Quentin Tarantino Says He Has “No Desire” To Watch ‘Toy Story 4’: “I Don’t Care If It’s Good”

https://deadline.com/2024/08/quentin-tarantino-toy-story-4-1236049961/

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  2. >In the case of Toy Story, the third one is just magnificent,” he explained to Maher, who said he had never watched the films. “It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve seen the other two, it’s just devastating. But the thing is, then three years later or something they did a fourth, and I have no desire to see it. You literally ended the story as perfect as you could, so no, I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done.

    Honestly that’s totally respectable. I get it.

  3. I just finished listening to the podcast ep, and to provide further context here’s what he said: Of all the movie trilogies, he feels the Clint Eastwood-starring (unofficial) “Man from Nowhere” trilogy the only one where each film has clearly topped the previous one. (Try it out for yourself, I know I can’t name one. But for the record, LOTR doesn’t count because that’s one story.)

    Regarding ‘Toy Story’ he said the same thing, and I fully agree. Toy Story 3 ended on a perfect note: There was absolutely no need for a 4th installment.

    Unfortunately I saw the 4th one and disliked it immensely: That little girl in it was a monster who discarded Woody and there was very little emphasis on all of the great side characters. In my own head-canon, I never consider Toy Story 4.

  4. I’m the same. The third movie felt definitive and as someone who grew up with the series, (I was 6 when I saw the original in theaters) Andy leaving for college was kind of the perfect send off for me turning 20.

  6. Eh, I feel as a movie enjoyer, one should watch all movies in their life time. Even if they are horrible, at least you can say you watched it and yeah, it’s a horrible movie.

  7. Toy Story 3 wasn’t perfect, in fact I haven’t re-watched it since it came out in theaters in 2010, but as someone who grew up as a kid with Toy Story and Toy Story 2 and watched them countless times in the mid to late 90’s and early 2000’s, Toy Story 3 was the ‘perfect conclusion.’

    I have no desire to watch Toy Story 4 let alone Toy Story 5. These are for Gen Z.

    Andy (and Buster!) represented me and my dog from childhood to adulthood through out the trilogy.

  9. I would agree that Toy Story 1-3 is the core story, which has been told and is great.

    Toy Story 4 is essentially an epilogue to the original trilogy… but it is an amazing movie and I would even argue, perhaps the best one. I absolutely love that movie.

  11. I wonder what Frances Ford Coppala thinks about the Cars movie series?

  12. After reading the headline: “okay??”
    After reading the main quote: “oh, yeah okay”

  13. I’m not going to watch that. I don’t care if people think it’s good. Pretty much sums up my attitude towards all of Quentin Tarantino’s movies 🤷🏻‍♀️

  14. Even if you don’t want to see Toy Story 4, you should at least see the cold opening scene. The storm looks amazing

  15. Didn’t read but would agree on the standalone statement without context. A lot of things are good and people just don’t care. Like no war would be good but nobody cares

  17. As someone who saw all of them I can’t even be mad at that argument. Cause 3’s ending is so picture perfect it’s nuts that they actually went back to it.

  19. I regret watching Toy Story 4. Is such a middle finger to the 3rd movie. I won’t be watching the next one.

  21. Well it’s a kids movie, us adults shouldn’t take it as serious as another movie producer/director

  22. >Toy story 4 lauded by critics and audience alike

    >97% critic score and 94% audience score

    >Highest audience score of the four movies

    >Reddit “it sucks, it’s terrible and I hate it”

    Takes like this always remind me just how massive the gulf is between what Reddit sometimes thinks and what the rest of the world thinks.

  23. TS4 isn’t a bad film but i wish it didn’t exist. TS3 ended perfectly and its a beautiful ending, the 4th film just ruins it.

  24. Somehow this quote by a filmmaker about a prominent film seems like a complete non sequitur

  25. Dude totally. I bawled like a baby during the third one, it was like saying goodbye to my own childhood. I’m not gonna emotionally invest in these characters ever again.

  26. My first thought when reading the title was : Who asked ?

  27. This dude is a pretentious prick who copies and paste stuff from 1960’s westerns and acts like he is an originator and a 2nd coming of a movie Christ.

    I grew out of his bullshit trend phase in high school and I hope you all do as well.

    He’s an embarrassment of a director who gets massive funding and UNBELIEVABLE editing teams to polish his cringy footage.

    Leave the cult folks.

  28. “Today, all of humanity’s dreams are cursed somehow. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.”

  29. That’s the thing, the 3rd one wrapped it up solidly. You don’t need to watch beyond that.

    Just like Pirates 3 wrapped everything up nicely.

  32. I couldn’t get through Toy Story 4. It was so boring and it felt so necessary.

    You know you’re really not enjoying a movie when you can’t even stand to have it on as background noise when you’re doing housework.

    I like Rashida Jones. But she really dropped the ball. I wonder if she realises she kinda bombed the franchise.

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