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


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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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[info]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."

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[info]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.

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[info]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.

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[info]kookaburra
2010-06-20 09:01 am UTC (link)
I just got back from seeing it, and our theater was deserted! Maybe 10 people in it, max, only one family with kids, the rest looked to be college age. WTF? But OMG, such an incredible movie- heavy themes about charismatic dictators, too. To me the scariest part was when they reset Buzz - Woody Allen did a great job getting the horror and fear in his voice. Just amazing.

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[info]jyuu
2010-06-20 11:57 pm UTC (link)
I know you probably didn't actually mean Woody Allen, but holy crap is that now a bizarre mental image in my head.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2010-06-29 08:56 pm UTC (link)
I'm 24, and I went to see it with two same-age friends because a) I am an animation junkie and b) we grew up with the Toy Story films. 20-year-olds, who were only five when the first was released, will probably feel even more strongly about it as a part of their childhoods. So not only is it an awesome Pixar film with plenty of mature themes, it's a big nostalgia bomb for people 18-25 or so.

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[info]jerel
2010-06-22 01:22 am UTC (link)
I haven't seen it (I'll probably wait until the DVD), but several of my friends said "have the tissues handy."

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[info]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.

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[info]beejium
2010-06-20 04:20 am UTC (link)
I almost did, on my own. With only about 15 other people in the theatre. It was just... it was the perfect moment.

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[info]pandonkey
2010-06-21 12:11 am UTC (link)
The same thing happened when I saw it. Moments like that are why I'm glad I was able to see it in a theater.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2010-06-19 06:06 pm UTC (link)
Almost as bad is any scene with that goddamn monkey.

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[info]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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[info]spawn_of_kong
2010-06-19 08:01 pm UTC (link)
I found Big Baby too sympathetic to be creepy. Although he does get that one moment (you know the one). In fact, the monkey gets a similar moment, and it's just as scary. D:

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

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[info]cyndra_falin
2010-06-21 08:38 am UTC (link)
My sister almost fell out of her chair laughing each time he was on the screen!

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2010-06-22 02:37 am UTC (link)
...Dude, his eyes bug out when he screeches. How can anyone, not find that scary?

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2010-06-22 02:38 am UTC (link)
*Erm, disregard that last comma. (I knowz grammar, I swear.)

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[info]cyndra_falin
2010-06-22 04:53 am UTC (link)
Yeah as for me, I wasn't laughing. I was startled each time and wished they wouldn't go back to him!

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[info]enrythe8th
2010-06-22 07:01 pm UTC (link)
And his eyes are all red-rimmed and dead, too!

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[info]beejium
2010-06-22 07:08 am UTC (link)
I was laughing... with TERROR.

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[info]librarianmouse
2010-06-22 07:05 am UTC (link)
I hate that monkey so freaking much. Thanks for the nightmare, Pixar!

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[info]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. :(

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[info]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...

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[info]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*

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[info]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."

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