Tag: Rango
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…