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beejium (beejium) wrote in fandom_wank,
@ 2010-06-19 01:01:00

Entry tags:

fandom_wank's thoughts on yaoi, movie wank, pixar, reviews, someone is wrong on the internet!, stop sharing your thoughts, writers are often pompous douches

Wank machine keeps on rollin'
1. Pixar makes incredible, mind-blowing third movie in Toy Story series.
2. Rotten Tomatoes logs over 130 reviews - all positive.
3. Toy Story 3 gets it's first (so far, only) bad reviews.
4. Internet explodes. (Also here.)

The wank seems to be focused on Armond White's review, as he is known for seemingly giving any review that goes against the general consenus. (He inexplicably seems in favour of Transformers 2, for instance.) He also doesn't appear to have actually watched the movie (identifying Hamm as a villain.) His negative review was actually predicted by a number of commenters in this earlier article, asking readers to predict where Toy Story 3 would end up on the Tomatometer rating.

It's all very dramatic, with wank in every corner. But of course, the most important Toy Story-related argument is and always will always be: Buzz/Jessie or Woody/Jessie?*

*Anyone's who's seen the movie will know the right answer to this.

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ilinana
2010-06-19 08:06 am UTC (link)

I was actually surprised after seeing it that it was rated G. We had a few parents come out with kids because they thought it was too scary and they wanted refunds. But, Toy Story 1 had Sid mutilating toys, so.....

Anyway I liked it. I can't say "Oh that was better than the first two!" or anything like that because they really are different films, and in their own ways they're all really good. Plus I mean...it's fucking Toy Story. It changed animation, it put Pixar on the map, etc etc. You can't really duplicate that. But the movie was phenomenal for a 3rd sequel, and the only series/trilogy I can think of that pulled it off is Indiana Jones. And they had a helluva fuckup for the 4th film, and the 2nd wasn't as good as the first or third, while all three Toy Stories have been solid films.

uhh..sorry this is really getting off topic, and I don't want to get into spoiler territory. My point is, Armond White can suck it. I mean, it's one thing to give the film a negative review if you actually have some reasons. I certainly didn't think the film deserved a perfect score, but his review is a trainwreck.

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	tez 2010-06-19 08:20 am UTC (link)
	"We named the dog Indiana." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ilinana 2010-06-19 08:30 am UTC (link)
	I love Sean Connery a lot but I love him even moar as Dr. Henry Jones Sr. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2010-06-19 09:12 am UTC (link)
	joins this boatload of awesome (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

alcesx2, 2010-06-19 07:51 pm UTC

evilsqueakers, 2010-06-19 07:52 pm UTC

	tez 2010-06-19 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	That movie could have been good no matter what because it had a good script. Casting Sean Connery in that role took it from good to FREAKING AWESOME. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

honorh, 2010-06-20 03:36 am UTC

	sylvacoer 2010-06-20 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	Dammit, YES!! And that is why I was so pissed off that Alec Bladwin was Jack Ryan in Hunt for the Red October - they ruined another Ford/Connery match-up! fangirl RAEG (Reply to this)(Parent)

	innocentsmith 2010-06-19 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. 'Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees...and the birds in the sky.'" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	everstar 2010-06-20 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	I love that moment, because you can tell it's the first time Indiana really looks at his father as someone who might be worth knowing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sylvacoer 2010-06-20 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	I was eight when I first saw the movie - I'd already started the fangirling, but that line made me fall in love with Mr. Connery. 8D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tardiscontrol 2010-06-20 04:52 am UTC (link)
	My sister's dog is named Indiana... well, Indy. Technically. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darksumomo 2010-06-19 02:51 pm UTC (link)
	the movie was phenomenal for a 3rd sequel, and the only series/trilogy I can think of that pulled it off is Indiana Jones. Star Wars didn't, but James Bond did. Movie #3 was Goldfinger, a better movie than the first, Dr. No. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	beejium 2010-06-19 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	I can honestly say Toy Story 3 scared the shit out of me. There was one point where I just went, "That's it, they're all going to die. Thanks, Pixar." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rhrsoulmates 2010-06-19 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	At that same point I was like, How the fuck are they going to get out of this?!? I completely fell for forgetting about the [fill in the spoilery part that led to a happy ending]. On Monday, I'm going to ask my kindergarteners whether or not they were scared. They'll probably say no even though they were. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	beejium 2010-06-19 05:43 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, and then I just wanted to cheer. I walked out dizzy I went through so many emotions. :/ The theatre we were in was pretty empty, but there were a couple of little kids and I didn't hear them crying or anything. (Not that that particularly means anything.) One of the preteen girls behind us wept like a baby at the end though, poor thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kookaburra, 2010-06-20 09:01 am UTC

jyuu, 2010-06-20 11:57 pm UTC

kookaburra, 2010-06-21 01:52 am UTC

chibikaijuu, 2010-06-29 08:56 pm UTC

kookaburra, 2010-06-29 08:57 pm UTC

chibikaijuu, 2010-06-29 09:13 pm UTC

kookaburra, 2010-06-29 09:15 pm UTC

chibikaijuu, 2010-06-29 09:21 pm UTC

jerel, 2010-06-22 01:22 am UTC

	supersyncspaz7 2010-06-20 04:16 am UTC (link)
	Oh, at that one part, the entire theater at the first showing I went to started applauding. It was adorable. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

beejium, 2010-06-20 04:20 am UTC

pandonkey, 2010-06-21 12:11 am UTC

	spawn_of_kong 2010-06-19 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	Almost as bad is any scene with that goddamn monkey. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ilinana
2010-06-19 06:36 pm UTC (link)

I thought Big Baby was creepier, but probably because I kept thinking of "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders" and was torn between CREEPY AUGH! and omglol. The second half of the film is about this kid who gets a monkey like that for his birthday, and every time it claps its cymbals something dies. One of my friends actually got me a monkey like that from a garage sale or something after we watched that movie, and they are fucking creepy in real life too.

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spawn_of_kong, 2010-06-19 08:01 pm UTC

	beejium 2010-06-19 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Oh god, why? Children's movies should not be allowed to terrify me so. (Reply to this)(Parent)

cyndra_falin, 2010-06-21 08:38 am UTC

spawn_of_kong, 2010-06-22 02:37 am UTC

spawn_of_kong, 2010-06-22 02:38 am UTC

cyndra_falin, 2010-06-22 04:53 am UTC

enrythe8th, 2010-06-22 07:01 pm UTC

beejium, 2010-06-22 07:08 am UTC

librarianmouse, 2010-06-22 07:05 am UTC

	ilinana 2010-06-19 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	I know exactly what you mean. Everyone I know who watched that scene felt the same way. I think it's the resigned looks on everyone's faces that makes it so much worse. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

	simplefaith 2010-06-20 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Oh geez, me too. I was clutching my purse for dear life and thinking "OK, this is the last TS sequel, Pixar likes to screw with people's emotions, they might die." I really should have known better, but... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2010-06-20 09:04 am UTC (link)
	Oh, Hera, yes - I was so sure they were going to go to the Great Toybox in the Sky, and the looks on all their face. wibble (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2010-06-29 07:02 am UTC (link)
	(finally saw it today, so I'm late to the thread) "Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you." But yes, seriously. I half expected the Pixar guys to come out from behind the curtain and say "It's okay now, it's okay, that's as bad as it gets, you can relax now." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chienne 2010-06-19 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	Seems like most of White's reviews are trainwrecks. He often reads like a less funny and less Christian version of Betty Bowers. (Reply to this)(Parent)

also_not_a_pipe
2010-06-20 01:41 am UTC (link)

One of my secret shames is that I actually liked the second more than the third. Between the prologue with River Phoenix and when everybody got to whatever place Petra was supposed to be, I found the movie really corny and plotless, and the banter between Connery and Ford kind of embarrassing to listen to because it was just trying so hard to be funny and charming. Though I have to admit, the sequence in the scary tunnel was pure awesome.

But my first introduction to shirtless, beat-up protagonists being circa 1980 Harrison Ford when I was just old enough to really like that idea? Oh hell yes.

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	fernmonkey 2010-06-20 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	But my first introduction to shirtless, beat-up protagonists being circa 1980 Harrison Ford when I was just old enough to really like that idea? Oh hell yes. And that's pretty much how my BFF figured out he was gay. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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