TV Discussion Fisto's Disco: The LACWAC Social Thread

Sigh. If they weren't so expensive ... I would have bought Ganch as well. But now there's no space on the shelf anymore with those three Sideshow guys, three Hasbro guys (Sandtrooper, TIE pilot and battle droid), one Cylon centurion and 7 Monster High guys.

I haven't seen The Brave as the movie's setting didn't appeal to me (though I'm usually watching them all, animated flicks I mean, and will catch this one once it's on TV). But out of the three animated movies I have seen in theaters last year, Wreck-it Ralph was my favorite by far, and that was Disney proper. When I returned from the theater, I instantly pre-ordered the blu-ray ...

 

For me, Cars 2 was noteworthy primarily for its cameo and background cars.

Lewis Hamilton as a McLaren MP4, Jeff Gordon as a Corvette racer...



And this very orange Frazer-Nash sitting in one of the background shots, leaving more of a lasting impression than the plot.

 

I kinda want to see Planes. xD

 

I don't know.

And on the theme of movies, I saw Lincoln yesterday. It was very enjoyable, even if most of the historical references went over my head.

 

Ikr, they're a lot of money. And I've ran out of space on my shelf too, with four Sideshow statues (Han Solo riding a Tauntaun, Zuckuss, Bossk and TCW Kit Fisto) and Grievous in his wheel bike, actually I'll have to put my Obi-Wan riding Boga behind Grievous on his wheel bike, lol.

 

Grievous' bike in ROTS is awesome. I kinda want to see that in TCW.

 

Actually, the funny thing is I got the wheel bike in TCW packaging and I honestly can't remember Grievous ever riding a wheel bike in TCW. But yeah, I'd love to see that too.

 

....101 Dalmatians.

 

102 Dalmatians.

 

"Up"

 

Official site reporting that the AOTC and ROTS 3D re-releases are being "postponed"

I wonder if they (and the OT 3D re-releases as well) will actually end up being cancelled. I think that may be likely.

EDIT: Just saw that this was already discussed on the prior page here.

 

Eek! You must be a millionaire . - Our neighbors' garden is a marble monstrosity, complete with lifesized marble lions, water spouting marble lions, marble pillars, about 20 huge spherical lights, lights embedded in the marble on the ground and lit flower pots. When the lights go on at night, it looks less like something they dug out near Rome ... it looks like a runway for flying saucers. I plotted for quite some time to counter this light orgy with something special, and I'd love to use the lifesized, lit Darth Malgus statue for this ... but I can't afford it, dang it.

 

I feel perfectly fine except I've been dizzy as hell and my world has been spinning since I woke up. Hope I'm not about to become a statistic for this flu outbreak.

 

Get well soon Seerow!

 

Oh no, not the flu! Take care, Seerow.

 

Whoever was asking about the Surface RT - I think the general consensus so far is: the RT is more or less the equivalent to the iPad, you can't easily run your native W7/8 apps on it, but the screen is worse and the app store pales in comparison to the Ipad, etc. More or less decent reviews of the keyboard/cover thing.

The full-feature Surface tablets (not RT) look much more like what I'd be interested in - full Windows features, USB drive, etc. Everything that's missing from my Ipad to make it a true (or truer) entertainment and work product.

However, I'm betting even by the end of this year, you'll see a lot better Surface products - I never buy new technology for the first year, if not 2 years.


Recent films seen:

Silver Linings Playbook - decent. Brad Cooper was great, Jennifer Lawrence was okay - don't get the hype. This movie basically turned into Jerry McGuire and Jennifer Lawrence is Renee Zelwegger.

Robot and Frank - fun little movie. Old guy from Little MIss Sunshine is a former cat burglar who is going senile and gets a robot companion to assist him.

Zero Dark 30 - pretty great. Again, Chastain's performance is a little overhyped and in many ways the film isn't about her, but it was riveting nonetheless.

Argo - loved it. As Ebert said, almost a perfect movie - no problems with acting, script, or direction (or length), and that's uncommon these days.

Next up: The Sessions and Cloud Atlas. And I should probably see Django in the theatre. Still no desire to see The Hobbit.

 

Oh that sucks, I had that last week twice, it's so horrible cause you just have to sit there not moving your head for like two hours, luckily it was just a blocked ear causing it.

I'm seeing Zero Dark 30 on Sunday, looks pretty good. And the Hobbit was alright, nothing amazing though.

 

I finally found a store that had a demo model and ended up getting an iPad instead. The Surface RT didn't really have what I was looking for and tablets with a full operating system were well outside of my budget.

 

My wife and I saw Silver Linings Playbook and I thought it was really good; I think I liked it more than I expected to. Jennifer Lawrence was good and so was Robert DeNiro, but Bradley Cooper surprised me the most with how good he was. I guess his prior roles (that I had seen anyway) didn't give him enough opportunity to show some real acting skills.

And my son and I loved The Hobbit. Looking forward to part 2 this coming December.

 

OH FUUUUUU-

 

It's a weather radar. I haven't last power yet, but there was a tornado a few counties away from mine, hopefully no one is hurt.

 

Cloud Atlas was mind-numbingly horrendous. Ambitious, yes, but execution was quite poor.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was brilliant though; the length might be the biggest problem.