Hmmm. I saw the first three toy story; the fourth one I never saw,
even though people said it is not bad, but to me Toy Story was
over with the third one.
Now, while I liked the first three, the first one always has a
special place, because at the time it was really quite new-ish.
Fully computer animated movies were quite rare. Pixar did several
short videos before Toy Story, and I think there were some other
movies too, give or take, but Toy Story kind of changed everything
past that. Unfortunately many other computer-generated movies are
absolute garbage nowadays. The big movie makers want money and don't
care about anything else, so they ruin the interest of people who are
not super-young anymore, because let's face it: older people are less
likely to watch the latest marvel 3D animated zero-story movie that is
a clone of prior clones.
It would be nice if AI, despite it also sucking to no ends, could allow
us to produce 3D movies with little effort. I have a fantasy game world
my local pen and paper RPG group built. Would be interesting to feed it
a ton of data (we have generated all that already over decades) and come
up with an interesting movie that relates the story of a part of this.
This is just one example of many more. Quality-wise I still like Toy
Story - I find it historically important, and it was also good at the
respective time (all first three actually, although the storylines got
progressively weaker; I did like Ken and Barbie though, but too much of
the story seemed to go into wanting to milk out more money selling toys
rather than telling a story. Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear was always
great though.)
Now, while I liked the first three, the first one always has a special place, because at the time it was really quite new-ish. Fully computer animated movies were quite rare. Pixar did several short videos before Toy Story, and I think there were some other movies too, give or take, but Toy Story kind of changed everything past that. Unfortunately many other computer-generated movies are absolute garbage nowadays. The big movie makers want money and don't care about anything else, so they ruin the interest of people who are not super-young anymore, because let's face it: older people are less likely to watch the latest marvel 3D animated zero-story movie that is a clone of prior clones.
It would be nice if AI, despite it also sucking to no ends, could allow us to produce 3D movies with little effort. I have a fantasy game world my local pen and paper RPG group built. Would be interesting to feed it a ton of data (we have generated all that already over decades) and come up with an interesting movie that relates the story of a part of this. This is just one example of many more. Quality-wise I still like Toy Story - I find it historically important, and it was also good at the respective time (all first three actually, although the storylines got progressively weaker; I did like Ken and Barbie though, but too much of the story seemed to go into wanting to milk out more money selling toys rather than telling a story. Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear was always great though.)