Pixar and Dreamworks films discussions

Easy enough*:

1. WALL-E
1. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story
4. Finding Nemo
5. Toy Story 2
6. Ratatouillie
7. Monsters Inc.
8. A Bug's Life
9. Cars

[size=13]*Scores may vary based on personal taste and nostalgia value[/size]

Dominic Knight wrote:

So guys, here's a question:

Can you rank the Pixar movies in order of how much you liked them?

Here's mine:

1. WALL-E
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Incredibles
4. A Bug's Life
5. Toy Story
6. Monsters Inc.
7. Toy Story 2
8. Ratatouille
9. Cars

1. WALL-E
2. Toy Story
3. Monsters Inc.
4. The Incredibles
5. Finding Nemo
6. A Bug's Life
7. Cars
8. Toy Story 2

Haven't seen it:
Ratatouille

That is a really hard list to come up with. I would probably cave to a re-ordering of my 3-7 pretty easily, and watching Toy Story 2 again would probably put it in the mix, I just don't really remember the details and remember feeling underwhelmed.

Toy Story stands above the others at number 2 mostly because of nostalgia. I remember it being so revolutionary and I was fairly young to begin with.

So guys, here's a question:

Can you rank the Pixar movies in order of how much you liked them?

A Bug's Life
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Monsters Inc.
Cars
The Incredibles
Ratatouille
Finding Nemo
WALL-E

Rank them 1-9. One being the best nine being the worst.

My ranking:
1. WALL-E
2. The Incredibles
3. Finding Nemo
4. Toy Story
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Toy Story 2
7. Ratatouille
8. Cars
9. A Bug's Life

**Obviously I can't count. XD

It's really striking once you put Pixar's films into a list just how long their run of greatness has been. I mean to have produced this many films and for every one of them to have been, at the very least, good (and they are) is amazing. They really are the absolute best at what they do.

My list:

1. Finding Nemo (I became a dad not long before I saw this, so it's a very personal film for me)
2. The Incredibles (I love the action, humor and heart; but I also love the message)
3. WALL-E (A great film. Just not sure I like it quite as much as the first two. Need some time to really judge.)
4. Ratatouille (I couldn't even say why I like this so much; I hate cooking. But it just works for me.)
5. Toy Story 2 (Just a fundamentally solid movie from end to end.)
6. Cars (This started to grow on me after my kids forced me to sit through it for the fourth time.)
7. A Bug's Life (I need to watch this again. It's been many years.)
8. Monsters Inc. (Best ending of any of the films, but this one really just never clicked for me.)
9. Toy Story (Watched this a few months ago and it just doesn't hold up as well for me. It's still good and it's an important film, but Pixar's animation and storytelling skills have gotten so much better since this was released.)

While these are my personal preferences, it's worth noting that I think WALL-E is the best piece of filmmaking they've done to date. It is by far the most important piece of work they've produced. It just doesn't strike at me, personally, quite the same way that Finding Nemo and Incredibles have. After it comes out on Blu and I get some more perspective on it, I might move it up my list.

Ack. Double post.

So after having watched Wall-E twice this weekend, I'm sitting at work humming that damn song to myself thinking about these cute little robots zipping along corridors singing away.

A damn fine, infectious film.

I'm game.

WALL-E
The Incredibles
Toy Story
Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc.
Toy Story 2
Ratatouillie
A Bug's Life

I thought Cars was so very boring that it no longer exist.

The Incredibles
WALL-E
Finding Nemo
Ratatouille
Toy Story/2, Bug's Life, Monsters Inc. (They're all interchangeable)
Cars

EDIT: I'm not sure about Ratatouille's placement. It's Ego's monologue at the end that makes it so good. The movie itself plodded a little and wasn't nearly as fun as the early Pixar flicks. I'm really torn about where it should go. The top three and the bottom one are locked, however

I just got back from seeing WALL-E and had the opportunity to see it on a DLP movie projector. Wow that looked good.

Anyway, what a beautiful movie. Between the visuals, the music and the expressions (from a robot!) I got watery eyed. This was such a fantastic movie and it makes me realize why I lvoe movies.

PIXAR has done it again. I Never thought they could outdo do the story of Finding Nemo but this takes the cake but just a little. They truly are the masters of story telling.

I will never forget the day when Brad Bird visited my College for the 3D students. I'm such a PIXAR fanboy.

Wow. All the hate for Cars. I can only assume none of you have a 3-4 year old boy at home!

1. Toy Story
2. Wall-E (very good, but not good enough to dethrone the king)
2a. Cars (after dozen's of viewings, this movie definitely grew on me)
4. Finding Nemo
5. Toy Story 2
6. The Incredibles (Too violent for my son to watch -- might move up once he can watch it)
7. Monsters Inc.
8. A Bug's Life
9. Ratatouille (my son was bored throughout this movie -- I had to agree with him. Ego's monologue made it "meh" for me, but it meant nothing to him.)

never seen wall-e however my favourite pxar film was hands down was A Bugs Life :).
Nothing beats flick and those grasshopper dudes

Wow. All the hate for Cars. I can only assume none of you have a 3-4 year old boy at home!

Definitely not hate. Pixar movies are like sex and pizza. The worst you can have is "good".

Cars is one of the most watched flicks in the household. It's definitely enjoyable and entertaining, but I just don't think it ranks above any of their other titles for a variety of reasons. My wife vehemently disagrees with me. I think Rat's at the bottom of her personal list.

Along with everyone else, I'd just like to add how much I enjoyed the movie. Ben Burtt came out of retirement apparently to do the sound for the movie and voice Wall-E, and there's no denying how sound plays an important part in a movie with next to now dialogue. And as with all the other Pixar films, the story works on a few different levels, so there's lots to think about long after you leave the theater. What a wonderful piece of film making.

Just watched movie with my friend and their kid, it is such a fun and powerful movie. I definitely need to watch more Pixar movies! And I definitely need to get a Wall-E toy. :) Edit: actually in spirit of the movie, I must resist the urge to get more "future trash."

I am surprised that no one mentioned the Louis Armstrong's song, La Vie En Rose, in the movie. It not only reminded me of Fallout (the game) but the general "feeling" and "tone" of the song and Fallout games matched that scene so well...

Freaking amazing movie. Anybody who likes sci-fi and Pixar will enjoy this movie. I am really blown away at how much they did with so little. And how completely devastating the ending sequences with Wall-E were.

I am ashamed to say I missed the ending credits as it was already midnight and we all wanted to go. I'll have to see it again.

I have an interactive Wall-E toy that will respond to your voice and I felt bad because my nephew wanted to take it home but I told him no.

Hey, I bought him some Wall-E action figures, what do you want from me??

BTW, I've seen it 3 times so far.

My wife and I went to see this for our one year anniversary gift to each other. It was just incredibly touching. This and Rudy were the last two movies I cried at. Hands down the best movie I've seen since Magnolia.

Also, for action figures go with the U-Repair Wall-E toy. Posable, fun, and the packaging is recyclable.

The movie was awesome. That is all.

I went to see this with my girlfriend, and we both think Wall-E is easily our favorite Pixar movie. When we walked out of the theatre, the first thing we wanted to do was buy some tickets and walk right back in to watch it again. We didn't, but only because we had other things we had to do. We were spending the week with my family, which includes way too many screaming nephews and nieces, and for the rest of the week I was sort of hoping that someone would ask if I wouldn't mind taking them to go see Wall-E just so I would have an excuse to see it again. I never did get to see it again, and now I'm living somewhere where I don't know anyone and I don't even think there's a movie theatre here.

Toy Story 3 sounds interesting. For some reason, I'm always more excited for the third in any given series than the second. Probably because of Super Mario Bros. 3 and A Link to the Past and Super Metroid and Metal Gear Solid 3 and Super Mario Galaxy (you know, because it's the third 3D Mario platformer game). All of those are the best of the first three, with the second game in each respective series kind of being weird or just not as good overall. Sadly, it almost never seems to work that way with movies, and yet I never learn.

Cars 2 I couldn't care less about. Cars was Pixar's absolute worst movie.

Newt and Up sound awesome, and Newt Up sounds like a refreshing beverage!

Alright, list time!

1. Wall-E - Absolutely brilliant. The fact that the two main characters can only speak a handful of words, one at a time, and Pixar still manages to tell an absolutely compelling story. The robots felt human, yet moved and acted perfectly robotic the entire time, if that makes any sense.

2. Ratatouille - I honestly have no idea how kids could like this one. It's so atypical of an animated movie, I can't see anyone but adults enjoying it. I mean, sure, you have the cute little rats, but they don't really bounce around exaggeratedly like a lot of animated animal characters. They talk to each other, but they can't talk to humans, and only Remy can even understand humans. And the entire movie is about cooking. And there's so much story in there that young children would just get confused. Luckily, I'm an adult and for an adult, it totally and completely works.

3. The Incredibles - Superheroes!

4. Toy Story - It still looks good, even today. Except for the humans. I'm so glad they've since standardized what humans look like in Pixar movies, because Pixar's humans used to look terrible. Except for the old guy playing chess with himself in that short film of theirs about the old guy playing chess with himself. He looked so good that they turned him into a crazy woman with a shotgun in Ratatouille. Anyway, there's something really touching about Woody and Andy's bond and their need to be together. And even though I've watched it half a billion times, I still always worry that Woody will get left behind on the move. Oddly enough, I just moved two days ago and I can't seem to find my own Woody doll.

5. Finding Nemo - I thought I was going to hate it. I love it. Crazy, crazy world.

6. Monsters Inc. - It's a fun idea for a movie, and it was handled well.

7. Toy Story 2 - I actually think it's really good, but it's missing that magic that makes Toy Story a classic. It's not really about Woody and Andy so much as it's about Woody and a bunch of other toys, and that's not as fun.

8. A Bug's Life - You'd think Denis Leary as a lady bug would push this one higher up on the list, but it doesn't. I like it, but I felt a lot of the humor fell a little flat, and the big rain-slick action sequence at the end is such a mess of water effects and flashing lights that it's hard to tell what is going on! Still, I can't not love Dave Foley.

9. Cars - Garbage. I mean, for Pixar. It's actually a pretty decent little movie, but it's way, way beneath Pixar's quality threshold. In fact, I don't even believe Pixar made it. I think the team at Disney that does the non-Pixar 3D movies that suck made it and then slapped Pixar's name on it.

TheWanderer wrote:

Also, for action figures go with the U-Repair Wall-E toy. Posable, fun, and the packaging is recyclable.

Sweet. Totally what I'm doing.

Great movie, like everyone says. The social commentary really hit home when the "meal in a cup" concept was first introduced, and I immediately reached over and grabbed my 44oz Diet Coke and began slurping. I looked around and realized how dead-on is their portrayal of humans. The underlying themes of the movie clearly had no effect on the majority of viewers, as the floor was littered with trash as I walked out. Oh, and Buy 'n Large is a freakin' brilliant name and really worked as the logical destination for Walmart's world dominance.

I'm skimming and I don't care. Possibly the cutest movie to ever be made. Funny and although I kind of had a headache from the green bat they were beating my head with, I didn't mind the message. Especially since this movie is directed at kids, it's nice that they have a decent message to tell.

PS Tell your kids that cockroaches do NOT make good pets.

Grenn wrote:

Possibly the cutest movie to ever be made. Funny and although I kind of had a headache from the green bat they were beating my head with, I didn't mind the message.

Agree. And it didn't come off as too preachy. It was more of an explanatory backdrop for the actual plot. It was worth seeing. Cars and Ratatouille are still the house favorites. I doubt this will change when Wall-E is released on home video.

In other news, this marks my 2-year-old son's first trip to the movie theater. He behaved admirably, paying attention and staying quiet and awake the whole time.

Grenn wrote:

PS Tell your kids that cockroaches do NOT make good pets.

That's a good tip. It made me laugh later when I thought about how the whole audience gasped when the cockroach got run over though. And then it just popped back up and continued following Wall-e.

Dominic Knight wrote:

But Disney did touch on environmental themes that I had only ever really seen in Miyazaki movies. I'm glad they did have those in there, as it really does show what could happen if we don't clean up our act soon.

My wife looked around the theater afterward and pointed out all the trash on the ground. "Will we never learn?" she asked.

This movie had me at Hello ... Dolly.

Audience wrote:

Boooooooooo!

Seriously, though. As soon as I heard, "There's a whole new world out there, Barnaby," I liked this movie.

spoiler wrote:

[color=white]I think I would've preferred to see Wall-E stay brain dead. Of course, I also said Nemo should have died and that the door should have stayed destroyed in Monsters Inc.[/color]

Sephirotic wrote:

My wife looked around the theater afterward and pointed out all the trash on the ground. "Will we never learn?" she asked.

I did the same thing. It was a real shame that people didn't learn any lesson from the movie that they took away and applied to their life right away. It's not like throwing away your garbage after a movie is that hard either.

Ok, I will play.

1. Finding Nemo
2. The Incredibles
3. Wall-E
4. Ratatouille
5. Toy Story
6. Monsters Inc.
7. A Bug's Life.
8. Cars

Never saw Toy Story 2. Won't watch Cars 2 either.

Dominic Knight wrote:
Sephirotic wrote:

My wife looked around the theater afterward and pointed out all the trash on the ground. "Will we never learn?" she asked.

I did the same thing. It was a real shame that people didn't learn any lesson from the movie that they took away and applied to their life right away. It's not like throwing away your garbage after a movie is that hard either.

When the film ended and the credits were over, E Hunnie and I stood up. I looked around and saw an overweight woman. How could she have missed the "no fatties" message?