We watched Finding Nemo with Owen for the first time on Friday and he can now say, "Disney" and "Pixar". It's amazing to me how much I rediscovered the movie watching with my own child.

He also enjoys Monsters, Inc. which is my favorite.

I need to go out and buy these movies so we can watch them without the stoopid commercials.

I need to go out and buy these movies so we can watch them without the stoopid commercials.

Heh. O is now at the age where you will watch and rewatch those movies until you've memorized them. I think Emmett's seen both Toy Story movies about 40-50 times.

Hee hee. I must tag this. May I?

But of course!

I can believe it's good, but I can't separate it from the MST filter. Our appreciation for westerns just didn't extend that far.

Oh yeah. It's one of my favorite movies, but at least one viewing has led some friends and I (under the influence of certain influences) to mock it like it was Manos, Hand of Fate. It's just soooo extreme (with the insanely long scenes, the tracking shots that seem to go on well past the breaking point, the random violence, the crazy macho pissing matches that make no sense, the abrupt anti-climax) that it's practically an über-Western.

My nephew will jump and fall down, and then yell, "Em rogin!" His folks explained that this meant he was Buzz Lightyear, and he was broken. Then he'd get fixed, and shoot at us with his arm laser.

Cute, but slightly worrying.

it's one of my favorite movies, but at least one viewing has led some friends and I (under the influence of certain influences) to mock it like it was Manos, Hand of Fate.

Oh, phew, I thought you might be shaking your head sadly at us. Between the mocking and the endlessness, we completely lost the plot, so there was a lot of "Does anyone remember what he's trying to do?" Come to think of it, we may have walked down the street to watch the Hayward fireworks in the middle, which can't possibly have helped. Or maybe that was after.

I think Emmett's seen both Toy Story movies about 40-50 times.

We're up to about that count with Nemo and Shrek, I think. B. didn't like Toy Story 2 when I tried to watch it with him a year or so ago and asked me to turn it off. Maybe it's about time to try again. He also loves The Incredibles but doesn't ask to watch it often, I think it's almost a bit much for him.

Thank God Pixar movies stand up to repeated (and repeated and repeated) viewings.

(ETA: I know Shrek isn't Pixar, and in fact SO and I did tire of rewatching it soon than with the others. Make of that what you will).

Amen to Pixar. We saw Cars yesterday, and Casper got a little bored and sleepy in the middle - as did I, really. The plot felt a little Disnified. But still a great film. My favorite parts (not spoilers for plot or anything, I'm whitefonting just to be careful, but you might want to read if you like to look for things while you watch) - catching the birds on the power line at the start of the drive west - they're the birds from the Pixar short - and after the end at the drive-in, with John Ratzenburger and the earlier movies re-done with cars. I am a sucker for Pixar in-jokes.

We own Bug's Life, Toy Story I and II, Nemo, Incredibles, and all the shorts. Casper has seen the first 3 and the shorts approximately 1 zillion times each, but has only now (at 2 and 3/4) been able to start getting Nemo, and has seen Incredibles once I think but it was over her head still. We rented Monsters Inc last month and had to spend the next fortnight of bedtimes having her beg, "Talk about Boo!"

We saw The Break-up last night. I highly recommend it; it is not at all like your typical romantic comedy. It goes back and forth from being funny to painful realistic through much of the movie.

Heh. O is now at the age where you will watch and rewatch those movies until you've memorized them. I think Emmett's seen both Toy Story movies about 40-50 times.

The good thing about most of the Pixar films is that I can watch them multiple times, too and not want to stick a hot poker into my eyes. Monsters, Inc, Finding Nemo and Toy Story have so many adult-level jokes that I really don't get tired of them.

I just realized that two of the cast of Munich are in Finding Nemo--Eric Bana is the voice of one of the sharks (along with Gyro Captain, Bruce Spence) and Geoffrey Rush as Nigel the Pelican.

The good thing about most of the Pixar films is that I can watch them multiple times, too and not want to stick a hot poker into my eyes.

Me, too. Sara's been on a Monster's Inc. kick, and that's fine with me.

When Jake was her age (before DVDs!), his big movie was 101 Dalmations, which he called The Puppy Movie. We watched it probably once a day. I loved it, and still do, but there were times when "Cruella DeVil" was a constant, unpleasant earworm.

O is now at the age where you will watch and rewatch those movies until you've memorized them.

So...about 28, then?