- Watched 2024-09-12
- Emotional rating: 5 stars
- Actual rating: 4 stars
Thoughts
We just watched the original Toy Story, the first of the thirty-ish movies which will make up my Pixar Newsletter project. Trying to watch it with objective eyes knowing what Pixar will prove themselves capable of later was…kinda hard, in a way. The voices were uniformly excellent1, of course, and the script zips right along — the whole movie clocks in at less than an hour-and-a-half. It’s still hilarious and entertaining as hell.
this would be in a callout, yes, with the meta info about the cast and stuff? and it doesn't get too big, does it?
But it’s impossible to watch now with the same amazement I felt in 1995. I mean, of course, right? The fact is that no one had done anything like that before, made an entire feature using computer animation, and it truly felt revolutionary. Now every mainstream American animated movie that comes out is done via computer, and even the very rare “hand-drawn” feature still features a ton of computer assistance. (Plenty of actual hand-drawn films are still produced, of course, and not only from Studio Ghibli. But that might be a post for another time.)
Miscellaneous Contemporaneous Notes
- baby molly just like tin toy baby
- the wallpaper in andy’s house is hideous
- joss whedon, john lasseter…
- ratz = hamm
- textures are not a thing yet, apparently…
- personalities set very clearly very early
- pixar ball at birthday party
- kinda glad they moved awau from randy newman
- a113 license plate
- pizza planet truck is pretty obvious
- first dinoco
- they’ve been trying to make up for Scud ever since
- sid’s room legit scary
- the shining carpet
- mr potato head’s independent features
Footnotes
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As distasteful as I actually find Tim Allen, I absolutely have to admit that he energizes Buss with just the right mixture of bravado, credulousness and vulnerability. Between the four Toy Story movies and Galaxy Quest, I find myself enjoying far more Tim Allen than I feel should be warranted. ↩