 So, Armand White, he's this guy, makes movie reviews. He does movie reviews for the National Review, which is what we're on right now. This is the site. Armand White, it says about Armand White there, but I'm just going to go off my recollection of the man, my experience toward him. From what I know about Armand White, he is well known for going against the grain on a lot of films, for outlandish sort of perspectives on film, and he's very unique in what he used to be issues within a film, his areas of focus. You've probably heard infamously that, infamously I don't want to cover it, I'll let anybody else take with this information whatever they so shall, but Armand White, he said that, he said something, I don't remember the specifics obviously, but Jack and Jill, remember Jack and Jill, the Adam Sandler film, he had a lot of praise for that one, which you know, you're allowed to do, you have every right to say what you think is of quality about Jack and Jill. Everyone knows it's a masterpiece, and I'm at least happy that Armand is putting that out there, but yeah, that and Man of Steel, two movies that he believes to be very strong, very, I think he talks about how they really live up to American values, something along those lines. I don't want to misrepresent you Armand, so if I'm saying anything wrong and you just so happened to see this review, which I really hope you do, I'm not review, it's not a stream as well because it's not live or anything because I'm scared, but Armand White, if you so happen to pass this recording, first I love you and all of your work, every inch of it, I know many people would categorize you as the Alex Jones of film reviews, but that doesn't make sense because Alex Jones has reviewed films, so you're different people and that's why I like you Armand because you're different. So yeah, they're famous for his reviews of Man of Steel and Jack and Jill, two movies that were derided by the general public, I think, but Armand's Derision came from, came with another film called Parasite released in 2019 as well, 2019 I think, I saw it in 2020, but I think that's, it was given an extra cinematic push because of the Oscars, but so yeah, he said Parasite was something, something socialist, something which you know, you have every right to do on that as well. I really enjoyed Parasite, I thought it was pretty strong, I've heard some criticisms and I don't know, there are a few people who have issues with the ending, it's certainly not a perfect film but I think very strong, great character work, a pretty well put together film, Bong Joon-ho is a very excellent director, but you know, if you don't agree with the politics then that is totally fine. I didn't really, I found the film to be kind of neutral in its political, whatever I was trying to say, sorry, I'm interrupting the review on, or this recording on Armand White's review to go off on about Parasite for a second, I always felt like it was kind of neutral on what was good and bad about kind of system because it's like the rich aren't bad people and well it's like they're not like horrible abhorrent people, if anything they're more ethical than the Kim family, because that's the park family isn't it, they're the rich ones, the parks like they're kind of rude and sort of I guess naive, a little bit stuck up, but they're not bad people by any stretch compared to the Kims where it's like you feel for them and they're not completely abhorrent people as well, but there's a lot more moral grayness with them, but it's all kind of sympathetic to the situation and I think there's a lot that you can take away from the film regardless of your politics, but yeah, not with Armand and I think that's why I like him so much and why we will get back on track to have a look at Toy Story 4 and National Anthem, it's the title of this review, Toy Story 4 and National Anthem, pay attention to this article that we'll be going through soon, don't look at anything else on my screen, especially not the fact that I need to update my computer, we're going to have a look at Toy Story 4 and National Anthem, I skimmed through this ages ago, I remember it being brought up in a review that was looking at negative criticisms for Toy Story 4 and they brought in Armand to discredit a lot of the negative criticisms, which I thought was pretty unfair in this video, they brought up Armand and didn't really address any of the, so whatever you want about Armand, but at least you know, engage with what he says about a film honestly, as weird as I might be to say, I know like I mentioned before, Atlantis, this guy can be a bit over the top, but at that point it's just like all you've really got to do is just like, you can either do what I believe to be like, I just look at it as fun, he's kind of like I mentioned Alex Jones sort of vibes in where it is just like, oh Armand you're the living end, so I think it's kind of the best lens to look at through this, but I remember seeing this video that used Armand White to discredit the negative criticisms of this film, which you know, Toy Story 4, I had some words to say about it as well, oh I've still got Grammarly on, that's right I use Grammarly because I do whatever I can to make sure my scripts are nice and nice, so if any of that red underlining or anything comes up when I highlight something or other, then I'm sorry because I can't be bothered changing it right now, that's how much I care about this video. Yeah, I don't really know if there's anything more else to say because like I said in this video, they also went through a bunch of other people's reviews, but they didn't go in depth about the reviews, they kind of shrugged away, like whatever points they tried to validate about the film, this person in question who I'm not going to name for fun, I'll let you figure that out. I think the video that was looking at these criticisms got deleted, but um, yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah, this video that kind of brought the Armand White review into question didn't really engage with his or Armand, yeah, with Armands or the other reviews that were included in the video very honestly, so that's what I want to do today, I have a look at Toy Story 4 and National Anthem, like I mentioned, I skimmed through it when I was making my video on Toy Story 4, um, I can't remember much of it, so that's why I thought it would be fun to go through it today, so I'm gonna stop talking shit and we're going to get onto it, see ya. Already I'm actually, uh, Toy Story 4 and National Anthem by Armand White, Pixar's latest consumerist indoctrination, so already he's reeled me in, I am like a fish threshing as the waves and Armand is just the steady hand with the fishing rod just, just minding it's time waiting for me to bite, and already I think I've dug my teeth of fish lips onto the hook. The Toy Story franchise is the closest thing we have to an undisputed National Anthem, a popular belief that celebrates what we think we all stand for. Okay, that's, that's interesting, like I'm interested in what he thinks about this, as if, because obviously Armand is American, the National Anthem of America is the Toy Story franchise, just imagine like they get up there and Mariah Carey just gets on the mic, like they get up at like your next major league sporting event in the States and Mariah Carey gets on the mic and she's just like, you've got a friend, you've got a friend. Anyway, National Anthem, popular belief that we think we all stand for, I don't get that, like Toy Story, the National Anthem, like people love Toy Story, I did once, one time before something came out. I just never thought, as the undisputed National Anthem, surely there's other things, especially in American culture, like your National Anthem, I don't know, for as much as I hear people criticize, you know, America this, America that, you know, I'm the free, I'm the brave, whatever, whatever. I really feel like I hear the National Anthem, like, I saw the name Ilanoma, okay, this review is going to get spicy, I'm sure, because I think I know on what side of the fence Arm and Stance, so we're very, very keen to climb up that fence. So undisputed National Anthem, I've never really heard the American National Anthem derided as like a criticised for anything, other than when it's like kind of used ironically, like I remember a lot of punk songs and stuff kind of like, you know, America, I'm the free, you know, if that's actually the lyrics, I don't really know too much about the American National Anthem, other than, how to start off again, something, stars and stripes. I think we, all right, let's move on, cooperation, ingenuity, and simple value such as perpetual hope. I think that's like he's kind of hit almost hit the nail on the head in terms of the themes of the first three, I could say the fourth film as well, what it was trying to go for, cooperation, ingenuity, and simple value such as perpetual hope, cooperation, obviously the movies are all about teamwork, ingenuity, you know, just coming up with new plans to get over like every like obstacle that the gang face. Simple values, yeah, like, and one of those simple values being perpetual hope. So yeah, Toy Story has never been thematically too deep, obviously, like, you know, the unintentional questions that they make you ask, existentially, in terms of just like, how are these toys alive? It's like, are they, actually, I was speaking to my housemate, and I think I'll keep that conversation, like, keep it to keep that seed in the brain about the toys being able to breathe, like think on that for a little bit and wait for a conversation that him and I have that we've recorded, and I'm going to release. But yeah, just about how they can breathe. So like simple values, yes, but very complex issues on the human condition brought forth by Toy Story. Perpetual hope, yeah, there's always like, you know, as long as we stick together, you know, we'll see through it, you know, and just woody sort of unwavering, like as much as he kind of, the hope kind of doesn't waver as it kind of stays with all the toys, you know what I mean, just like if somebody falls, the other ones there to pick them up, think about it, the inner Toy Story one, it's woody sort of perpetual hope, like for, for Andy, as far as him loving his toys, when he like, when he's talking buzz up and he's like, you're so awesome, you're the head does that whoosh thing, it's, you are a cool toy. One of my favorite scenes in Toy Story. And you know, but he gives up for a little bit then, but then buzz is like, come on sheriff, there's a kid over in that house who needs us, and he like, helps him get the toolbox off. It's just like, that's the perpetual hope, because it sort of bounces off one another character. So almond, I think I am picking up what you are putting down. This fact of our infantile, the sensitized culture became apparent back in 2010, when I took a knee on Toy Story three, and rotten tomatoes, sprouted death threats. All right. This fact of our infantile desensitized culture, this fact of our infantile desensitized culture. So it's infantile desensitized for Toy Story, if we, if we, you know, undisputed, I'm going to dispute, I'm not American, but I don't know, if I go into like, if I ask an American, it's like, Toy Story, are they going to put their hand over their heart. The fact of our infantile desensitized culture, infantile desensitized to enjoy Toy Story? Sort of, well, if you kind of, if you are a fucking nationalistic about Toy Story, in terms of just, you know, the mere mention of it will have your hand over your heart, I guess that is kind of weird. Desensitized, Toy Story has desensitized, desensitized us, I'm going to move on from that, like, sure. I think it's just like, you just wanted to take a stab at culture and just use Toy Story as the spring for, springboard for it desensitized us. Yeah. Yeah, that was it, Toy Story. Was it the sensationalist sort of reports, since it's just sort of like media headlines, articles, just all the crazy stuff that like, oh no, I'm not going to go into that, never mind. Became apparent back in 2010 when I took a knee on Toy Story, I like the way you refer to that, I took a knee on Toy Story 3, it's like I got down in the fucking dirt and put my knee on Toy Story 3, I just like pinned it to the ground, it's like you are not getting up Toy Story 3, no, no. This is where Toy Story, this is where the Toy Story ends, motherfucker. I love that, it's just, it's so epic, I'm just imagining like, you know, like the Doom poster, and it's like Armand White, like, you know, and he's just, he's got all the Toy Story characters just sprouting up, trying to attack him, and he's just like, not today, he's just blowing him all the way. And Rotten Tomatoes, Sprouted Death Rats, I just love that idea, just like Rotten Tomatoes, the sights, and I like, by the way, good use of Sprouted, obviously a bit of, you know, Rotten Tomatoes, that's a vegetable, fruit, anyway, Sprouted Death Rats, I just love that, like, the Death Rats came from Rotten Tomatoes themselves, their employees just like, it's just like, Tom, have you finished that Death Rats for Armand White yet? As if I had made Elon or my Sahel comments against the history of America in its institutions, it's like, well, motherfucker, you are going after the national anthem. I just love this, like, it's just like, I would say, this is the first time I've full on in-depth read, oh no, I did read the Parasite one, I've forgotten most about that one as well, but inserting the politics and stuff, but I love it because it is so based in redpilt, and I'm not going to comment on it every further because it speaks for itself, even though Armand, get your own knee off yourself because you just went after the national anthem, that's the history of America, Toy Story is the history of America, that's what it's all led to, you know, anyway, the mob-like, that's mob-like mania is depicted during a fairly creepy sequence in Toy Story 4 when cowboy doll Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, explores an antiques and consignment store and is threatened by a menacing phalanx of a lookalike, thinkalike, actor-like, peewee, by a menacing phalanx of lookal- oh, okay, no, that's fine, that was like, syntax man, thinkalike, actor-like, peewee, Herman dolls, I just love that, like, he sees his critics as the dolls, I feel bad for the dolls in Toy Story 4 because all they do is, like, Gabby Gabby's bidding and they just get abandoned by the very end, it's like, who knows what happened, like, what was it, because they escaped the toy store and then, like, they're in that pram and they had the doll stay in there and Warren comes up and it's just like, well, what's that? It's like, oh no, she was like worried because it's like, oh my god, run away, pram, I hope the baby's and there's like one of these peewee Herman dolls in there, yeah, it's supposed to be threatened by a menacing, the way he's described the scene is pretty weird, so he's exploring it and then he's threatened, oh no, no, I get what you mean, because kind of, like, when they all appear from the side after Gabby Gabby, he's like, no, you can stay and then, like, they come out of the corners, I actually like the music in there and, like, one of the camera angles as it was going over, showing the four dolls all surrounding the pram, but, yeah, obviously there is a lot of kind of, you know, as much, every praise I give this film I have to be like, although, and then there's the other thing that comes up, it's just like there's always another side to the coin with any sort of praise of this, and you can say that about a lot of things, but it's one of those, one of those movies man where it's even, it's like the last Jedi where, like, the tiny little things that I can appreciate and sort of have a, you know, surface level appreciation for, they all, like, there's the beef underneath, it's like, I really like the sauce, but the beef underneath it is rotten, you know what I'm saying, I don't want to say undercooked because who doesn't like a rare bit of steak, but, yeah, this is, I will say it in the opposite direction, this is like, oh, not even overcooked because everything in this movie is undercooked, ah, god, I'm getting away from, I'm not going to use any more, that word, god, what is the word for just, like, anyway, moving on, Pee Wee Hum and Dolls, it's a Pixar vision of a high tech lynching, but this mad dash, mad dash by revengeful analog gadgets also inadvertently symbolizes the conformity that is taken over amusement culture, it's a Pixar vision of high tech lynching, okay, it's a Pixar vision of high tech lynching, that Pee Wee Hum and Dolls, what are you trying to say to this, you're trying to link it back to your overall sort of just like, you know, the national anthem or like the consumerist indoctrination, and you're saying like, oh, I get it, you're reading between the lines because the Pee Wee Hum and Dolls, that's what Pixar really wanted to put in this film, really wanted to get out there and go after the children or the people, the nationalists who look to Toy Story for the national anthem, which why would you go after, that's American history, mad dash by revengeful analog gadgets also inadvertently symbolizes the conformity that is taken over amusement culture, so you're saying that ordinary, the gadgets are the people, oh no, I get you now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, but is Pixar trying to criticise that, oh dude, you are peeling back the layers and I'm sorry, I'm just, I don't think I can wrap my head around some of that, in terms of a really cogent thought that's gonna, that I can summarise, so I'm just gonna go on to, the Toy Story franchise proves that movies, especially from Disney and Pixar, are produced to be critic-proof, now that's kind of fair, but I don't know if I would get to the same point in the same way as Arman, because I guess my idea is obviously like, you've heard the stories about just reviews and stuff, how they're like bought off, like you're not directly, not just like, hey, give the Last of Us 2 a 10 out of 10 and we'll give you a voucher for, for the, for Alpha, I hope, that's an American thing, sorry, I'm going after American national anthems like Toy Story and I hope, they kind of are made in this way, that's just like, you know, the very touchy-feely, very superficial kind of sense that you get from Toy Story 4 in terms of like, because one of the defences I heard for something like The Last of Us 2, I'm gonna skirt around the spoilers, I'm not gonna go too into like, something that happens in that one of my friends tried to defend because they felt something and I just, I don't, I get that, like I felt something with the thing that they're talking about as well, like there was a motion to be had, because I was emotionally invested, similar to The Last Jedi, I'm gonna spoil that because, fuck, it's the Star Wars sequels who cares, they're not canon. When Luke dies, it's just like, oh, you know, Luke Skywalker was like, you know, when I was a kid, even though funnily enough, I was exposed to the prequels and Anakin Skywalker before I was Luke Skywalker, it's just like, oh, this is Luke Skywalker, you know, the hero of cinema in a lot of ways, like him or Indiana Jones, James Bond, they're sort of just those pillars of like, just hero-ness and just seeing them go down in this manner. And I was wrapped up in, you know, what the film was trying to present in terms of, you know, he came around to his, you know, like, you know, it's time for the Jedi to end. But then at the very end, he's just like, he uses his Jedi-ness across the fucking galaxy to project himself, whatever. And yeah, I got wrapped up in that, especially with the cinematography that they were presenting with The Two Sons, it was filmed very prettily, it was all very pretty, it was presented in a way where it's like, yeah, the emotion can wrap you up because of your investment. And the presentation is kind of just like, look at how artsy it is. It's, he disappeared, but the cape is blowing in the wind. And that's how it kind of felt with Toy Story 4, just like with Woody's, with him going at the end, because they play that very sappy fucking music, holy shit. I think that's, that might be the only original piece of music that I could recognize, because like I mentioned in the review, and I didn't go too far into this, there's a lot of music that's just straight up reused verbatim, as it was in Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, that you can probably remember. Like there's Zerg's Planet Plays when Buzz is like, on my way, Woody, and he's like doing his slingshot maneuver, shit. It's like, oh, I love that, stop using it, because you're sorry, I'm reading a little bit ahead on this article. Why did I decide to do this? I'm going to get distracted so heavily. Sorry for anyone who's not enjoying this, but I'm going to keep going. Yeah, but I actually kind of agree with the critic proof thing, because yeah, that ending scene with Woody, it's just like they've got the sappiness, they've got everybody there, they've got the music, and that only original piece of music, because it's just like, it's the tiny violin that's playing just out of frame on the camera as we watch Woody being like, I'm leaving all of you, and everyone is totally okay with it. Everyone, everyone's okay, sorry, I knocked the mic. And yeah, there's the cognitive dissonance of just pushing aside completely all of the build-up that came to that moment. It's like, we're going, we need to have this scene, the scene needs to happen. And the scene happened, it was terrible. But of course, like, I think the general sentiment is that these days, when it comes to subverting expectation and the general presence of the feels, it's like that ranks pretty highly with people, with critics, sorry, I don't want to say people, I feel like the people have a better idea of quality than this mainstream critics, because mainstream critics are just like, ah, the best things are the things that I am given tickets to go see by the studio when given accommodation at the festival that I'll be near, and you know, that sort of jazz. So I, I'm, I think you're on the ball. That's what I was trying to, I'm trying to, you say, Armand puts it to page, and I try, I'm like a historian on this article, I'm really trying to get into the nitty gritty, see what is hiding in between the words. Anyway, moving on, my heretic, how do you pronounce that probably? It's heretical, because I know it's heresy, heretical, heretical, I'm gonna say heretical, sorry for anyone who is right if I'm wrong. My heretical point when writing about Toy Story 3 was that this insulting franchise delim, delimited movies, particularly those targeted as children, as no longer expressive arts, but mere products, synonymous, synonymous for toys and the utility of toys. All reflection and imagination is a left to the manufacturer. There's nothing for the viewer to do but worship the formula. I disagree heavily. There is a lot of subtext to take away from those film. There's a lot of things to pick up, especially as you grow up. And while it isn't a very subtle franchise, there's a lot to look at in terms of what is being like presented to us. And just like the very simplistic kind of like the first thing they jump out to me is kind of like when Woody snubs the handshake from Buzz when he's like leaving Sunset in Toy Story 3, but then when they're saying goodbye, when Woody's about to be taken off to college, he gives him that handshake and if you're not paying attention or you're a little 10-year-old child like I was when I'm with a 10-year-old, 10, 12, I was younger when I went to see Toy Story 3 incidents. That would make sense, I reckon. That escaped my mind when I was a very little kid. And like re-watching it and picking up those little things, there was something else. I was watching it again with my partner recently and I picked something else up. There is a bit of takeaway. I get what he's trying to say, you know, the kind of, you know, it's being there to push products. I would totally agree with Toy Story 4 in a lot of ways. There's not a lot to be said about the new characters and in some ways that was kind of the case with Toy Story 3 with the new characters that were introduced in that. Not so much Lotso. He had a lot going on. Ken, there was character there as well. Ken was very entertaining in Toy Story 3, but more like Lotso's friends, the sidekicks, but honestly they were kind of like the lackeys or something. And they had their own personalities, but I would agree that there is an essence of, you know, the sort of cynical consumerism to try to push those toys. I think I understand a little bit here, Armand. Delimited movies, I suppose, particularly those hard-earned as children are. It's no longer expressive art, but it's no longer expressive art. All reflection imagination is left to the manufacturer to say. Then it's like, obviously, you've kind of, you already said they're a manufacturer, so you obviously don't want to give the credit of, like, there's expression within this art. Mere products are synonymous with toys in the utility toys. Utility of toys. That's not fair as well. There's a lot of, like, that's the main point of this franchise is how toys are used, like, with kids' animation, kids' animation. Imagination. And the different things and scenarios you could come up with. That's kind of, that was the point of another, what was it, the short film where I think it was, toy story of the time forgot, Trixie is Bonnie refers to Trixie as her reindeer, and then she uses a Christmas ornament as a dinosaur in her playtime, switching out their roles instead. And Trixie's having a bit of an identity crisis. It's kind of like, oh, I don't want to be a reindeer. I'm a dinosaur. But it's just like, it's Bonnie's imagination. She's having a lot of fun with just, like, putting them into different scenarios. And just, like, just because they're specifically this toy. Like, think about when you buy a toy from an established franchise. Like, think about, I remember having a Yoda toy from the prequels, I think it was. And, you know, it was kind of cool. But like, so weird with the toys when we were kids, like, oh, this is going to sound so sadistic, but it has a face that you could kind of take off because it was a lot more rubbery. And then, like, underneath, you have the eyes bulging out of the the plastic sort of protected that like holds all the mechanics in there that move the mouth and eyes when he's doing all of his, you know, sort of just like, he's like, that is why you fail and just all the go to rhythms. And, you know, we kind of use that as just like, you know, T 1000 Yoda coming to fucking get you or T 800 bull like T 1000 obviously liquefies. Um, yeah, but like the movies did that. It's like, you know, the aliens are attacking evil Dr. Pulch are cool. Like one eyed bar to like, you know, that's that's a pretty like cute thing for somebody to do in terms of like, that's you could say that stand to the manufacturer kind of expressing that imagination. But, you know, taking out one of the eyes of Mr. Potato Head and saying that's like, and he hides him, his identity by, you know, having both eyes in. But then like, he's known as one eye button, like they take out the arts, the arts, they take out the eye at the start of Toy Story one, so that like, I'm going to stop you one eyed Bartons is like, Oh, how'd you know it was me? And it's just, and it's just like, oh, yeah, like, you're kind of using the toys abilities to express their character and have a sense of imagination. It's just like, even outside of the playtime is that the characters have it's just like, even the place in the story, there's some creativity with that, especially with with Mr. Potato Head still and I'd say like slinky and how they used to get the toys out of jams and kind of explore all those opportunities. Like it's, it's, it's all there. Like, I don't know if I necessarily agree with this one. And I've, I've been completely with you every step of the way thus far, but this I'm going to have to take a step back. It goes on. In Toy Story four, the familiar characters, including Buzz Lightyear, Tim Allen, are joined by a new creation, Forky, joined by a new creation. Forky is not an expensively manufactured doll, but a doohickey handmade by Bonnie. This story's new human char progenitor. I'm not going to read that part, whatever. Bonnie invests wishing into Forky, a plastic spork outfitted with pipe cleaner arms and pasted on eye decals. No decals decals. No different from a perfectly used rag doll. Forky recalls the lonely desperation of bladed runners toy maker who said he made his friends himself. Yeah, Forky's, Forky's weird, Forky's creepy. And they don't, it would have helped a lot if everyone was helping with this new arrived Fork, but they made it just Woody's, oh my God, he isn't. Grammarly. Oh, thank you, I guess. Yay. Forky. If this is a criticism of Forky, I agree with it, but recalls the lonely desperation of bladed runners. Yeah, there's, there's a lot of weird stuff about Forky and there's a lot of rush sort of just like, you know, there's like, I'm Bonnie's trash. And just, I feel like it's even more confusing with Forky's character in terms of what he doesn't know, the discrepancy between what he does know and what he doesn't know, especially with, he knows what he's meant to be used for. He understands the concepts of annoyance and, you know, freedom essentially, like jumping out the car at the RV freedom. He understands his purpose as far as what he was once used for, what he was disposed of, but he doesn't know a bunch of these other things. It's kind of like, if I can bring it up, the Forky asks a question series where it's like, he doesn't know what time is, he doesn't know what, all these little this and that, like, it was weird with Buzz, like in terms of like what he didn't know, what he didn't know, it was played off for a bit of comedy in the first one is like, he would, he saw the world through a, a space ranges perspective of just like, you know, it's like, it's like, has your planet, has your civilization, civilization also discovered? Oh, what was it? Fossil fuels or crystallic fusion? And, but then, and then he causes like, where's that universal bonding strip? It's like, Mr. Lightyear once more tape. So it's kind of just, what he understands of the world is coming from this, more space range perspective, but Forky, what is his perspective? It is so pick and choose, and maybe that's kind of the point he's put together, but it really feels like kind of a lazy writing trick in terms of what, you know, the consistency of his character. It's like, I guess even then it's just like, he's too content at too soon of a time, if this is also on top, like his understanding of the world, you know, as soon as, as soon as Woody gives him, it's like your, your Bonnie's trash, he gives him that new sense of purpose. He is pretty chill for the rest of the film, other than like what he's, you know, when he gets kidnapped and shit. But otherwise he's pretty, he gets over his existential crisis pretty quickly. And they don't, yeah, just think about, if they did the buzz thing, imagine if Buzz saw the advertisement for his toy self, like near the start of the film at the end of the first act, shortly after he and Woody get lost. I really feel like it wouldn't have had the same sort of payoff that had, because I think that kind of ends act two, I think, with him going off to, sorry, it ends act two, when he, you know, with his, you know, like, Salem no more, you know, and just when he tries to fly, another one of my favorite scenes in Toy Story, a fair few of them include Buzz, go figure. What the fuck were we talking about? But oh yeah, just kind of comparing that with Forky's lonely desperation of Blade Runner's Toy Maker. I have a terrible confession to make. I've never seen Blade Runner, but I understand to an extent, I'm going to move this cable. So I don't whack into it anymore. Sorry for, sorry, sorry, you're hearing a bit of, all right, it's gone now. But understanding the kind of some of the base points of Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I remember skimming through that book in high school, at least part of a literature class, I know like, you know, androids play a huge partner and just the ideas and saying, I made his friends himself. I think this is a bit of a weird thread to pull out, bit of a, he's trying to segue into this point and just like, you know, Armored White is like, oh, look, I watched Blade Runner and just like, fuck you, I haven't. No, don't fuck you. Sorry, Armored. You know, I love you. I'm going to move on from that point. I think there's a lot that we could sort of vamp on for a bit, but we need to get through this. But that notion is even darker and more complicated than Pixar's nihilistic Wally. Nihilistic Wally is not nihilistic. It's sort of depressing when it starts off, but do you really see it going any other way in some regards? Like, I think it's a very realistic portrayal of where we get, like, it might have been too soon on the prediction, if I can remember just like when exactly all that's supposed to happen. Although, isn't it meant to be like thousands of years after, like, kind of where we are now, modern times, when they finally return? And it's very hopeful in terms of like, when they return, like, oh, we can recreate this and we can start again. So all we need is just that little spark and we just like, we need to keep ourselves in check. We need to remember what we appreciate about life. And I think a big element of that was taking the humans out of the earthly scenario. And it's just like, if we put them on a ship and let them like, divulge in their base desires, like, I think I can sort of see how those elements of it where it's like kind of nihilistic, it doesn't obviously portray humans in the most flattering of lights. But it doesn't say the lost causes either. It's just, it's very kind of realistic. I mean, look at what you're saying about kind of, you know, where this movie and like Toy Story as a whole, you know, the national anthem of America is pushing us in terms of like, you know, the mindless consumerism that you so, you know, that you go back to in terms of kind of where we're going with all this. So I was like, Wally, is that much of a stretch that we could that it's a potential for what could happen if we don't keep ourselves in check? We'd like, you know, it's like some like, what if we went full throttle into all of that? No, like, I would say it's certainly not unrealistic. I know you haven't said that. That's, that's the thing. It's just like, if I spoke to you Armand, I'd be curious as to whether you find Wally realistic or not. But nihilistic, I disagree. But I also digress. Thus, Bonnie's awkward as a spectrum imagination. Okay. You're very mean. Spectrum imagination brings unfair competition to Pixar's toy monopoly. So before he is characterized as a snarky, neurotic outcast, an existential threat to the regular toy characters. It's not really a threat. He's just like, he's in, he's a new he's a new perspective on things. And it's not really seen as a threat to the status quo. It's just a challenge to overcome a challenge that for some reason would be bestowed on himself entirely because he's got this weird quasi sort of selfish selflessness throughout this entire film that kind of flips his original character projection from the first three, excuse me, first three. An existential threat. I'd say like he's existential threat to himself in a lot of ways. And as I think it was Southpaw on the EFAP that was covering this was covering Toy Story 4, he said, it's just like, it's just like, it's just like for you, there's something you got to know about the trash. My friends and I like, we never had like the nicest relationship with trash. We always thought it's like, where we where are we going to go? It's just like, and you could say that's mean to view trash that way. I understand you have this warm fucking fuzzy feeling, whatever. But we went into the trash and where it was trying to send us was this fiery inferno. So I kind of butchered of what it could potentially be. But yeah, missed opportunity there. An existential threat to the regular toy characters were easily marketable tie ins. That's if forky is marketable in a lot of ways, because it is just like, oh, look at this fucking thing. Isn't it adorable, this little dibby that's just like, it's, look at it. It's, it's, it's, it's weird. And like, you look at how hard they've pushed the marketability. That's why I started off my review with a PowerPoint presentation on just like, you know, this sort of downward spiral is like, oh my God, what is this disgusting abomination forky? It's like neurotic outcast. He's like, he's sort of as much of an, like, oh, yeah, I guess I can't really disagree with you there in terms of like, he is an outcast initially. But do you think about that by the time they get to just like, what he said to meet him there and he kind of is already just a part of the crew by the very end. He's just got his own, you know, sort of it personality traits that make him different in terms of like, you know, it's like, you know, just, he just looks at people and goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, that's supposed, no, because that was, that was both. Sorry. There was a reason for him saying that because he was like saying that it sounded like the exact same audio when he said that earlier in the film. So that was weird. Anyway, moving past that. Yeah, I guess there's existential threat to the regular toy characters, I guess, because it is just like, it's like, what's marketable anymore? Pixar can fucking make this goddamn forky character. I'd say forky is more marketable than Ducky and Bunny. They thought that was going to be a thing, I'm sure. You know, I've, I'm not down in the, I'm not quite aware of what toys are popular these days. As far as I know, it's just fucking digital toys on roadblocks. But I've got little brothers and they've got Toy Story merchandise. They don't have anything from the fourth film as far as I know. And when we talked about this, I promise you, I didn't put this into, put this into their heads. They think Toy Story 4 is not very good as well, just saying. And that's from, that's from the target audience, you know, the ones who stand up for the Toy Story national anthem. I mean, they're not Americans. So that's the thing we'll say. I'm gonna do you're wrong. It's the international anthem. Anyway, yeah, I don't really have anything more to say that existential threat to the regular toy characters were easily marketable times. It's just like the ideas that's like, it's what he's like, oh, no, I'm not as marketable anymore. That's kind of like, that's sort of what they're fucking. Oh, God. And maybe you are more based on what I thought. Is there more after that? Oh, thank God. Toy Story 4's unsurprising journey home plot. Yeah, I'll agree with that. It's just, you know, they're doing the first Toy Story again. It's like, look at the twists and turns. Practice is big tech industrial hypnotism. Yes. Moving on. Fans, Pyxanoids. I love this. Pyxanoids. No definition is available. God, definition of a forkie, but not the damn Pyxanoids. You don't think outside the toy chest or even care about the development of ideas will settle for routine politically correct play occasion. As far as I know, actually, it's like, no, you're not as based as I thought you were. It turns out this isn't politically correct. I've seen a few articles that claim that the film is ableist, agist, homophobic and racist for reasons. I have no idea. And I didn't really, like that's just like in as much as I was like, you know, I felt like I was fueling on negative criticism of Toy Story 4. So I was like, I was like sussing out just these negative takes to see it's like, what are other people saying bad about this film? We like, what can I know my head at and try to avoid because I don't want to be saying the same things in the review. But yeah, there were some articles that were saying that there was a lot of issues because what was it because they were saying because it's still a predominantly white cast and like something about Ducky and Bunny being tokens. Very weird points. And excuse me. Oh, I think they were saying that like, what are you getting his voice box taking out? Like that's ableism because, you know, it's like, oh, so sad that he's not as he was, he's like less of a person because he's had part of him taken away. It's just like it's just like, I guess only in the superficial like what I said in the review is just like, he's still woody. He's had his voice box taken away, but that's his voice box isn't him. And I can kind of agree that that was kind of a misguided point that they were making in Toy Story 4 by saying that's like, he's taken away the toys, toys box, the toy box. Oh my god, the toy, what? Voice box. That's the words. I'm a bit tired. This may devolve soon. I've got to I've got to power through, but um, politically correct placation. No, Armand, you're wrong. Noid. This comes in the form. Okay, politically correct placation in Woody's All Flame, Bo Peep. I did not want to touch the, I saw some criticisms about Bo Peep being overly feminist and I made a joke about, I included the Gaslight Gay Keep Girl Boss meme in the, in the video because I thought that was like, I was paying a tiny little bit of lip service to that because I thought there may have been something, I thought it was just weird about, you know, yeah, the empowerment thing. It's like, oh, you're going into a little bit here actually. Um, wait, what's I, sorry, everyone. Hold on. It's real back. Yes. But I, I don't know. It's just, it's not really for me to say in terms of how woke or SJW this movie is in terms of like, you know, Bo's character. I just, I liked the idea of her actually becoming resilient and, you know, really strong in it and all of herself. That's why I appreciated the one scene that I thought was like, okay, that's still okay. And that's the, you know, the scene where her arm falls off and Woody's like, oh, and she's like laughing it off. I thought it's like, oh, that was funny. That was not, not funny. Like nothing in this movie is funny. But, um, yeah, there was, there was that. That's the only thing I really appreciated about her characterization. Um, that's what I wanted to focus on, just the mechanics of that characterization rather than the politics surrounding it. She even instructs Woody about change. Yes, I would definitely say she's very condescending in Toy Story 4. And, um, yeah, the way she, I do not appreciate the way that she talks to Woody in that movie and acts like he's in the wrong for all these things and puts him down for his sense of purpose, the sense of purpose that she, for a second, kind of shows some sympathy towards him. Like, when she's looking up kind of sad, like with that, what I mentioned as the tell done show about her past relationship with Molly. So yes. And that's all I'm going to say. I'm just like, we'll be like, both characters terrible. It's like, yes. And you're like, because she's it's politically correct. I'm like, oh, I just think the mechanics of a character are broken. Anyway, moving on. But if Toy Story fans are also film students, Pixar has given rise to a new category of unapologetic, but not necessarily cinema oriented geek. Oh, okay. Toy Story fans are also film students. I'm not a film student. I'm a music student, prick. Pixar has given rise to a new category of unapologetic, but not necessarily cinema oriented geek. Okay. So he's saying it's just like someone who's not too familiar with the cinema. I will have you know my history with film begins in Blockbuster. Blockbuster video. In my hometown, my dad, he was known as the blockbuster guy, because he was the manager there for like, two decades. Not at that specific store. He was more like the area manager and stuff. And he was known as the blockbuster guy. It was legendary. Because I would go in, I would just look around at all the blockbuster stuff and like, I just, oh fuck, who misses Blockbuster as well. It's kind of like when I when that closed down, it's like, oh, the library is closing down. Anyway, moving past that, it's like, it's like, yes, and I am not necessarily cinema oriented, I guess, in your definition, potentially. Let's have a talk about it sometime. This is my invitation to you to like, just talk. It's just like, very people disturb the passive enjoyment. Um, I am a Toy Story fan. I'm not a film student, but both people definitely disturbed my passive enjoyment. Although like, I think as I mentioned in the end of the review, I was pretty passive about it and overlooking a lot of the issues until the very ending. And I was like, wait a second, then I went back and had a look and just like, oh my god, this movie. Because like there were moments where it was like legitimately dipping, but I was like, oh, let's just wait for the end. It's all going to come together. It's going to be fine. Because I feel like I remember having that similar sort of feel during Toy Story 3 because I don't think I thought it was as good as Toy Story 1 and 2, but I still enjoyed it. I was still enjoying it and I still thought there was a lot like, you know, I was like, oh, they're pulling it together. There's like some dips, but they're doing really well. And this is when I was 12. And honestly, I feel like rewatching Toy Story, like when I watched Toy Story 4 for the first time, I was put back in that mindset because I was like, oh my god, it's the toys from Toy Story. And I was just like staring wide-eyed, just like, it's so cool to see these characters again and just like, oh man, look how pretty the animation is. And then I got to the end and I'm just like, fuck you. What have you done? So yes, it disturbed my passive enjoyment. As a digital creation, Oh, Peep Plastocene Sheen and Feminine Curves. All right. Recall Robert Zemeckis' eerie Welcome to Marwan, where female doll figures, whether heroic or villainous, came to life as representations of the social fears and psychopathology of its damaged protagonist, Mark Hogan, game Steve Carell. Welcome to Marwan flopped because it fell between family movie escapism and a social justice victimhood tract. Zemeckis couldn't navigate reality and fantasy and then trivialized the issue of post-traumatic stress by using superficial high-tech placebo. You have such a way with words. I didn't get any of that. I don't know this Welcome to Marwan movie, but because it fell between, this is like, this movie doesn't understand the difference between escapism and social justice victimhood tract or kind of just like the between reality and fantasy. I could see that. There's kind of, where does it want to be absurd? Where does it want to be realistic? Like with the characters of Ducky and Bunny, just like, it really wants to have that absurdity. And same with, with Forky, but then they, there's like, they do that in disregard to just everything that came before and all the other characters that are involved. Are we nearing the end? No. Um, effects, courtesy of Dreamworks, cousin to Disney Pixar. Cousin to Disney, they're not in the, just like fucking second cousin twice removed with some shit. You know, they don't like each other, right? I'm gonna, like, just say Jeffrey Katzenberg. I'll put that out there. I'll let you do the rest, Armand, if you're watching this, I know you definitely are. You absolutely are. Cause your name is involved and yeah, whatever. At least recognizing the desire to escape into childhood fantasy gave welcome to Mao and substance worthy of you as attention. Okay. Recognizing the desire to escape into childhood fantasy. That's the Toy Story 4. Recognize the escapist childhood fantasy because it's fucking childish in the fantasy. It wants Woody to reobtain and act as if like he had kind of suppressed the entire time. This is like, we're trying to say, at least the movie did something. At least the movie tried. So Toy Story 4 tried, sure, had a really nice coat of paint over a fucking house without foundations. But yeah, having exposed Hollywood's animated anthropomorphic impulse, all right, it relates to the current era... It's gone down the rabbit hole and I don't know how to climb back out. It leads to the current era of political hoaxes in which the struggle for political power, control of the narrative, reveals a loss of conviction and sense of futility. There is someone with a voice who I'm just trying to remember. Has he talked about the fucking villain? Has it gone about the plot really or the characters? He's skimmed over them, but he hasn't really talked about it as like why it doesn't work. It just says, it's just like, it's fucking SJW, whatever. Where am I? I'm looking at the words and I know I can read them, but I just do, excuse me, I feel so lost, I just don't know what to do. There's a loss of conviction and sense of futility. Sure, I'm going to just say yes because you are a smarter person than me. But when Pixar introduces a new stump man doll named Duke Kaboom, he is redundant. That is so true. That's easily the best thing you've said in this review. You may not have really qualified it very well, but yes, I absolutely agree that the character of Duke Kaboom just feels like such a cardboard cut out of buzz in terms of just like, you know, just like, it's like, our buzz can't, couldn't fly like he could in the thing. It's like Duke could jump like he could in the thing. He has a sort of naivety and like sort of dumbness and he's like, he's a hero figure. Yeah, I agree. I agree. And as much as Duke Kaboom is probably one of the better new characters by default, let's have a quick little. All right, who are the new characters you've got? I will say the new characters in the new gang that when he's a part of the new and better gang that gang he's going to be happier with. He's going to be happier with Gigawick Dimples who laughs at his past and what potentially has traumatic incidences. He, she laughs at that and says it's nothing. It's why would he, why, you know, there's people Ducky and Bunny who are beating up your friend. Bro, who puts you down and has terrible plans that gets everybody in danger. Fucking Keanu Kaboom, just not knowing, just being buzzed, but not buzzed, not a good buzz. There is not enough salt. Yeah, anyway, we've got. But I agree. I can't remember what else I was saying about like behind it, but yes. Duke Kaboom offers, voiced by Keanu Reeves, Duke Kaboom offers nothing else, nothing close to the giddy delight of that relentless surreal slapstick taxi cab battle in John Wick 2. He likes John Wick 2. I'm going to have to go off of your suggestion. So I'm going to like one day probably watch every movie that you've mentioned here, even if it's the one you've you've shown derision to. You're fucking wrong about Wally. Wally is like top five Pixar easily. What are the other movies? You say, sir, I've got to watch Blade Runner. I need to watch these to understand your review. Welcome to Malwen and John Wick 2. I haven't seen John Wick 1, but I'm going to watch John Wick 2. All right. Off is something else close to the. Yeah, that's kind of like Duke doesn't really have anything cool in the way of his actions. Like he's kind of funny. He's got gives a few chuckles, but his chuckles are at the expense of making fun of Buzz and Jesse. As you mentioned before, in terms of him having the similar motivations, but whereas Buzz, there's kind of a there are jokes to be made about it, but it is really sad. You think it's like it's like he's entire life has been alive, however long that entire life was. Then yeah, stuff happened. You know, a less enjoyable franchise it perpetuated by Toy Story 4. Pixar continues to indoctrinate viewers into childish compulsive consumers. Maybe we'll leave it at that. I'm just going to say yes. You had like the Buzz Lightyear point. It's like, fuck yeah, Armand. Go on everybody. That's that's Armand right there. That's his archive page. You're way better than me, Armand. I didn't. I don't have an archive page. Armand White is a culture critic writes about movies for national review and is the author of New Position The Prince Chronicles Chronicles. His new book makes Spielberg great again. Stephen Spielberg Chronicles is available at Amazon. I know what that is. Someone's is that his three times chair 18 18 comments. Oh, should we have a we'll have a quick look. Okay. Adding an extra however long this review is going forward. It's politics now. Let's stay away from that. Let's stay with politics after this review was politics. Let's have a look at the comments. Are these the comments? Oh, come on. Don't you fucking talk shit about Armand. I remember the story of the man guarding the Mona Lisa and a viewer scornfully murders. I don't think it's that great. The guard leans toward the viewer and whistles. The painting is no longer being critiqued. The viewer is. All right. Whatever. My husband and I took our granddaughters this past week to see Toy Story 4 and I barely laughed and then sobbed and left with dark glasses on. Left with dark glasses on. Like you're done. Your glasses got darkened by watching the film. He's just like as you're watching the film, they just like went to a sepia filter. Um, what's this little handshake thing? Is that like that's the vision of lax just pressing on the handshakes? Huh? I'll have to log in. So I'm going to click on that. So I've been left with dark glasses on. Comforted with comforted that other parents and grandparents felt the same. I feel chagrin for N.I. in getting it so wrong. Seed. Feel. Believe. Despair. Rejoice. Kiffon. Joy. Sometimes just feeling anything rather than outrage at imbeciles feels plain or good. For heaven's sakes, the toys tell us about ourselves and you know that. So just go with it and have one hour and 40 minutes of happiness and feeling something akin to the occasional proverb and treaty. Yes! You got him. Made a corte. Made a corte? However you pronounce that. I'm getting words so wrong in this, but I will. I saw Toy Story 4 with my kids. I didn't see in it all the horrors that Armin sees, but I was, excuse me, I was saying that it isn't great. Okay, but I'll say that it wasn't great. Yes, Cory. Watching the Toy Story movies is a bit like listening to Reggie against the Machine. It's like, oh cool, they made the same outfit again. Neat. Toy Story movies are all decent, but they basically made the same movie four times in a row. No, they have not. Yes, there's similar elements to kind of like, you know, when you get separated from the team to find them again, at least in the third one, it was more of a choice you made yourself, although by accident, yeah, that's for like, all right, I can see they're the same fucking movie. At least the second one just did it better. Armin, you're the best film critic writing in my humble opinion. I'm sure you won't let them grind you down. Yes, Steve Ox. We are all on that side. Oh, I like, so yeah, you press that and this, it's like this comment was given two handshakes. Pope Sixtus the... Is that six? I think that's six. Pope Sixtus the sixth. NI is never going to cover it unless they do, but the actual reason we're in this mess is because Disney screwed up the public domain. Yep, when the lobbied Congress for bigger and bigger extensions on copyright explorations until now, where it's like 90 years plus and they're probably going to extend it again with nothing going into public domain, all Disney can do is remake their old stuff. Yeah, they can also make new stuff. They're pretty good at that. They're doing that sometimes, especially Pixar. They're not remaking something, unless we look at Corey's point and they made the same movie again, Rage Against the Machine. It's like, oh, I guess I should come to bat for Rage Against the Machine. It's like, I like some Rage Against the Machine. Yeah, that's my defense. But yeah, like, yeah, the copyright bullshit with the thing Disney is bullshit. Yeah, I agree. Oh, this one has eight handshakes. Oh dear, a movie for children that features toys. The horror. The horror. I don't know. Did he say just like, where in his review did he say, oh, the toys, straw manned him, diamond, diamond little. Here comes Fat Ol, but with ten handshakes to say, I must say almond that you are consistent. Is he there? Pick your popular movie. Well, eviscerate said movie, then move to next popular movie. Occasionally take time out to extol the virtues of some obscure film that nobody's seen or cares about. Ah, the life of a contrarian film critic rising above the hoiberloy of common film viewers. I know it must be fun to be so much smarter than everybody else. Hopefully that makes it for being so miserable. Everything you watch it. Miserable. Everything you watch a movie. Damn you, Fat Albert. Armand is a saint, and he tells it like it is, and it is like he tells it. Do grubbets, two handshakes, spot on. I don't necessarily disagree with this characterization of Mr. White. However, Mr. White was the next review. No voices. However, I think society is the richer for it. Sometimes I feel like slapping someone after what seems like the millionth time I hear they love Frozen. Oh, so let them like it. It's kind of the thing. If somebody says they like Toy Story 4, I'm like, okay, it's great. If they say it's a good movie, though, then it's like, sorry, that I'm going to try to compress that in post to make sure that wasn't that loud. Movie gone. I often enjoy crappy movies. Oh, you said it yourself. So it's like, if they say they love it, it's like, it's, you know, whether or not they like or love, let people love what they want to love. Some people love Frozen. Some people like Toy Story 4. I love Armand White. Are you going to slap me? Kunamu? Kunamu? That's how I'm going to court you. I often enjoy crappy movies, but I try to at least be aware that they are actually, they actually are crappy. Yeah, maybe that's like, if somebody says, I love Frozen, and it's just like, you know, it's crappy, right? It's like, yeah, I just love it. What are you going to do then? Are you going to slap him still? Many people meander through life, perfectly ignorant, believing that Toy Story 4 is God's gift to film. I'd never say anyone say that. I've seen people say that it's the best of the franchise and they're wrong. If it's their favorite one, I'm like, oh, okay. Sure, go ahead. Whether or not Toy Story is meaningless consumerism. Hey, he said mindless. I will not read the review, Dadio. Oh, that's cringe. It's not cringe that his name is Dadio. It's just cringe that I said Dadio and the way that I said it. The art style has always been horrendous to me. Pixar has never made a beautiful film. Does anyone challenge the fact that hand-drawn animation was the peak? I've seen some hand-drawn animation that's worse than this. Have you seen most adult animated? That's hand-drawn. If we go hand-drawn and say like 2D animated, just like hand sculpted hand-drawn. I don't know, hands drew this. They just drew it with mouses or with stylus pens. Digital art and hand-drawn are two different forms. Comparing one to the other is like comparing an oil painting to a watercolor and complaining of the watercolor that lacks the vibrancy of the oil. Yeah, Fat Albert coming in with a swing with five, eight handshakes. Why don't I read that as five? Yeah, whatever. It's just like they're kind of two different things and like, you could still say it's like why the animation is better in one thing and not the other. If they're two, if one is hand-drawn and the other is so and so, so and what. Except not all watercolor paintings are painful to look at. I'm just a CG racist deal with it. I'm kind of like that as a, it's like, sorry Daddy, I know you're not saying this exactly, but it's like, I'm just a racist deal with it. I know you're a CG racist, so that's not a actual racist. It's just sound funny. I'm just let me have my joke, Daddy. I try not to defame you. I was like, I hope this isn't doxing. Like you guys commented this, so there you go. I don't have to. It's your problem with three handshakes. Good job, fat Albert. I don't agree at all. That's like saying postmodern art is a different form than classical frescoes and we can't compare the two. Academics and artists constantly debate and interpret the two forms and objective or reasonable arguments can be made in favor of one or the other at any time. Can I do you? Are you objective? Do you know? Dutch Vandal says, I bet almond white is super fun parties. You know what? I reckon he fucking is. I want almond white to come to my birthday party and punch the clown. He's not a violent man, I'm sure of it. But four handshakes says, I also genuinely bet almond white would be really fun at parties. Sandor Clegane, game of thrones says, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of TS at all, at least TS three, as I haven't seen the fourth one yet. Quite frankly, I always thought of Pixar movies as free of politics. I mean, yeah, this depends which one you're talking about. What are the politics of cars, you know, other than like highway extensions that bypass town into roads, you know, it's just like we need to like, go against the government to say, just like stop bypassing a beautiful little town, our town. That was a sad scene. First cars is fine, you know, Wally, dark and nihilistic. I'm just not saying it. Yeah, you agree. It's not really dark and nihilistic. It's, it's dark. It's probably like, well, other than soul, that soul is not as good as Wally, but not by any stretch. I think soul is the closest one that's like, oh, PSI you piqued my interest in terms of, like the story is pretty fucking botched in soul. But the characters are decent and the concepts explored are pretty interesting. It's unfortunate they couldn't stick the landing on some of the mechanics of the story. I'm just not seeing it that perhaps my problem is that I try to see the good movies before picking them apart. Unless you can see the social justice crap coming from a mile away. That's your, I never saw Bonnie as mixed race. Not many people did, and I don't think it's really a whatever. Who cares? Who cares what race Bonnie is? Toy Story 3 was a great coming of age movie. Oh, coming of age to describe Toy Story 3. I can see it as that. Woody kind of comes of age and Andy does in some ways. I saw a lot of humor in the Spanish movie Buzz, but not because he was so over the top of his room. His quest to win Jesse because it exposed how many toys have software and that software can be buggy in amusing ways. I agree. I kind of liked exploring that. I know a lot of people say it's a kind of suck that we didn't have the real Buzz for a fair portion of that film. I thought it was entertaining at least, but yeah, I could definitely agree. It would be cool to see like what Buzz would actually be like in those scenarios, especially since like he's just like he's in the rubbish. I kind of like how quickly he is. He doesn't have like much of the context unless he got it while they were in the garbage truck on the way to the tip, like where they fully filmed them in. Like I can't imagine there would be quite a story. And then you turn to Spanish and and then the baby was sitting creepily on a swing and looked around like and then he was like charging up the rest and the monkey was like and we had to do the monkey tape. But yeah, because he was sort of the top of Kismar and because I mean he was over the top of Kismar and his quest to win Jesse. I love like no matter what, like it's like if Buzz is regular, if he's if he's either Spanish or normal. Oh no. That's not what I mean. I mean, if he's just like the original Buzz that we know, he really he has a lot of that Jesse. Even when he's factory reset, he recognizes like he does like Jesse to some extent. It's just like you're good. You're positive. Whatever he says something good looks and then smoldering good looks or something like that. And then when he's Spanish, he's just like, I will die for you. It's just like it's it was kind of sweet that like they were still able to do that the character stuff was like, I love it. It's just like it's ingrained in him to care about Jesse. All right, what were we up to? Because it was a great message about standing up to and even helping bullies and turning the other cheek instead of forming a mob for revenge. Oh shit. Yeah, I could say that standing up to helping the bullies like even it's just like lots of didn't really I guess you could say he didn't really earn the assistance that Woody and Buzz gave him. And he definitely didn't appreciate it or follow through and like returning the favor. And that's right. Yeah, the great message of instead of just like, oh, should we go after him? And I was like, no, just leave him. He's not for us to worry about anymore. We gave him a chance. We helped him. It's just like we did out of the kindness kindness of our hearts. And he didn't return that. So yeah, I agree with the was a great message about standing up to bullies. Absolutely. I love Jesse's forthrightness and just the ways I'm going to take it lying down. They're really going to say it's just like you're a liar and a bully. It's like one of my favorite Jesse moments because it kind of has a very simple sort of bluntness and just like and it kind of like almost a childish kind of flair, a youthful sort of thing to it. I don't know. It's hard to describe because like Jesse is just so forthright. Here in Buzz, man, the great characters only were great characters. Then this Toy Story 4 thing happened. Is that a form of revenge? Like, yeah. Yeah. I will be seeing the fourth installment with my wife and possibly add two year olds. Don't do it. Don't do it. What's your name? Sandor. Don't see it. Don't go watch it. You probably already have. It's been two years. If you can sit through it, I'll pass judgment on it until then. It's a pretty reasonable response. That's probably the best comment I've seen out of these so far. Wally was kind of dark and nihilistic. So what? It also often hope ends cute robots to laugh at. It was a beautiful movie and just loves to be the contrarian Duke Roberts with the Four Hand Chicks report. Yeah. It was kind of, it was a lot darker than previous Pixar movies and some of the modern Pixar movies had a very unique time that it just was able to sustain through the whole movie. That's so hard to describe. I love that movie. I love to talk about it one day to some capacity. But yes, it gave it hope ends cute robots. It's a beautiful movie. I agree that I love Wally a lot. I would love to do a ranking of Pixar movies one day. So I've got other stuff to do. All right. Sandor comes back. I completely agree and loved Wally, but I just didn't see what made it dark and nihilistic. And that's a good place to end. Toy Story 4 is terrible. Armand is right. Maybe for different reasons. I love italicized title for the movie and then just regular books. No, this font is as well very official. And I can listen to the article as well. Fuck yeah. Woody and Bo Peep. And you're forgetting that there's a third character in this goddamn picture, Armand. Who cares? It's good. Who cares about Giggle? Piece of shit. Well, Armand. The Rotten Tomatoes appeared in your, would we call them Rotten? Oh, that's not fair to you guys. I thank you all for commenting. It's not my thing, but I just, so I could extend this video after a little bit more. Everybody, thank you so much for whoever watched this. This was very loose and all the places. Sorry if there was some gaps or if I said something that was mean. You just got to deal with it because this is the first time I've ever sort of streamished something or rather so. Yeah, all I'll say is thank you so much. I'm going to end this thing now.