A super important discussion.

[mauve]

Name the best Pixar film of all time.






Take your time; think it over. I'll wait.








Time's up. Your answer is wrong unless you picked Up.

Up is the best Pixar film of all time.

Prove me wrong, assholes. I dare you.

[Overcast]

Cars 2

Nah I kid, but hmm. Yeah I'll probably say Up too, a lot of folks have said it decided to do the Pixar fuck all your emotions scene from the very start, but that is part of the whole ultimately. It begins already deep in your shit to lead you down the path of the rest of the movie. You start it as the viewer as a sad jaded old man.

Pretty good.

[rpgdemon]

Wait do you guys not understand the meaning of best vs worst?

Because Up is the worst.

[mauve]

Lies and slander, sir! Lies and slander (or libel, technically, but whatevs)! Up is only the worst at NOT making you cry. Actually no, Toy Story 3 is the worst at not making people cry. So Up is the worst at NOTHING.

Anyway, worst Pixar movie is Cars 2.

[Marc v4.0]

Up

[RickZarber]

I would have said Up, but only before I saw Inside Out.

[Flarecobra]

All of them.

Pixar doesn't make not-best films.

[Amake]

Well, Brave is triple best. It's the movie about Merida's quest, the movie about the funny absurdly beautiful pseudo-medieval highlands world and the movie about Merida's hair all in one, compared to most movies that are just one movie at a time, and each of those three are Pixar quality, so.

[rpgdemon]

Also, the answer is obviously The Incredibles.

[phil_]

The only Pixar movie I've watched more than once is The Incredibles. Therefore, by subscribing to behaviorist theories, I can shirk my moral duty to rationally analyze my preferences and instead put the blame on "Father of MMOs" Skinner and "Pit of Despair" Harlow and put another vote towards The Incredibles.

A major weakness to this approach is that, if applied to movies as a whole, it makes either Cinderella or The Care Bears Movie the best movie of all. I'm not sure which only because I was too young during the majority of viewings to make an accurate count. They definitely stand head and shoulders above all other competitors save possibly The Rescuers Down Under, however.

[tacticslion]

Dang it.

Well, Up is amazing. So is Wall-E. And The Incredibles. Cars (much better than most people credit, though it's not "the best"?). Inside Out. The three Toy Story films.

Monsters, Inc. was a really good film that was pleasant, if a tad on the trite side in its ending (but in a good way). Finding Nemo is a phenomenal film that I appreciate as a father in ways that both delight and horrify me (like American Tail does these days).

Cars 2 is actually... really great. I get why it gets flak, but it's a solid film. Brave was great, but it suffered from tonal issues: mostly the trailers sold me a different genre than I ended up seeing, making it less awesome than it deserves. Rattatoui (sorry for the spelling, I'm on a phone that hates every variant) is a shockingly mature film, dealing with family issues, social acceptance, romance, internal politics, children from wedlock, morality, and death, pretty bluntly.

Monsters U. was a pretty fun romp.

The Good Dinosaur had some amaaaaaaazing visuals, solid music, and a powerfully empathetic and understandably flawed father figure... but it felt disoriented and unsure of its final direction or reasoning; and I'd literally seen the whole movie before, more than once (except for those T-Rexes; those surprised me in a good way). A Bug's Life was a fine film, but too "tidy" and trite to be as much of a classic as others, despite my enjoyment.

As I'm going from memory, those are the film's I can recall while sick at present, and the "tiers" of films I'd put them in, rather than exact order. (Though Nemo should probably be one higher - it's just a pain to edit on this phone).

I will say this: I am in love with Up (and my son) to have watched it dozens of times, intimately know many of its mistakes and failures (and there are quite a few) and still rank it among the top films in the bunch. It is a powerful and excellent film that understands people. The love story is perfect, and, frankly, I look up to Carl in many ways - I am unsure if I'd have the fortitude or will to live beyond my wife, even if our relative genetics allowed for it. Also, Up (and Cars) is one of my go-to examples when I show people that Pixar films are not "children" films, but are instead "child-friendly-disguised, but fully adult films" - because daaaaaaaagggyyuuuuuuuuuuum.

[Aerozord]

Most of what people consider the best I haven't seen. Pixar movies are actually really hard to come by post release because Disney just loves their false scarcity marketing.

But out of those I've seen... probably Wall-E. I just love its approach to the robot apocalypse just being, they do their job so well we just get really lazy and cant be bothered to think for ourselves anymore. Which is probably the most realistic version of the idea.

Incredibles would probably be the best... if I ever saw the entire movie. I just caught parts of it on TV so I cant fairly judge it.

[Bum Bill Bee]

Finding Nemo, because of the color, music and emotional depth.

[mauve]

Nemo is also an acceptable choice.

I can admit Wall-E w as a good Pixar film, even though I personally didn't care much for it. It took a lot of guts for Pixar to make a kid's movie with that kind of message about society, especially with Disney watching over their shoulder. Animation was beautiful, to boot. I just personally didn't care for it as much as the others. I found it too depressing.