Wednesday, July 11, 2007

too hot.

its hot these days. last night we got home from the softball game and a bbq at haven's house find our living room 90 degrees at 10 pm. 

also i saw ratatouille and thought it was pretty boring. everybody else in the world seems to really really really like it. i was tired of the dozens of frantic chase scenes as well as dozens of meaningful chats with sad, downward glances and important life lessons learned. Also, it contains just many cliche movie plots, all in one movie!

(spoilers follow except that it's all so predictable that they can't honestly be called spoilers since you've most likely seen the sitcoms in which they are so often used) 


1)outsider wants to be part of in group, does so.
2)guy and girl fall in love, guy gets ego, girl leaves, but everything is made right again when he tells the truth. 
3)bad guy wants money, must stop rightful owner from getting it, does not. 
4)character hides truth from people, everbody misunderstands, but eventually accept it. 
5)antagonist is a formidable opponent with one weakness, is vanquished by that very weakness. 
6)character helps friends, friends take advantage of him, friends feel bad, friends help him out. 
7)father and son misunderstand each other, eventually understand each other. 

and probably a lot more i missed. Still it was funny and nice looking, which i guess is good. also the theatre was air conditioned. There was a line for the midnight showings of harry potter. those people are smart because they got to stay out of the 100 degree weather for only the cost of a movie ticket, all day. there were about 6 of them. 
  

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Well, I see your points about Ratatouille, it was cliché upon cliché to be sure.
I'm glad I saw it opening night because I had low expectations. I was excited about it, because it's Pixar, but not because anything looked that great about the trailer. And Patton Oswald is not funny to me at all.
I got really excited about the Wall-E trailer though.

JimmyB said...

That fucking scene where he's asleep and wearing those glasses though, whoo-wee! And you gotta love their bulgy dick noses.