I loved Cars. Saw it twice in the theatre, and am dazzled by it on Blu-ray (iSm, next time you're over I'll show you a bluray clip... your jaw will drop).

And the movie sold $5 BILLION in merchandise. FIVE FREAKING BILLION DOLLARS (and they expect 2.5 billion in sales during 2008.. for a movie released in 2006!). That's insane. Yeah a lot of people liked the movie.

And yes, the middle of the movie slowed down, but that was sort of the point. I liked the characters and the animation so much that it was amazing just to take it all in.

The worst Pixar movie IMHO was Bug's Life, which I've only seen once because it was only marginally entertaining and had ho-hum characters (with the exception of of Heimlich, of course!).

Back to the topic at hand, I spoke to Al the other day and he said he's read a few advance reviews of Wall-E -- all of them gushing about the film. Pretty cool.

A lot of people like the Police Academy movies too, but what can you do?

And Scooby Doo too. :p

But I think it's pretty universally accepted that those are bad throwaway movies. I don't think Cars is along the same lines as that, not by a long shot. Lots of people thought it was a GOOD movie. (Or, at least had good toys, lol).

Btw, I just talked to Nick and we're going to the 9:45 Wall-E on the 27th also, yay!!!

I'll be at the 9:44 showing.

Stalker. ;)

Ooooh I'll be at that one too. Look for the guy wiggling his butt in the balcony.

The only way to deal with a stalker is to cut off his stalk! Errrrr...... I mean...


Actually a "Tref movie commentary" night would be highly amusing :)

Yes, but that would mean that Tref would then actually have to show his face at a meet and I don't see THAT happening any time soon.

I've made a pledge to Izak to see Bug's Life again, because I thought it was lame and he loves it. I'll give it another chance.


Cars was entertaining, but too formulaic for me to repeat much. (Once in theaters, once at home ... I'm done). It was Doc Hollywood with Cars. Very sweetly done.


Yes, merchandise made a killing. Toy cars, d'uh. Being that the movie was meh, it almost cynically seems as if it were made primarily to peddle toys.

I am looking forward to Wall-E and have been anxiously awaiting it's release! I haven't found a Pixar film that I hate, there's some that are better than others. But I live for the shorts, no one makes a better short than Pixar and hopefully this one will be great too!

This film is getting really good word of mouth. The buzz is great.
It's early, but it's getting a 94% on rottentomatoes.com.
Can't wait to see it.
:)