That’s not what the film is about though… spoilers ahead
spoiler
Bonnie is struggling to make friends because she still plays with toys but all the other kids play online games together. So her parents get her a tablet. However, the other kids find out that Bonnie still plays with toys and they start to cyber-bully her
Eventually the toys realize that the tablet is a toy and they become friends with the tablet and use it to help Bonnie find a long-distance friend that also plays with toys. The two girls become friends and they use the table to play online games when they’re apart and use it as a physical toy when they are together… like using it to play music for their wedding or pretending it’s a UFO abducting the other toys.
In the end, when the other kids see Bonnie and her friend playing outside they too want to go outside and join in
The movie straight up starts out with the toys thinking the tablet is bad because the kids aren’t playing like their previous owners did and eventually they realize that the kids are playing, they’re just playing in a different way and that’s OK
At one point the tablet thinks it’s bad for Bonnie and literally tries to throw itself away and the other toys rescue it.
The movie doesn’t say, “tablets are bad”, it encourages you to use it as a toy… both as something to play games on but also as a physical toy that you use your imagination with. Use it to put on a light show for your dance party… that kind of thing
- 9 hours
What kind of idiot takes a toddler to a movie? They’re not wired for that yet…
- 5 hours
Movie theaters aren’t for toddlers, no matter what the movie…
- 4 hours
Could be one of those special screenings for parents to bring thier squealing children to 😅
- 2 hours
Possibly, but people don’t seem to give a shit.
I can’t really complain, the last movie I saw in the Theater was Avengers, EndGame…
No, this is c/memes. But a screenshot of a comment without any recontextualization isn’t a meme.
- 9 hours
Wack, the definition I have here is
“Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.”
Of course there are some other definitions, but I’d assume this community intends the most open interpretation otherwise they’d have a more specific one listed in the comm rules
10 hoursIf this qualifies as a meme, then literally anything posted here would as well, making the term useless.
- 9 hours
If you’re having a disagreement, and are unwilling to move on your position at all, you’re not having a discussion, you’re attempting to out lecture somebody who’s probably doing the same thing. That person might be an expert in some tangentially related field. That person might be an irredeemable cretin who enjoys arguing on the Internet more than anything else.
- 1 day
I miss the good ol’ days when mass-market TV is what rotted kids’ brains. Brain-rotting TikTok slop is totally different from that.
- 9 hours
It definitely seems more… Distilled? Concentrated?
There’s also much less opportunity for regulation and a far more rapid response to shifting incentives
The short form really fucks people up. Tiktok specially is less important. Reels and youtube shorts both as well
- 11 hours
yeah, but those of us who grew up on tv didn’t have ubiquitous access to screens either.
- 9 hours
I grew up in the '70s. My parents limited us to one hour of TV per day, but I had friends who spent nearly every waking hour when they weren’t in school parked in front of the television. Like, six to seven hours per day and more on the weekends. The stats back that up, too.
- 8 hours
Though pre-DVR TV and especially a household too poor for cable the television was… a bit less continuously interesting. Having even a VCR was just amazing and that was a royal pain meaning you really had to pick and choose what to record. Most of the time you didn’t even have anything you wanted to watch that happened to be playing right then. Even when you did want to watch, good chance it is a rerun and you only half paid attention if you bothered at all.
The on-demand nature of it and the volume of it are really what makes it just constant.
- 9 hours
I’ve seen parents pushing toddlers around strapped into a stroller with a tablet mounted on an arm right at the kid’s eye level. Even if the kid wanted to stop looking at the tablet, they’d have a hard time. They’re basically Ludovico Technique-ing their own kids.
- 8 hours
Exactly, my generation grew up with the good brain rot, we all knew the same marketing jingles and all made our parents spend their money on the same toys the cartoons told us to get.
First problem: They paid to go to the theater to see a crappy movie. Any 5th any movie is going to be a rehash.
Second problem: Parents not parenting correctly, resulting in even more brain rot than the 5th movie could do alone.
Any 5th any movie is going to be a rehash.
Have you seen it, or do you even know anything about it? This one’s getting solid reviews from critics and audiences. And I say this as someone who’s never gotten into the franchise and didn’t even watch 4 or 5; I have nothing to personally defend here. The Schafrillas review (also on Nebula) was quite positive, and he went in with the same expectations you’re talking about here.
If you’re going to be a pretentious, overgeneralizing jackass, maybe don’t pick on the movie with a 93%/7.8 on Rotten Tomatoes.
I think people forget a lot of the people who work on it are still super passionate people so it’s still gonna be good.
Have you seen it, or do you even know anything about it?
My kids did, said to wait til it’s on streaming.
This one’s getting solid reviews from critics and audiences. And I say this as someone who’s never gotten into the franchise and didn’t even watch 4 or 5; I have nothing to personally defend here.
Reviews don’t mean much anymore. Too many reviews today are bought and paid for. Box office returns are about the only truth you’ll find now a days and the truth is: The general public is getting tired of ‘Toy Story’.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Toy-Story
When you convert the numbers to account for inflation, then tie them directly to a chart you quite literally see a downward trend in people going. The entire theme has become banal to some and that number has grown exponentially since Lightyear was released (which was a financial loss btw).
If you’re going to be a pretentious, overgeneralizing jackass, maybe don’t pick on the movie with a 93%/7.8 on Rotten Tomatoes.
If you don’t have anything to personally defend here, then why make direct attacks like this? Doesn’t add up.
- 13 hours
Toy Story 5 is on track to earn $1.2B theatrically worldwide compared to $1B for Toy Story 4. Not sure what downward trend you’re talking about, given that movie theatres never fully recovered from the streaming rise + pandemic double whammy.
- 1 day
Are box office returns actually a good indicator or is that just proportional to advertising spend?
Box office returns are quite literally theater ticket sales that can be tracked by county.
Higher levels of returns can correlate to advertising dollars spent for sure, but so can total positive reviews, word of mouth and merchandising.
More details can be found here https://www.slashfilm.com/1627687/how-movie-box-office-actually-works/
- 1 day
Yeah I guess I was just thinking that a movie like Toy Story 5 might have a massive advertising budget and so lots of people might know about it and go and see it. A movie with a smaller advertising budget might be objectively better but sell a lot fewer tickets. So ticket sales might not be much better than reviews to indicate how good a movie is.
- 1 day
Incorrect. Sometimes frenchises are revived because someone haa a really neat idea which I think was the case this time. I expected nothing and what I got was a clever, funny and heartwarming movie with a real message. I really recommend giving it a chance, for me it was a lot better than Toy Story 3 and 4.
Oh he’s full of shit wait until number 8. that’s the prime movie.
I saw it with my kiddos. I thought it was pretty good. Better than most movies out there. Smarty Pants is my new favorite character in the series (previously held my Duke Kaboom).
I don’t even have kids, and thought it was pretty good. Little heavy handed on the messaging up front, but they really pulled it together at the end of the movie. Solid 7/10 and well worth seeing.
Lethal Weapon 5
An Always Sunny joke for so long, they’re actually making it for real.
Danny Glover still a few days from retirement…
Shit, I didn’t even know they had made a Leathal Weapon 3. 1980s stuff right there.
I know the movie. I mean, proof of the kid and parents thing. Why I have to trust a random stranger?
proof of the kid and parents thing
Spend some time around todays parents and their young kids. It’s so incredibly common to see small kids (I’m talking 2-8y/o) just completely enticed by a screen, ignoring everything else around them, and screaming their heads off whenever it’s taken away. It’s become a bit of an epidemic, with many many article’s and videos discussing the topic.
Here’s the first result I got on YouTube: (having just now listened to it while typing this comment, it actually does a descent job explaining the problem) https://youtu.be/QE_E9Q9jVzU Feel free to do further searching yourself…
It’s not limited to just children either, they’re just the most susceptible.
