Catching up...
Ratatouille
One thing I noticed that amused me was the different on-screen pronunciations between the English version versus the French:
ra-ta-tou-ye French
rat-a-too-ee English
Also, I like to play the "what is Pixar trying to perfect with this movie" game. For example, Monsters, Inc. was "hair" (Scully), Nemo was "water" (duh) and Incredibles "fire/lava". Each successive movie incorporates the advancements they've made from the previous films. For Ratatouille I noticed the increased resolution, but I think they're going for a large number of animated objects per scene.
...and what's the deal with the shuttlecock logo?
Dr. Strangelove
Possibly my favorite movie of all time (it switches back and forth with TOUCH OF EVIL).
(I've only read the book Fail-Safe. The DVD extras had the theatrical preview for Fail-Safe, which made we wanna see it.)
I saw it years ago. I remember it being very well done. Intense and more than a little disturbing. I remember being drained my it. I don't know if the film still carries that weight with me. George Clooney did a remake for TV a few years ago, which didn't hold my attention.
One thing I noticed that amused me was the different on-screen pronunciations between the English version versus the French:
ra-ta-tou-ye French
rat-a-too-ee English
Well, it doesn't really make sense to me why you would have to have that bit for French speakers, but, given they made the choice to include it, I think that what they are going for is the fact that "y" is a semi-vowel in French that is pronounced "eee" with the "e" on the end here serving to make it sound like the 1 1/2 syllables that "touille" gets in French. It really should sound like there's a w in there: too-wee smushed together to make almost, but not quite, one syllable.
t /French professor on vacation with too much time on her hands during a boring soccer match.
...and what's the deal with the shuttlecock logo?
Isn't it a mouse nose? Or am I thinking of a different logo? (Saw the trailer for it on
Cars,
and now I am very excited about it.)
Saw
Cars
yesterday, and I loved it a lot. I still put it behind
Incredibles
and
Nemo,
but I did really enjoy it. I think it has a little more of an "older" plot, as compared to a movie like
Monsters Inc.
(not to diss Monsters Inc., as I love that film, but the story seems a little easier to grasp for younger kids...) The subplot of
appreciate our recent history i.e. Route 66 made me all teary and want to go visit
out west.
I also LOVED the short. Brilliant.
Isn't it a mouse nose?
It is. I was just being silly.
I was just being silly.
CARRY ON.
slinks off to have more coffee
"Let it go, Dad!"
Oooh, also, the music in
Cars
was excellent. Rascal Flatts and John Mayer, whee!
t /Cars likes carrots
Have now seen X2. I liked it better for about 2/3 of the movie. Then I kinda got impatient. A few things didn't make any sense, like why exactly did Jean get out of the plane, but upon further thought, I realize that it's not worth further thought.
That confused me at first too, and then on re-watch the first scene where Jean is making all the TVs and such freak out made me realize that it was her powers that were screwing up the electronics in the Blackbird, which is why she had to get out of it.
George Clooney did a remake for TV a few years ago, which didn't hold my attention.
Oh yeah - wasn't that the live TV show?
A.O. Scott on The Searchers.
One more note about Once Upon A Time In The West: although the movie is about ~3 hours long, the script (by Leone, Bertolucci, and Dario Argento) was (notoriously) only 15 pages long.
