Disney/Pixar's TOY STORY 3 Discussion Thread

[Mrs. Sawyer]

The first 3 Bonds films need to be added for me (I don't care if there more after, I still count it as a trilogy!).

 

[Doctor Jones]

They're still great films. A perfect trilogy is what I consider 3 great films.

I personally have to absolutely love all three for me to consider it perfect. LOTR and Toy Story are the only films that do that. I love The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but its former films I simply think are good films.

 

[jmc]

It's official, Disney are going for the gold and are going to push hard. Via Incontention.com

Pete Hammond got the expected quotes from Disney chairman Rich Ross (in the midst of revealing a very intriguing campaign strategy), but it’s all pretty much the rhetoric we would expect, and stems from the same philosophy on “Toy Story 3” potentially winning the Oscar for Best Picture that you’ve seen here and elsewhere.

The key quote:

The theory is pretty simple for us…It’s thrilling that there is a separate category for animation and that allows animated movies to be recognized but for some reason an animated film has never gotten Best Picture and I always wondered was there not an appetite? We decided this year we have the biggest and best reviewed film of the year. If not this year, and not this movie, when?

The bold is mine. And that, in a nutshell, says it. “What better way to celebrate [Pixar's] track record than to give cinema’s highest honor to what looks to be the closing installment of the series that started it all,” I asked back in June. It still feels like a valid argument. More on that intriguing campaign strategy after the jump.

Writes Hammond:

Disney/Pixar will launch an ambitious advertising campaign aimed squarely at Academy members this week that will blatantly try to associate past Best Picture winners with TS3 by having Toy Story characters enact some iconic images from Oscar winning films like West Side Story, On The Waterfront, Shakespeare In Love, Silence Of The Lambs, Titanic, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King and Forrest Gump (which will feature the Woody character voiced of course by ‘Gump’ star Tom Hanks – get it?). There are potentially more than 20 different ads they will create but some like Lambs which features a disembodied Mr. Potato Head still are being cleared by various parties. The campaign which uses the phrase ‘Not Since’ will launch with The Godfather Part II in which Lotso, the mob boss-like bear emulates Al Pacino. Since that film (and Rings) were rare instances of sequels triumphing with Best Pic wins, the studio is not-so-subtly implying that the time has come for another sequel to win.

Very clever.

 

[Sawyer]

Good.

 

[Sinestro]

Sounds great

 

[Darkness Falls]

hehe

 

[Darkness Falls]

double post

i hope ts3 wins though

 

[Crockett]

A few "For Your Consideration" ads.

It's old, but anyway Toy Story 3 on the Variety cover.

 

[Sawyer]

They're beautiful.....

*wipes away tear*

 

[Sawyer]

They're beautiful.....

*wipes away tear*

 

[Crockett]

Simple and yet so beautiful, I like that the image reflect the movies the ads mention too.

 

[Crockett]

Freakin 12 more "For Your Consideration" ads!

Spoiler

 

[Crockett]

The rest.

Spoiler

 

[Ipodman]

Ken is my fav character in the movie haha

 

[Darkness Falls]

LMAO
I love the american beauty one, one of my fave films

 

[Crockett]

It wasn't easy to re-host all the images but it was worth it.

 

[The Caped Knight]

In my opinion, the "Toy Story" and "Lord of the Rings" trilogies are the only perfect trilogies.

Mine are

1. Toy story

2. STAR WARS OT

3. Lord of The Rings

4. Bourne

5. Back to the future

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

My favorite is without a doubt The Godfather: Part II ad.
Thanks for posting those ads Crockett.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I finally saw this tonight, absolute perfection! the best film in the series. Imaginative, inventive, moving, funny, smart and action packed, just amazing!

 

[Dr. Evil]

I would not call Toy Story the prefect trilogy, although it's pretty close. The first one is a classic. TS2 was a good movie, but it wasn't great. The last one might even be better than the first.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I actually think each movie was better than the one before it.

 

[Sawyer]

I think I'd have to rate them...

TS3
TS1
TS2

I never got why people considered the second better than the first. Sure, it's bigger in scope, and you get more use out of the full cast, but I always liked the story in the first better.

 

[Ipodman]

I felt the 2nd Toy STory was too dark for kids to enjoy... that's why I've always leaned towards the first Toy STory... third one was awesome, almost as good as the first

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'd call it one of the perfect trilogies. All of them were great and all of them have a legit argument at which one is best.

EDIT: See? Three different opinion in three posts. What other trilogy can boast that? I can only think of LOTR.

 

[danoyse]

I felt the 2nd Toy STory was too dark for kids to enjoy... that's why I've always leaned towards the first Toy STory... third one was awesome, almost as good as the first

Toy Story 2 is my nephew's favorite, and he's only 3.