Um...these are comedies, James! :wink: Nothing wrong with making a comedy once in a while. My problem with Pixar is that THEY DON'T DO ANTHING ELSE (again, with the exception of The Incredibles):) That argument doesn't wash since just about every single Pixar, Disney, and DW animated film can be ca...

Again, until DW can do better (and they have not) seems disingenuous to only criticize Pixar here. Well, that's your opinion. Not everyone feels this way. But I respect what you say. However, let me just ask this--let's say, for the sake of it, that maybe Pixar is "better" than DW, relatively. Say ...

Of course Disney rose-tinted The Lion King--that's what they do. But that's not their whole raison d'etre. There were dark things in Snow White, dark things in Pinnochio, even some dark things in Cinderella (the scene where her stepsisters rip up her dress is pretty intense.) I only see happy, happ...

Characters are exactly the same as in every Pixar film. It's like watching "Pixar's greatest hits" in Car form. Mater is a dead ringer for the ditzy Dory and Doc Hudson is practically a clone of Gil, the shady mentor figure with a heart of gold... ...And on top of that, it's been done before. If tr...

It seemed like there was going to be a shift to more "serious" types of films after Incredibles, but Cars and now Ratatouville seem to go against that.

And after Madagascar I thought DreamWorks was making a shift towards making good films, but then they announced Shrek the Third.

(recently lowered to $1,500 from $1,800) Thanks for that. It will help sell more units over the $500 HD-DVD palyer for sure... :roll: To be fair, that $1,500 Pioneer has all the bells and whistles. Can't really compare it to a model with only the basics. And HD-DVD is actually even missing some of ...

Why do you care? You seem to have no interest in HD anything so why not just keep your 480i equipment and let us early adopters straighten everything out before the mainstream buyers jump on the bandwagon?

...a fictional novel?!?! The characters may have been make believe but the reason this novel gained so much attention was because John Steinbeck based it on so many REAL THINGS that were going on during the Dust Bowl. That's why it was so hard-hitting and why it gained so much attention. You wouldn...

I got Mater and Lightning weeks ago, but haven't seen any others since then.

Route 66 was the route that poor farmers and migrant workers took during the Dust Bowl to get to California. The Dust Bowl and the Depression killed everything they had, so they went West, the land of sunshine and oranges. Many of them never even made it. Route 66 was where they died of disease, ma...

Cars, June 2006


with the background:

Saw it yesterday and enjoyed it very much. I'm not a huge comic book guy so that may be a large part of it, but I thought it was easily the best of the three. It was a very intense film.

Actually a Simpsons dictionary might help more than Websters!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_wo ... e_Simpsons

Wendy's Jane wrote:Let's move back to "Simple" words, shall we?

But the quest for knowledge embiggens the smallest man.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.