When Woody said "so long, partner" to Andy at the end of Toy Story 3, Quentin Tarantino essentially said the same thing to the animated film franchise.
During his discussion with Bill Maher on the Club Random podcast, Tarantino revealed at the 12:25 mark in the above video that he's a "big fan of the Toy Story trilogy." Did Tarantino knowingly ignore the fact that Toy Story 4 was released in 2019? Yes, because the Pulp Fiction director believes the franchise came to a "perfect" conclusion after the first three films.
"In the case of Toy Story, the third one is just magnificent," Tarantino tells Maher, who said he has never seen any of the movies, at the 13:45 mark. "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. I am done. It can still be good, but I'm done."
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced during a company earnings call last year that a fifth installment in the Toy Story franchise is in development, in addition to sequels to Frozen and Zootopia. It probably goes without saying, but Quentin will not watch Toy Story 5 either.
Tarantino believes the Clint Eastwood-led Dollars trilogy, which consists of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, was the "only trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree."
The acclaimed filmmaker argues that the downfall of a trilogy occurs when the third film cannot stick the landing, citing 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.