Rented Fantastic Mr Fox. Loved it so much! We watched Ponyo earlier this week and loved it as well. Yay for excellent animation!
2009: Superfantastic animation year!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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DavidS - Apr 04, 2010 1:01:53 pm PDT #7492 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 2:16:26 pm PDT #7493 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
FYI -
the 9 part edition of the Attack of the Clones critique is up (by the same guy who did the Phantom Menace)
SuziQ - Apr 04, 2010 2:18:03 pm PDT #7494 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
K-Bug and I saw How to Train Your Dragon 3D today, CJ saw it with his dad yesterday and now both kids are campaigning for a pet dragon.
Scrappy - Apr 04, 2010 2:34:24 pm PDT #7495 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We went to A Prophet last night and I thought is was amazingly good. It's dark and violent and there are complicated alliances to keep track of, but it was so wonderfully powerful and rich.
megan walker - Apr 04, 2010 4:28:51 pm PDT #7496 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's good to hear. I like to see the few French things that come out here, but the story didn't grab me.
Was it mostly in French? Something the director said in an interview about language made me think it was in another language, Corsican or Arabic or something.
Strega - Apr 04, 2010 6:07:12 pm PDT #7497 of 30000
the 9 part edition of the Attack of the Clones critique is up (by the same guy who did the Phantom Menace)
Awesome! Thanks!
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2010 6:22:31 pm PDT #7498 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So, apparently this is basically being made into a movie.
I haven't watched the trailer, but I've seen people describe it as the most disgusting thing ever, and I'm wondering if I should just dive in: [link]
le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 6:45:53 pm PDT #7499 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
mommy, ita's giving me nightmares!
Strega - Apr 04, 2010 7:42:12 pm PDT #7500 of 30000
I knew what you were talking about from the first link, which is good because as a result I knew not to even click on the second link. Win!
The first time I heard about that movie I set a personal record for going from "ha ha" to "...I feel queasy." And that's when there were just stills, not a trailer. Oog.
Burrell - Apr 05, 2010 9:15:31 am PDT #7501 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
but I've seen people describe it as the most disgusting thing ever
I can't quite fathom why that would be a selling point, but it clearly is. I dunno. I feel like the 21st century equivalent of all those old stodgy Victorians who just didn't grok the cultural appeal of those vulgar modernists. Like a tiny part of me is all judgy, a larger part is just surprised, and then there's that reflective part that realizes I'm the vanishing old guard who has less and less cultural relevance.