons.

What? Doesn't that make more sense than waxing and debating them like adults?

Aw, I was just laughing is all. People who get redfaced over comic books and stuff make me chuckle - I can't help it. Sorry.

We aren't talking about comic books. Cinema is cinema.

[Finn McCool]

OK, OK - sorry. Truce.

[petras]

You guys are fighting over cartoons.

What? Doesn't that make more sense than waxing and debating them like adults?

Aw, I was just laughing is all. People who get redfaced over comic books and stuff make me chuckle - I can't help it. Sorry.

This is what i'm talking about, just because they are animated doesn't make them any less worthy of debate then a live action film.

[petras]

A movie about a guy running around in a bat costume is taken seriously because it's live action but a movie like Wall-E is dismissed as childish just because it's animated. This is a horrible horrible view shared by unfortunately many.

[MattW]

I don't dismiss Wall-E because it's childish. I dismissed it because the plot and themes were half-assed and lame.

[Tony]

A movie about a guy running around in a bat costume is taken seriously because it's live action but a movie like Wall-E is dismissed as childish just because it's animated. This is a horrible horrible view shared by unfortunately many.

Remember the threads when 'The Dark Knight' came out? It's a Dark and brooding masterpiece about the Darkness that dwells within us all! A profound meditation on sanity and insanity and the Way We Live Now! Move over Citizen Kane and Blade Runner there's a new Dark masterpiece in town!

[Finn McCool]

Move over Citizen Kane and Blade Runner there's a new Dork masterpiece in town!

Kidding! Kidding...I think Pepe le Pu's right up there with Brando, fellas. 'What's my motivation? Ah, yes...the cat...she eez so pretty."

[nobodies]

So I'm way late to the game on this one... but with our 9 month old son cramping any trips to the theatre, my wife and I are just starting to enjoy the summer flicks. Bring on Pineapple Express. It's like July in January. Anyway, I'll try not to rehash too much since so much has already been covered in this thread. However, I will say that for those who were clamoring for a darker ending, I'd like to think Pixar gave it to us (sort of). In my mind, the humans' return to earth was nothing short of a mass suicide. First, the captain basically said dying on earth was a superior option to what had become of human race on the Axiom ship. Second, there were pretty strong hints that humans had become asexual. It appeared that all babies were raised by robots; and there were other hints that people were no longer having sex. Some obvious (i.e. becoming fat gelatinous blobs); some a little more subtle (the shock and sensation felt by the man and woman who touched hands for the first time). Who knows how babies were conceived, but I think it had little to do with bumpin' uglies. Third, I gotta think it'd be virtually impossible for humans to re-terra-form earth with virtually no experience or materials. So what if one plant grew in a shoe, humans need a lot more than that. Yeah I know the ending credits might indicate otherwise, but I'd like to think Wall-E and Eve are cavorting about while humanity's corpses rot.

[theremin]

I hope Kung-Fu Panda beats out Wall-E for the animated oscar.