# Monsters, Inc. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 2, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202 "2001-11-02T21:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/21 "2001-11-05T06:12:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > > \*\*Or in 4 weeks they’ll try to sell more tickets by advertising the outtakes. I remember **A Bug’s Life** did this. Except the advertised NEW out-takes. \*\* > > No fair! > > At least this is a movie I wouldn’t mind seeing again. \*\* [DAD] Life’s not fair [/DAD] 😉 Aloha ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/22 "2001-11-05T11:15:16Z")
Kitty!!! ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/23 "2001-11-05T15:31:24Z")
I just saw it last night (and the Star Wars trailer! Woo hoo!), and I loved it. It built a little more slowly than most Disney movies, but it all paid off beautifully in the end. That ending… man. So touching. The whole (packed) theater I saw it in went up with a collective “Awwww” when the screen went to black. I took my Little to see it, along with her brother Carlos. Carlos is a 10 year old, inner-city tough boy, and he was sniffling towards the end. Hee hee. That was good to see. Apparently this has been written about elsewhere, but that abominable snowman was a dead ringer for the Bumble in the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Christmas special. Loved it. ---
**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/24 "2001-11-05T16:55:14Z")
First movie we’ve seen this year (new kid and all) and the wife and I loved it. Any more in jokes I might have missed? ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/25 "2001-11-05T17:24:19Z")
I saw it with my 6 year old and we both loved it! > [@](#): > > the restaurant they ate at was Harryhausen’s, presumably for Ray Harryhausen. Yeah. Only one guy in the audience besides me laughed at this. I figured the SDMB crowd would have picked it up. I think it’s nice that the newest, most advanced state-of-the art animated film gave a nod to the original king of classic low-tech stop-motion animation. I noticed the hair thing, too. Looks like there’s nothing they can’t do now! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/26 "2001-11-05T19:56:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > > There weren’t any outtakes during the credits, were there? > > They ran out of time - the last shots for the film were completed only days from the release, so the fun extras were not completed. Awwwww, bummer. I _love_ the Pixar outtakes. But since I haven’t seen **Monsters Inc.** yet, maybe this is an incentive for me to wait a few weeks… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > Or in 4 weeks they’ll try to sell more tickets by advertising the outtakes. I remember **A Bug’s Life** did this. They did that for **Toy Story 2** as well – after a few weeks with the first set of outtakes, they switched to a second set. If you don’t have the DVDs, you can see all of the outtakes on Pixar’s web site. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/27 "2001-11-05T20:38:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > > Or in 4 weeks they’ll try to sell more tickets by advertising the outtakes. I remember **A Bug’s Life** did this. > > They did that for **Toy Story 2** as well – after a few weeks with the first set of outtakes, they switched to a second set.\*\* Actually, it’s the other way around-_Bug’s Life_ had two sets of outtakes, _Toy Story 2_ added outtakes. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/28 "2001-11-06T03:49:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*[DAD] > Life’s not fair > [/DAD] > 😉 Aloha \*\* Oh, go have a snow cone. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/29 "2001-11-06T15:58:26Z")
It’s LEMON! ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/30 "2001-11-06T16:08:55Z")
Kitty! I loved that - because my 18 month old nephew calls anything soft the same thing. Actually, he calls it “itty”, but it’s close enough. Slightly OT - he also won’t say my name, or my brother’s name, or Grandma and Grandpa - but he will say Norman. Who’s Norman? My mom’s cat. Susan ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/31 "2001-11-06T16:57:49Z")
I liked it, but I was a little disappointed that they gave away the laugh thing so early into the movie. It totally ruined the ending. Also, I was very angry that they never thought to use laughs as a better power source until the very end. They obviously realized it was a better power source (they turned on all the doors by making her laugh). They had the girl laugh 2 other times and overload the lights. Then they don’t think to harness that power instead of screams? I don’t think so. They should have not had the girl laugh at all until right near the end. But then they’d have to figure out some other way to do the whole ‘million doors’ scene. I guess discontinuity was a better idea than redoing the whole scene. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/32 "2001-11-06T18:54:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saepiroth \* > \*\*…anyway, not to let my inner “pragmatic evil bastard” shine through too much, but why didn’t they just send out guys in hazard suits to kidnap little kids and put them into machines like that one at the end? it would definetly be more efficient, and i don’t see why the monsters would care about human children, as they were believed to be so toxic as to engender destroying huge amounts of city just to try to kill one kid. \*\* I’m thinking that keeping scary, “dangerous” kids around would be too risky, at least politically, especially when with a slight mod to their tactics, they could get far more power using existing infrastructure. I mean, c’mon! Didja see the _size_ of the laugh cannisters? They were freekin’ _HUGE_! Not to mention that with so many incompetant scarers, comedy would _have_ to be an easier route, without having to build new tools, or change any infrastructure. A capitalist’s dream! More power, no new infrastructure required! I can’t believe I’m discussing the economics of Monsters, Inc. like it was real. I guess I must’ve loved it. I know my daughter and wife did. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/33 "2001-11-06T20:31:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by c\_goat \* > Also, I was very angry that they never thought to use laughs as a better power source until the very end. They obviously realized it was a better power source (they turned on all the doors by making her laugh). They had the girl laugh 2 other times and overload the lights. Then they don’t think to harness that power instead of screams? I don’t think so. The point was that Sully was the only one that realized laughter was more powerful than scream. He was trying to relay that information to the friendly boss, but before he got the chance, the boss turned evil on him. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/34 "2001-11-06T20:56:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*Actually, it’s the other way around-_Bug’s Life_ had two sets of outtakes, _Toy Story 2_ added outtakes. \*\* I’m very sure **Toy Story 2** shipped with outtakes originally – I remember going to see it on opening weekend, and sticking around for 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/35 "2001-11-07T19:45:03Z")
Loved it. Loved it! LOVED IT! I got to see it opening night as a birthday present. The quality of animation just blew me away. (I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the kickass job they did with Sully’s fur.) Boo’s movements may have been a little stiff and clunky, but if you compare her with any of the kids in _Toy Story_ or _Toy Story 2_ you’ll see a real difference. The bear about seeing a Pixar movie the first time is you have to balance following the plot in general with trying to catch all the in-jokes and sight gags they’re stuffing in there. Like the tabloid headline. Anyone else see it? **Valkyrie** , the Tzeroling, and I loved it, and the ending made us all sniffly. It’s worth the money, and if they do have outtakes I’ll wait until it’s for sale on video so I can see 'em all. ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/36 "2001-11-13T04:18:34Z")
Amazing animation… i liked this movie, i think it was worth it. the quality was so good that i was wondering, did i see a digital screening or what? i didnt see all the usual flaws and defects of normal films… anyone?? wow, great , great quality!! ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/37 "2001-11-13T10:28:50Z")
I saw it on the day it came out, a great movie. It’s the first one that I’ve seen since summer. The quality of the animation just keeps going up and you don’t even notice it when they try some new technical trick. There were also plenty of funny moments and I loved the reference to **The Right Stuff**. The Star Wars trailer was dissapointing. Only two real special effects shots, both of which look like repeats of what was done in Episode I. I’ll still see the movie, though. ---
**Author:** ![KeithB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@KeithB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithB)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/38 "2001-11-13T16:23:53Z")
Someone beat me to the fact about the abominable snowman from Rudolph, but did you notice that the village had “fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks,” from the Armour Hot dog commercial jingle? ---
**Author:** ![KeithB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@KeithB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithB)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/39 "2001-11-14T15:38:43Z")
I looked overt the credits on IMDB today and saw that Bonnie Hunt did the voice of Flint. Who was Flint? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202/40 "2001-11-14T15:45:56Z")
Saw it last week, and loved it. it was gripping, even though you knew it would end well. Glad for the ending. “Its lemon”. Yep, loved that, too. As long as John Goodman has a voice, he will have a career. He’s good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-inc/91202.md?page=3)