Yesterday I was preparing myself for another long Wednesday at the office. You see, Wednesdays are release days for our video game project, which means we have to come up with a playable version to send off to the Executive Producer for scrutiny. Unfortunately, we were informed yesterday that our project was canned.

“Well technically it’s on hold” said my producer while rolling his eyes even though he did admit that there was a chance the project might be picked up by another group in the near future. He also assured us that we did a good job and that no one was displeased with the project itself, they just couldn’t sell it to any online cell-phone carriers. In other words, good job but not good enough.

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Before you ask the inevitable question, my wife made me watch this movie! I didn’t have any interest in a movie that features two old fossils that I had never heard of before or since (I have seen this movie in the early 90′s but for the life of me I couldn’t remember any of it). Still, since I did sit through the entire thing, might as well share my thoughts on it.

To start, this is going to sound very bad, but I have a hard time accepting a 50+ year old love interest. I have to admit, Ann Margaret did look stunning for her age, but every time the two old farts went crazy for her I was reminded that this movie was intended for an older audience. This isn’t a bad thing, even old people should have movies, but does my wife have to make me watch them? There are TONS of movies out there made for teenagers that I dutifully skip (and, come to think of it, skipped even when I was a teenager).

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I’m a big Pixar fan. Ever since Toy Story I’ve seen every Pixar movie in theaters sometimes more than once, and I own all of them on DVD. It’s true, in my eyes, they can do no wrong. I’m warning you, this review is very biased but there’s nothing I could do about it.

I sat down to watch Ratatouille for maybe the third or fourth time and it’s still as entertaining and gorgeous as the first. That, my friends, is a sign of an instant classic.

The animation was, simply put, amazing! This fictional, digital rodent had more life in him than most block-buster actors in the industry! The talented people at Pixar breathed virtual life into 0′s and 1′s and Remy the Rat was born. At least that’s how it felt. Despite the cartoony look of the movie, the rats looked and felt real down to their noses twitching involuntarily (but don’t blink or you’ll miss it). This movie was obviously a labor of love every step of the way.

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So it’s been almost a month since my last (and first) post but I honestly simply forgot I had a blog I’m not sure if that actually makes things any better or worse but it’s the truth so tough! Well onto the review… I’d like to start by saying that I’m not particularly a ‘Westerns’ fan. I don’t dislike Westerns but I don’t go gaga over them either. That said, I really like both Russell Crowe and Christian Bale as actors so I really did want to like this movie going into it. The last good Western I’ve seen was Unforgiven and that was over a decade and a half ago, I thought it was time for another good one. (more…)

I’ve been avoiding the whole blog thing ever since it started to pick-up speed. I’ve always loved to write but blogs felt too much like online diaries and the idea of strangers reading my most intimate opinions was too unsettling. I’ve since seen blogs to be what they truly are: an alternative news and views source to the cut-and-paste, mundane, nonsense that passes for mainstream online content these days.

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