oliver9184

Pixar have made ten feature length films now. It seems almost everyone loves Pixar but I want to find out what's the most popular of their films.

SSJTWIZTA

I voted for Wall-E. ♥Robot love story, awwwhhh.♥

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Jetée

I've only seen 40% of them, then, so, I feel inclined not to vote at all, due to my relative ignorance of the entire "full-length" compendium.

My favorite Pixar short, however, is Knick Knack.

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sapiens

My favorite is The Incredibles. Comic book heroes, lots of entertaining lines, and a decent heroine:

snowy

It's like asking me to choose a favorite child. I'm really torn. There's a tie between A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and Up. I really like Wall-E, but it depresses me too much to be a favorite.

Thinking about it...I own a lot of these on DVD, and not being a big movie person, that says a lot.

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ratbastid

I'm torn between Wall-E and UP!. I voted Wall-E, but I really could have gone either way.

Baraka_Guru

Tough call between Ratatouille, Up, the Incredibles, and Monsters, Inc. But I found the last one the most memorable and charming.

For the record, I haven't seen Wall-E or Cars.

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Willravel

The first 12 or so minutes of Up! totally got to me. It was very simple and used a very old story, but the execution was superb. It was sweet, endearing and heartbreaking. I enjoyed the rest of the movie, but had it ended just as his wife passed away, I still would have been happy that I'd been entertained.

Meditrina

It was too hard to chose. But I ended up picking Ratatouille. Maybe because it was the most recent one I saw. As I saw each of them, I thought they were good. Although, I have not seen Up yet.

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Redlemon

My wife gave me for my birthday. I would have voted for it had it been a choice. (With the exception of the short Boundin', Pixar can do no wrong.)

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Jetée

That's an exceptional DVD collection.

personal gripe:
It's too bad YouTube is all corporate since the 2006(?) acquisition, 'cause my original playlist of "The 13 Best Pixar Animated Shorts" (ranked) is all tattered and riddled with holes now, leaving only 4 of the videos intact and working still. No use sharing it until I get it updated again (if that's possible).

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I haven't seen Cars, Wall-E or Up yet, so I was a bit torn between Ratatouille and Finding Nemo.

I really like Nemo.

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Up, without question Up. That movie was pure poetry, far surpassing any of their previous efforts. I would be very surprised if they top it at any point in the near future, but you never know.

Fremen

I would've chosen Up or Wall-E (both were fantastic) but they were too depressing for me to list them at the top.
I chose The Incredibles, instead. An all around great story.

Btw, Redlemon, what didn't you like about Boundin'?
I thought it was kinda cute and goofy.

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Magpie_1

Ha ha I feel the same way about Boundin. I received the Short Film Collection last Christmas. I would have voted for that collection as well if we had the chance.

However given the options I chose Monsters Inc. Granted I do have some inside jokes regarding that movie with my best friend. That's probably what swayed me to choose it. Far to many fond memories.

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oliver9184

I would never have expected Monsters Inc to take the lead!

This is my order, best to worst:

A Bug's Life
Ratatouille
Wall-E
Finding Nemo
Up
Monsters Inc
Toy Story 2
Toy Story
The Incredibles
Cars

Analysis: I need to see Monsters Inc again and I've had serious reservations about both Toy Storys since they came out but having watched the Toy Story 3 trailer I think I might at last warm to them. I think they and Toy Story 3 will fit between Up and Wall-E somewhere in the chart. I think Pixar generally do better avoiding human characters (and cars for that matter) which is part of why I disliked The Incredibles - that and because I was never into comics and superheros as a child - but I can appreciate its qualities as a film. I feel like I should like Finding Nemo more than I do - on paper and in theory it's absolutely perfect and Albert Brooks does wonderful work as Marlin but something's lacking and I still don't know what after four or five viewings. Maybe it's that fish are inherently not very identifiable - though they are, of course, easier to identify with than cars. (CARS!) Wall-E is sort of the opposite of Nemo - something that shouldn't really work at all in theory but absolutely and inexplicably does. The first act is flabbergasting. Were the whole film to live up to the first 40 minutes Wall-E would be at the top of the list - as it is, it's still very good but all the about on board the Axiom gets slightly tiresome. Similarly, Up impressed massively with its opening but then got silly - all those talking dogs came close to ruining it for me.

ratbastid

They're cartoons. Do you have a problem with a wisecracking bunny or a beep-beeping road runner? In the talking dog's defense--anyone who has ever had a dog pretty much HAS to adore Doug. He's the quintessential dog. I heard half a dozen people walk out of the theater saying that Doug had to have been written based on their own dog.

I liked "Presto" a LOT. Whoever wrote that had obviously played a lot of Portal first.

I agree about Cars. It was obviously written to appeal to five year old boys. And every five year old boy I know is completely nuts about it, so there you go.

CinnamonGirl

I've only seen six of the ten (I have some catching up to do!) but out of the six I've seen, Monsters, Inc is my favorite. Maybe because my nickname is Boo... maybe because I love the idea of whole other world to be had by going through my closet (I do, after all, reread the entire Narnia series at least once a year, sometimes more.)

Toy Story is a close second, though.

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Not Up, that's for damn sure. Wow that was depressing.

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Pearl Trade

The last really good movie they made was The Incredibles. From Cars to Up, they haven't really matched the quality of the first 6 movies. Not saying they're terrible, but they're just not that same. Naw I'm sayin?

With that said, the first Toy Story was the best.

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Wall-E is the best, but I haven't seen Up. I'd put The Incredibles in 2nd. Haven't seen Ratatouille either.

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Incredibles, definitely. It was a great superhero movie, a great family movie, a great social critique, and didn't take itself too seriously. Plus, once I got the DVD set, the extras gave it unmatchable first place. Seriously, the Mr. Incredible and Frozone short cartoon episode, with the two characters' commentary, made me laugh so hard I fell off my sofa.

That said, I haven't seen Wall-E or Cars or Up. I have no interest at all in the first two, and I wouldn't have been so interested in the last, except my wife just saw it last week, and now she won't stop talking about it. She just purchased it because apparently "we have to have it in our house." So I presume I'll be seeing it soon....

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I voted Monsters Inc.
Just something about Sulley that I just love.

Didn't really like Cars. It felt more pop culture-ish than any of the other pixar films. I blame Larry the Cable guy.

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I would have said Incredibles up until last year. Hell as a superhero fan The Incredibles was the movie made for me. Then Up came out.

It was the best all round movie Pixar's ever made.

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Cars. Vroom.



Haven't seen "Up" yet.

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Redjake

Up is really sad. Good movie, but very sad for a Pixar movie. Ratatouille was pretty good also. I think my favorite is Toy Story 2, but it's been a while since I've seen it - I may have picked another choice if I had seen it more recently.

Haven't seen Wall-E either, but I'm told it's the best.

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You're married? Belated mozeltoff!

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Yes, I am now married; thanks, man!

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ironpham

I see Monsters Inc. is winning. My ex liked that movie too, but I never really thought it was interesting.

Finding Nemo would be my favorite.

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I fucking love Bug's Life. That movie has the best characters ever in it.

Ratatouille comes in a close second, though. Perhaps, because of my cooking experience.
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Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, but wasn't Bolt also a Pixar flick?

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Redlemon

Pixar shorts should have no dialog*. There's a certain purity to that style. Boundin' felt like anyone could have done it.

* There is an exception for the "continuation of existing story" Pixar shorts, such as "Mike's New Car" and "Jack Jack Attack".
No, it was Walt Disney Animation Studios. However, in 2006, John Lasseter (one of the main Pixar dudes) came in and shook things up at WDAS, so you'll get a bit of the same feel for story and attention to detail.

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crow_daw

They're all so well-done. That is the most amazing thing about Pixar to me: the consistency is mind-boggling. I still haven't seen Up (it's near the top of my Netflix queue), but I have seen the rest and for my money, Finding Nemo still ranks as the best, followed closely by Cars. But again, you can't go wrong with Pixar.

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Toy Story. We own all of those movies except Toy Story 2; I've seen the rest multiple times and still find Toy Story very watchable, even though I've seen it at least 20 times (it played for three months at the single screen theater I worked at when I was 18). A Bug's Life is a close second. I was not impressed with Up.

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Canine

A Bug's Life, without a doubt, even though it was sort of a ripoff of Antz,

Wall-E, Up, and Cars I haven't seen

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Punk.of.Ages

Didn't "A Bug's Life" and "Antz" come out at, like, the exact same time?

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Jetée

Similarly, like within a month of each other: Antz (Oct of '98) and A Bug's Life (Nov of '98)
I liked both of them.



But, it's not as annoying, at least to me, as knowing that around 6-9 films with the same titles deciding to market, advertise, and release jumbled together:
Up and Up in the Air
9 and Nine and District 9.
Avatar and Avatar: The Last Airbender

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SSJTWIZTA

i just watched Up!

i enjoyed that movie a great deal. im still not sure if a prefer it over Wall-E though. tough decision.

..on a separate but still related note, a comic:

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Mync

Come on Toy Story!! You got a friend in me!

PulpMind

It's really frustrating and unfortunate for this survey that so many people are saying "TOTALLY movieX. without a doubt the best pixar movie of all time!... but I haven't seen Wall-E or Up yet"

I voted for Up.
As stated before, the first 30 minutes of the movie are some of the most moving in cinema. Not just in cgi, but in recent memory. True the movie is really heavy, but the way it deals with it, the lessons it shows the viewer, wow, that's what really makes Up stand above. For how good so every Pixar film is, Up is the only one that has left me walking away from the theater feeling like a better person for watching it.
My only gripe with it is all the crap the old man litters on the 'falls.