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Legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino said he doesn’t watch all animated stories and added that he is a fan of the Toy Story trilogy.
“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff like that, but I’m a big fan of the Toy Story trilogy,” he said in a clip that went viral on X, formerly known as Twitter.
He appeared on an episode of the comedy podcast Club Random with Bill Maher, where, among other things, he discussed the difficulties of ending a trilogy.
“I think there is only one trilogy that works completely and utterly to the nth degree: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
He went on to describe how the Italian film series starring Clint Eastwood, which founded the Spaghetti Western genre, was successful because it followed a “director’s vision” in filmmaker Sergio Leone across all three films, deadline.com reports.
“It does what no other trilogy has done. The first movie is great, but the second movie is so good and takes the whole idea to such a bigger canvas that it destroys the first one,” Tarantino said.
He added: “And then the third one does the same thing to the second one, and that’s what never happens. You’ll see this big jump from the first one to the second one and they don’t really get the third one right.”
Quarantino shared that the Mad Max films are a series that fails to succeed.
Like the Dollars Trilogy, Tarantino said that Disney’s animated franchise is capable of achieving this feat and, for this reason, he has no interest in watching beyond the junior installment.
“In the case of Toy Story, the third one is just magnificent. 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, three years later or something, they made a fourth one, and I have no desire to see it.”
“You literally ended the story in the most perfect way possible, so no, I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done.”
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