Title: IT JUST GOT REAL
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Title: IT JUST GOT REAL
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Title: IT JUST GOT REAL
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My theory is that Woody simply forgot he was based on a TV show after all that time. At the garage sale Andy’s mom says that Woody is an old family toy so he’s obviously been around for a long time. Plus, maybe once a toy comes to life it is like being born. How well do you remember the hospital where you were born? Following this theory, in 40 years or so Buzz would also forget he was based on a TV show.
I hope (hope!) that they’ll begin the third movie by explaining exactly this stuff about Woody – old home-movie style about how he was first gifted to a kid in the 50s, that kid grew up, but kept Woody, passing him down to his own son, Andy. Sort of how they did with Jesse in the second movie. This would put Woody into perspective, having gone through this before. And it could solidly establish his expectations about what should be happening to him now that Andy’s growing up, before showing us how naive he is about how kids really treat their toys. No matter how they handle this topic in the movie, though, I’m sure it’s gonna have me crying from the opening scene on through the end credits.
I aint gonna lie, I thought of the same things. Then I remembered that it’s a Disney kids movie, not Star Wars or LOTR. It doesn’t need a full set of lore. 😛
but what about the toy soldiers? they live in the same world (andy’s room) with the others, yet they have the militaristic mentality ingrained into them. are they just filling a void? would some of them rather be poets or chefs?
Interesting problem you had at your theater. Our chain decided not to do things the way Disney asked us to. We don’t have the Pixar filler material between the two movies, and the intermissions are of different lengths (not 5 or 10 minutes, the way Disney designed them.)
You should have gone to one of the managers and asked if you could come back the next day to watch Toy Story 1, or if there was some other remedy. Our chain has told us to be flexible with things.
And with the Toy Story 3 sequel, I don’t remember the toys mentioning that they were going back to Andy, just that they were going to escape the day care. Did I miss something while I was paying attention to the Flamenco Dancing Buzz Lightyear?
-Edly
I guess that should have been “Toy Story 3 Trailer,” not “Sequel.”
-Edly
You should consider looking into a RAID 1 array for your backup needs. When you align 2 hard drives in RAID 1, they automatically mirror their data. If one drive crashes, you put in a new drive, it auto-mirrors, and all that you lost was the cost of the hard drive.
Fiber,
People keep mentioning RAID 1 to me and I have no idea how to set one up. I need someone to walk me through it or point me to a respectable tutorial.
The theater we went to sold it as the Toy Story Double Feature, not each movie separately. The tickets were a little less than 2 single tickets, I think like $12. It turns out the kids weren’t even the most annoying part, it was the teenagers sitting in the front row texting with their bright as the sun cell phones. Maybe this is just me being an old man but if they’re just going to text the whole time why sit in the front row? Why come to the movie at all?
I saw Toy Story 3D earlier today, and I spent some time thinking about the mechanics of toy animation. I’m going to sound really creepy now, but if the toys can move in ways they were clearly not built for – facial expressions, for example – then how else do they differ from the way they were produced? Woody has a relationship with Bo Peep, and she leaves lipstick marks on his face that she shouldn’t… can they actually consummate that relationship? Sorry, I’m not usually so creepy, that’s just the question that I asked while watching.
I was going to say something about toys being animated by their relationship with owners, but then the toys in the store came to life too… Hmm.. Every toy has the instinct to shut down when humans are around, so maybe that’s also a defence mechanism? When the toys were boxed up to be shipped to the new house, they only started moving and talking when Woody opened the box, even though there were no humans around. Perhaps their sentience is dependent on interaction with outside forces, so if they’re packed away in storage they’ll stay in stasis and not experience anything until they are – if ever – woken up.
Just got back from seeing the double feature. My theater had an 11 AM screening and with no classes for the rest of the day, I couldn’t pass it up. It worked out well, since the theater was all but deserted. As expected the movies were as good as I remember them (Jessie’s song still makes me cry), though I admit the 3D didn’t wow me very much. Sometimes it was good (Buzz’s game at the opening of 2 in particular), but most of the time I barely noticed it.
Still, two great movies, and at a mere 9 bucks I couldn’t say no. The biggest downside of being at this empty showing is that the between-movie trivia thing didn’t happen. Oh well, some other double feature.
I try not to think too hard about the specifics of how the Toys are what they are and do what they do. Tends to give me a headache. One thought I’ve got, though, is that when they’ve found their place with a kid who loves them, they develop the personalities they have now. They started out like Buzz did, thinking they were real, but as time goes on that part of their lives slips away. It shows in 2 when Buzz meets the other Buzz, and he can’t believe it. I realize this scene is more embarrassment on his part than actual memory loss, but taking it more literally I think it works.
Or maybe not. Like I said, I tend not to think too hard about it.
To reply to Shawn’s comment about the toy soldiers, I think it comes from the size, complexity, and type of the toy itself. Look at Rex- He is a dinosaur through and through, albiet a whimpy one, but still a dinosaur. Etch isn’t anything but an Etch-a-sketch, so i believe that the toy soldiers are doing what they do. Besides, they could also be rather new like Buzz.
And Tom, I actually thought the same thing when i saw Toy Story 2 about how he doesnt act like buzz did. I think that the buzz phenomenon is actually strictly a buzz lightyear occurrance, kind of in the vein of “small soldiers” since he has a computer chip in him (to control the sounds, but still a computer chip) he might have that ingrained in him. And I believe Woody is really a product of all his “kids” that he’s been with, and seeing as he seems to have alot of experience being a toy, its safe to say he probably has more memories of his time being with Andy and the kids before Andy and doesnt focus on what he was like before he met his first kid.
I saw the Toy Story double feature on Monday and my heart melted all over again for those movies. I will say that the “exclusive content” in between the movies was a little disappointing. It was basically a whole lot of nothing – just the characters running around. Nothing that was really worthwhile. And it was a little tough to stay focused for such a long time. I was really into the first one, but by the time we go halfway through the second movie, I felt my patience starting to fail me. And this is from a guy in law school who has had to sit through reading the most boring Supreme Court cases in the world.
All that said, seeing these movies in the theater once again was a real treat, and I would strongly encourage everyone to see them in the theater while they can.
http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/RAID.htm
This seems to be a fairly easy to follow tutorial on setting up a RAID array. RAID isn’t necessarily a replacement for backup of your major files, because a corruption would be copied to both drives. However, in a professional setting, such as the one you have, the RAID setup would give you little to no downtime.
A few things: It’s got a bit of technical stuff, so it’s not the EASIEST thing in the world, but it’s not too bad. You have to buy redundant hard drives and a RAID controller (unless you have a fancy motherboard that supports it.)
You can gain similar backup abilities through something like Norton Ghost or another similar drive imaging/full drive backup software (it would just be slower, but you could do it at night or something.)
As far as Hardware crashes go, RAID 1 is the most effective way to deal with them. Ultimately, it’s a preference choice, and I’m sorry if you’re a MAC user, I may be able to find you a tutorial for that too.
Yeah, I’m not sure how you’re backing up now but online storage might get expensive.
I have an external drive (someone like you could have 2+ though) with 2 partitions, one that is the size of my hdd, and one that takes up the remaining space. I make nightly backups of modified files on the second, and maybe monthly (maybe) I clone an image onto the first.
I’ve heard of Norton Ghost. I might have to keep that one in mind.
For online storage, I was thinking about Mozy. It’s $4.95 for unlimited storage and I think if you sign up for the year, you get 3 months free.
Tom, a goo site that i use to back up my stuff online is carbonite (www.carbonite.com). It’s $55 for the year, and very easy to use.
Yes, but Carbonite is good for long-term storage of Corelian Smugglers as well as backing up files! (Just ask Jabba the Hutt.) 🙂