Music & Movies

I'm going to see Monsters, Inc. tonight. It's supposed to be good, but I think it's kind of sad to use celebrity voices in fantasy movies, where the celebrity takes over the entire personality of the character.

Not too long and Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter will be out!

Heard Monsters was just for kids, nothing for grownups, and horribly sloppy plot in the middle. Can yo confirm/refute?

One of the joys of accidentally renting a bad video movie is reading Ebert's review AFTER watching as much as you can stand. Sweet November is the perfect example of that.

Go to his site and read his American Outlaws review from the archive. Funny Stuff!

Favorite bot characters...
-HAL (wins it, without competition)
-R Daneel (Asimov is/was god!)
-Terminator 2 bots (both good and bad bots were pretty cool)
-The borg (one of my favorite bot concepts, although AI isn't really integrated within it. I think the borg is what happens when a race over-uses cell phones)

Turns out we didnt see it. We still might, though. I'm really looking forward to "Waking Life". If you've seen the preview (apple.com -> quicktime), you'll see how amazing it looks. It's like nothing I've ever seen before.

And for cheap thrills I want to see The One.

Rahz- dont forget Marvin, c/o Douglas Adams!

Definitely Waking Life.

More bot classics:
Forbidden Planet--Robbie the Robot makes his debut. Now that we're all grown up we can be told that the movie is based on Shakespeare's The Tempest

Short Circuit: I forget the bot's name but he had the most expressive eyebrows.

And let's not forget RUR -- where the word robot first appeared. I don't know if it's ever been made into a movie

WHAT? No QUESTOR TAPES? I AM ANCIENT? YES!

Sorry, it's funnier when I shout that out...