Cups with Wall-E
By alain on Sunday 29 June, 2008
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Category: Pixar
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Buy N Large site launched
By wendy on Saturday 11 August, 2007
The website of Buy N Large, the notorious store from the new Pixar movie Wall-E, is active. The information is extremely broad, shocking and funny. I’m already reading the site for a long time and still haven’t seen everything. The funniest parts are the hidden references to everything that has got something to do with Pixar.
The overall impression however is that Buy N Large Company offers the most disgusting future perspective for mankind. Money is everything and everything is money. Catchphrases like “BNL Family Values - Because the family that pays together, stays together” can be found throughout the website. The company has got an “almost complete” monopoly in the media, the weather, politics and even education. Critics are seen as souls that still need to be won over. In short, the whole world is a mess.
So what can you buy there? Just everything: from a privatised weather system, space travels to a Wend-E (not to be mistaken with a Wendy 
). This magnificent device gathers all your clothes and calculates the specific dirtiness per item. If necessary it washes, dries and irons the clothes, after which it will be nicely folded and put away in the closet.
Wall-E promises to be an interesting movie with relentless criticism on the current consumption society. If you click on “Read More” you will find the (BNL Production) movie poster for “Annual Report 2″ with some nice easter eggs. (Read more…)
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Bloopers from A Bug’s Life
By alain on Saturday 11 August, 2007
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Category: Entertainment, Pixar
Wall-E postcards
By alain on Monday 30 July, 2007
On the Comic Con convention in San Diego Pixar handed out some fantastic postcards with a fifties look from Wall-E. Click ”Read more” for the rest.
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Pixar’s Lifted
By wendy on Tuesday 17 July, 2007
Lifted, the new short from Pixar, has appeared on Youtube.
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Pixar Shorts DVD
By alain on Tuesday 10 July, 2007
Yesterday Disneybluray.fr showed the cover of the DVD ‘Pixar short films collection’ on its website. Although there is still no official announcement, it seems like the long-expected collection DVD will soon arrive. Recently Disney had registered the domains Pixarshorts.com and Disneypixarshorts.com and the UK internet store Play already mentions this DVD. The presumptions are that the DVD will be released around Christmas time. We already know what to put on our wish list.
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Rumours Toy Story Musical
By wendy on Monday 9 July, 2007
The Laughingplace says there are rumours about the production of a Toy Story Musical. This show would be performed only on the Disney Cruise ships. I think it’s a strange evolution to see these kind of ‘low profile’ musicals (see Finding Nemo), also considering the fact that there are no songs in Pixar movies.
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Ratatouille - A treat for the eye
By alain on Friday 6 July, 2007
I know I don’t have enough words of praise in my vocabulary to describe this movie experience. With Ratatouille Pixar shows its superiority in the animation world. Both graphically as with respect to the content this movie was complete.
From the first minutes on, you will be drawn into the beautiful story of Rémy, a culinary rat who dreams of once becoming a chef. Unfortunately the life of a rodent isn’t meant for such a daring career choice. Until one day he meets Linguini, the kitchen aid in his favourite restaurant. Linguini can’t cook, but desperately tries to keep his job. Soon it becomes clear that a cooperation between those two, could perhaps make them the best chef of France. There is only the tiny detail of nosy colleagues and the head chef with an incredible disgust for rats.
Thanks to the fine balance between drama, humour, suspense and action I wasn’t bored for one moment. However the movie does follow the standard ‘format’, so nothing really surprising happens.
But above all, the movie is like candy for the eye. The first time you look at Paris together with Rémy it will definitely give you goosebumps. The attention for every small detail makes it very impressive. I’ve never seen rats this beautiful: the expression in body language and eyes, the ‘pink’-ness of the small noses, the tiny hairs on their ears and I can go on like this for a while…
The music of Michael Giacchino is also outstanding. The jazzy soundtrack creates the perfect French atmosphere without sounding old-fashioned. Le Festin from singer Camille gets you instantly daydreaming. You can listen to a fragment here.
In my opinion Ratatouille is, together with Finding Nemo, the best Pixar movie ever. I fell in love with Paris, with Rémy and his chubby little brother Emile, with the clumsy Linguini and oh, what I would give to taste just one little piece of that ratatouille! I’ll bring out the cookbooks…
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20 Years of Pixar – Promotion movie
By alain on Friday 6 July, 2007
The Australian ACMI museum has produced a promotion movie for the exhibition “20 years of Pixar”. It looks like it’s worth it!
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