Time Magazine’s critic, Richard Corliss, has his Top 10 Movies of 2010 list in this week’s issue, and he’s got Toy Story 3 as his #1 film of the year! He’s always been a big champion of animation, so this isn’t a shock, but nice to see.
This is great! TS3 definately deserves it! 
I’m not surprised he put Toy Story 3 first. It really is the best film of the year! x
I am not surprised. TS3 was great 
Amazingness! And we can count on that Toy Story 3 will be on a lot more lists to come!
Great.
“Great” hmm, how about “Good”
Well, it’s the 3rd year in a row he has selected an animated film. And it is indeed true that this year, in particular, there were 3 excellent to extraordinary such movies. I wouldn’t have selected it #1, same as his pick last year, The Princess and the Frog, tho both it and TS3 are excellent movies indeed. I would agree with some that Social Network is the best live action film and might get the big awards. The problem is, half the really good movies come out this time of the year, and us paparazzi don’t have the advantage of been sent review dvd’s a month in advance. I’m just not hearing about any challengers.
Why do these ‘serious’ movies always seem to win? It’s because 20% of the Academy, the largest block, are actors, and don’t vote against their own bread and butter. They truly feel that animated movies are just not important (to society), and are geared to family fare. The art house and morose films have the advantage, sad to say. Hurt Locker won cuz it showed us what really is, or was (we are mostly out of Iraq now) going on over there. And it’s the same story with the Zuckerberg revelation. Fantasy takes a back seat.
I meant great; he should have picked HtTYD. I’d say TS3 is more at a #2 or 3 level, but by no means a 1.
Thx for clarifying that and I would pick the Dragon* as #1 also, or maybe a tie with the Facebook movie, altho hard to say ‘this early’ in the year – lol, it’s late in the year, but who has seen half of the movies which will be nominated, many of which aren’t out yet (still have to see the Franco xxx hours movie, trapped in the Southwest, which was shown at the Mill Valley Film Festival, a hop and a skip from A. Stanton’s digs).
*I find Despicable Me’s ending just adorable, but the beginning didn’t seem to draw me in, the only real flaw. A struggling villain is novel, or was until DW happened to come up with the same idea this fall.
Well, just read Richard Corliss’ bio over on the wiki. He is about 66 years old now. It’s ‘great’ to see an over-50 person like me with such a love, zest, of life to enjoy animated films so tremendously. I wonder if Disney, who died at that age, had any diminished capacity to enjoy them, hmm. Animation at that time kinda sucked, except Saturday morning cartoons and nascent Japanese anime, like Kimba (Leo) the White Lion.
Ah. I haven’t seen Despicable Me. : /
Yet again, Toy Story 3 doesn’t disappoint. It’s the perfecet animated film, and truly deserves it. The other animated films of the year were okay, but none really had the same depth. As for other live action films, there isn’t really anything that stands out. Making a movie about Facebook just doesn’t interest me at all.
Eh, what annoys me about the facebook movie(aside from a pretty pathetic movie idea) is that it lied about the life and work of a real man who is alive today. And people believe, making it worse!! I don’t believe in lying, even in the media. Not cool. 
Oh yeah, I didn’t even get to that, but you’re completely right. I bet if someone actually knew his life story, they’d be laughing throughout the film. Still waiting on the MySpace film adaption.
I really feel for the guy who made facebook, because now everyone thinks he’s someone he’s not. 
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I know. I didn’t bother to see that movie, because it seemed to be all about fighting and drama, and I don’t know who is correct- Zuckerberg or the movie makers.
Yeah. I like fiction, but not a ficticous lie based on real events and a real man.
Watcher Beware. How can you vote for a movie that isn’t true? Art and entertainment is more important than someone’s reputation! Apparently, the movie is based on the Accidental Billionaires book and that book was inspired by conversations with the author by the Eduardo guy who sues in the movie, and apparently won some shares in a settlement. Zuckerberg himself wasn’t interviewed and the core Facebook employees find it disingenuous. And every major link I’ve looked up repeats this ‘honest portrayal?’ theme.
Anyways, back on topic: TS3 doesn’t have a chance vs. this controversial film, altho it might be nominated and it might even win some awards, maybe best animated. By the way, I read that Disney himself was nominated for more Academy Awards than anyone, so I’m feeling in a good mood today.
I’d give Toy Story 3 a chance. I mean, there’s always been film snobs, but when someone like Armond White, or that other moron who gave TS3 a negative review, it was so obviously fake that they weren’t fooling anyone. Honestly, I could probably get away with calling it perfect, since there’s really no one who can bring up a valid negative point about it. But that’s just another aspect of Pixar itself.
Now, granted, I haven’t seen the Social Network yet, but the fact that I really have no interest whatsoever really spoils things. I may give it fair shot by watching it, but I have a feeling I’m just going into another disappointment.
I’ll never watch TSN. If I do, then not by my choice. It represents things I have no respect or tolerance for.