Lightyear

I know I'm late to the party, but I only just saw Lightyear yesterday on Disney+. What did Cinemaphile think about it?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't watched it, but I'm gonna continue to shit on it no matter what

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The way he is holding the cat and the way it is just soullessly staring at us really makes me angry. it is indicative of the heartless, soulless, cash-grab corporate toy-selling decision-making that created the character. The Cat is an infinite Void of corporate homosexualry.

    • 2 years ago
      Boco

      And yet, its only a matter of time until he gets his own animated short that plays before some other movie.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Considering Lightyear was a failure and the Cats toys did not sell, that is unlikely. His sole purpose in the movie was to sell Toys, and they couldn't do that, so they have no purpose.

        • 2 years ago
          Boco

          Geez, they couldn't even get that right?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nope. Its funny that they even thought Sox was a good idea?

            I mean, break it down. Why do kids like cats?
            >Fluffy
            >Cute noises
            >Interesting to watch with their distinct personalities
            >Eyes that can alternate between cool and adorable.

            So completely removes any of those traits:
            >Body material seems to be some sorta metal/plastic. Not remotely sit looking.
            >Has the same voice that your credit card company uses for automated messages, neither cute nor interesting to listen to.
            >He has some neat gimmicks, but sox is just a robot who serves as a deus ex machina when the plot needs it. His stiff movements give him all the charm of a cardboard box.
            >Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give him human eyes? it just looks creepy on top of his face never changing expression. I think more kids would get creeped out by Sox than by him.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              You could have just said
              >"Who the hell thought Buzz Lightyear needed a Cat?"

              I mean, imagine some suits sitting round a desk discussing the Star Wars and one of them is like "You know what Luke Skywalker needed? A Cat. Which he always carries around with him."

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Proper joke.

              "Here's your Emotional Support Unit."

              "Ah a K-97 classic model for those who've been in deep space."

              "We already used all those up. But R&D have been working on something. Sox."

              "Meow."

              "It's a cat."

              "Yep full of love and affection to support your reintegration to soc..."

              "He's setting fire to my couch."

              "Well, there are a few bugs."

              Have it act like a cat. Have it not give a shit about Buzz until Buzz has to convince it the best thing it can do is help him complete his mission.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I hated the cat's design so much. I don't know why they didn't make it look more outwardly robotic like Eve from Wall-E

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was unnecessary garbage that was made by a committee of out-of-touch executives.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bad

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >character is already supposed to be a marketable toy character
    >give him a marketable toy sidekick

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Its the most Pixar movie

    It follows a formula, you know immediately what it's about, and you're just left feeling empty at the end. Like you just fast forwarded in time and like buzz you can never go back.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sox a cute

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was kinda weird when the movie stopped half way through to show us 10 hours of lesbian porn, but outside of that it was pretty unremarkable.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What could they have added to make it more believable that this was a mid-90s action sci-fi movie?

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Drab, soulless movie that made me question the sanity of conservatives that THIS was the movie they decided to lose their shit over

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ALHAMDULILLAH ISLAM WILL LIBERATE THE WEST

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    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >fricked up embed

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Lego Movie 2 did it better.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >just live with your colossal frick up because it's too late to do anything about it
    Kinda bleak movie honestly

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Are you proposing suicide?

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What did YOU think about it?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It was fine, though it didn't reach the level of any of the Toy Story movies for me. A tad bit complicated for a kid both in 2022 or 1995 to get excited about and go get the action figure.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It epitomizes everything wrong with modern Disney. This and Turning Red. Disney is obsessed with pandering to 30 year old Millennial women instead of making content for kids that were, you know, born 5-10 years ago. I feel bad for kids if anything, no wonder they aren't as loyal to Disney as older people are.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Before watching the movie, I thought they were the same character

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's the plot anyways? Spoil it for me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      gay black people are better than straight white people

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Okay.
        So does Buzz like time travel or something? This thread hints but I just want it spelled out.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          yeah but none of that really matters to the central point of the film

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Well Wikipedia was more helpful, Buzz is Zurg.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Buzz does Time Travel. That's it. Movie basically has no depth and Buzz character is tissue paper thin with the only barest of resolution.

      I've tried to watch the film but its so breakneck and bland in its pacing I can't stand it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Buzz is his own dad

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Disappointing. Trying to ground Buzz and claiming that the toy is based off of him fundamentally misses the point of his character: Buzz is a pulp science fiction hero in the vein of Flash Gordon or Buck Rodgers. So there's that. I get that grounding stuff in realistic science fiction elements is popular, but that shouldn't have been the main creative direction here.

    Not enough time was spent with Buzz and Hawthorne, so little in fact that her loss as well as the entire plot of "Buzz timeskips into the future" felt underwhelming. Usually big moments like these in Pixar feel very heavy and emotional (as you would expect them too) but an undercooked character relationship with Buzz and his partner (as well as the other human characters in the first arc) leaves it shallow. Buzz's character arc can't decide if Buzz's arc is about humbling himself and allowing people to help him/prove themselves, or if it's about letting go of his mistakes and forgiving himself, or finding value in the present than affix his self worth to his glory days. The movie also has the inadvertent consequence of proving Buzz right when he's supposed to be wrong: the planet actually IS dangerous but no shut up reeee the people can survive

    Sox was cute. Zurg was unnecessary, and a bad twist villain. This movie didn't really need an obstacle antagonist, the internal conflict would have been plenty without it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this movie bothered me in so many ways, why fasting to the future so many times? you proved that you skip to the future, then he felt sad for skipping his "friend" life.
      Everything is ok with old Buzz about traveling back, but in a split second he becomes evil, he was right, you could have stop being trapped in that planet.
      Also for a movie about the famous space ranger universe protection unit, being trapped in a planet and then doing absolutely nothing action packed IS pretty boring, imagine Robocop doing paperwork at the police station with his theme as background music.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Didn't have booster or X-R
    Can frick off to infinity and beyond

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I feel about it the same way I feel about the Han Solo movie. It was fine. I enjoyed watching it. I'm not going to watch it again. I'm not surprised that it underperformed at the box office.

    The problem with both these movies is that nobody asked for them. They were attempts to target a fanboy nostalgia that didn't exist in sufficient quantity to support the ticket sales Disney wanted.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The problem with both these movies is that nobody asked for them.
      The potential for something great, or at least something really fun, was there, though.

      I love sc-fi opera....movies like The Last Starfighter or Star Wars. That is what Lightyear could have been. I would much rather watch something like that than watch Cars or Finding Dory or Turning Red.

      I guess I am more of a Love, Death and Robots type of watcher than a typical Pixar viewer, but I still believe Lightyear could have really been a lot more exciting and epic than it was.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I suspect the person that suggested the cat was the same person that suggested the porg in Star wars

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    groomer company

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What did Cinemaphile think about it?
    it's the boring kind of bad. I have no memory of this movie besides the fact that they fricked Zurg's character

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I find it interesting how it contrasted top gun. The entire point of light here was to show that the work Bus was doing is no longer needed and everyone has moved on and that Bus should move on as well seeing as it is star command is a relic of an old time. In top gun Maverick you have that same message been contrasted and it’s first 15 minutes were Maverick says “But not today”, and goes about the rest of the film being a kick ass pilot that every one learns to respect.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was boring which is a cardinal sin for science fiction

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I genuinely don’t understand why they went the hard sci-fii route. Kids are going to find that boring and most adults this is aiming for in the nostalgia department don’t really want to watch an animated film in theaters, much less a film that looks like a watered down Interstellar.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was competently made, but the direction the story went in for the second half and the side characters that got dumped on us killed it. That entire first half - Buzz getting so swallowed up in his work that he completely misses life passing him by, and has to deal with the consequences - there was something there. But Buzz is always kept at a distance from the audience, so we don't get to know his inner workings. It makes this emotional disconnect not present in other Pixar movies, and that makes the entire rest of the film a hard sell, especially the twist villain.

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