1

A trailer for Ratatouille is on the DVD of Pixar's Cars.  When I got it for Xmas, I was quite astonished by the quality of the animation... Cars is light-years above Toy Story, the other Pixar film I have in my collection, and Ratatouille looks about that much better than Cars.

Enough with the italics... sheesh.

2

You don't have The Incredibles? Well worth acquiring, just to see Edna Mode, even if for no other reason. ("No cape!")

3 I was wondering if you'd be interested in it for that reason.

I had no interest in the movie... until I thought to check whether they got him back. Between "The Incredibles" and his work on the Simpsons (back when it was on), he'd have to lay quite a few bombs before I'd stop paying attention to his work.

"Honorary anime director"?

4

I got to see a pre-screening of Ratatouille. If it does manage to tempt you out to the theater, I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed.

5 "No cape!" Isn't that a spoiler?

I, for one, knew instantly how the villain was going to meet his end the moment Edna went on that tirade.

6 "No cape!" might not be a spoiler, but what you just said would be one. 

And I really have a hard time seeing Incredibles, at least, as being a "repaint."  The family drama was not new, obviously, but the setting was a new angle on response-to-superheroes.

7

"No cape!" Isn't that a spoiler?

If it was, the commercials for the movie were also spoilers, as that line was all over them!  I've never seen that movie, but I STILL knew the "no cape" line.

8 For future reference, how do I set a spoiler block in a post with Opera Mobile? I tried doing the p bgcolor = "silver" color="silver" thing when I posted, but apparently the blog software stripped it out.

9

Type:

"left bracket spoiler right bracket" (my spoiler goes here) "left bracket slash spoiler right bracket"

With spoiler deliberately misspelled so it will not actually work:

[spioler] (my spoiler goes here) [/spioler]

Doing it right gives:

(my spoiler goes here)

10

Snakes On A Plane was the most fun I've had at a movie theater in years. I wish hollywood would go back to making movies that people cheered about during the movie. When Samuel Jackson delivered his signature "I want these MF snakes off my MF plane!!" the crowd went nuts.

 

 

Good times.

 

I'm hoping Transformers is good stupid fun too.

11 Same here.  Was somewhat disappointed with FF2.

Some very early previews I've heard third hand compare it to Jurassic Park and Terminator 2, so thats a good sign.

12 For those who somehow haven't figured it out yet, Edna Mode is the tribute of The Incredibles' filmmakers to Hollywood costume designer extraordinaire and all-time Oscar champ (eight awards) Edith Head. I'm reading Edith Head's Hollywood right now. Good stuff, and much better (with better costume pictures too) than the biography churned out by David Chierichetti a couple years back.

13 Now, go look at who did the voice for Edna Mode .  I'll bet you're surprised--I was--and I had heard the voice artist speak before.