tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757030014089788848.post7435691994853804617..comments2023-05-23T06:01:43.992-04:00Comments on What I've Been Watching: Episode 46Rianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10943443259272467857noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757030014089788848.post-84474492020867414612007-07-07T07:43:00.000-04:002007-07-07T07:43:00.000-04:00Ricky - While you and I have different feelings ab...Ricky - While you and I have different feelings about some aspects of Strange Days, I feel like we somehow manage to come to the same conclusions about the film. In essence, it's a decent movie, but it probably would have been better under the watchful eye of James Cameron, himself.<BR/><BR/>kansanation dubibutation - While I thought that the story of Ratatouille wasn't the best that Pixar has devised, I also feel that it has a great core concept. I personally prefer the story to Cars, A Bug's Life, and Finding Nemo, which I guess puts it right smack in the center of the Pixar line-up as far as the story is concerned. As for Transformers, my review for that one just went up. Give it a read and let me know what you think.Rianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10943443259272467857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757030014089788848.post-36354967387120006092007-07-05T01:55:00.000-04:002007-07-05T01:55:00.000-04:00Ratatouille was pretty damn pretty. I actually fou...Ratatouille was pretty damn pretty. I actually found myself in Skipper Berry moments of awe over the animation. The point in which Skinner is describing the rat to his lawyer, I believe, had better acting than most real life actors could give. Man, the friggin' grapes looked incredible. I can't stop talking about the stupid grapes.That said, I really felt in the the worst Pixar story. Which isn't saying much since all of Pixar's movies are a head above the rest. Also, I just say Transformers, it was much better than expected. Please call to discuss said robot movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4757030014089788848.post-38881161030908195582007-07-04T05:15:00.000-04:002007-07-04T05:15:00.000-04:00I can see where most of your points on Strange Day...I can see where most of your points on Strange Days come from, and I agree with them to an extent. I really like the movie, although I don't think it's great. I do think Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Lewis were really good. The movie made me like Juliet Lewis, which says a lot because she usually really gets on my nerves too. I don't think anyone could have done the on-stage performance scenes as well as her, and she made a character that should have been pretty cheesy, believable. Ralph Fiennes was really cool in the role of Lenny--he made a great sleazy salesman who's given up on life, I found him really likeable and immediately felt for him. I also thought the opening P.O.V. sequence was a great opening, and after hearing how difficult it was to pull off at the time and seeing how well it was executed, I appreciate it even more. I like everything about the concept of the squids--at times the P.O.V. scenes were damn disturbing. I found it cool that the movie was made a year before Tupac was killed and sort of predicted the state of violent rap leading to real life violence and rapper's getting shot. I wasn't really bothered by the futuristic depiction of '99 for some reason, although it seems like I should find it completely ridiculous, it just didn't piss me off like the gang wars in Predator 2. I found it to be a fun movie to watch overall, I think it could have used a little more action and a little less of Lenny being sad, but I was into it the whole time and it's definitely something I'll watch again soon. Oh and the soundtrack, although somewhat dated, is really cool.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122769866280634160noreply@blogger.com