
Agreed! And I think the premise for 5 is going to be very timely. I don’t remember four much but their such beloved characters and if creatives think they have more to say (which for 5 I’d really think is true with the tablet addition) then why not. Kids will watch it and parents trust the franchise enough to bring them to see it
the trilogy is all about the importance of ownership, while toy story 4 primarily concerns itself with the horrors of symbiotic existence and personal value. the trilogy is all about the rules of being a toy, but toy story 4 offers an epilogue that reassures that those rules are not essential just because you’re a toy. i do think a good chunk of the middle is the usual recycled toy story/pixar formula, but that ending just means so much to me.
Correct. Making them nothing more than tiny people misses the point. They’re not people, they’re toys. Wanting them to have independent lives is like wanting dogs to have independent lives. Dogs don’t want to be independent of humans and they’re not better off when they are. Same with the toys in Toy Story until 4 ruined it.
no it’s not? the toys in toy story aren’t dogs; they’re fully conscious beings with a level of self-awareness, abstract reasoning, and communication that is much closer to human sentience than dog sentience. whatever the case, i’m sorry the movie ruined the franchise for you. i love the movie, and especially its final moments, but i feel for you. i definitely know how it feels to feel betrayed by a sequel all too well.
I never said they were dogs, I said they were LIKE dogs. All you’ve done is point out differences between them and dogs as if they invalidate the similarities. Dogs were bred to need humans. Toys were manufactured to need humans. If you want to deny this, then what you’re saying is that every toy in the Toy Story universe just happens to have some weird codependency for humans they all have to get over, which is incredibly lame, much worse than them being just made for humans.
at no point did i say that you said the toys are equivalent to dogs. this is such a non-issue and you’re putting words in my mouth over it. i like the movie. the ending means a lot to me. you don’t like the movie or it’s ending. you and i aren’t going to find common ground here, so let’s not waste our time with this any longer.