EP.41 Pixar Movies

In this episode of the Newbies To Movies Podcast, hosts Justin and Tyler are joined by special guest Madison for a deep dive into the emotional landscapes of Pixar’s Soul and Coco, analyzing how both films tackle profound themes of life, death, and legacy. Following a thoughtful discussion on the artistry and storytelling of these two films, the team moves into a lively debate to rank their top 20 Pixar movies, contrasting classic adventures with modern hits to determine the definitive ranking of the studio's best work

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:13

Hello, hello. Welcome to newbies to movies. I'm Tyler and I'm Justin. This is a podcast where you like to talk about new movies that we haven't watched with this week's theme being Pixar. And we brought on this week a Pixar expert and herself, a two-time guest already, but third time the charm, Madison. Welcome back.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Hello.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Welcome back to the podcast. She's like the third wheel behind this podcast, doing stuff behind the scenes, creating all the graphics that you see on Instagram and all that. And last time we thanked her, but we'd like to thank you again for it, for all the help that you do with us and all the setup and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

Awesome. So I'll like to start this podcast off with stuff that we've watched this week, either with this theme or something away from this theme. So, Justin, if you want to go first.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

I haven't been watching much else besides the Pixar movies this week. Um, talked about last week how I finished got started with Euphoria. Um, that's been going good. I need to get to finishing Daredevil Born Again. Um, it's getting pretty live right now. Um, I have a feeling if it follows what the comics are based on for this comic book run, I think it's gonna get really interesting here these last two episodes. But yeah, trying to finish that up. Awesome. Yeah, what about you, Madison?

SPEAKER_03 1:28

I've just been watching like a lot of Pixar movies. I watched Post War 2, Incredible, Soul, Coco, Ilio, Luca, just a bunch of Pixar movies.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

A lot of the newer ones, it seems like that you were focusing on.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

Um, yeah. And I saw I mean not this week, but I saw Hopper's last month.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Okay. Yeah, this week I've been on uh I would say a Pixar grind of sort sorts. I watched a lot of old ones. I watched like Toy Story 3, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 2, Toy Story. Um, I don't know why I said them in the opposite direction, but I saw those ones. I saw Finding Nemo, I saw Bug's Life, just because I wanted to rewatch them. But yeah, but I watched two new ones that I hadn't seen before on top of the two or new ones this week, being Hopper's and Turning Red. I really enjoyed both of them. I like Turning Red a bit better personally. Um I thought the story was a little bit more original for me. I thought Hoppers was funny at parts, but with like all the hype around it, people saying, oh, dude, this is also meant for adults. It wasn't that funny to me compared to a lot of other Pixar films. I don't know. For me, it kind of missed on that hype for it, I guess. I was looking forward to like the meme of the lizard going, lizard, lizard, lizard. And it wasn't until like the end of the movie. So I was I was really hoping that was like a just throughout the film because I think that's so funny. It's just a lizard thing. Turning red, I actually really like though, like the Asian culture piece of it all, and then the red panda. Actually, like thought right away, I was like, I'm gonna probably hate this film, but I actually really liked it. Awesome. So yeah, this week's theme is Pixar, one of the biggest uh animation studios, is now owned by Disney, but first started off as its own company, and then being, as Madison told me right before this, being bought by Steve Jobs in 1986, and then from there we kind of became an animation studio, created some movies like Toy Story first, and then it was started collabing during Toy Story 2 for with Disney, and then Disney straight up bought it out in 2006, and since then it's been doing like two movies a year, it seems like, since then, and it's now up to 30 films um just within like the Toy Story, like or the Pixar like family itself. So, yeah, what do what do you guys think of Pixar as your first like thought?

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Yeah, I mean, obviously, we were just lucky enough to be born at the right time to you know grow up with these movies. I don't know about you guys. Mine growing up was always Toy Story. Uh, had a buzzlight your theme room, you know, all the toys. Also, Moss Monsters Inc. was a huge one as well. Just being able to grow up with them, I think they mean so much to me as such an iconic part of my childhood. And watching these back definitely makes me feel very nostalgic about it all. What about you, Madison?

SPEAKER_03 4:02

I enjoy Pixar movies a lot. They're ones that I constantly have on and watch all the time. Like Justin said, like we grew up with them, so it's kind of just like like a part of us and a part of our childhood and like what we know. But I I just like the stories, and there's always like new stories to be told, and I really like that about them.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Yeah. I I agree with both parts where I really enjoy Pixar films, probably more than any other animation studio. For one, I think the animation of itself is really well done, where like some other studios just don't look as good as Pixar movies. You see the images from Toy Story One compared to like Toy Story Four, and you're just like, wow, this is like insane the difference of like how defined characters are. So I think Pixar is really known for really good animation, but then also like crucial themes in the movie that try to teach kids more than just some animation studios just try to give you like slop of a of a plot and just have a fun time and like nothing to pull out of it. I think Pixar is really good at like putting themes within each of their movies to pull out from it. But I think when we we're gonna do a rankings of the top 20 Pixar movies at the end, and I think a lot of like our personal bias towards some of these like movies that we watch as kids, more so than others, is definitely gonna come out when it comes to the top 10, I think. But this week we did Soul and Coco, two newer Pixar movies, I would say. I hadn't seen either of them, and I really wanted to check them out. But first we're gonna start with Soul. So, Justin, if you want to get started.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Yeah, I was uh really excited to get Tyler to watch this one. I think this one is definitely one of Pixar's deeper movies. Definitely connect connects a lot more with adults, I think, than most Pixar movies would. But with the plot, I gave it a nine, kind of the plot in the script. I gave it a nine. Soul follows Joe Gardner. He's a middle school band teacher, and his dream has always been playing jazz professionally. And you know, right after he finally gets his major gig, he um passes away. He falls into a hole and dies, and his soul gets separated from his body, ending up in the the great before is what they call it. And he mentors the 22nd soul ever to try to get her to find her spark. And while also trying to get back to his own life, he's kind of using her to try to get back there. Overall, with this plot, this script, I think it was uh really well done, really interesting outlook on you know life and kind of how that's told. Um, but what'd you guys think about it?

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Yeah, for me, I really enjoy the story as well. It's interesting that you say it's really deep, where I felt like the deep part of the film was mainly just the last 20 minutes. I feel like before that it was a very like just m like any other children's animated movie to where like there will you could kind of see something because like at the end of the day, it's about souls, right? So like yeah, you could drive kind of draw like the deepness kind of from that. But the last 20 minutes definitely like wrapped it all up and it's probably like the best pick like what Pixar is really good at was like the last 20 minutes of this film.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

For me, this movie, like the script or the plot, I think it does hit a little bit different than other Pixar movies, and just because I think the meaning behind it and where his story goes, it's more about I feel like passion and purpose rather than just passion, because he's realizing life isn't necessarily just about your passions, it's also about your purpose. And we see that throughout the movie and him working with 22 and him discovering like life is just you don't necessarily have to have a spark. It's more so like your willingness and to live and things like that. Like I feel like more of his we see his perspective changing.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Don't mind that, just a little dog barking.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Yeah. No, I get I get what she's getting at too. Um, it's really, really neat to show kind of how you know his his spark, what he thinks is his spark, ends up just kind of being his purpose. All right, yep. Picking up with uh the characters, I thought the characters were pretty good in this story. Obviously, we have Joe Gardner and 22 being the main characters of this film, played by Jamie Foxx and Tina Faye. I think a lot of the side characters in this film are mainly there as plot devices, right, to kind of guide Joe and 22 on their journey. But overall, I gave it an eight. I thought the characters were done pretty well in this story.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

Yeah, the characters for me, a lot of Pixar movies they mainly focus just on like the main character itself. It's kind of different than normal films where like you can kind of see one admissional, but animation is there some of them are just trying to bring in one-liner comedy beats bits to it, or like they're like villains kind of pieces to it. For this, there's like no soul villain. Um, there's like the one of the one of the workers of the soul world that like goes through and travels through trying to get him and then accidentally like traumatizes the one dude for his rest of his life. Right after Joe Gardner cooks him in the in the barber shop, or 22 cooks him, and then he just gets traumatized right afterwards, and I was like, dude, that's a horrible day for that guy. Like he's just never gonna recover from that ever. But yeah, I like the characters.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

I like the characters as well. I really like 22 because like like her soul, she just like hates everything. She's like, What why do I have to do any of this? Like, what's the point of going up like down to earth and things like that? And I think Joe is really neat as well and like watching him progress throughout like the movie. We see him, he's kind of like lonely, but he thinks like his life is like he's like just living a typical life and trying to find you know his passion. He's a part-time music teacher, but he really wants to be like in a band, a jazz band, and like that's what he thinks his like purpose is. Um I think it was really interesting to see like the characters interact in the barber shop because we kind of got to see like a different perspective of his life too. He's like, Oh, I always talk about jazz with him, and then at the end he was like, Well, you'll never want to talk about jazz, that's why we never talk about anything else. So I think I really liked the characters in this movie and how they develop and things like that.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Yeah, shout out to the barber. Uh he was probably my favorite side character just because I think it was really cool to see like that depicted as it is like the barber culture itself as a part of like black culture itself, and seeing it demonstrated in a Pixar film was cool for the first time. And seeing how like the barbers are just taught and like part of their job is just like directing the conversation whatever the way their customer wants to go. So he was never gonna try to wanting him to question him about his life, but rather 22 was just interested because that's just who she is, like interested about what he wanted to be and all that, and uh seeing the different purposes of someone's life.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Yeah, uh I think Angelina Basset as uh Dorothea Williams was pretty good too, um, kind of being a symbol of everything that Joe's always wanted, just for him to realize that you know it was a lot greater in his head than him actually doing it, which was uh interesting. But getting into animation style, I gave it an eight. I thought uh the animation was really well done, you know, contrasted like a photorealistic uh world with uh very textured and kind of warm lit design, um, which was neat to me. I also did some digging, kind of built the characters based off NASA's arrow gel. It was, I don't know if you guys know what that is, but it's kind of like a 2D gel, but it has like a 3D form, which was kind of interesting a way to look at it. I never would have thought anything like that would be part of animation, but neat to neat to see.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Yeah. No, the characters themselves, like once they pull out of his body, it was quite interesting, like the concept of how they built them and like, oh, like the souls are like not touchable because like they're just like having buildings follow them and all that, and then they go back into their I I mean Pixar is really just known for having really good animation, and like this is just another really good animated movie. I don't know how else to put it.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

I think this animation style is definitely I think you can see that it's like a a newer Pixar like animation style rather than like some of their older work, because this one came out in 2020. I think you could definitely through then you can kind of see like a shift to their newer animation styles, like it's more clean cut, brighter, things like that, which I really liked. I think this movie does a good job of like using color and outlining things like that.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Yeah. And then getting into dialogue, I gave it a 10. I thought this movie was super quotable. My favorite line is uh towards the end when you know Joe's kind of getting his second chance at life and she's kind of asking him, you know, what are you gonna do? And Joe says, you know, I'm not sure, but what I do know is I'm gonna live every minute of it. Um I just thought that was so important to his character arc, you know, taking advantage for the time that he has rather than focusing on, you know, his passion and what he wants to do all the time and kind of letting life slip by him. I think that was really important to his character and a really great quote.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

Yeah, there's two things I want to point out with the uh I mess with this team all the time and then it being the Knicks. I thought was one of the funnier lines. But the Knicks just won a playoff series, so we'll see if uh if uh the souls are still messing with them, the 22 still messing with them out there. But another thing I want to point out is this movie reminds me a lot of the movie about time, about just enjoying the little parts of life that sometimes you you're like, oh dude, this is annoying, this is annoying, but then taking a step back and enjoying that like life is what it is, even the small minute details of it can be enjoyable from the fact that you're just living in it and being able to smell, being able to see, being able to eat food and taste, like just small stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 13:18

Yeah, I think the the dialogue was good. I think too, there definitely was parts that were like a lot, I guess to me, like deeper. They had like a deeper meaning. But there was still like casual conversations and humor to it, just like there was any pictures of every anyways. But like I said, I think the dialogue was good. You get you hit different parts percent things like that.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

For world building, a little bit of a newer one here, kind of going off of what we would call the set design in a typical movie, I guess. I thought it was very highly imaginative. Obviously, you know, New York looked really, really good. Um, I think that was well done, but also, you know, the great before was done really interestingly. Obviously, you have all these different subsections of kind of where they send kids to kind of build their personality traits, which is really interesting. Um, and you know, kind of look like a dream world. I thought it looked very, very neat and very uh interesting to design in that like kind of metaphysical realm. I gave it a 10 in that that that aspect.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Yeah. Um, we decided to do this, like this new category of real world building just to go with animated films because set design, world building is kind of like similar thing, but world building is more so like how the world itself is set in for the animated film. And for soul itself, I thought was like you said, highly imaginative, but I think it's super creative, like the way that they created that. You said it's from the NASA like basis of how they created like the soul characters. New York was really cool as well. Um, and then like even like the overlooking of like when they're jumping from real world into the soul world, and then they turn gray. I thought that was also a cool addition of like to the the world building of itself.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

One of my favorite parts is when they go to like the zone area and like how they transition from the one part where they're like in introducing his hall of thing, and then they go into like the place where it's like people are when they're in the zone. I really liked that and how you could see different people like in the zone and things like that, and like the Lost Souls as well. Those are one of my favorite parts about the world in itself.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Getting into acting, I gave it a a nine or voice acting, I guess you could say. Specifically, I think Jamie Foxx and Tina Faye did a really good job at having expressive vocal performances. Um, you could really feel emotion in their characters, and that's such a huge thing, especially when you know they're filming these lines, not really sure what's going to be getting animated and displayed to general audiences. So seeing their vocal performances being so ecstatic and loud, I guess you could say, with emotion, is is really important. And obviously we know they're they're pretty great actors, so no question here that they they couldn't take on this task.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Yeah. As everyone knows on this podcast, I'm a big fan of Jamie Foxx. So yeah, he was really good in this role as well.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Yeah. And then um getting into directing, I gave it a nine uh done by Pete Doctor and co-directed by Kemp Powers. I've never heard of these two before, but you know, maybe they've worked at Pixar before. I'm not sure if anybody knows. Obviously, very existential themes um around uh this movie, which we'll get into in a little bit, but kind of want to talk about the cinematography too. I think it was really well done, very hyper-realistic, very also ethereal feeling throughout this movie. Um, you know, even being back on Earth, I thought the ethereal feeling still kind of hung around, um, especially, you know, being in different bodies and everything like that. Um, but I thought the lighting and color palettes were really well done in this film as well.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

Yeah, Pete Doctor is like one of the OGs of Pixar, it seems like he directed Monsters Inc., came up with that story, came out with the story of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, came out this wrote the story for Wally, directed the movie for Up, directed Inside Out and wrote the story, and then did Soul as well. And now since it seems 2012, he's the executive producer on almost all Pixar films. So he's a big part of Pixar's team itself. So pretty crucial part, and it's cool to see him like even though he's in the executive role, it seems like he still puts himself as a director even in like a 2020 film.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

I think the directing overall was done well. I think there's kind of a good balance of again, like serious seriousness and humor. We kind of see different aspects of that throughout the movie. And then like Justin mentioned, like the color palettes I think were done really well. Like when they were in like the great before, we see like these darker color palettes or the zone, it's like these darker color palettes, but then like he's back on earth and it's like brighter, and there's like a lot more colors where it's like there's more like blues and purples up there and things like that.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

For soundtrack, I gave it a nine. Uh I'm a huge fan of jazz, so probably no question here that I would really like this uh soundtrack. I thought it was really cool how the different compositions between, you know, being on Earth, we were kind of surrounded by the jazz and Joe Gardner's life. Um and then, you know, being in the uh great before, you're kind of hit with like these heavy synths in electric score, which I thought was really cool. And this did win the Grammy for best original score this year, so pretty neat to see that as well.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

Yep. Bringing back the conversation of uh Trent Reznor that was maybe up there as one of the best score producers because he came out with this and then he also did Social Network, the Challengers, one of the biggest snubs of original score of all time. And he was able to work with John Patisse to also do this, so it's just I like how you you said before that maybe he's out there with Ludwig, but I would disagree. I think he's up there with Ludwig. I just don't think he is gets as much recogniz recognition as as Ludwig does.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

I don't really have much to add. I really liked sounds and sound effects. I thought the jazz music was a nice touch. Well, not a nice touch, but I thought it was really interesting.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Um getting into theme, I gave it a 10. Uh obviously, really, really deep themes here um compared to you know what I would say as deep themes in other Pixar movies. Um really what I took away from this that the meaning of life, the pursuit of you know, your passion and um just understanding that you have one life and you should take advantage of what you want to do with it, the value of everyday experiences over, you know, kind of just like a singular experience, like we saw with Joe, him just wanting to have that one performance as a jazz jazz artist, but he's not enjoying his everyday life around him. Um and then, you know, the idea of like a predetermined purpose being a part of your character was interesting as well.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

Yeah, it's like a sense of like determinism of like what determines where you want to go in life, but also like every person can has a main objective of their life or like something they want to complete. And once they get there, what's next? Like that that isn't the end of your life. It's not like you complete this and then everything's just gonna be automatically a okay, life is a hundred percent. It's like now you gotta move on and be able to go after different objectives. So I think that movie really hits on that because once he plays like this perfect set that he's looked forward to his whole life, he's like, now what? And uh and then they're like, Well, we do it again tomorrow. And he's like, Is this is this it? And then I thought that was really interesting to bring in because it's like each of us like probably has like our own objective that we want to complete, and it's like what's after that? Life is constantly trying to move to different objectives in your life to continue going. So I think that it was a really cool theme.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

I think I keep talking about it, but I think like one of my favorite themes about this overall movie is just like having passions for things, like you were saying, like of different objectives. Like in the beginning, he thought he had to help 22 find her spark. So he thought, well, it can only be so many things, like you have to have your passion. And I think throughout the movie we see his perspective change and understand that you might have this one passion you want in life, but it might not necessarily be what your spark is. He sits down at the piano, he empties out his pockets and sees all these things that 22 had done throughout the day in New York. He realizes that you know it's more 22's spark wasn't something, it was the purpose of living, having something to live for. And it was experiencing different parts of life.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Yeah, just life itself, what's your spark. And uh getting into editing, I gave this movie an eight. Something interesting I wanted to bring up about this movie. I was reading about the script, it was actually finalized months after production had already begun. Um it was underwent very constant and major revisions through the the creative process, which is interesting. I read that there was seven major iterations of this movie that were eventually cut and ended up on this film, um, which is interesting. You know, a lot of times we see this happen with big films and it really goes downhill fast. Doesn't typically work out, but I guess you know, you just trust in Pixar to kind of figure it out, and I think they did here.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

That's cool. I didn't know that at all. That 12 different forms of this movie out there that they'll probably never let the public see, but they got to see every version and they chose this one. I just wonder what kind of themes they were going after. Because I feel like the soul itself is like such an interesting thing to go after, so I understand why they had so many different attitudes that could have gone down.

SPEAKER_03 22:17

I think it was a well put together movie, and like Tyler said that was really interesting to find out there was different variations of this. But overall I thought it was put together well.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Getting into the final score, I gave it a 9.0 out of 10 or a 9 out of 10, as Tyler likes to say, a five-star movie. I really enjoyed this one. I'm happy you guys enjoyed it as well. I think this movie it's one of my I can most closely relate with um this Pixar movie compared to a lot of others. I think the themes just hit me well, the music hits me well. Um yeah, I really enjoyed watching this one.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Yeah, I gave it 8.2 out of 10 or 82 out of 100. I I really enjoyed this film as well. I definitely think the last 20 minutes definitely carries the film. Um just like this the deeper parts of the theme. But Pixar, they're gonna make you tear up or rethink your life at the end of every single one of their movies, I feel like.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

So I gave the overall movie a 92. Like I just really enjoyed it. I liked the colors, themes, the overall characters. And I just thought it was like a interesting two because it's like a it's a new story per Pixar. It's not a story that's continuing everybody's been really done.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

Yeah. Awesome. So yeah, that was Soul, my first watch of that one, and then this other one, Coco, two one-word titles that we decided to do this week. Coco being another movie that I hadn't seen before. And it really follows this young Hispanic boy who really wants to play music, but his family doesn't like music because their father or the great great-grandfather ruined the family's like heritage and all that, and kind of ruined the family for years and abandoned the mother. And it's really staying on the family. Left because of music, so then they don't like music being involved in their family at all. But he's like, This isn't fair to me. I'm not him, I just want to play music. But then strings the old guitar and then goes into the day of the dead world, kind of just a switch work switch up, finds his old family who recognizes him, but he doesn't recognize them, obviously. And also, they're all dead people except for him. He's like the only living boy in that world. But they have to make a promise to him in order for him to go back to the real world, but they promise for him not to play music, then goes to who he thinks is his great-great-grandfather, but there's a plot twist in the film where it's not actually his great-grandfather grandfather, and he actually murdered his great-great-grandfather, and then him and his great-great-grandfather actually really like each other. They already were friends before that, leading to a story, and then turns out that he's actually a really good guy, and then makes a promise to him, and then he's allowed to play music because it ends really nicely with them remembering him. Because in order to stay in that world, you need family to have a picture of you on the wall and for them to remember you as well. So, yeah. Hopefully that summed up the whole plot power in a 45-minute movie. But uh yeah, overall, I gave the plot an eight out of ten. I really enjoyed this movie. Um, the different set pieces of it all as well, but like the plot was really cool. The day of the dead, like this movie doesn't exist without like the day of the dead celebration and like Hispanic culture themes of it, which I think Pixar hasn't done a lot of of like culture pieces, like setting a world throughout like a culture. And I think this Coco is like probably the best example of it doing that.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Yeah, it definitely is, and I definitely appreciate a lot of the twists and turns that go on in this plot. Definitely keeps the viewer intrigued throughout the whole movie. Yeah, I I I really enjoyed this plot.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

I love Coco. It's actually like one of my top Pixar movies. Um, I'll say for like the like the plot, it's definitely a good story. I like like Justin said, like the twists and churns. And I think it I like it too because it hits a lot on like family and traditions, um, and kind of also too, like discovering who you want to be and things like that.

SPEAKER_02 25:59

Yeah. And then betrayal and famous people. What are you willing to do to be famous? But it's like killed somebody, so like not a good dude. Um but it's built up to be a good dude until that twist. Characters, I gave it eight out of ten. We talked about with Soul, where like a lot of the side characters seemed like to be one-liners, where all the side characters are family members, and you can like feel the love of the family within each other. Um, they're just trying to do what's best for each other. But like Hector is probably my favorite character because right away he's like really fun and whimsical, but then he gets super deep towards the back end of the film, and you like feel bad for this guy because he was like this super whimsical guy, but you just like man, he just really got screwed up in his like real life. You just want a happy ending for him in like the afterlife.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

Yeah, I think all the side characters were done really well. Obviously, such a heavy focus on family, so having all the d the different family members kind of support him on his journey and his journey to find his, you know, his real great-great-great grandfather was so important to the plot, and I think it was done well, both the family members in the land of the dead, but also in the real world as well.

SPEAKER_03 27:03

I really like the characters. Miguel is one of my favorites. And like you kind of talked about Hector. We kind of saw him sing for the first time when he went to like the land of the forgotten and he sung that like the last song for his friend before he completely vanished, like they call it like their final or second death. And I thought that was like kind of a moment you kind of realize like maybe he's not really like a this bad person, and it's just kind of a bad situation. But then we see Miguel realizing that he really just wants his family in the end, like he he cares about their traditions and he cares about his mama cocoa and all the things like that. So I think the characters are really well done in this movie.

SPEAKER_02 27:43

Yeah. Animation style, I gave it a 10. I thought the animation style in this movie was so cool. The Day of the Dead, like world setting was so cool as well. I can get world building itself, but the animation of it all super cool. The skeleton bodies that are able to detach from each other as they're running. It's really whimsical, like that like chase sequences as well, and then really neon colors as well, with a lot of like the animals like being soul, and then it turns out it's just like a little small cat, but he's like this crazy dragon cat thing and the the afterworld.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

Yeah, I think the uh the contrast between the real world and the the land of the dead is so interesting and so well done. Obviously, you know, you're gonna have young viewers watching this movie, so to make sure that they understand the contrast, you really have to step it up and do uh a lot of different colors, a lot of different designs and everything like that. And I think they did a great job at doing that.

SPEAKER_03 28:36

Um, I agree. I think uh one of the cooler scenes is when he first realizes he's like in like the in-between and he like looks out into like the grave and he sees like there's real people, but there's also skeletons. I think that was really neat. And like Tyler mentioned, I think the neon was really interesting um as well when they went onto that side.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

And then for dialogue, I gave it eight out of ten to where I I really enjoyed a lot of like the sentimental talking in the second half of the film. Um and then there's a lot of like different like Hispanic culture messaging throughout the film as well that I thought was really um crucial to the film and unique for Pixar in any animated film, really.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Yeah, I think uh my favorite quote from this is probably nothing's more important than family family. Such an important part of the the film and the plot, but also Miguel kind of realizing that um, you know, family is just as important as his passion, and if he wants to pursue his passion, having his family's support is just as important.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

I think the dialogue is another thing that was done great with this movie. I think back in in including like the singing, because there's a lot of singing obviously within this movie. Um I think that was well done with like the where the music was placed in and like Justin mentioned, um, a lot of the discussion of family, and I think like some of the I guess arguments or discussions between the family I think were well done too. How he had his passions and he just wanted them to understand, but he didn't fully un like he didn't really get their side. So I think that too, like there was conflict with that, and I think that was done well with the dialogue, and in the end we see how they resolve together and become a happier family.

SPEAKER_02 30:20

Yeah. The voice acting in this, I gave it eight out of ten. I I thought it was really well done. Pixar, I think, does really well voice acting as well, like adaptations, and then Justin brought it up with soul, how hard it is when you don't actually know what the finished product is, of like showing like expressions through just a voice itself. It always interests me to see how these these people do it. Like, do they just read the script and they're like feel this emotion and then say it? And you're just like seems for me really hard, but I guess that's why they're professional uh actors acting.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Yeah, I think the voice acting was done really well, no different than Soul Really. I think everybody was super expressive, which really builds that character even a step a step further when it comes to their depth and emotion.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

I think I'd have to just pretty much agree and say like you can really feel the emotions through the voice acting, and I think that helps a lot overall with the movie.

unknown 31:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

And then getting to sound effects, more soundtrack, just like Soul, like where Soul is centered around jazz. This is centered around like um Hispanic, like music, different types of it as well within itself. And I thought that was all really cool. Definitely a different type of soundtrack of music than any animation film I think ever. That you have to give it a pretty high score just based off of that.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Yeah, uh pretty amazing soundtrack. Obviously, the Oscar winning song Remember Me was uh a big hit, but yeah, just inspired by like traditional Hispanic folk music was so awesome, and the guitar was animated really well throughout the whole movie. Um a lot of times people get lazy with that, but I think it was done pretty well in this movie.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

I did really like the soundtrack. This is probably one Pixar movie that I have the songs like on my like playlist and stuff, especially like Umpo Coloco, Remember Me. Those are songs like I just know. And I think what's too cool, especially with the music and the culture, is they didn't just really focus on like Miguel's, but they also brought in like other like we saw that like different bands perform on stage when they were just like setting up for like the and then we just see that different parts of it, and then when he gets to De La Cruz's mansion, he enters like from the outside into the inside. We hear this like more upbeat like cultural music, which I think is a really interesting as well. And then he goes back to he like his I think they call it like a grito, and then he starts singing his songs again, which kind of like tones it down when it comes to like that part of the music.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

Yeah, uh really cool like like um sound sign throughout the film with adding like the the small inserts throughout world building or also known as set design. I gave it a 10. It's part of like the the day of the dead world building of it all, the afterlife, how it all works. I thought it was really cool and just really unique and really just beautiful to see.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

Yeah, I mean it's kind of weird thinking about it now, but we did, you know, two two of Pixar's best soundtracked movies, I'd assume. And then also one kind of uh focusing on the before life, right, with the the souls and then the afterlife with Day of the Dead and everything like that is uh very interesting. But yeah, I think they built the world just as well. I think that that city, that town looked so amazing and it was so well done. And they also kind of getting into you know like actual world building, they explained all the rules of how it all works really well, and it never felt lost or anything like that. Yeah. They explained the rules of how the world works, how you have to be remembered, everything like that. It was pretty easy to track, um, I imagine for kids as well.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

Yeah, I will say that. I think Justin, that was actually a really cool concept. You thought about like the before and after. But I liked like the part about like crossing the bridge, and I think that part was really neat. And then too, like the glowing of like the flowers. I really liked how like that was kind of worked into things and you like like the afterlife I thought was I really liked the colors and how bright everything was and like the neon that was added onto the animals, and I thought it was actually really cool, like that the animals were able to like sense them. I thought that was like another really cool aspect of it, like they could see these things, but humans couldn't. And another one I really liked the scene where they were like in the cave, him and Hector, and like just the water and like the brightness. I think that was really done well. Overall, I think this is a great movie that was put together beautifully.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

Yeah, really cool world building. Directing, I gave it nine out of ten. I really liked the way that he went direction with this movie, and like a twist like that. Um it happens in a lot of Pixar movies where like, oh no, they're actually the villain, or sometimes it's like kind of set up to be a main villain. I think this was really like well done in the way where like the actual like hero of the story was there the whole time, kind of thing. He would like neither of them knew that that was a great grandfather. We didn't know, and then you figure out that like it was actually him doing all the music the whole time, and I thought was like a really unique twist for it. This director also did Toy Story 3, which is like one of my top movies of a Pixar of all time. So like it's really unique that he did Toy Story Three and Kilko. I was like, oh wow, that's like kind of two way different range of like kind of animation kind of films.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

Yeah, I think uh I think the directing was really well done. Obviously, such an interesting story, but also you know, having to do the work to bring this culture into the big screen, right? And you want to make sure you display that correctly, and I think it was done really well here.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Find it interesting, Tyra, that you said this director also did Toy Story 3. Because that kind of makes sense because you think about like Lotto and then De La Cruz, and like I mean, obviously I think we learned about him and Toy Story 3 earlier, but I think it does make sense when you think about it like that.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

Yeah. Like tr two like true villains that like aren't like redeemable by any means, who both are given options to redeem themselves and then never do. Editing, I gave a eight out of ten. I thought it's part of like animation style, whale building, and then also like the plot or script of it all that I thought was really well done. Just editing it all together.

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Yeah, I think it looked like a really good movie. I think uh the transition scenes were really well done. Obviously, the animation style was really well done. Um yeah, it was just great. Well done.

SPEAKER_03 36:24

Um I think you guys kind of summed it up. I think it was edited great. The worlds blended well together. Um, transitions looked good, not much more to add there.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

Yeah, and they and they said like during like the art director said that they had to figure out how to give skeletons personality without skin, muscles, noses, or even lips. So they had to play with a lot of shapes and a lot of paintings. And so I thought that was really unique as well. It was like probably a really hard challenge as an animator, where like you all you have to play with is like shapes rather than like different parts of like a human body. For theme, I gave it a nine out of ten. Um, to where compared to Soul, where Soul gets like a super deep ending theme, while the end of this is more like family. Family's really awesome, but that's also like a redeeming story. But I still thought it was like a really cool story and cool theme to bring out of it, like a family heritage kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, at its core, both these movies are just about a guy who wants to play music really bad and trying to get his family approval. Um while also figuring out finding his purpose in doing so, which is very interesting. But um definitely this movie leans a lot more on family legacy and themes of having your family being your your biggest support system, right? That's such a huge thing, and I think it was really well done.

SPEAKER_03 37:43

I think, like you guys said, family is a big theme of this, but I think as well as family, I think it's also about family traditions and following your families. We also see themes of betrayal because they thought that Hector had betrayed them and act and left them, and that that that's why they didn't like music and they never wanted to mention him, and they didn't want like they never wanted to upset Mama Coco about it, but in reality, like Mama Coco was the reason he was still there in the afterlife. So, like we have the remembering aspects of it, the betrayal and De La Cruz, family traditions. I think music is another big theme of this. Um but I think the overall would be the family and staying connected with your family, having the support of your family, having a loving family. Um, and understand that sometimes families can have hardships and different things like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

So overall, I gave it an 8.7 out of 10 or 87 out of 100. Um, I really enjoyed Coco, four and half-star movie for me.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

Yeah, really enjoyed it. Yeah. I gave it uh 86 or an 86 out of 100. So right there with you. Uh I really enjoyed this movie. I remember watching this in high school in Spanish class a lot. And yeah, really good movie.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

Man, I never watched this in Spanish class. My teacher wasn't cool enough, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 38:53

I gave this movie a 9.4 out of 10 or a 94 out of 100. Uh. It's like my favorite one. I think.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

Alrighty then. That gives me some insight about where you're about to go with some of this. I think we might. Yeah, that wraps up like our thoughts about the two movies for Soul and Coco. But we're gonna go right into like a Pixar ranking of all their movies, but we're just gonna rank their top 20. So leaving out 10 films from the top 20, which I make I think it makes the first part of this really interesting. And I think there's some films that if they're left off, I'm gonna be incredibly disappointed. But um, so how this does work is a collaborative ranking to where each of us get a pick, like 20 through one, with like being groups of A, B, C, A, B, C. So team A gets one, four, seven, ten, thirteen, sixteen, and nineteen. B gets two, five, eight, eleven, fourteen, seventeen, and twenty. And then C gets the rest of the pick. So three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, and eighteen. So one less pick than the rest of them. With that, team A gets one veto and one veto override. So you can cancel out a veto, but it can't be your own pick. So, like if you pick something and somebody tries to veto it, you can't override them from your pick. So if somebody else picks something, um, and then somebody else vetoes it, you want to veto their you want to override their vetoes instead of keeping that movie in their place, then you can do that. So that's how that works. Team B gets only one veto, and then team C, since they got one less pick, they get two vetoes. Now the vetoes work is pretty much just if you don't like where the movie is, you can be like, nope, veto. So you either move it up higher or just keep it off the list entirely. Alrighty. Cool. So we'll do the wheel of names, and then whenever you guys pick whatever team, I can run over how much picks it is again for you. I know it's 20. So all right, let's see. You get to pick the first team. The wheel gets to go right back to Justin. So Justin, you get to pick? Yeah, I'll take A. Okay, so one veto and one veto override. Okay, awesome. Alrighty, let's see if it's me or Madison. It's gonna be Madison.

SPEAKER_03 41:05

Oh, give me team C.

SPEAKER_02 41:07

Okay. So you get two vetoes. Do you want me to say the numbers again or yeah, if you can real fast. Okay. So team C has picks three, six, twelve, fifteen, and eighteen. And then I'll be team B with only one soul veto. But that means I get to go first. So it's an interesting way to go with this film. Oh, I've seen twenty five out of the 30th films. So I'm missing out on Elio, Luca, Finy Dory, Elemental, and the Good Dinosaur. So I don't feel right to rank those at all. So I'm gonna go with my number 19 pick first. Actually, I'm gonna go with one that if it's not in here, I'm gonna be pissed. A Bug's Life. I'm gonna go with that 20.

SPEAKER_01 41:53

God damn, that's like really low.

SPEAKER_03 41:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:56

I thought you guys wouldn't like that movie. That's why.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

I like a bug's life.

SPEAKER_01 42:00

All right, man. I mean, I guess if you want to put it that way almost like that was like borderline top 10 for me. Really? Interesting. Yes. It's not even close to top 10 for me. Yeah, I guess I'll go ahead and take one I kind of liked uh one you mentioned you haven't seen. Um I thought it was pretty decent, though. I'll go ahead and take Luca at 19. Good movie. I definitely definitely recommend watching it. Um you'll see why that made the list compared to some other ones. All right, Matthew's.

SPEAKER_03 42:28

I have seen. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 42:30

Yeah, it's your pick.

SPEAKER_03 42:31

I know. I have seen all 30 Pixar movies. And then here at 18, I have Elemental ranked. I don't think you said you've seen that one. Justin, have you seen this one?

SPEAKER_01 42:40

No, but there's gonna be some stuff left off for sure. Yeah. Some big things.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

I know this is a newer one. I like the story of it.

SPEAKER_02 42:49

Interesting. To see where we go with this. Because there are some like there's like two big universes in this, I would say. Uh, with like multiple, like more than two movies, with it being Toy Story movies, obviously, and then Cars has three movies, Finding Nemo has two, Monsters Inc.

SPEAKER_03 43:06

has two, Incredibles has two.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

Incredibles has two. Alrighty, so the next movie I'm gonna go for at number 16, or no, 17, sorry, is I'm gonna go with Cars 3. That's a good pick there. I like Cars 3. My nephews love the Cars movies, so every time they come over to my parents' house, they put on one of them. I'm like, which one do you want to see this time? And it's either one, two, or three. I like three a lot, though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:34

Uh I'm gonna go ahead and take Monsters University here. I like this movie. I think it's a good time. It's not Monsters Inc., but it is a good film.

SPEAKER_02 43:43

Yeah, I definitely had that outside of my that was like my second to last one. But I'm saving my veto for a certain movie.

SPEAKER_03 43:49

Alright, this is another newer one, but I really enjoyed it. Um I have Inside Out 2 here.

SPEAKER_02 43:55

That's fair. I saw Inside Out 2 on opening day with Inside it with the inside out shirt on all by myself. So I'm a real inside out fan over here. Just like to point that out. Alright, it's about to get live. 14. I'm just gonna do it. Gonna rip the band-aid off and get a veto, definitely. I'm gonna put Soul here.

SPEAKER_01 44:16

Jesus Christ, you're out of pocket. Alright. So you took you gave Soul uh what, a 90 today? And you think that they're doing it 82. I gave it 82. I thought you gave it. I was thinking Mad maybe. Yeah, I mean, that's not the one I'm gonna be fighting for, so unless Mad wants to be to it.

SPEAKER_03 44:35

No, I think that I mean I have it in my it's like in my own ranking. I have it at twelve.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

Okay, so we're not that far off from each other. Yeah, it's my number four.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Alright. So I'm gonna go ahead and get one out of Tyler here. I'm gonna go ahead and take inside out.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

Okay, use one here because even though I am an inside out fiend, it's uh number five for me. Fifteen for me. So you took a little uh up from where you usually take it. Yeah, but I know it needs to be there. Inside out's above soul. That's what matters to me. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

So what what number are we on?

SPEAKER_02 45:07

Twelve. Don't do it. There's a certain movie I'm looking at if you put it.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

Okay, I'm back. Number twelve. I'm kind of all thrown off right now because I'm like trying to like go. Number twelve. I'm gonna go with Cars 2.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

That's a good one. A lot of people hate on this.

SPEAKER_03 45:21

I hate fucking Cars 2. I know for a fact that Cars 2 is the lowest rated Pixar movie on Rotten Tomatoes, on everything. I know it's the lowest rated, but I really enjoy Cars 2. I know it's like the whole You don't like Cars 2?

SPEAKER_02 45:36

No. But I hate Lightyear More and Brave. I think both of those ones are just trash. But Cars 2 I don't like at all.

SPEAKER_03 45:42

I enjoy Cars 2.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

But I honestly thought you guys were trying to I thought you guys were trying to push it to top five, so I was like, you motherfuckers, like if you put Cars 2 top five, I'm like, I could throw some shit on the city.

SPEAKER_01 45:53

Cars 2 is an amazing movie.

SPEAKER_03 45:55

We got Mater out here doing spy work.

SPEAKER_01 45:56

Yeah, too bad Cars is supposed to be around Lightning McQueen, not fucking Mater. I plan on bringing it up in our espionage films, actually. Top five espionage film.

SPEAKER_00 46:05

Well, technically just cars. So I use a veto here, it doesn't matter. It's just gonna go higher.

SPEAKER_02 46:15

Alright, number 11. Number 11. Trying to see what movies we gotta start locking in. Like if we don't we don't lock in, we're definitely gonna miss out something. So I'm gonna go with something I had a little bit back, but I'm going with up.

SPEAKER_03 46:27

Number 11?

SPEAKER_02 46:29

Wild. I had it I had it at number 12.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

Well, I'm absolut that's a veto for me. No.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

Okay. I don't think you're gonna like my other option. I don't think you're gonna like my other option. I'm going ratitude again. Yeah, that's a veto for me.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

I don't know what he's playing here.

SPEAKER_03 46:46

I'm really curious to know what your your own ranking list looks like.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

It's almost like I got it public on Letterboxd, but do not look at it right now. Look at it after.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

I thought you said you made it private.

SPEAKER_02 46:57

Uh yeah, it did because I didn't want you guys cheating. Um, all right then. I'm gonna go with Toy Story here. What are you on?

SPEAKER_03 47:04

I'm really questioning you right now.

SPEAKER_01 47:06

Uh man. I love I'm gonna go ahead and take Incredibles at ten.

SPEAKER_03 47:12

I agree with that one. That's where I have it myself.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

Incredibles. There's just better movies. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 47:17

Okay. So we're at number nine. Five star film. Okay. Number nine. I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna put Monsters Inc.

SPEAKER_02 47:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

Is that one good?

SPEAKER_02 47:27

That one at like seven, so this is about where I have it. I have it at eight on my own list, but all I know is like the two movies that I vetoed, you guys better put up because I'm not gonna say them again. Number eight. I'm gonna go with Coco here. Yeah, that's fine. I said, Do you want to use a veto?

SPEAKER_03 47:43

No, I'm gonna keep my mouth shut.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

You wanna use a veto? You said it's your favorite, so it's your number one.

SPEAKER_03 47:48

I know it's my favorite, but I'm really scared for your top like five, one through five right now. So I think I have more important things to worry about. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

I'll go ahead and take Toy Story 3. This is number two for me.

SPEAKER_03 48:02

I really like Toy Story 3.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Six.

SPEAKER_03 48:05

I'm gonna go with Finding Nemo.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

I'm not really good at math, but we're definitely gonna miss one out. Yeah, we're gonna.

SPEAKER_03 48:10

I mean, we still have Ratatouille, Cars, uh, Onward, The Incredible. Well, no, we did the Incredibles.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

Do not say Onward. What the hell? Why did you even say that movie? Yeah, dude, come on.

SPEAKER_03 48:21

I'm just looking at like what stoking potentially being you guys' top list.

SPEAKER_02 48:26

Cars, you got Cars, Wally, Toy Story 2, Ratatouille. Uh I feel like that has to be like top five, right?

SPEAKER_03 48:34

You're not gonna um I'm not a big fan of Wally. It's not it on my top.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

I don't know what other movie you guys you would think about. Who's up? It's me. I'm just trying to I'm trying to game this out now because you got top five, and I just said five movies, and she's like, hmm, when I said cars. Gonna have like turning red or something. Wally, Toy Story 2, Ratitouin Up. I feel like that that's the top five. Yeah. That's fair too. That's like the clear top five left.

SPEAKER_03 48:59

Not in my opinion, but I mean I don't use Wally, like I said, it's not even in my top 20.

SPEAKER_02 49:04

All right, but um Tyler, save the money. Yeah, I know I am. Whatever she's about. Whatever bullshit, she's about to pull it up. Um, all right, so here I'm gonna put up then.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:15

Alright, Justin.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

Here I think I'm gonna go ahead and go Wally. Yeah. This one's the fun one. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 49:22

So what we're at three?

SPEAKER_01 49:23

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 49:24

Toy Story Two.

SPEAKER_01 49:25

Okay. I don't mind that. What what craziness was she talking about?

SPEAKER_03 49:29

I don't know. I don't think well, because I also have Coco in my top five. Like that's my number one.

SPEAKER_00 49:36

But we already took that.

SPEAKER_03 49:36

And I wasn't I understand we already took that, but I knew you guys liked Wally. I don't like Wall. Like it's not like one of my Pixar movies. I like like I've watched it like twice. Whereas the others I've watched tens of times.

SPEAKER_01 49:48

Okay. Then here I'm gonna take Ratatouille. Damn. Okay. See, that was my number one, and now I have no idea what it is number one. There's a clear number one that we have. Come on. Dude, it's cars.

SPEAKER_03 49:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:00

That's the one great movie left. I thought we took cars.

SPEAKER_03 50:03

No, we took cars too.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

So I wrote Coco down here. Sloppily. And I thought that was okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'll take cars. I'm not mad at that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 50:13

Okay. This is this was my angle, and why I didn't use video because I wanted cars number one, because it is my number one by far.

SPEAKER_03 50:20

It's my number two.

SPEAKER_02 50:21

It's my five. So fun thing about cars, this was my first movie I ever saw in a movie theater with my grandma. So it's like it got like a lot of nostalgia value to me. It's where it's the first ever movie theater movie. Life is a Highway. I think I played on repeat for three years. Lightning McQueen is my hero. I love Lightning McQueen. And I think that's why I hate the second one so much because it's not centered around Lightning McQueen. And I'm like, dude, this is a Lightning McQueen franchise. Um, so that's why I don't like Cars 2.

SPEAKER_03 50:51

I can also see why they kind of pivoted in Cars 2 rather than focusing on Lightning McQueen again for an entire movie.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

It just doesn't feel like a Cars Citric movie like the first one does for me. Like a Cars, the first one is such a grounded story, and then they just go crazy with it in the second one. I don't think I like it.

SPEAKER_03 51:08

I know they definitely take a left turn in Cars 2, and then Cars 3, we're kind of like back on track where we are with Cars. Their first one. But I don't think we left anything crazy off.

SPEAKER_02 51:19

No. If we want to go through like our personal ranking. I mean, just say your top five.

SPEAKER_01 51:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 51:26

My top five. My number five is finding Nemo, number four inside out, number three, the Incredibles, number two, Toy Story Three, and number one, Cars.

SPEAKER_01 51:34

Mine is number five, Cars, number four, soul, number three, Monsters Inc., number two, Toy Story, and number one Ratatouille.

SPEAKER_03 51:41

My number five is Finding Nemo. My number four is up. My number three is Toy Story Two. My number two is Cars, and my number one is Coco.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

Cool guys. I was like, he does not deserve. I don't think I think it deserved to be on the list, but like probably at the bottom, I would say. Like maybe around 20. But car all three cars movies got in here. So shout out to Cars. And Toy Story 2. Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 and Toy Story.

SPEAKER_01 52:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

So three.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

I mean all the Toy Story ones got in as well as Toy Story 4.

SPEAKER_03 52:17

Toy Story 4.

SPEAKER_01 52:19

No, uh I I maybe I forgot to tell you guys, those don't count as actual movies for me, anything after three. So for me, yeah, everything got in.

SPEAKER_02 52:28

Does it count as part of the 30 for uh Justin? Um both monsters, both they only made 29. Yeah. God damn it. Both of the monsters movies got in too. Um Finy Dory left out.

SPEAKER_03 52:42

But you say you just watched that one, right?

SPEAKER_02 52:44

Don't bring up Incredibles 2, like that's a good movie. No, I I just brought it up, but like, no, I I didn't like it either.

SPEAKER_03 52:50

I saw that one in theaters.

SPEAKER_02 52:52

I think I had it at like 21. That's a Toy Story 4 level bad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

I have it at 21.

SPEAKER_02 53:00

I'm just glad none of you are like light year stands in here, so that's good. I thought one of you would have been like, yeah, light year. I mean like your your bad, fairly bad take.

SPEAKER_03 53:11

No, I wasn't a big fan of that one.

SPEAKER_02 53:13

I think Brave is just the most forgettable Pixar movie. Like I know.

SPEAKER_03 53:16

The good Dinosaur is weird.

SPEAKER_02 53:18

Hoppers is also weird to me. I don't know. I thought I would.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

I really enjoyed Hoppers. I like it.

SPEAKER_02 53:23

Probably is too low.

SPEAKER_03 53:26

It is a little low.

SPEAKER_02 53:27

Yeah. I regret putting it there because I actually had it at like 13. But I thought for some reason I thought you guys hated it because I looked at your letterbox and there was like you guys gave it three and a half stars, and I was like, dude, they fucking hate it. I was like, they're not even gonna put it. So my bad. It's a good movie. It's not a good thing. If you guys if you guys would have like readered it and then I would have brought it up later, yeah. That's exactly that's what made me think you hate it even more. I was like, oh dude, she hasn't even rated it, which means she hates it.

SPEAKER_03 53:52

No, I think when I first got letterboxed, I was just like trying to add everything I'd seen. So instead of like rating everything, like I was just clicking the watch thing. So like I could just like kind of like have it all there, and but I just have never gone back and ranked everything.

SPEAKER_01 54:06

He took Toy uh uh Bug's Life and I thought for sure a Toy Story 4 was making the list somehow. I was like, oh, we're so screwed. No.

SPEAKER_02 54:14

Toy Story 4 is actually my number 20.

SPEAKER_01 54:16

It's actually my number 20.

SPEAKER_02 54:18

Okay, cool. Awesome. Should I read through the top 20 or just look at the graphic on Instagram? Um, and you can hate on us all you want, but I feel like it's a solid top 10, in my opinion. Solid top 10. Some people are obviously gonna think probably I think Toy Story may get the most hit being a number 11 if I had to take a guess. And maybe yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:36

Awesome. Well, thanks for listening this week. Talking about Pixar. This is my last episode for a while. Um, I won't be on it for another five months, but uh we're gonna include like a section to it where I like try to give my ratings of the movies that each week and then give maybe like a little ranking based off of whatever it is that Justin could try to include. But uh if you want to join the podcast and help out Justin, be greatly appreciated. So guests are open, just email us or not email, uh just DM us through Instagram or TikTok or yeah, hit us up.

SPEAKER_01 55:09

Yep, it's at uh newbies to movies podcasts. Uh feel free. Um, I think Matt's gonna post um on the page here in the next couple of days, just kind of looking for guests. So if you're interested in any category as well, feel free to reach out, let me know. We can we have it scheduled out for a while, but if you're really passionate about something, please let me know. We can definitely try to work it in and go from there. Awesome. Thanks for listening.