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Friday, Jun 27, 2008

Saw Wall-E

Wow. Pixar has made another masterpiece. The animation is beautiful. Photorealism in animation has never been so good looking! This is like the MGS 4 of movies. Absolutely gorgeous. The muisc works perfectly, too. The opening flyover of the galaxy is partnered by a slightly depressing tune, once they reach Earth. Two 2001: A Space Odyssey songs are put in, as well as some references. The voices from the robots were done by the same man who did R2D2. He is so good. The expressions from their voices as well as body language easily conveys what is meant. The plot is still a little soft, but a few political messages are thrown in. They have to do with trash, obesity, and screens everywhere. This is the best movie I have seen this year (by far), and Pixar's best to date. Robots have never been so beautiful. WaaAALL EE!

5/5

Sorry for the quick review. All I can say is this: See it.

I'm going to be gone for about a week. I might be able to log on, but I doubt it. If I do, I probably won't blog. Please give me several days to reply to any PMs or comments. GH: On Tour still rocks...I would say a 7.5 so far.

Category: Movies

Posted by vatterott, 6:16pm

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Tuesday, Jun 24, 2008

I'm On Tour! (Got GH DS)

That's right....I got Guitar Hero: On Tour! I've been waiting for 2 and a half years....'Bout time!

Impressions:

So far, it's what you would expect from GH DS. It's fun, but I'm already 2/5 done on medium career (I'm stuck between medium and hard. Hard is too hard, medium is too easy). Lack of online really disappoints me. The Guitar Grip works well so far, as long as you keep your wrist straight. Using the thumb loop also helps from getting carpel tunnel.

While $50 is a lot to dish out for only 25 songs, Guitar Hero 4 for the DS should provide a greater amount of tracks. Go forth and rock!

Category: Games

Posted by vatterott, 3:13pm

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Friday, Jun 20, 2008

My new video (This may be viral)

Pirates of the Caribbean (4): Remnants of Fate teaster

This is a Rick Roll. Maybe this will be viral...I hope.

Posted by vatterott, 4:25pm

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Posted jun 27, 2008 10:23 am pt

Cloverfield

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CLOVERFIELD

By: Tom Vatterott On July 2nd, 2007, a trailer with only a release date debuted. It showed partygoers viewing an explosion, and the statue of liberty's head rolling in a street at the bottom of someone's apartment building. That was the start of the 1-18-08 (now known as Cloverfield) craziness. The title wasn't known until the second trailer, which was shown before Beowulf. Ever since, crazy ideas, fake trailers, and basically one big question ruled the 'net. As soon as I saw the first trailer, back in July, I was hooked. The movie begins with a government declaration of the footage being genuine. Some friends are having a going away party for Rob, who's taken a job in Japan. Beth, Marlena, Lily, Jason (his brother), and Hud, the cameraman of sorts, are some of his closest friends. The party is going fine until an earthquake, accompanied by a large roar, disturbs the event. From the rooftop, an explosion is viewed. The partygoers get down to street level to run away, and the Statue of Liberty's head crashes down the street. After that, it's a search and rescue mission for Beth. It's more complicated than that, but the details would take away from the experience. Cloverfield can be called many different things. Among them, there's "Good", "Awesome!" "B+" and "Totally radically awesomely dinomax!" (?). I would have to say I agree.

Centering on a monster attack on New York City, from the perspective of a camcorder, Cloverfield did what it was made for. Answer the big question, "What is that!?" make some new ones, and be really cool. It's pretty amazing that all of this is in a respectable 84 minutes.

Cloverfield's concept is really what makes it so good. With monster movies like King Kong , the camera will show you the creature plenty of times. They can do that; someone with a camcorder isn't going to run up to a 30-story creature causing millions of dollars of destruction. As a result of the camcorder concept, you see so little. It never really bothered me, except for the occasional drop or sprint. The acting is enough to get by, it's not Oscar worthy, nor is it something to complain about. Standard emotions are displayed throughout, with an occasional moment of great acting. In terms of special effects, Cloverfield does really well. Of course they are distinctly computer generated, but sometimes the effects are used so subtly they are hardly noticeable. The tone and colors match the mood of despair. The monster does look really cool (yes, you actually get to see it clearly), along with the destruction and mayhem it causes.

Great sound effects also make an appearance, not only when the monster approaches (the Inver Grove theater literally shook), but just in general. A building collapsing, the wind passing through broken windows, and even camcorder sounds (they aren't used so much that it gets annoying). This is definitely a movie made to be seen on the silver screen, or at least a fairly large TV and some handy surround sound that is cranked up a bit. On various movie websites, Cloverfield is put under the horror subgenre. I can see where they are coming from, but this isn't scary. At heart, it's a mysterious monster film from the perspective of a few 20-somethings. Nearly everything clicks, and it's a lot of fun to watch. 4 out of 5 stars.

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Posted jan 20, 2008 6:33 am pt