Fun and games

[vilakins]

I braved the cold and went to see Cars yesterday. To avoid kids. rustling cellophane, and having my seat kicked, we went to the Circle Lounge, which, as usual, delivered. In fact I had cappuccino and the best banoffi pie I've had in ages delivered to my leather lounger.

Cars was great: excellent animation and plot, and likeable characters. Yeah, you have to suspend your disbelief enough to buy an AU in which cars are the dominant lifeform on Earth (including a hippy VW combi van and a Vietnam vet jeep) but so what? I'm buying it on DVD when it comes out so I can enjoy it all over again and get all the visual gags I missed.

On the way home, I had to feed my car (though I couldn't find organic gas--at least in the sense they meant) at Mobil. However they entered me in a competition where the winner gets to drive Route 66. Very appropriate. I want to go to Radiator Springs and stay in the traffic cone motel.

There were trailers for Over the Hedge, another one I want to see. William Shatner voices one of the characters. :-) Denny Toon!

And today I had fun gaming. b7_rpg is up and running again with great Stark-induced mayhem. :-D

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Come out here and visit me sometime, and you can drive Route 66 for real. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[bounce] I'd like to! If I win, we'll be there.

[banik.livejournal.com]

It wasn't my fault!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Of course it wasn't! Kerril had a lot to do with it too.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you have to suspend your disbelief enough to buy an AU in which cars are the dominant lifeform on Earth (including a hippy VW combi van and a Vietnam vet jeep) but so what?

You mean they're not!!! You had a nicer time at your last cinema visit than I did. I joined cousins Beth and Anne at the Da Vinci Code to see if the critics and I agreed this time, usually we don't. We did, I wouldn't totally slate it but I'm glad we went mid week and I wasted less money on it than I would have weekend. Granted it didn't have a lot of craft to start with the book being more Jeffrey Archer than Shakespeare but they managed to make it slow and even more unbelievable and they changed the end. That is one DVD that I won't buy, but I might splash out on Cars, Laura has reached that age (16) where she thinks she's too grown up for cartoons so I can't rely on my animal sitting stints to keep me up toi date with the good ones.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cars is great, but I love that sort of thing. Toy Stories, Shreks, the Miyazaki films...

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

up and running again with great Stark-induced mayhem

And about time too. You've left that poor Banik in a service duct for six months, no wonder he got into a state and panicked.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We had difficulties getting together due to the roundness of planets.