Cars 2

Pixar always has the cutest villains...

I've seen where people complain that Steven Moffat hasn't given Doctor Who enough villains who are just plain mean and unlikable. Apparently, we're meant to understand their motivations...

Whenever I see this, I have to wonder...so you don't watch Pixar either?

None of Pixar's villains are evil just because they like it which spread to other genres and films, making the grey villain quite popular in the last few years and why the Joker in Nolan's last Batman film stood out so much.

However, there has been backlash about that as well. Blackbeard in On Stranger Tides was given no other motivation than he liked being evil. It grossed 1.039 billion dollars BUT Dead Man's Chest made 1.060 by having two villains who either just liked to fuck people over or were romantically/sexually frustrated depending on your point of view...

Also, Pixar totally watches Dr. Who. Not only is Tom Hanks a HUGE Whovian but Cars 2 had "reverse the polarity".

Has anyone mentioned how Jason Isaacs is in it and he plays a secret agent AND a jet?

Sookie from Gilmore Girls!

I couldn't believe it when I found out this is Melissa McCarthy aka Sookie from Gilmore Girls!

That's so awesome and now she's in a Judd Apatow film. I hope things just get better and better for her.

AND SHE JUST WON AN EMMY!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brothers & Sisters

Ugh, it's a new television season and I keep forgetting we won't be getting more stories with Kevin and Scotty. I loved them. They got to do everything I could only have Jack and Ianto do in fanfiction.

Dammit, I need more cute gay couples.

Drive

I saw Drive last night and it is really good. The best part about it is how it showed instead of telling us everything. He let the story advance through music and actions and... *gasp* ...the actors...acting!

However, it did feel a bit like a bait and switch. We were thinking a nice psychological thriller with Ryan Gosling and then appeared to stumble into a Tarantino film instead. One character's head explodes from being hit by a shotgun at pointblank range while another character beats a guy's head in like it's a watermelon.

P.S. Margo Martindale just won an Emmy! Yay! I haven't really watched Justified but she's always wonderful in her roles over the past twenty years plus and this is her first acting award ever!

I first really noticed her in The Riches. I LOVED that show.

Closing Time

YAY, PETER DINKLAGE JUST WON AN EMMY!!!!

*pretends she was the one he meant by Erica*

So, next Saturday's episode of Doctor Who is called "Closing Time...

Well, I know who I want to take me home...


But maybe not dressed like that...

Mom: Are they going to have the song in the episode?

Me: Probably not...but it would be awesome.

In related news, Friends with Benefits continues to be one of our favorite things to reference.

Star Wars Night

Major League Baseball and Lucasfilm are teaming up to have Star Wars Nights. These are special baseball games with free t shirts, contests, prizes, stuff to buy and everyone's encouraged to dress up!

It's not just a way to advertise the new BluRay release; part of the ticket sales go to Stand up 2 Cancer.

Unfortunately, the closest ball-team is the Marlins! Come on, we're closer to Orlando!

To find your closest event:
http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/Full_List_Of_MLB_Star_Wars_Night_Events_140444.asp

Also, I love how they keep showing Alan Cumming for no real reason.

The Lion King

I saw it today and...wow, just wow. I think The Lion King is one of those things, like Star Wars, that you just take for granted and then, something happens and you just see it in a whole new light.

Over fourteen years ago, I was finally able to see Star Wars on the big screen and it was the first time that I realized that those things I had learned for English: symbolism of color, foreshadowing, names having meanings and other deeper hidden meanings and ideas could be found in movies as well.

I had an epiphany that day and today, I had a new one. It was like seeing one of my favorite movies for the first time as though I didn't know it at all.

Yep, I've noticed how it's basically a retelling of Hamlet and thus, more ambitious than the norm but I didn't realize how ambitious it truly was. In fact, it was the most ambitious animated film since Fantasia and there hasn't been an equal since.

Oh, I know there's been advances in technology and there's been some brilliant films but not on the same caliber as The Lion King.

What makes The Lion King above everyone else is that practically every frame has been carefully planned. It combines Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Joseph Campbell studies, actual animal behaviour and symbolism; tons and tons and TONS of symbolism. When a scene takes place was definitely planned because certain types of scenes take place in the morning while others can only take place at dusk or night. I also can't even picture such a story being green-lighted now.

Can you imagine it?

"Okay, we're going to have this cute little boy. We're going to show how adorable he is with his father and how loving they are...then we're going to kill his father AND make the boy think he killed him!"

I blame goldenmoonrose. I totally want to write an essay that goes on for pages and pages dissecting everything from Simba's anointment ceremony to the fact that they have shooting stars streak in the same direction as Pride Rock when Simba decides to go back.

Of course, there's also the nostalgia factor of remembering when it first came out and the JTT crushing and Simba having the same parents as Eddie Murphy in Coming to America. I forgot Chris Sanders had worked on it or that part of it had been animated in Orlando. Then, at the end, it's dedicated to Frank Wells which brings to mind all the mess that ended the second golden age of animation at Disney...

Also, since I was still in such a good mood from the film and had been thinking about it before, the Disney Store employee suckered me into the Pre-Order. I wonder if my lithographs are different from those I got in 2003. I think they are...