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May. 30th, 2009 07:57 pm--
Amazing, I know, but Pixar is 10 for 10 in terms of beloved movies now. Even the hard-to-please Rotton Tomatoes has given the new release UP a rating of 98%. They have a page that rates the movies according to their reviews on rottontomatoes.com, and even the lowest ranked 75% Fresh. But is this really their list of how wel the movies were reviewed?
1) Toy Story 2
2) Toy Story
3) Finding Nemo
4) The Incredibles
5) Wall-E
6) Ratatouille
7) Monsters, Inc.
8) A Bug's Life
9) Cars
I would make a very different list, and I'd like to invite my friends to do the same. Include UP if you've seen it:
1) UP
2) The Incredibles
3) Finding Nemo
4) Toy Story 2
5) Toy Story
6) Cars
7) A Bug's Life
8) Monsters Inc.
9) Ratatouille
10) Wall-E
Yes, I really thought Toy Story 2 was, if anything, even better than the awesome Toy Story itself. I loved all the movies, and would watch any of them again, but yes, maybe I did find Rattatouille's frantic attempts to hide the secret of cooking rats a little too formulaic, and thought Wall-E's heavy-handed portrayal of the future needed to be either more satirical or less (though of course I loved the love story). And yeah, as someone who learned to love my car more than my home, I loved Cars even a leetle bit more than a Bug's Life; it dealt with themes that are important to me, the disppearing of roadside America, and the disturbing prevalence of the superhighway mentality. I'm no fan of NASCAR, but it was so great to sit in the audience and hear people gasp at the entrance of Paul Newman's character, and whisper excitedly, recognizing the Hudson model of the car, and appreciating the extra pleasures afforded by Pixar to vintage car fanatics.
In the end, though, it's really hard to rank them. The Toy Story movies are equal in my mind, and Nemo and The Incredibles are such different stories, how can you say one is better, it's like apples and oranges? (By the way, I maintain that although as RT says, The Incredibles is a wonderfully original story, it couldn't have been done unless The Watchmen had come first.)
What do you think?
Amazing, I know, but Pixar is 10 for 10 in terms of beloved movies now. Even the hard-to-please Rotton Tomatoes has given the new release UP a rating of 98%. They have a page that rates the movies according to their reviews on rottontomatoes.com, and even the lowest ranked 75% Fresh. But is this really their list of how wel the movies were reviewed?
1) Toy Story 2
2) Toy Story
3) Finding Nemo
4) The Incredibles
5) Wall-E
6) Ratatouille
7) Monsters, Inc.
8) A Bug's Life
9) Cars
I would make a very different list, and I'd like to invite my friends to do the same. Include UP if you've seen it:
1) UP
2) The Incredibles
3) Finding Nemo
4) Toy Story 2
5) Toy Story
6) Cars
7) A Bug's Life
8) Monsters Inc.
9) Ratatouille
10) Wall-E
Yes, I really thought Toy Story 2 was, if anything, even better than the awesome Toy Story itself. I loved all the movies, and would watch any of them again, but yes, maybe I did find Rattatouille's frantic attempts to hide the secret of cooking rats a little too formulaic, and thought Wall-E's heavy-handed portrayal of the future needed to be either more satirical or less (though of course I loved the love story). And yeah, as someone who learned to love my car more than my home, I loved Cars even a leetle bit more than a Bug's Life; it dealt with themes that are important to me, the disppearing of roadside America, and the disturbing prevalence of the superhighway mentality. I'm no fan of NASCAR, but it was so great to sit in the audience and hear people gasp at the entrance of Paul Newman's character, and whisper excitedly, recognizing the Hudson model of the car, and appreciating the extra pleasures afforded by Pixar to vintage car fanatics.
In the end, though, it's really hard to rank them. The Toy Story movies are equal in my mind, and Nemo and The Incredibles are such different stories, how can you say one is better, it's like apples and oranges? (By the way, I maintain that although as RT says, The Incredibles is a wonderfully original story, it couldn't have been done unless The Watchmen had come first.)
What do you think?
