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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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argylespy
2010-06-21 08:43 pm UTC (link)

Bambi, anyone?

Check the source material. Salten didn't linger too much on the death of Bambi's mother but I figure it was kind of a trade-off on Disney's part since Bambi's cousin does die a heartbreaking death but also doesn't appear in the movie at all.

. . . actually, come to think of it, the whole book is really all about everyone around Bambi dying while he tries to figure out why he has such a Deep And Meaningful Connection to the Old Prince over the course of twenty-some-odd chapters.

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pandonkey
2010-06-22 05:02 am UTC (link)

. . . actually, come to think of it, the whole book is really all about everyone around Bambi dying while he tries to figure out why he has such a Deep And Meaningful Connection to the Old Prince over the course of twenty-some-odd chapters.

Yep. I read it when I was about 10 or 11, and the two things that have stuck with me the most to this day are Gobo's death (which you mentioned) and the bit in which two leaves discuss the end of their lives as they're about to fall. Death galore.

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