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Captain McCrea "waking up" and wanting to get everyone back to Earth is a beautiful thing. Why do people hate it so much? 
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Inside Out - easily the best Pixar movie
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mrmickfran
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Definitely in the top 5 along with the Toy Story trilogy and Finding Nemo.
The way people talk about Up, you'd think that the storyline regarding Ellie disappears after the opening.
Ellie is a presence that hangs over the entirety of Carl's character arc, the only reason his goal is to get to Paradise falls is to fulfill her dream, and as he struggles to get to the physical place, he moves away from it on a spiritual level. Ellie was a woman who found wonder not in places, but in people, and to truly honor her, Carl had to relearn that as he dealt with his grief.
You can argue that the opening was the best part of the movie. I certainly do. But as a storyline, it is fundamentally incomplete without the rest of the movie and wouldn't be anywhere near as good without the rest of the experience delivering on the catharsis of Carl's character development.
alfredofroylan
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Best talking dogs movie ever.
The Good Dinosaur is garbage.
Take a drink every time the main dinosaur trips or falls, or otherwise demonstrates how much he fucking sucks. You'll be found dead a week later.
broncobuster
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It's quite good. Best since Ratatouille and a top five, for sure.
Are you praising the rest of the movie because of how her death influenced the main character's actions? Am I understanding this correctly?
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SweetDonuts
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I found it slightly boring. I thought the moral of the story was great but the actual film a bit average, especially compared to other Pixar titles
batman2million
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I'm saying the opening itself is incomplete without the rest of the movie. It's a retort against people who act like the opening is the only thing that matters about Up and that the rest is 'typical pixar fanfare' or 'about talking dogs hunting a snipe'.
It's ALWAYS about Ellie, through and through. Yes, that is obstensively saying that her death influences the main character's actions, but more than that, it's an intrinsic part of a cohesive whole that you can't separate without breaking the experience for both the opening and the rest of the movie. The opening on it's own would be lessened without the rest of the movie resolving the conflict that it presents carl with. People may focus on the opening as the best part, but wouldn't be as powerful by itself as it is with the rest of the movie.
Marty Chinn
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You sound like you're describing people who love Ratatouille here. People seem to forget about the terribly forced and poorly executed love story that drags in the middle. That alone drops it out of being top tier.
HappyPuppy
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I'm partial to rats and food.
Admiral Woofington
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the romance is such a MINOR fucking subplot compared to the restaurant/rat story what are you talking about.
Conkersbadfurday
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It was good, but I dunno. I almost went in with too high of expectations, because I only came out going, "it was good." Bing Bong was annoying as shit.
Movie is really interesting when you look at it from the perspective of
Movie is really interesting when you look at it from the perspective of
Joy being the villain
I love Inside Out, one of my top favorite movies in all honesty.
I think your level of enjoyment to Inside Out (as well as most movies) is how much you relate to it on a personal level. For me, Inside Out really hit close to home with me. I really appreciated how the movie weaved in sadness and how it's a normal, healthy thing to experience. Very few movies, and media for younger audiences in general, share that message.
I think your level of enjoyment to Inside Out (as well as most movies) is how much you relate to it on a personal level. For me, Inside Out really hit close to home with me. I really appreciated how the movie weaved in sadness and how it's a normal, healthy thing to experience. Very few movies, and media for younger audiences in general, share that message.
ShironRedshift
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Same. Or put another way, too much Joy, not enough Riley. It seems like a movie that really should have been about an hour long or so, but they desperately wanted it to be feature length and so they padded it full of Joy's wacky misadventures and hijinks to make it just long enough to hit that mark. Far too much time wasted on stuff like Joy and Sadness wandering a maze, talking about infomercial jingles, wandering Imaginationland, trying to make Riley have nightmares, etc, and trying every which way to get back to the other emotions and fail and have to look for some other method just enough times to pad it out to feature length. I mean, all that time is used to set up the world of the film/the psychology of it/whatever you want to call it, but in doing so, kills any pacing the film may have had or the effectiveness of the rising action and any real sense of urgency until like the final 20 minutes or so because until then every times start looking serious with Riley we get more wacky-hiinks with Joy and company to calm things down again, because the kiddies can't handle the story without all that or something and they needed to pad things out anyway?
Like, it seems to be mostly the exact opposite problem that Up had. With Up, people point to the films first 10 minutes or so being amazing and then a large part of the rest of the film falling flat. With Inside Out on the other hand, the vast bulk of the first hour is underwhelming and full of fluff and nonsense while Joy and Sadness are finding it's way back, and it's only the last 20 minutes or so that are particularly noteworthy. But because it starts on such a meh note and you have to endure so much to get there, at least personally, Inside Out left a much more sour taste in my mouth than Up did.
And that's a shame, since Riley's story itself is great and resonates with a lot of stuff I went through as a kid myself, but having to push through all of Joy's nonsense every time and all of the pacing-killing world-building stuff in the film makes it something I never want to come back to.
Killed the thread too soon.
I liked inside out but nowhere near Pixar's top 5.
*thumbs up*
timetokill
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I think the main thing for me with Inside Out (which I loved!) was that it didn't have enough Riley. I wanted to see more of her. But overall it's a very very good movie. I love that it teaches kids that being sad sometimes is normal, and I loved that as she "grew up" her emotions got more complex. Really beautiful story and message.
As far as Up, I think the fact that the first 10 minutes are so strong that it makes the majority of the film "suffer" in the minds of a lot of people, because it gets all wacky and stuff. It goes from brutal to fluffy and I think the contrast doesn't sit right with people, even though the story from the long view is really fantastic.
As far as Up, I think the fact that the first 10 minutes are so strong that it makes the majority of the film "suffer" in the minds of a lot of people, because it gets all wacky and stuff. It goes from brutal to fluffy and I think the contrast doesn't sit right with people, even though the story from the long view is really fantastic.
SkullHydra
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I'm with you, OP. I grew up with my father in the Air Force, and moved every couple of years for the majority of my life. After he retired, we stayed in the same town for about seven years. I was finally able to make some really strong and lasting friendships for the first time. Then a few years ago, I moved again and left everyone I grew attached to.
Inside Out touches me on a very personal level.
Inside Out touches me on a very personal level.
Astral Dog
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Im right there with you. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near that good. It took on some topics I didn't think it would, and handled them very well.
Love the film.
Definitely this. I have noticed it in every discussion about the movie as well.
MyleMan1010
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To me it felt like the plot would have made a better short than a full length feature. They had to get real creative and stretch some things out in order to make the plot last.
Andrew Korenchkin
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It's alright breh, my second favorite Pixar movies is Cars.
I agree with this post wholeheartedly. It connected with me on a deeper level as an adult than any Pixar movie ever did (as a kid or otherwise). I finished the movie crying. Sits atop them all for me.
Sgt.Pepper
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I'd have liked it better had Joy been far less annoying and less of a jackass to Sadness for most of the movie.
Also Riley parts were far better than Joy's self-centered misadventures.
Also Riley parts were far better than Joy's self-centered misadventures.
I liked (most) earlier Pixar films. I found Inside Out to be incredibly dull, and the whole concept lacking (let's have characters be defined by a single trait! That should work out as an interesting film).
It was so boring that I stopped around 20 minutes before the end. Maybe everything was magically fixed afterwards, but I doubt it.
It was so boring that I stopped around 20 minutes before the end. Maybe everything was magically fixed afterwards, but I doubt it.
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