Originally Posted by
Pike
The funny thing about Toy Story is that it was far from the first movie to use "toys coming alive" as a theme. I can think of two other movies that did it first that I watched a million times as a kid and those actually inspired me to start writing my first novel (about my toys coming alive and waging war on each other, of course) when I was about twelve years old. Toy Story came out about a year later and I recall thinking "Great, now no one will ever read my book"
(Yes that book was completed. No, no one gets to read it because I wrote it when I was a kid and it's terrible. xD)
Nothing at all against Toy Story though; it's great. It was a huge deal when it came out because of the CGI thing, and for successfully pulling off what Walt Disney did decades before - turning a technological marvel into a story that people care about.
Out of curiosity, what two movies are those? I remember one myself but I think it was a made-for-TV thing that probably barely anyone else saw. Then again I think it was Jim Henson so maybe it got more exposure than I'm expecting.
Anyway, yeah, classic films. I don't remember 2 that well but 1 and 3 are classics. If you don't bawl like a baby at that one part of 3 (you'll know the part if you've seen it) you probably have no soul. Then again the same could be said for several of Pixar's other films as well.
Also I saw
this earlier today and it blew my mind.