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All Toy Story movies are basically documentaries
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This isn't /c/imagemacros
No, this is c/memes. But a screenshot of a comment without any recontextualization isn't a meme.
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I will not have that discussion again.
A meme is an idea or behavior that spreads through a culture.
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If this qualifies as a meme, then literally anything posted here would as well, making the term useless.
I agree that the channel is poorly named.
The /c is for community.
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Wack, the definition I have here is
"Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes."
Of course there are some other definitions, but I'd assume this community intends the most open interpretation otherwise they'd have a more specific one listed in the comm rules
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The idea that a meme must include an image is in itself a meme
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First problem: They paid to go to the theater to see a crappy movie. Any 5th any movie is going to be a rehash.
Second problem: Parents not parenting correctly, resulting in even more brain rot than the 5th movie could do alone.
Any 5th any movie is going to be a rehash.
Have you seen it, or do you even know anything about it? This one's getting solid reviews from critics and audiences. And I say this as someone who's never gotten into the franchise and didn't even watch 4 or 5; I have nothing to personally defend here. The Schafrillas review (also on Nebula) was quite positive, and he went in with the same expectations you're talking about here.
If you're going to be a pretentious, overgeneralizing jackass, maybe don't pick on the movie with a 93%/7.8 on Rotten Tomatoes.
I think people forget a lot of the people who work on it are still super passionate people so it's still gonna be good.
Have you seen it, or do you even know anything about it?
My kids did, said to wait til it's on streaming.
This one's getting solid reviews from critics and audiences. And I say this as someone who's never gotten into the franchise and didn't even watch 4 or 5; I have nothing to personally defend here.
Reviews don't mean much anymore. Too many reviews today are bought and paid for. Box office returns are about the only truth you'll find now a days and the truth is: The general public is getting tired of 'Toy Story'.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Toy-Story
When you convert the numbers to account for inflation, then tie them directly to a chart you quite literally see a downward trend in people going. The entire theme has become banal to some and that number has grown exponentially since Lightyear was released (which was a financial loss btw).
If you're going to be a pretentious, overgeneralizing jackass, maybe don't pick on the movie with a 93%/7.8 on Rotten Tomatoes.
If you don't have anything to personally defend here, then why make direct attacks like this? Doesn't add up.
Are box office returns actually a good indicator or is that just proportional to advertising spend?
Box office returns are quite literally theater ticket sales that can be tracked by county.
Higher levels of returns can correlate to advertising dollars spent for sure, but so can total positive reviews, word of mouth and merchandising.
More details can be found here https://www.slashfilm.com/1627687/how-movie-box-office-actually-works/
Yeah I guess I was just thinking that a movie like Toy Story 5 might have a massive advertising budget and so lots of people might know about it and go and see it. A movie with a smaller advertising budget might be objectively better but sell a lot fewer tickets. So ticket sales might not be much better than reviews to indicate how good a movie is.
case in Dave's point: Avatar
Toy Story 5 is on track to earn $1.2B theatrically worldwide compared to $1B for Toy Story 4. Not sure what downward trend you're talking about, given that movie theatres never fully recovered from the streaming rise + pandemic double whammy.
Incorrect. Sometimes frenchises are revived because someone haa a really neat idea which I think was the case this time. I expected nothing and what I got was a clever, funny and heartwarming movie with a real message. I really recommend giving it a chance, for me it was a lot better than Toy Story 3 and 4.
I saw it with my kiddos. I thought it was pretty good. Better than most movies out there. Smarty Pants is my new favorite character in the series (previously held my Duke Kaboom).
I don't even have kids, and thought it was pretty good. Little heavy handed on the messaging up front, but they really pulled it together at the end of the movie. Solid 7/10 and well worth seeing.
Conan O'Brien personally said that the fifth one is usually the best one.
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What about Lethal Weapon 5
Shit, I didn't even know they had made a Leathal Weapon 3. 1980s stuff right there.
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What kind of idiot takes a toddler to a movie? They're not wired for that yet...
Probably someone who wants to watch toy story 5 in the cinema.
Movie theaters aren't for toddlers, no matter what the movie...
Could be one of those special screenings for parents to bring thier squealing children to 😅
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The same idiots who bring a toddler to the art museum. I can keep myself together when I follow my girlfriend 3 hours walking at the slowest possible pace through a boring ass exhibition; the toddlers, not so much.
But maybe it was an employee and the screams of the child enhance my art experience somehow.
I miss the good ol' days when mass-market TV is what rotted kids' brains. Brain-rotting TikTok slop is totally different from that.
yeah, but those of us who grew up on tv didn't have ubiquitous access to screens either.
I've seen parents pushing toddlers around strapped into a stroller with a tablet mounted on an arm right at the kid's eye level. Even if the kid wanted to stop looking at the tablet, they'd have a hard time. They're basically Ludovico Technique-ing their own kids.
this is what i'm talking about. i watched A LOT of tv, but there were no tablets to shove at me while shopping or traveling. is the portable screens available to or pushed on kids 24-7 that seems fundamentally different to me than what i experienced as a kid.
I grew up in the '70s. My parents limited us to one hour of TV per day, but I had friends who spent nearly every waking hour when they weren't in school parked in front of the television. Like, six to seven hours per day and more on the weekends. The stats back that up, too.
i grew up in the 80s, i was a latchkey kid and i had a tv in my room and in the living room. but there were no screens to hand to me while driving, shopping, attending social or family functions. if i was bored somewhere, my options were to engage, explore, observe, read, or draw.
i think there is something fundamentally different about the relationship cultivated between small people and small, ever - present screens than the large stationary box we had at home.
It definitely seems more... Distilled? Concentrated?
There's also much less opportunity for regulation and a far more rapid response to shifting incentives
yeah, no. tv was a lot better than how fucking tiktok is today.
The short form really fucks people up. Tiktok specially is less important. Reels and youtube shorts both as well
toy stories was suppose to be more adult/teen friendly than kids. actually most og pixar and disney mark tend to be more dark than all the MCU-esque, babiefied crap.
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