posted by Grant on July 4, 2007 10:18 AM in Food, Geek Culture
This past weekend, White Mage and I got a chance to see Pixar and Brad Bird's latest magic joyfest, Ratatouille. Chris, Caspian, and their respective ladyfriends were also in attendance.
As with all Pixar films, I've been excited to see this ever since the first teaser trailer came out. They just do everything so right. Pixar owns the world of CG animated movies, and there is no disputing that fact.
For those of you who don't know, Ratatouille is the story of a rat named Remy who is born with an amazing sense of smell. Not content with eating garbage like his rodent brethren, he sneaks into the house in the French countryside where his colony is inhabiting the walls and puts together culinary delights for himself to snack upon while watching his favorite TV chef, August Gusteau. An accident forces them all from their home and Remy gets seperated but ends up in the sewers below the late Gusteau's very own restaurant in Paris. Remy befriends a clumsy garbage boy from the kitchen of the restaurant and uses him to live out his dream of being a famous chef.
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posted by Grant on June 15, 2007 11:05 PM in Geek Culture
Pixar says:
"Look, you dummies at Fox Animation. This is how you do a friggin' movie about robots."
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posted by Chris on March 19, 2007 6:53 AM in Podcast
Frodo and The Geek are back this week to bring you all things Spartan. We're obsessed with God of War II, and 300 isn't too bad either. In this podcast episode, we talk about how movie critics are out of touch, why we won't own a PLAYSTATION 3 for a while, some crazy RPG about Chopin (the composer!), Katamari and the electric car. Best episode ever? You be the judge! Download it now or subscribe to the podcast. You know you want to.
Hit the jump for show notes!
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posted by Grant on April 26, 2006 9:22 AM in Geek Culture
Man, I do love me some Kingdom Hearts II. It's like crossover fanfiction you don't feel dirty for liking because it's not actually fanfiction. Seeing Will Turner from Pirates talking to Goofy and Donald is just surreal at times.
I hope they do end up making a 3rd game, but also, waiting a while before they do. The second KH game is as special as the first because they didn't just crank it out right away to capitalize on the popularity.
So here is where I fanboyishly list my hopes for appearances in the next Kingdom Hearts game.
On the Disney Side, they should be able to include Pixar stuff now that Disney bought them. I also am going to include some stuff that isn't just their feature films:
- Emperor's New Groove
- Gargoyles
- The Incredibles
- Toy Story
- Monsters Inc.
- Kim Possible
- Darkwing Duck
On the Final Fantasy side:
- Kain
- Edge
- Shadow
- Chocobos
- Gogo
- Palom and Porom
- Freya
--The Geek
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posted by Chris on April 17, 2006 6:26 AM in Podcast
Wanna know how The Geek got his first Playstation 2? No? Well too bad! This week your favorite geeks discuss nostalgia and your normal round of gaming news. Here are some notes.
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posted by Chris on April 9, 2006 8:58 PM in Podcast
In this exciting installment, The Geek, Frodo and White Mage discuss the Half Life series, and their love of all things Final Fantasy, Disney, and the two mashed together. Then, Frodo answers the mailbag. Here are some notes!
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posted by Chris on January 29, 2006 8:07 PM in Podcast
Finland Finland Finland. Oh? Hello. I was pretending to not see you there. This week on The Weekly Geek, Frodo, The Geek and White Mage welcome Nevery to the cast. He, like all of us, will soon feel the cold hand of death as he ages into obscurity. This week we discuss more Pixar and Disney, the Nintendo DS lite, E3 restrictions for this coming year and old Tiger electronic lcd games. And a fun time was had by all. Here are some show notes.
--Frodo (frodo@weeklygeekshow.com)
p.s. you can download it at the top of the page.
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