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“In my dreams, I see the two of us alone in my golden submarine, while up above the waves my doomsday squad ignites the atmosphere.”
– Wil Wheaton on Scarlett Johansson
If you’ve seen the trailer, then you’ve already got a taste of it, but basically this is a live-action cartoon. The visual effects and the super-saturated colors aren’t just in the racing scenes – the whole movie looks like a photoshop layout. To be honest, it kind of bothered me at first. Thankfully, the story and acting is good enough that I quickly stopped caring. The movie is peppered with references to the cartoon, and it’s genuinely funny. The cast is excellent, and while they’re a bit one-dimensional, they’re pretty direct copies of their cartoon characters, so it’s to be expected. John Goodman especially stole the show for me – his character is great, always harrumphing and grunting around. As far as I’m concerned, this movie is excellent, and it almost redeems the Wachowski Brothers for the Matrix sequels.
- Video: Cup Of Brown Joy
“When I say Earl Gray, you say Yes Please”
Tags: tea, video, music, warrenellis, british - Marvel Announces Iron Man 2 and Avengers
Marvel announced that Iron Man 2 and Thor will be released in the summer of 2010, followed by Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers in summer 2011.
Tags: movies, marvel, captainamerica, thor, ironman, avengers, adaptations, comics, announcements - The day the music died
“The Microsoft music player will conclude… the files were downloaded illegally and that the victim is a filthy pirate, and it will refuse to play them. …The left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they’re both giving you the finger.”
Tags: microsoft, playsforsure, msn, music, mp3, apple, itunes, drm, piracy - I’d Watch It.
“the idea of Captain Crusher and his Oberth class starship investigating murders, thefts, temporal discrepancies and bizarre engineering puzzles is very appealing.”
Tags: wilwheaton, wesleycrusher, startrek, tng, csi, television, starfleet, spinoff - Dooce on Writing About Children
“We are an army of educated mothers who have finally stood up and said pay attention, this is important work, this is hard, frustrating work and we’re not going to sit around… waiting for permission to [blog]. We have declared that our voices matter.”
Tags: blogs, dooce, children, parenting, privacy, writing, blogging - Lost Producers Grade Fan Theories
“USA Today has given the chance for Lost fans to submit their own plot theories to later be graded by executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. And the producers’ responses so far reveal some important hints about the show’s secrets.”
Tags: lost, television, theories, producers, carltoncuse, damonlindelof, secrets, plot - Video: Truth in Advertising
Wow. Uncomfortably close to the truth.
Tags: advertising, video, parody, agency, design, corporate, creative, marketing
In a nutshell, GTA4 keeps everything good about the previous games, while dramatically improving most of the annoyances. The driving is slightly more challenging — if only because it’s actually difficult to drive at a reasonable speed that won’t result in you flying through the windshield in a head-on collision — but when you pull it off, it succeeds in capturing the feel of speed in a way I haven’t seen since outside the Burnout series. The shooting and fighting engines have been completely redone, and actually work this time. The annoying micromanagement aspects of San Andreas, where you had to grind at the gym to keep in shape are gone, and the constant courting required to keep your girlfriends happy have been simplified, so that now your friends will call you every now and then to suggest going out to a variety of in-game entertainment, including magic shows, bowling, darts, and of course, strip clubs. More important than any of those, though, is the story. There’s a real narrative attached to the characters in this game. You have the sense that they existed before you came along, and they’ll still exist after you leave — well, the ones that are still alive, anyway. The story just feels better, and the world feels more alive. It’s compelling to the degree that I find myself thinking about it at odd moments during the day, in the same way that the story in a good book will capture me. Long story short: if you enjoyed the previous games at all, you’ll love it.
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