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Anyone seen Toy Story 3? Funnily enough, most people in the cinema that watched were adults. I’d say about 70-80% of them were, which is ironic. 😛 Any thoughts on Toy Story 3? Quite a touching movie 😃
 
I don’t think it’s weird at all. Many of the adults there probably saw the first movie as a child and “grew up with Andy” so to speak. I was 11 when the first Toy Story came to theaters (1995). My husband and I saw Toy Story 3 on a date night. 🙂

I cried like a baby. :o
 
MindNight said:
Anyone seen Toy Story 3? Funnily enough, most people in the cinema that watched were adults. I’d say about 70-80% of them were, which is ironic. 😛 Any thoughts on Toy Story 3? Quite a touching movie 😃
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I don’t know about the cinema crowd since I waited for the DVD.

I suspect that many of the adults who watched the third film were still children when the first film came out and many others had brought their (now grown) children to the first film. The story line was compelling enough to bring them back. 🙂
 
I don’t think it’s weird at all. Many of the adults there probably saw the first movie as a child and “grew up with Andy” so to speak. I was 11 when the first Toy Story came to theaters (1995). My husband and I saw Toy Story 3 on a date night.
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I cried like a baby.
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Yeah I sort of grew up with Andy as well, although my mom was already in her mid 40’s when she watched the second one. But yeah, both her and me went with my mom to the cinema when the third came out as well. I was born on 1994, therefore the first one already came out 1992 before I was even born; and so i saw the first two episodes at about 2000-2002.

I think it is very interesting the way they had to wait 11 years till they made the third episode. I guess they did it on purpose, precisely to make it realistic and show Andy’s timeline. It’s very epic to think that time in the story flows along real life’s timeline. Makes things indeed more spicy. 🙂

Oh and for the sidenote: I cried like a baby too, so don’t worry 😉
 
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I don’t think it’s weird at all.
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Of course it’s not weird at all; I just noticed an interesting observation in the fact that one would normally expect a children’s story to appeal to children only. But the thing is though, you’re right, that it seems the characters had human emotions in which only adults/teenagers will be more able to understand. Also, considering the fact that most children under 10 would not understand some of the toys’ sarcasm, so I’d say this film does indeed appeal to older as well :).
 
My son was Andy’s age in toy story 1 when it came out. He loved that movie and i’d be embarrassed to admit how many times he watched it when we bought the vhs/dvd . When number 3 came out, he was also Andy’s age. In other words, my son was heading off to college that same fall. We planned a mother / son date to see the movie together and to say I sobbed is an understatement! But then again, my son also cried! After seeing it with me, he went with a group of guy friends who were sentimental about the movie also. It’s up there with some of the classic sports movies where males in my son’s age bracket can admit to being teary eyed watching a movie. Love love that movie.

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admit to being teary eyed watching a movie. Love love that movie.
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I can totally relate to that. My mom was literally crying her tears out when Andy’s mom gave him the last hug before he left. I will be graduating myself in a year, therefore it reminded her how time flies. 🙂 Also, for some reason I felt deep sympathy for the purple bear (forgot his name). I mean, when I found out how he was abandoned and how this lack of love made him turn into a merciless bear. It’s like you know he was being a very evil bear, but at the same time knowing what really hapenned to him, you sort of feel sorry for him, especially in the end when he refused to help woody (you know at that point that he chose to remain “loveless”). Kind of sad though :(, but meh, why am I crying over a fictionous character :D. The powers of those characters is amazing! 😉
 
I secretly shed man-tears during several parts of the movie.

Often times whenever they pick up on a franchise after many years of pause, the next movie is a disappointment, but Toy Story 3 was the best of the them IMO.
 
I haven’t seen it. I’m not really that big a fan of Toy Story. My wife and kids saw it and their reaction was, “meh. It was o.k.” But I get the gist of the storyline.

This picture really hit me, though, because at the time I saw it my 7 year old son had been immersed in “Calvin & Hobbes” for months. It’s fairly recent.
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