Whilst clearly an amazing technical achievement and utterly beautiful as a work of art, Wall-E left me a little disheartened. There are moments of joy and the character himself is appealing but it never gets off the ground as a tale.
The typical Pixar strength of story was jettisoned in favour of a simplistic, and heavy-handed, morality tale about technological dependance an the evils of corporate waste. The robot love story is the most effective part of the movie, despite only consisting of three words, if only the rest of the film was so successful.
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I’ve been a great fan of better searchable Ruby and Rails documentation, such as GotAPI and Railsbrain, and have taken to having a copy of the railsbrain and rubybrain docs locally served on my macbook (for those moments where I’m disconnected from the Internet). Plus the style used by the normal...
A breathtaking performance from Ledger as the Joker, matched by Bale as Batman, amongst the all-star cast all bringing their considerable talents to bear on a big summer comic book movie. However, the silliness you might associate with a ‘tentpole’ movie is not part of the package, this is a tragedy on a grand scale.
Packed full of story and in-camera (as opposed to CGI) action the two and half hours whizzes past leaving you begging for another film the same length such is the engrossing world of Nolan’s Batman. A triumph.
So. I took the link to the evil twin plugin for my attachment_fu hack down when I moved from Dreamhost, and never got it up anywhere else.
Until now! I’ve had a couple of questions about where it had gone, so I pulled my finger out. It’s on github so you can install…
script/plugin install...I don’t particularly love their browser, but I like the cut of their jib. Massive kudos for an organisation stepping up and providing this great resource, now all you need is universities to use it!
Another Hulk movie, with another ‘serious’ actor drawn to Marvel’s giant green Jekyll and Hyde – this time Ed Norton. He’s the best thing about the film, although it’s also briskly directed in the first half of the film – a tense chase through the favelas followed by Hulk smashing from the shadows of a the Brazillian bottle factory.
It struggles in the same way as the Ang Lee Hulk film, the Hulk just doesn’t seem to work that well on screen. The most interesting bits of the film are the Bruce Banner sections, once the giant green Hulk appears the film gets much less exciting. It’s not rubbish, but it’s not that good either.
Now I’m using Passenger to host my local development Rails apps, this will be mighty useful!
Some dodgy CGI (monkeys and gophers), some flabby plotting and some odd moments (those gophers again) and an atrocious Russian accent from Cate Blanchett (one minute, Rosa Klebb, the next, Queen Elizabeth) aren’t enough to derail the freight train of joy that is Harrison Ford as Indy.
The bits that work best are those where the banter of Jones and Mutt echo that of Marion, Shortround or Jones Sr as they pick around ruins. Harrison Ford can still throw a punch and Spielberg can still do a romp, let’s hope they don’t push their luck with any spinoffs or further adventures.
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