Movie Time!

Well, I saw two "movies" yesterday. The second was a set of movies (five each) from Bill Plympton and Don Hertzfeldt. Bill Plympton is the dude responsible for most of the penciled-type animations you see (most notably of late - the Geico spots). Don does, well, some fucked up stuff and you just have to look both of them up. What was really cool as that they were both there at the Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin, as well as Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Office Space) who stood next to where I was sitting the whole time. Don's page is here, if anyone's interested. The other film I saw was Disney's Monsters Inc. I enjoyed this film quite a bit. It started off with probably my favorite Pixar short, For The Birds. After that, a pretty entertaining movie followed. Techincally, this is Pixar's finest. The hair on John Goodman's character was absolutely gorgeous, and everything just looked top-notch (except that Pixar still can't get humans right). As for the meat of the movie, I didn't enjoy the humor as much as the Toy Story movies, and the story was about on par. Still, quite an enjoyable diversion and definitely a recommendation. 8.7! update - Oh, and the Episode 2 trailer? Most of us were like "What the hell was that?" It was basically a bunch of scenes shown over the sound of Darth Vadar's breathing. Maybe it was the mood of the room or just that the trailer was crappy, but the entire theatre was obviously unimpressed, with some "boos" in the back. Pretty underwhelming in my opinion, but I hated Episode 1 so take from that what you will.