Never one thing at a time...
Ratatouille might just be the best thing Pixar has ever done. The amount of detail and thought put into every frame is fairly overwhelming, and yet it works on such a simple level: old-fashioned storytelling of the highest order. I love the ending narration ("critique"), which could easily be applied to filmmaking itself, and the cynicism so commonly attached to it these days.
Just a forewarning, however: don't go into it with an empty stomach, like we did - it was a mad dash for FOOD of the good kind as we exited the theater. Mmmm.
Oh, and (as is tradition) Pixar showed a teaser for next year's offering: Wall-E. Which had me clutching my knees in childish glee because LITTLE ROBOT WITH AN IDENTITY CRISIS. BWEE. My Buttons of Cute just got punched in all the right places.
Pulling a complete 180, I finally picked up the first trade paperback of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's new Daredevil run. I've been putting it off for ages, just because of my attachment to Bendis and Maleev... yeah. As it stands, I should have bought both the available volumes. Because...
Matthew Murdock in prison. A recipe for psyche-fracturing not seen since Frank Miller's Born Again.
The summary? His identity hasn't been a secret for years now. And finally, he's in prison for all the laws he's broken as Daredevil. He let himself be put there, in hopes that it would protect the people he cares about - Milla, Foggy, Ben - from the "nightmare [his] life has become".
Surprise, surprise: it doesn't. Matt hears Foggy attacked and bleeding to death while he's stuck in solitary. He attends the funeral, stonefaced. A wave of violence occurs soonafter in the prison (Ryker's), led by himself. Daredevil was always Matt held in check, and now? Nothing's in his way.
As if this isn't crazy enough (and something I've been dying to see), one Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher, catches wind of what's happening. Curiosity piqued, he also allows himself be taken in by the police, just so he can witness firsthand what it looks like when Matthew Murdock turns into him.
BRILLIANCE. To see the two of them eating bad food together in a prison cafeteria, trading loaded words? Makes my inner fangirl bounce off the walls. I need to hurry up and get to that part in the Punisher vidgame where Matt shows up as Frank's lawyer. Heee.
To make matters even more rich, Kingpin and Bullseye are both moved to the same prison, by people who specifically want to see either (a) Matt do something that will keep him permanently in Ryker's, or (b) the three of them kill each other off.
BWAHAHAA. Brubaker and Lark, you have done more than win me over.
Plus, the Punisher reading a book in his cell while the crap hits the fan in Ryker's? Just. Classic. And Matt brings by a shotgun for him. *glee*!
Just a forewarning, however: don't go into it with an empty stomach, like we did - it was a mad dash for FOOD of the good kind as we exited the theater. Mmmm.
Oh, and (as is tradition) Pixar showed a teaser for next year's offering: Wall-E. Which had me clutching my knees in childish glee because LITTLE ROBOT WITH AN IDENTITY CRISIS. BWEE. My Buttons of Cute just got punched in all the right places.
Pulling a complete 180, I finally picked up the first trade paperback of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's new Daredevil run. I've been putting it off for ages, just because of my attachment to Bendis and Maleev... yeah. As it stands, I should have bought both the available volumes. Because...
Matthew Murdock in prison. A recipe for psyche-fracturing not seen since Frank Miller's Born Again.
The summary? His identity hasn't been a secret for years now. And finally, he's in prison for all the laws he's broken as Daredevil. He let himself be put there, in hopes that it would protect the people he cares about - Milla, Foggy, Ben - from the "nightmare [his] life has become".
Surprise, surprise: it doesn't. Matt hears Foggy attacked and bleeding to death while he's stuck in solitary. He attends the funeral, stonefaced. A wave of violence occurs soonafter in the prison (Ryker's), led by himself. Daredevil was always Matt held in check, and now? Nothing's in his way.
As if this isn't crazy enough (and something I've been dying to see), one Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher, catches wind of what's happening. Curiosity piqued, he also allows himself be taken in by the police, just so he can witness firsthand what it looks like when Matthew Murdock turns into him.
BRILLIANCE. To see the two of them eating bad food together in a prison cafeteria, trading loaded words? Makes my inner fangirl bounce off the walls. I need to hurry up and get to that part in the Punisher vidgame where Matt shows up as Frank's lawyer. Heee.
To make matters even more rich, Kingpin and Bullseye are both moved to the same prison, by people who specifically want to see either (a) Matt do something that will keep him permanently in Ryker's, or (b) the three of them kill each other off.
BWAHAHAA. Brubaker and Lark, you have done more than win me over.
Plus, the Punisher reading a book in his cell while the crap hits the fan in Ryker's? Just. Classic. And Matt brings by a shotgun for him. *glee*!