Previously: WarGames: The Dead Code
Well, there’s a trailer now. I have to admit, it seems *slightly* more exciting than I’d originally expected. In all honesty, I’ll probably end up watching it some day, assuming I can find it on BitTorrent (which is pretty much a guarantee, seeing as misery loves company.. evidenced by the fact that several people uploaded The Pet *twitch*).
*happy squee*
Ratatouille won an Oscar for “Best Animated Feature Film.” I don’t usually pay attention to such things, but I was a total refresh monkey on the Academy Awards website Sunday night, because I knew it’d been nominated in a couple of categories :) (It’s also won a variety of other awards.)
It’s such a great movie, and I’m so pleased it won. This was one of two films I bothered to go see in the theatres last year (Stardust was the other one, which I also highly recommend!), and the first DVD I’ve purchased in years. Pixar + rats + cooking.. what’s not to love?
Pixar’s next film, Wall-E is scheduled to be released at the end of June. I can’t wait.. it looks so good! *bounce* In the meantime, you can watch the trailers at the official website.
EDIT: the SO says we saw The Fountain at the theatre in 2007, as well. But it was the very first week of January, at a small local cinema (versus seeing it the previous November when it was released in major theatres), and everything is a little hazy, because I was incredibly sick at the time.
Coming out sometime this year: WarGames 2: The Dead Code
Oh god, why?
Wikipedia says:
The movie will star Matt Lanter as a computer whiz named Will Farmer who engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does he know that the online game he plays is actually part of a sophisticated piece of government spyware designed to find potential terrorists. Homeland Security, now believing Farmer to be a terrorist, sets out to apprehend him.
Found on IGN: “Ripley is a paranoid nutjob who’s hell-bent on placing pretty much everyone on Earth in a 3×3 cell, lest they turn unpredictably hostile.”
So.. it’s basically the same plot, only updated for the “War Against Terror”, and with a computer who appears to be a cross between his predecessor Joshua and HAL 9000?
Supposedly the original name was “The Re-Deadening” (à la the Simpsons?).
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While I’m on the topic of computers/hackers in film:
I came across this “Hackers” reference recently on I Has a Hot Dog, which led to me needing to watch the relevant clip on YouTube. I haven’t seen this film in years, and I’d somehow forgotten how incredibly, painfully bad it was.
“What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies)” by Matthew Inman
Bonus points to anyone who knows where my avatar is from. :)
