I finally saw Toy Story 3
I really should be doing my physics homework. In fact, almost every time I update my journal I should be doing my physics homework. Oh well. Hooray for procrastination!
Anyway, the Blockbuster in our neighborhood unfortunately shut down. Which meant that our family has recently switched over to Netflix. And since my brother has a Nintendo Wii, we can do instant streaming through our TV instead of ordering DVDs in the mail. I honestly didn't mean to put so much product placement in the last three sentences.
Since I was on an exchange to Brittany when my family saw Toy Story 3, I saw it for the first time on Netflix last night. It was -and this is a light way of putting it- rather different than the last two Toy Stories Pixar released. I was especially surprised that it was rated G and yet it was so...grim. The whole plot revolves around the fact that Andy is moving away to college (I'm moving away to college this summer!) and no longer plays with Woody, Buzz, and the rest of his once favorite toys. In short, the toys hop into a donation box going to 'Sunnyside Daycare Center', which turns out to be equivalent to a prison 'owned' by Lotso the strawberry-scented teddy bear and his gang of other punishing minions.
By the description it doesn't sound like it would be too sad of a story, but the children who play with Andy's toys are absolutely brutal and the back-story behind how Lotso ended up at the daycare center (which I won't give away) was equally depressing. There was a scene that was incredibly unchild-friendly when Andy's toys are trying to escape from Sunnyside, but end up being transported to a nearby dump. In this scene the toys are desperately fighting for their lives not to be ground up by blades, or afterwards, thrown into a gigantic furnace to incinerate heaps of ground up trash...(It doesn't end like this, but I can't give away the ending.)
In sum, it was by far the most touching and heartbreaking Toy Story, despite it not being as kid-friendly as the last two. Though there were many dreadful parts, I have to say that it's my favorite of the three because of how sentimental it was. It also really made me think afterwards of what I'm going to have to do with all the stuffed animals I still own once I move out to college. Will I keep them someplace where they will simply collect dust and never be loved and played with again? Or will I give them away to a school or a daycare center knowing how they might 'feel'? I know it's silly, but they must feel something...right?
See you,
Iodine
ps. I honestly felt that TS3 was worthy of an icon in my lovely little journal. lolzipopzz has more of them. Indeed, they're 'groovy' -as Ken would say.
Anyway, the Blockbuster in our neighborhood unfortunately shut down. Which meant that our family has recently switched over to Netflix. And since my brother has a Nintendo Wii, we can do instant streaming through our TV instead of ordering DVDs in the mail. I honestly didn't mean to put so much product placement in the last three sentences.
Since I was on an exchange to Brittany when my family saw Toy Story 3, I saw it for the first time on Netflix last night. It was -and this is a light way of putting it- rather different than the last two Toy Stories Pixar released. I was especially surprised that it was rated G and yet it was so...grim. The whole plot revolves around the fact that Andy is moving away to college (I'm moving away to college this summer!) and no longer plays with Woody, Buzz, and the rest of his once favorite toys. In short, the toys hop into a donation box going to 'Sunnyside Daycare Center', which turns out to be equivalent to a prison 'owned' by Lotso the strawberry-scented teddy bear and his gang of other punishing minions.
By the description it doesn't sound like it would be too sad of a story, but the children who play with Andy's toys are absolutely brutal and the back-story behind how Lotso ended up at the daycare center (which I won't give away) was equally depressing. There was a scene that was incredibly unchild-friendly when Andy's toys are trying to escape from Sunnyside, but end up being transported to a nearby dump. In this scene the toys are desperately fighting for their lives not to be ground up by blades, or afterwards, thrown into a gigantic furnace to incinerate heaps of ground up trash...(It doesn't end like this, but I can't give away the ending.)
In sum, it was by far the most touching and heartbreaking Toy Story, despite it not being as kid-friendly as the last two. Though there were many dreadful parts, I have to say that it's my favorite of the three because of how sentimental it was. It also really made me think afterwards of what I'm going to have to do with all the stuffed animals I still own once I move out to college. Will I keep them someplace where they will simply collect dust and never be loved and played with again? Or will I give them away to a school or a daycare center knowing how they might 'feel'? I know it's silly, but they must feel something...right?
See you,
Iodine
ps. I honestly felt that TS3 was worthy of an icon in my lovely little journal. lolzipopzz has more of them. Indeed, they're 'groovy' -as Ken would say.