I agree, I’d put the original cars probably near the top of mid-tier Pixar.  Cars 2 is definitely the very bottom of the list, though.  Not sure where to put Cars 3 exactly.  Top of the bottom tier, or bottom of the mid tier?

It’s a shame, though, that whereas previously their stellar movies were far more numerous than their mid-grade, that mid-grade collection is now much larger than the top tier.

I always just assumed Buzz Lightyear was like one of those toy lines that had a cheap cartoon tie-in, like so many in the 1980s. The imagery surrounding him is so cartoonish that it makes no sense that it was based on a somewhat serious Sci-fi flick.

When I was a young teen, I was tantalized by the possibility that we had recovered alien space craft. Then, a single interview with an elderly man who claimed to have examined the Roswell crash in the 1940s (I forget what show it was, but it may have been Unsolved Mysteries) turned me into a skeptic. He mentioned that…

It’s pretty hard to come up with an absolute ranking of Pixar films. I would rather just put them in ranked tiers, rather than trying to decide how Up, Toy Story 1-3, WALL*E, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc. and Cocco hold up against each other.

God, I love that movie.  Never understood why it was mostly ignored for the longest time.

What many younger generations probably don’t understand about Generation X is that we watched a lot of garbage back in the day not because we liked it, but because there’s wasn’t a whole lot on.  Land of the Lost was one of those shows you would watch only if you had absolutely nothing better to do.  We knew it was…

If there’s a list for great foley work, War of the Worlds should be on that too.  The sounds the Martian warships make as the death ray is warming up... can’t unhear it.

Brilliant!  That cross-over practically writes itself.  

Youtube has informed me that the not-Ann woman was played by the soon-to-be wife of Gary Cooper.  Their marriage apparently lasted until his death.

Was this supposed to be based on the novel Shoeless Joe or the movie adaptation? The former is a pretty tedious read unless you’re as enamored with baseball as the author, the latter wisely ditches all the “baseball as religion” crap and makes it mostly a story about Ray Kinsella connecting with his dad. They could…

Richard Williams was the ideal animator to higher for that film.  I have no idea why his animation looks different, but the motion on his characters have a certain distinctive fluidity in their motion that translates very well to inserting them into live action.

If we’re thinking of the same thing, that scene was in every cut of King Kong that I’ve seen since I was a kid in the 70s. Is this where he drops her into the crowd below and her screams sort of blend in with the noise of the police sirens?

I had a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel at one point (RIP, little buddy), and his favorite toy was a stuffed lobster. He would sometimes throw it around a little, but he never ripped it open and always wanted to keep it by him when he rested on his little dog pillow.

I haven’t seen King Kong in decades, but did I miss something that the gorilla was trying to sexually assault Fay Wray’s character?  I remember him treating her more like a dog would act with his favorite toy... maybe not completely gentle at all times, but something he savors and doesn’t want to lose.

This article piqued my curiosity and led me to check what Wikipedia had to say about Grimace... wow, even weirder than I thought. “Evil Grimace” was a thing, apparently:

Sleepwalkers might be the only film I remember seeing in the theater where almost everyone immediately agreed it was absolutely terrible. A lot of “What the hell was that we just saw?”

Even if people cared not one lick about LGBQT issues, they should care about his dismantling of 1st and 5th amendments, as well as the Contracts Clause. People might not like Disney as a corporation, but his retaliatory actions against the company for speaking out against a policy they disagreed with (and the speech…

Speaking of someone who was formerly a “Oh, its THAT guy!” actor, even John C. Reilly shows up in this film.

Chris Gore, who has seen the movie (except the ending) has confirmed that rumor.