Okay, WALL*E just jumped to the top of my list. It's indescribably wonderful. I want to see it again right away. The robot characters are AWESOME. They're so well-developed and funny and cute and real and OMGILOVEROBOTS. I spent the entire movie with my hands clasped in front of my face in a 90-minute long silent squee. (Except for the sad/scary parts where my hands were clasped in front of my face because I was so worried something bad might happen to one of the robots. I cried more than once.)
The WALL*E/EVE love story is basically Crichton/Aeryn, if Crichton were a DRD. It's THAT AWESOME.
The humans, whatever. Don't care so much about their story, and it's nowhere near as well told. I mean, it's fine, but it's hard to care about a bunch of useless humans when there's a faulty robot beach umbrella to pay attention to, you know?
The WALL*E/EVE love story is basically Crichton/Aeryn,
Heh. Well my friend at Pixar did say that EVE totally rocked.
The WALL*E/EVE love story is basically Crichton/Aeryn, if Crichton were a DRD. It's THAT AWESOME.
That may be the awesomest thing I've ever heard.
Actually.... possibly just the second awesomest thing ever, but that's only because I heard a pretty awesome thing the other day.
Heh. So S put on
Flower Drum Song
on TCM. I'd never seen before.
And who should I see on my screen as the handsome young asian leading man? James Shigeta,
Die Hard's
Joseph Takagi! Okay possibly cool to just me, but it made me instantly like Flower Drum Song, which already has lots good going for it.
Oh, and the short is fantastic this time around too. I don't think I've enjoyed a Pixar short this much since the original Luxor Jr one.
Boundin'
is still my favorite.
Speaking as someone who's recently had to watch Pixar's entire oeuvre 17,985 times,
Cars
is fine. There's no real bad guy, there's no shooting, and it's mild enough for me to tolerate umpity-thousand times. Also, I love Steve Purcell, so I dig on all the car stuff going on in the landscape.
And I really don't like
Finding Nemo.
It's a mess, saved by good performances. But still a mess. There are three too many endings, and three too many "Nemo's-dead-no-he's-not!" moments.
The reason a Cars 2 is not so much because of box-office performance, but rather because it made BEEELIONS of dollars in merchandising.
but rather because it made BEEELIONS of dollars in merchandising.
I guess we should expect many new characters in this one then.
