On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Michael Luscombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > 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. saw it...was a little too slow for us. will have to check it out again, at home when released. > > > Pixar's work should shame Hollywood. i agree and i think they do shame hollywood...... we ran through some of our library over the holiday and had a lot of fun with some older favourites. 50 first dates makes us loao as does hot fuzz. we've got hooked on lost...sci fi on monday shows 4 hrs. will need to get some series disks to see the whole thing through. > > > -- > > 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. haven't seen it, looks like we don't need to,thanks ! > > > -- > > 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. well, we saw it at home, it was fine. we've watched it a couple times. and i still prob.wouldn't buy the comic, tho...sorry mark. > > > -- > > 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. > > -- there is some mech war thing[gears ofwar?] elfboy wants for his 360, we'll see later this year. > > > 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. > i'll look 'em up...from connecting with sakari and linking through some other finnish groups found these guys on facebøøk ...underdøgs... and a couple others... ^^he plays in a group as well > > -- > Michael > -- At 11:23 AM -0600 11/29/08, Chris Bischoff said: Just nod and smile, that's a smart pair you have there. Mugsy replies: why thanks, (blush). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
