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Toy Story 3 Scrapped
Snap E Tom writes "The Independent Online is reporting that Toy Story 3 has been scrapped. This is a strong clue that the Pixar guys are firmly in control at Disney. The ground-breaking films were being milked into almost as many movies as The Sims has expansion packs. John Lasseter, Pixar's creative head, was strongly against the idea of third and forth movies, while the old Disney regime pushed forward with it. Now with Pixar and Steve Jobs on the board, Lasseter has taken the necessary steps to prevent the franchise from being diluted."
I think they should have released it and called it
Toy Story 3 : The cashening
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According to talk in Hollywood, Disney was struggling with a script in which Buzz Lightyear, one of the two stars, developed a fault and had to be recalled to Taiwan for repairs.
That sounds like a reasonably good premise, actually.
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I am likewise firmly against movies being created with FORTH.
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Eventually this spells the end of Debian. They will run out of toys.
At the current release rate, we should be able to predict the date of Debian's demise.
Hey--at least they wouldn't dream of doing it in LISP--although some of the characters might have one...
All the names of the Debian releases so far have been based on characters from Toy Story. If there's no more Toy Story movies made, Debian will soon run out of characters, and will be forced to give up on making systems! :)
I wonder if Disney will go from a three fingered to a one fingered mouse.
Anyone see Jon Stewart address this?
He said something to the effect of, "Pixar will make sure Disney won't water-down the Toy Story franchise, which Includes such movies as:
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story with Insects (A Bugs Life)
Toy Story with Fuzzy Monsters (Monsters, Inc.)
Toy Story Underwater (Nemo)
and of course,
Toy Story with Superheroes (The Incredibles)"
His writers were dead on: all of these films are the same franchised rehashed crap, ready for toy and videogame tie-ins from day 1. (To inject my opinion: Just look at the lengthy chase high-speed chase scene with the son in The Incredibles: it was shot from the vidoegame camera angle, I felt like I was watching someone play the game rather than a movie.)
People love to fawn over Pixar's writing, and yes, it is better than Disneys, but the films are remarkable bland plots, that numb us with eye candy.
Not that I'm against good eye candy...
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[Neil is crying softly]
Rick: Shut up, Neil, shut up! What's the matter?
Neil: I'm sorry, everybody. I'm sorry, Bambi. I'm just remembering, like, that bit when you got lost in the snow, and the rabbit found you, it was so beautiful...
Vyvyan: Yeah, I liked the bit where you shoved the drill in the virgin otter's face.
Neil: That wasn't in "Bambi", Vyvyan!
Vyvyan: It was in the sequel, Neil. "Bambi Goes Crazy Ape Bonkers with His Drill and Set".
Neil: [gravely] Is that true, Bambi? Did you do a Disney nasty?
Bambi: So what if I did? I'm not apologizing. My life collapsed after "Bambi". I was a lovable fawn alright, unusable for anything else. I took the Babycham stuff, sure, thanks to Mike here, but I was finished. When the porn "Bambi" came along, well, I thought, this is where I get something back...If it hadn't been for the chance to present University Challenge and start a new life, I'd be giving executive relief to woodland creatures to this very day.
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Yeah, take Oliver Stone's JFK for instance.
Only exceptions I can recall off-hand are The Godfather: Part II, Superman II, and, yeah, Toy Story 2 (as an earlier poster noted, it was a great assistance to have the characters already fleshed-out -- or, in this case, plasticked-out -- in the original). Not even the great (well, mostly great) Thin Man series ever quite got back to the quality of the 1934 original.
But it could have been worse. Imagine such potential crap as:
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I thought they already made Toy Story 3: Monster Edition? Followed by Toy Story 4 Underwater, and Toy Story 5 Supertoys.
(This joke shamelessly stolen from The Daily Show).
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