I watched "History of the World, Part I" tonight.

My favorite part is still "Jews In Space" :D

I watched Ratatouille with two Ratatouille virgins tonight. They loved it. I did too. It's like my 7th time watching it. Love it.

Something I noticed that I hadn't before was that Anton Ego's typewriter from the back looks like a skull. Very cool.
:)

I like Ratatouille, I just can't stand the animation of the people.

I came up with one theory tonight. When animators try to make people look like people, the result is creepy and wrong. ie. Polar Express, Final Fantasy and Beowulf (all humans looked weird with dead eyes).

Yep, Beowulf / Shrek people are creepy.

Bambi notwithstanding, the point of character animation is not to duplicate the look of actual creatures. (Even Bambi's animals were highly stylized).


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I think I'll watch Cloverfield tonight and see if the jittery camerawork holds up on the small screen.


Heheh, I also just bought There Will Be Blood ... mostly to piss off Gemini Cricket.

:evil:


I actually didn't buy the cheapy slimline package, which I agree is craptacular. I wonder if GC has the same opinion of the 2 disc set, which is also less lasting cardboard instead of plastic. I compared it with my other purchase, the Cloverfield disc ... which used the standard plastic DVD case with a simple cover insert. The end.

The Blood packaging, on the other hand, featured nice art direction, a fold-out package with imagery from the film on multiple panels. Yes, the materials were more flimsy. But I'd rather have packaging that has some design intention, rather than the slapped together DVD case I can make at home.


Sorry, G.C. :blush:

Buy it, watch it, stick it up your vagina... who cares?! lol :D All I was complaining about was the crappy packaging of the single disc DVD. The 2 disc set is adequate.

That would be AWESOME to see on the jacket of a DVD :D

I just read that Dubya is a big fan of the Austin Powers movies.... :rolleyes:

Cloverfield is brilliant.



On a hunch, i decided to listen to the commentary track first, which I only do if I expect a story of quite unusual movie making ... and I was not disappointed.

Getting the verisimilitude of the hand-held disaster film was tricky business, and fascinating. The film was shot in something like 36 nights. How they achieved all they did on the rush, on the cheap, is a great story of a most uniquely made studio movie.




Watch it twice, 'cause the commentary track is almost as interesting as the film. Which, by the way, is a surprisingly terrific monster movie.

I just got home from an awesome totally non-related double feature.

First up - "Shine A Light"
The Rolling Stones in IMAX by Martin Scorsese - Absolutely brilliant, incredible visuals, concert volume sound, a couple of good guest appearances, and even Keith getting to do lead vocals for a few songs.

then, I hurried down the hill to meet up with mousepod, and to a screening of "Colossus: The Forbin Project" - excellent movie, so nice to see it on a big screen, with an appreciative audience.