Wall-E To anyone that has been living under a rock (including me), WALL-E was/is the best movie produced since Ratatouille. I'm constantly astonished by how polished, heartfelt, intelligent, witty and fun Pixar movies are, and they keep outdoing themselves. Pixar is setting the high water mark for cinema as art, as far as I'm concerned.
Pixar's work should shame Hollywood. -- Tropic Thunder was a so-so comedy, with one standout caveat: there's a scene with Ben Stiller involving a land mine that took a flying cannonball off the edge of good taste and decency, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm pretty bloody liberal. There are other uncomfortable moments, but in general, pulling you out of your comfort zone is what comedy does best. Tom Cruise and Robert Downey steal the movie, the rest of the jokes fall a little flat. -- Tekkonkinkreet. http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/tekkonkinkreet/ A somewhat ham-handed metaphor for yin/yang/balance, but very charming characters and action sequences. Kids might "get" the message here, where they might not have with a more subtle approach. Occasionally violent, but in retrospect, not nearly as violent as HellBoy2, which seems like it's trying to hit that preteen market. -- HellBoy2. Crap. I don't know what else to say. Nice set design, nice creature design, everything else was idiotic. -- Fallout 3 - xbox 360 Smart, beautiful, violent. Good job by Malcolm McDowell, Liam Neeson and Ron Pearlman on voice acting duties. It's a alternate reality where the 50's vision of the "nuclear age" comes to pass, and then gets blown up. The linear story you're meant to follow was alright, although the ending isn't very satisfying. The world itself, on the other hand, it populated with 10x more characters and side stories than you'll see by following the beaten path. Packed full of 50's music, art deco architecture, mock 50's propaganda, ray guns, robots, mutants and Mad Max-like scrap architecture. Definitely an experience. -- The New Pornographers Can't get enough of them lately. Poppy guitars, beautiful harmonies, catchy choruses, odd prog-rock time signatures in places. I just don't know who to compare them to. My brother suggested a modern Beach Boys, but I was never much into the BB's. The last two albums are genius: Challengers and Twin Cinema. I find the first album, Mass Romantic, to be grating. Maybe it's me, but I prefer the direction they've taken in later albums. -- Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to StrataList-OT@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
