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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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	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 (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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2010-06-21 01:52 am UTC (link)
	LOL yup - Woody and Tim Allen namesmush mix up. Obviously I should not be on the internet after taking my allergy meds. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

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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	kookaburra 2010-06-29 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	I wasn't saying WTF to the "college-age" (I'm 25), but to the fact that the theater was deserted. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chibikaijuu 2010-06-29 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, okay, ha! Yeah, the theater I saw it in wasn't all that crowded, either, and it was a 7:20 Saturday showing a week after the film was released, but it was also the Saturday of Pride Weekend in SF. I suspect a lot of people saw it as soon as it came out - it's still doing gangbusters at the box office. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2010-06-29 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	In another thread someone said that it might be because I went to see it 2D. Haven't been able to risk $8 on the chance that I might get a headache in the 3D yet, LOL. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chibikaijuu 2010-06-29 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm. I saw it in 3D (I thought it was worth it - they used it nicely to create additional depth during some scenes, but didn't overdo it on the "this was totally done just to show off the 3D/jump in your face"), and there were definitely more people in my theater than there seem to have been in yours, but there were definitely a good number of open seats. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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 (link)
	I almost did, on my own. With only about 15 other people in the theatre. It was just... it was the perfect moment. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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