Tag: Rango

  • Oscars Thoughts

    A random collection of thoughts as I watched much of the Oscars broadcast last night.  In no particular order: Unless you are a professional comedian, don’t ‘open with a joke’ when giving your acceptance speech.  Chances are you will either botch it, or it won’t be as funny as you thought.  Just stop. Actually, there…

  • Best Animated Film 2011 – Which Should Be Nominated?

    Best Animated Film 2011 – Which Should Be Nominated?

    As seen at Slashfilm, there will be at least 18 eligible animated movies to get Oscar nominations this year, which means there could be 5 nominees in the category.  I’ve actually seen most of them, aside from the four foreign ones and the ones releasing in the next few weeks.  With Pixar’s only entry the…

  • Lightning Movie Review – Rango

    Things are returning somewhat to normal around these parts, enough so that I took my family to see Rango at the Movieland 8.  I enjoyed it, and it’s interesting that we had a trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2 in front of it, as Rango feels much like Kung Fu Panda – a good representative…

  • Spring and Summer 2011 Movies

    Spring and Summer 2011 Movies

    The meat of the 2011 movie season is coming up, including the Summer blockbusters, and I thought I’d run them down and see which ones I’m planning to check out.  Note that as a Dad, the list leans towards animated movies as well as comic book movies and summer blockbusters.  I don’t like horror and…