The Tron remake they should have made:

I thoroughly enjoyed Tron.: Legacy. It's visually stunning, Jeff Bridges is awesome and the story did a great job of quickly catching up everyone who never saw or doesn't remember Tron. We may live in the age of pocket computers but the Tronverse is still a fantasy universe.

We finally saw the last Almodovar film last night (Broken Embraces). The film had a bit more serious feel to it than some of the madcapness of many of his other films. I didn't know there was an "homage" to Women on the Verge in the film - which I loved. Penelope Cruz continues to amaze me. Paired with a great director, she is a wonderful actress (and amazingly beautiful). She reminds me of Sophia Loren quite a bit.

If you're an Almodovar fan, rent it. If you don't know who Almodovar is, then rent Women on the Verge first.

DUDE!

Brilliant!

To a degree they did, Kevin Flynn has gone all zen master and has several lines that could have been lifted from Lebowski.

He even wears a robe for part of the movie (though that is more a rip off of Obi Wan than The Dude).

So, I think we will see it and laugh the whole way through.

Saw "Waking Sleeping Beauty", which was able to translate a complex story into a moving documentary. It's been a while since I read all those Disney history books and this re-awakened my interest. Might have to pick up a recent book on the latest chapters. Disney War didn't have enough about the parks...

Black Swan was pretty amazing.

Burlesque sounds so bad that I may end up Netflixing it when it comes out, just to witness it.

I was disappointed in Waking Sleeping Beauty. Maybe it's just because I was familiar with the behind-the-scenes events of the animation renaissance, but - other than bringing in Howard Ashman and Alan Menkin, they never really delved (imo) into HOW or WHY the films suddenly got tremendously better than what came before. There was a lot of emphasis on new executives, especially Katzenberg. But I never got any impression of how his contributions led to the amazing difference in quality. On the talent side, the only difference the film seemed to suggest was bringing in the songwriters. There was a brief mention of the fluke of the animators who became the film directors for Little Mermaid and, later, Beauty and the Beast. But other than the fact that it happened, there was no insight presented as to why their oversight produced starkly better results.

Rather the documentary just seemed a dry litany of events, and I didn't gain a hint why a string like Robin Hood, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, and The Black Cauldron became the rather different string of The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King.


Meh.




Anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing The Black Swan. Maybe today.