10 Best Pixar Movies in Honor of Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs: Visionary, pioneer, genius
I would not start off this lens with another biography of Steve Jobs as it would only be a repetition of what hundreds others have done. Suffice it to say that on his death he was widely described as a visionary, pioneer and genius in the field of business, innovation, and product design, and a man who had profoundly changed the face of the modern world.
Those who have ever used a Apple computer or listened to music on their ipods or have downloaded iTunes songs know him and what he has contributed to the world. iPhone users will surely remember him each time they power up their cellphone, as do myself each time I hear my iMac's start-up tune.
In this lens I would invite you all to remember and to celebrate what this great visionary has contributed to the film-making industry, especially in the field of animation.
After taking over and stepping into Pixar in 1986 Steve Jobs brought with him change, and turned Pixar from a hardware seller into one of the greatest movie makers of all time. Over the past 16 years Pixar has produced 12 animated feature films, all of them box office smashes and winners of numerous awards.
"Toy Story 3" released in 2010 is to date, the highest-grossing animated film of all-time, grossing over $1 billion worldwide. The $602 million average gross of their films is by far the highest of any studio in the industry. [See Wikipedia]
The following are 10 of Pixar's animated movies, listed chronologically starting with "Toy Story", their first feature length film.
Toy Story
This is the only Pixar film that has
Steve Jobs as executive producer.
Release date
November 22, 1995
Director
John Lasseter
Stars
Tom Hanks
Tim Allen
Don Rickles
Annie Pots
Jim Varney
"Toy Story" follows a group of toys who pretend to be lifeless whenever humans are present, and focuses on Woody, a pullstring cowboy doll (Hanks), and Buzz Lightyear, an astronaut action figure (Allen).
Toy Story Soundtrack
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Composer: Randy Newman
1. You've Got A Friend In Me
2. Strange Things
3. I Will Go Sailing No More
4. Andy's Birthday
5. Soldier's Mission
6. Presents
7. Buzz
8. Sid
9. Woody And Buzz
10. Mutants
11. Woody And Buzz
12. The Big One
13. Hang Together
14. On The Move
15. Infinity And Beyond
16. You've Got A Friend
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Toy Story 2
Release date
November 24, 1999
Director
John Lasseter
Ash Brannon
Lee Unkrich
Stars
Tom Hanks
Tim Allen
Joan Cussack
Kelsey Grammer
Don Rickles
Featuring most of the characters of "Toy Story", the story follows Woody who was toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of "Al's Toy Barn". In all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece.
Toy Story 2 Soundtrack
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Toy Story 2
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Various Artists
1. Woody's Roundup
2. When She Loved Me
3. You've Got A Friend In Me (Wheezy's Version)
4. Zurg's Planet
5. Wheezy And The Yard Sale
6. Woody's Been Stolen
7. Chicken Man
8. Woody's Dream
9. Jessie And The Round Up Gang
10. Woody's A Star
11. Let's Save Woody
12. Off To The Museum
13. Talk To Jessie
14. The Cleaner
15. Al's Toy Barn
16. Emperor Zurg Vs. Buzz
17. Use Your Head
18. Jessie's In Trouble
19. Ride Like The Wind
20. You've Got A Friend In Me
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Monsters Inc.
Release date
November 2, 2001
Director
Pete Docter
David Silverman
Lee Unkrich
Stars
John Goodman
BIlly Crystal
Steve Buscemi
James Coburn
Mary Gibbs
Monstropolis is a city populated entirely by monsters. The world can be connected to children's bedrooms in the human world through closet doors. When a door is properly activated, it becomes a portal between the monster world and the human world. When a 2-year-old baby girl accidentally sneaks into the monsters world, furry blue giant monster named James P. Sullivan and his one-eyed wisecracking best friend Mike Wazowski do their best to protect the girl from being captured by two evil villains.
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Monsters, Inc. Soundtrack
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Monsters, Inc.
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Composer: Randy Newman
1. If I Didn't Have You - Billy Crystal
2. Monsters, Inc.
3. School
4. Walk To Work
5. Sulley And Mike
6. Randall Appears
7. Enter The Heroes
8. The Scare Floor
9. Oh, Celia!
10. Boo's Adventures In Monstropolis
11. Boo's Tired
12. Putting Boo Back
13. Boo Escapes
14. Celia's Mad
15. Boo Is A Cube
16. Mike's In Trouble
17. The Scream Extractor
18. Sulley Scares Boo
19. Exile
20. Randall's Attack
21. The Ride Of The Doors
22. Waternoose Is Waiting
23. Boo's Going Home
24. Kitty
25. If I Didn't Have You
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Finding Nemo Soundtrack
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Finding Nemo
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Composer: Thomas Newman
1. Wow
2. Barracuda
3. Nemo Egg (Main Title)
4. First Day
5. Field Trip
6. Mr. Ray, Scientist
7. The Divers
8. Lost
9. Short-Term Dory
10. Why Trust A Shark
11. Friends Not Food
12. Fish-O-Rama
13. Gill
14. Mt. Wannahockaloogie
15. Foolproof
16. Squishy
17. Jellyfish Forest
18. Stay Awake
19. School Of Fish
20. Filter Attempt
21. The Turtle Lope
22. Curl Away My Son
23. News Travels
24. The Little Clownfish From The Reef
25. Darla Filth Offramp
26. Lost In Fog
27. Scum Angel
28. Haiku
29. Time To Let Go
30. Sydney Harbour
31. Pelicans
32. Drill
33. Fish In My Hair!
34. All Drains Lead To The Ocean
35. ...P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney...
36. Fishing Grounds
37. Swim Down
38. Finding Nemo
39. Fronds Like These
40. Beyond The Sea
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Finding Nemo
Release date
May 30, 2003
Director
Andrew Stanton
Lee Unkrich
Stars
John Goodman
BIlly Crystal
Steve Buscemi
James Coburn
Mary Gibbs
The story follows Marlin, a fish living in the Great Barrier Reef who lost his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. Marlin sets off to rescue Nemo and is joined by a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office.
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The Incredibles
Release date
October 27, 2004
Director
Brad Bird
Stars
Craig T. Nelson
Holly Hunter
Sarah Vowell
Spencer Fox
Jason Lee
Samuel L. Jackson
Elizabeth Peña
Brad Bird
A family of retired crime-fighting superheroes living a "normal" civilian life is lured back not action after the head of the family is summoned mysteriously for a top secret assignment to save the world.
The Incredibles Blu-ray
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The Incredibles Soundtrack
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The Incredibles
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Composer: Michael Giacchino%uFFFD
1. The Glory Days
2. Mr. Huph Will See You Now
3. Adventure Calling
4. Bob Vs The Omnidroid
5. Lava In The Afternoon
6. Life's Incredible Again
7. Off To Work
8. New And Improved
9. Kronos Unveiled
10. Marital Rescue
11. Missile Lock
12. Lithe Or Death
13. 100 Mile Dash
14. A Whole Family of Supers
15. Escaping Nomanisan
16. Road Trip!
17. Saving Metroville
18. The New Babysitter
19. The Incredits
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Cars
Release date:
June 9, 2006
Director
John Lasseter
Stars
Owen Wilson
Daniel Lawrence Whitney
Paul Newman
Bonnie Hunt
Tony Shalhoub
John Ratzenberger
George Carlin
Jenifer Lewis
Cheech Marin
Richard Petty
Michael Keaton
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, crashes in Radiator Springs while speeding to a big race. He destroyed lots of the inhabitants properties and was sentenced to community service, during which he learned that there are more to life than winning trophies and being famous.
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Cars Soundtrack
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Cars Original Soundtrack
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Various Artists
1. Real Gone - Sheryl Crow
2. Route 66 - Chuck Berry
3. Life is a Highway Rascal - Flatts
4. Behind the Clouds - Brad Paisley
5. Our Town - James Taylor
6. Sh-Boom - The Chords
7. Route 66 - John Mayer
8. Find Yourself Brad - Paisley
9. Opening Race - Randy Newman
10. McQueen's Lost Randy - Newman
11. My Heart Would Know - Hank Williams
12. Bessie Randy - Newman
13. Dirt Is Different Randy - Newman
14. New Road - Randy Newman
15. Tractor Tipping - Randy Newman
16. McQueen and Sally Randy - Newman
17. Goodbye - Randy Newman
18. Pre-Race Pageantry - Randy Newman
19. The Piston Cup Randy - Newman
20. The Big Race
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Ratatouille
Release date:
June 9, 2006
Director
Brad Bird
Stars
Patton Oswalt
Lou Romano
Ian Holm
Janeane Garofalo
Peter O'Toole
Brian Dennehy
Peter Sohn
Brad Garrett
Will Arnett
The story revolves around Remy, a young rat in the French countryside who dreams of being a great chef. When he teams up with a restaurant's new garbage boy, the culinary and personal adventures begin. While turning the world of French cooking topsy turvy, the rat who dreams of culinary stardom learns important lessons about life, friends, and family while debating whether to pursue his dreams or go back to being a sewer rat.
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Ratatouille [Blu-ray]
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Ratatouille Soundtrack
Ratatouille
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Composer: Michael Giacchino
1. Le Festin - Camille
2. Welcome to Gusteau's
3. This Is Me
4. Granny Get Your Gun
5. 100 Rat Dash
6. Wall Rat
7. Cast of Cooks
8. A Real Gourmet Kitchen
9. Souped Up
10. Is It Soup Yet?
11. A New Deal
12. Remy Drives a Linguini
13. Colette Shows Him Le Ropes
14. Special Order
15. Kiss & Vinegar
16. Losing Control
17. Heist To See You
18. The Paper Chase
19. Remy's Revenge
20. Abandoning Ship
21. Dinner Rush
22. Anyone Can Cook
23. End Creditouilles
24. Ratatouille Main Theme
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Wall-E
Release date:
June 9, 2006
Director
Andrew Stanton
Stars
Ben Burtt
Elissa Knight
Jeff Garlin
Fred Willard
John Ratzenberger
Kathy Najimy
Sigourney Weaver
The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. He falls in love with another robot named EVE, who also has a programmed task, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. Both robots exhibit an appearance of free will and emotions familiar to humans, which develop further as the film progresses. [As taken from Wikipedia.]
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Wall-E (Three-Disc Blu-ray / DVD Combo)
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Wall-E Soundtrack
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Wall-E
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Various Artists
1. Put On Your Sunday Clothes
2. 2815 A.D.
3. Wall-E
4. The Spaceship
5. EVE
6. Thrust
7. Bubble Wrap
8. La Vie En Rose
9. Eye Surgery
10. Worry Wait
11. First Date
12. Eve Retrieve
13. The Axiom
14. BNL
15. Foreign Contaminant
16. Repair Ward
17. 72 Degrees and Sunny
18. Typing Bot
19. Septuacentennial
20. Gopher
21. Wall-E's Pod Adventure
22. Define Dancing
23. No Splashing No Diving
24. All That Love's About
25. M-O
26. Directive A-113
27. Mutiny!
28. Fixing Wall-E
29. Rogue Robots
30. March of the Gels
31. Tilt
32. The Holo-Detector
33. Hyperjump
34. Desperate Eve
35. Static
36. It Only Takes a Moment
37. Down to Earth
38. Horizon
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Up
Release date:
May 29, 2009
Director
Pete Docter
Bob Petersen
Stars
Edward Asner
Christopher Plummer
Jordan Nagai
Bob Peterson
The story follows 78-year-old Carl Frederickson who tied thousands of balloons to his house and causing it to float, thereby giving him the means to fulfill his lifelong dream of flying to see the wilds of South America. Little does he know that he was carrying a very young stowaway aboard his floating house.
Up Blu-ray
Up (Three-disc Blu-ray / DVD Combo)
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Up Soundtrack
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Up
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Michael Giacchino & Skywalker Sound
1. Up With Titles
2. We're In The Club Now
3. Married Life
4. Carl Goes Up
5. 52 Chachki Pickup
6. Paradise Found
7. Walkin' The House
8. Three Dog Dash
9. Kevin Beak'n
10. Canine Conundrum
11. The Nickel Tour
12. The Explorer Motel
13. Escape From Muntz Mountain
14. Giving Muntz The Bird
15. Stuff We Did
16. Memories Can Weigh You Down
17. The Small Mailman Returns
18. He's Got The Bird
19. Seizing The Spirit Of Adventure
20. It's Just A House
21. The Ellie Badge
22. Up With End Credits
23. The Spirit Of Adventure
24. Carl's Maiden Voyage
25. Muntz's Dark Reverie
26. Meet Kevin In The Jungle
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Toy Story 3
Release date:
June 18, 2010 (North America)
Director
Lee Unkrich
Stars
Tom Hanks
Tim Allen
Joan Cusack
Ned Beatty
Don Rickles
Michael Keaton
Wallace Shawn
John Ratzenberger
Blake Clark
Estelle Harris
Jodi Benson
Woody and his whole gang are back and find themselves being mistakenly sent to a day-care center when their owner Andy goes off to college. They were welcomed at the day care center, but not for long. Soon they food themselves mistreated and imprisoned by Lotso Bear and his gang, and it's up to Woody to devise a escape plan.
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Toy Story Trilogy [Blu-ray 3D]
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Toy Story 3 Soundtrack
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Toy Story 3 [+Digital Booklet]
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Composer: Randy Newman
1. We Belong Together
2. You've Got A Friend In Me (Para El Buzz Espa%uFFFDol) - Gipsy Kings
3. Cowboy!
4. Garbage?
5. Sunnyside
6. Woody Bails
7. Come To Papa
8. Go See Lotso
9. Bad Buzz Randy
10. You Got Lucky
11. Spanish Buzz Randy
12. What About Daisy?
13. To The Dump
14. The Claw
15. Going Home
16. So Long Randy
17. Zu-Zu (Ken's Theme)
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Edutopia
Jan 31, 2012 @ 2:28 am | delete
- All of Pixar's movies are great but lets not overstate Steve Jobs here.
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perrymanku
Jan 10, 2012 @ 11:01 am | delete
- This is a great lens. All of the above pixar movies are fantastic and movies you never get sick of. To tihnk without Steve Jobs animation and creativity would not be where it is today. All time favourite has to be Finding Nemo......Just keep swimming
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CreativeComputing
Dec 7, 2011 @ 7:32 pm | delete
- Loved them all. The Incredibles is my favorite. Steve Jobs is one of my heros, Thanks for this list. My family owns many of these movies.
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travelerme
Nov 21, 2011 @ 7:42 am | delete
- Cars is also great
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travelerme
Nov 21, 2011 @ 7:42 am | delete
- pixar is great
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