Toy Story Is One of the Most Consequential Movies Ever Made | CineFix Top 100

[@Xylus.]

The genius of Toy Story is Pixar realizing that early CGI looked like plastic, and leaning into it by having a cast that is mostly made of plastic. This was the perfect concept to bring to life within the limitations of early CGI.

[@shenloken2]

Sid was either that one kid you knew or you were that kid: dysfunctional home or not. He also says one of my favorite lines which attributes to the movie’s tight script! When his sister Hanna cries to their mom about what he did to her doll and he says: “She’s lying! Whatever she’s saying is not true!!” 😂

[@santos8468]

"Look, I'm Woody. Howdy howdy howdy."

[@paulstroud9686]

From a Far Side Cartoon! "Hey look! I'm a cowboy! Howdy Howdy Howdy!

[@strangeradios]

I have an idea for a Top 10 List: Top 10 Journeys in Film. I think there's enough room to explore reasons to travel, methods of travel, destinations, effect the journey has on the character or the story itself, etc. There are some films like Homeward Bound or The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert where the journey is a major part of the story, and then there're films where the journey is a smaller part of the story like in What Dreams May Come, where Chris' journey to find Annie in hell is pretty powerful, but isn't the entire plot. (Or is it, kinda?) There's plenty of different genres and emotional timbres that have journeys; revenge, treasure seeking, lost and trying to get home, pilgrimage, road trip, etc. I think there's a fair bit to work with and think it would be a nifty list, because I'm sure you guys can rattle off a couple dozen movies I've never heard of that would be great nominees, lol.

[@allisonbergh4429]

There’s even “Journey To The Past” from Anastasia for an animated category!

[@TheEarthwormZodiac]

This would be cool!

[@aaronriggan2373]

Dude - Nic Cage as the announcer in the TV commercial. Perfect cameo to compliment the rest of the perfect cast!

[@jenniferjohnson6352]

I know you guys are (mostly) joking about moms loving the tshirts but this mom would *love* to receive one for Christmas 😂

[@marypalmer8223]

Sid's a danger to overcome rather than a villain. All kids can be dangers to toys.

[@AdiCool88]

Wow, I just put Toy Story on for my Twin Nieces 20 minutes ago. The timing is crazy lol.

[@allisonbergh4429]

I just watched Cal’s video about John Wick, and a whole documentary about Phil Tippett, and the story of making Toy Story reminds me a lot of both of those. Hold up, are you guys forgetting Galaxy Quest??? Tim Allen was *actually* great in that!

[@carmawarlock8455]

I said that when they were listing his hits. Cal mentioned it at the end though. Last Man Standing was extremely popular too, even if you dOn'T lIkE iT's pOliTiCs. I think he did a better job than Tom Hanks

[@DarthJ1977]

One interesting thing about Sid - he doesn't know the toys are sentient. He's just a creative kid. Yeah, he's not super nice to his sister in one scene, but he's not all that different from Jack Skellington really. I think a missed opportunity in Toy Story 3 - as much as I adore that movie as is - is that they only brought Sid back for a cameo as the garbage collector. Because at this point, he is literally the only person who knows that toys can come alive. I like to think that the experience of being scared by Woody and company would have a woken his empathy, and he could have started to treat toys very differently. Maybe he would have started to repair toys, perhaps inheriting Geri's profession. I think it would have been neat to see an actual conversation between Sid and Woody.

[@kenip9800]

I was 20 when this movie came out. I remember going to the theater with a couple of my buddies to watch 12 Monkeys, but ditching them when I saw the theater was showing Toy Story, which my buddies weren't interested in. Never regretted that decision.

[@carmawarlock8455]

12 Monkeys rips though

[@LordofSyn]

I saw both in the theater. 12 Monkeys was and is still a great movie too.

[@axelfoley133]

Literally, sliding your ticket across the table and saying to your friends, "Sorry guys, I gotta see about a toy."

[@shenloken2]

Toy Story and Shrek really got the ball rolling on all CGI movies; with only the occasional traditional and stop-motion animated movies coming out from then on.

[@carmawarlock8455]

The first movie I remember seeing as a kid. Even then I remember being aware of how much of a big deal everybody considered this movie. Really like how you guys related the plot to Pixar taking the place of legacy Disney animation. I don't know if they could have planned that. I don't think they knew at that moment traditional blockbuster animation would become obsolete, but it's an interesting connection I never thought about.

[@GitShiddy]

Cinefix Top 10 Gamechanger film list would be worth making. I mean the technical shifts colour, sound, animation, CG etc. Storytelling & genre changes like Rashomon, or how Night of the Living Dead changed the word Zombie. Cinema movements like New Hollywood, 90s Indie, French New Wave, Blockbusters etc. There's definitely a list somewhere here.

[@MrLee-zh9ls]

Top game changers in cinema would make a great list. Maybe a future series? I love these long form episodes

[@jbmboy]

A Trip to the Moon, King Kong, Wizard of Oz, Jason and the Argonauts, Terminator 2, Toy Story, Matrix, Avatar

[@MrLee-zh9ls]

@jbmboy pretty spot on I'd say. Although I think Kong and Jason are too similar. Unless I'm missing something.

[@jbmboy]

@@MrLee-zh9ls King Kong was puppetry and Jason was claymation.

[@WhiskyCanuck]

Is Dan's algorithm how Skynet starts?

[@paulb808]

Toy Story is a special special film, I think its the greatest animated film period. You guys talking about it had a smile on your face the whole time, the feelings you had towards the characters, world, realism in the most artificially made film ever at the time is truly incredible. #1 on my Letterboxd, next to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Apocalypse Now

[@trevor9416]

Chucky made me worry about my sisters dolls coming alive more than toy story

[@phillipmcdaniels6911]

Great world-building movie. Innovative for its time. Storytelling was superb and more complex than we took in as kids.

[@fischerwiesen]

My brother and I were the core demographic for Toy Story - I was 6 and he was 5. He got a Buzz for Christmas and I got a Woody for Christmas - we both wrote our names on their feet and still have them to this day... When Toy Story 2 came along we started playing video games - so the iconic introscene was like perfect for us... When Toy Story 3 came into cinemas we both were on the verge of finishing school and leaving home in sorts - again like perfect... I can remember a time before Toy Story - but my Woody doll literally was my longest friend and the one of maybe 3, 4 toys that stayed with me till today.

[@Summer_Snows]

I would love to see Cal's Top 10 Influential Movies list

[@GrahamScottSmith]

Before, Toy Story, there was the animated feature, The Adventures of Raggedy Anne and Andy. It shares many similar themes, including a much darker horror undertone.

[@grennbalze]

I was 13 and saw Toy Story in the theatres. And i loved it. It definitely still spoke to me

[@paradisecity0406able]

First movie my dad ever took me to see in theaters

[@DaveJohnson-d7i]

Molly is the little sister. Bonnie is the little girl from Toy Story 3

[@good_fats]

Can't wait to see you guys discuss Shrek for the Top 100

[@LadywatchingByrd]

Gaaaaahhh how groundbreaking was SHREK!!??? 🎉❤

[@tonyinc9002]

Let’s cut to the chase - top 10

[@ReverendMeat51]

Shrek 2

[@santos8468]

Woody is the alone. His fellow toys who turn against him is the world.

[@soulresuscitate]

This is how I interpret it. It's about someone who wasn't alone and became alone, trying to fight back into the world, which also required fighting against it.

[@NemoTheDude]

I can see the argument for it being Woody against the world. He's ousted not only by his effective deity (Andy), but by the only community he knows. He only ever gets to re-join the world, as he knows it, when he finds common ground with Buzz, who is also feeling alienated from his own view of the world.

[@LynnHermione]

This movie is so good because on a very real level Toy Story is xenofiction. The toys can be seen as metaphor for many things but they AREN'T any. They aren't exactly friends, or parents, or pets, they are its own kind of being.

[@realPlinkett]

I can't believe you didn't talk about the music! I feel like the music falls often short in your discussions.

[@dougim]

I *still* always laugh at, “Wind the frog!”

[@MitchCyan]

One of the films I can quote every single line.

[@santos8468]

Buzz: Local law enforcement. It's about time you got here.

[@TheJAMF]

Glad I waited till the end, but at 1:03:34 , where does Tim's Galaxy Quest performance rank in relation to the Santa Clause? 🤔

[@jamesnauer6884]

For MVP, the name you are looking for is Ed Catmull (check out his Wikipedia page). He was a computer graphics nerd/genius who co-founded Pixar, and had been relentlessly pursuing the ability to do feature-length computer animation for his entire career.

[@solomonchilds8574]

Think it’s time for a rewatch

[@AlainSTO]

I get how influential this movie is, but I totally would put Monsters Inc. over Toy Story as a Top 100. I was spot on where I thought it would be on the list - 85.

[@RomWei]

Could it be that the "alone against the world" theme is just about the fact that each of these movies were in only one of your three lists, so in a way the person alone against the world is always one of you three?

[@jameyalexander7533]

Buzz is alone against the world, and the world wins when Buzz sees the commercial.

[@matthewpaul6904]

It's funny how (adjusted for inflation) this film cost 2/3 of the average Illumination film budget.

[@dougim]

My daughter was a few months old when I saw this film.

[@mollymauk76]

And they all collectively forgot about Galaxy Quest!

[@pauljensen5699]

Don't forget that Pixar had a time where they were owned by, all companies, General Motors.

[@gildacosta3185]

I just found out that I am a year younger than Clint 😂 explains a lot lol

[@marcplourde4272]

Are you guys going to say that The Santa Clause movies are better than Galaxy Quest? WTH guys? Edit: Good on Michael for the last minute realization!

[@LynnHermione]

The CGI is impressive but the real gold of toy story is the script. The movie could have been made with traditional animation, puppets or live action and it would still have been good. Pocahontas had Mel Gibson as the guy. Not the first Disney movie to cast big actors

[@ReverendMeat51]

WIND THE FROG

[@thelostpawn]

That line and how Woody says “Oh, heeey, Bo.” are always in my head.

[@MrMann0123]

Buzz is alone into the room. Then it is woody, you literally say that they aren't together for most of the film until the end. It is Woody alone for most of it

[@cambraca]

Galaxy Quest!!

[@paulstroud9686]

Andy's mother is alone against the world

[@Ledpooplin55]

Guys, you can just ignore those "actually everything is subective" people in the comments. They're corny. We should all stop tolerating people who think that's an interesting point.

[@thelostpawn]

My kids love Toy Story (2&4yrs)

[@bunny_wilder]

I knew this had to be in, I just fucking knew it

[@christopherlee2515]

The movie is computer animated (alone) all other traditional animated movies (world).

[@tedcook5197]

I'm confused. You guys keep talking about Disney forcing rewrites and such, but Disney bought Pixar in 2006. I don't think Disney was involved at all with Toy Story.

[@tedcook5197]

Ok, Google cleared it up for me. Disney was producer, distributer for Toy Story even though they didn't own Pixar yet.

[@ulicesvilla6995]

I have to ask ...who TF is Dan??

[@DanParkhurst318]

Me.

[@gobbledy]

Hot damn!

[@blinkeminem182]

Can we get your letterboxd names? 😀

[@DanParkhurst318]

I'm sure we'll reveal those at some point in the future...

[@blinkeminem182]

@DanParkhurst318 thank you producer Dan 🙏🏽

[@nikosvault]

Two is better. Three is worse. Four should never have happened.

[@santos8468]

Agreed all the way, but I appreciate the original movie's significant contribution to film history. Plus, it is an entertaining movie. 2 just happens to be so much more entertaining that it can never be surpassed.

[@timy9197]

Oh shut up

[@jam0director]

Spicy take on 3

[@undronenellozaino]

👏👏🙋‍♂