"we gotta shave your head and get you back on the monkey bars!"

[orangerful]

Tropic Thunder is on...that movie is so wrong, it's right. Probably the only movie I've liked Matthew McConoHAY in.

Er, I had something else to say...we saw UP yesterday. It was fantastic. I'll write up a "movie thoughts" post later but I have to say this - the trailers in front of it were PAINFUL! After sitting through the trailer for the butchering of yet another classic children's picture book (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) and another one with talking guinea pigs that are spies and make a lot of poop jokes (G-Force), it is easy to see one thing - PIXAR respects us. They don't pander to you or your children, they make movies that are perfect and speak to you no matter what age you are. Yeah yeah, they'll crank out a CARS every few years to pay the bills, but then they create masterpieces like Wall*E and UP and you realize they aren't just some studio cranking out films for money, they LOVE movies, they LOVE storytelling, they LOVE the audience.

uuuuuh yeah...I'm distracted by the ridiculousness of Tropc Thunder.

We're going to pick strawberries tomorrow! I love strawberries! I have to control myself and not over-pick (like the 3 bags of blueberries I picked last year...though they were good on cereal).

Someone from my old workplace just Twittered about the death of a co-worker. He was a really good man, always very supportive and nice. I didn't really know him very well, but he was always so nice to me when he saw me, encouraged me to try stuff, came to my programs to take photos or just check it out, said hello when he was in the branch, always smiling and cheerful. He had a heart attack in his driveway this afternoon and died. His family told my friend to pass it on and she knew Twitter and Facebook would be the best way to get the word out...it feels weird to find out about someone's death like that (well, someone who isn't a famous actor) but if it wasn't for those sites, I wouldn't know, probably wouldn't find out until I talked to Amy...we live in interesting times...

Probably shouldn't have blogged about his death in the same post as Tropic Thunder...or UP...but my brain is kind of all over like that.

Ah well, time for some Sims before bed...

Comments

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Up is so wonderful. I'm not the least bit ashamed to say it moved me to almost tears once, and actual tears a bit later. (The short almost got me, too! THE SHORT. Pixar OWNS at story-telling.)

I just loved the orginality of the storyline, all the little moments in the narrative...and the message. Up has such a beautiful, moving, masterfully told message about enjoying your life and the opportunities you get and living without getting bogged down in regret, and I can't even...

I hope everyone goes to see this movie. I don't see how anyone could not like it.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I almost cried during the short, and then after the Ellie and Carl montage I was balling. And then when he read her book at the end...oh gods, I was such a mess. To make it worse I had my glasses AND 3D glass on to it was really hard to inconspicuously wipe my eyes LOL!

I have to agree with Jon Favreau, who tweeted after seeing the movie "I think it's time for PIXAR to win best picture". Seriously Oscars, let's cut this "animated movie" crap and realize that this CGI film out emoted all of your "live action" actors and had more realistic emotion than your stupid benjamin button crap.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Yep - the end of the opening montage with Carl and Ellie choked me up, and when they revisited it with him finding what she'd left for him in her adventure book, I pressed my hand over my heart and startled sniffling. And oh man, the short...just the interaction of the storm-cloud and his stork buddy, and how even after getting pummeled by his creations he keeps coming back for more (the part where it looks like he's going to the other cloud, and you see that cloud glance at the storm-cloud and do a sort of "oh, HIM" reaction...oh MAN) and the way they obviously cared about each other...a tiny short before a full-length film should NOT invoke this much emotional investment, dammit, but somehow Pixar manages to do it.

I honestly don't know why animated movies have to be treated differently. Sure, it's a different medium, technically, but there's still a story to be told and actors have to convey that story (using only their voices, at that!)...if at the end of the day the animated movie is still more captivating than the live action one, why shouldn't it get the big trophy?

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Tropic Thunder is MADE of Awesome. I'm a little disgusted with myself every time I watch it but it is SO frakkin' funny, I don't care:). Ben Stiller is a GOD and I have never loved RDJ more. EPIC movie experience.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

It's wrong, so wrong, on so many levels...I ROFLMAO every time the director steps on that land mine. Coogan makes that little "eh?" sound and then BOOM!!!! And RDJ just steals the whole movie.

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

lol Tropic Thunder.
Also the only movie where I like Tom Cruise.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

oh yes, probably Cruise's best work in YEARS! Or, at least, since he went crazy haha. Those guys are always at their best when poking fun at their hollywood culture...with his big hairy hands...eewww! haha. DANCE CRUISE DANCE! (oooh we should look for Tropic Thunder caps...make a note!)

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

*taps forehead*
It's in my vault.
;)

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

lmao. I never even liked pre-crazy Tom.

Note made!

I'm sitting here working on my song set at the moment. haha. 5 out of 10. I was planning on mixing it up between all of the Dolls and I thought I was doing good. I just looked and all 5 are Echo. I guess at this point I should either shun all echo caps or embrace the fact that they are going to all be Echo. I really want to shoot for the former. I wanted at least some Mellie and Claire in there.

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

Double comments for the win? Clearly I was sleepy with the first one, because I don't even remember making it. O.o

[cheshire-c.livejournal.com]

To add to the layers of modern techno-weirdness, I read your post here, went to Twitter, and saw whom you meant. Sad news. And so weird to know that someone I had seen just last month was suddenly no more. Oh well.