Ratatouille was perfect. For anyone who was worried about Pixar after the so-so Cars, go see Ratatouille now and reaffirm your faith in them. Everything came together perfectly in the end. This is the first film since 2004 when I saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind that I’ll easily throw into my top 10 movies of all time.
A list of the books I’ve read this year. It looks like I’m slightly behind on my “Two books a month” resolution because of Fortress of Solitude taking me a month to complete, and a false start on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Out of curiosity, I also tried to recall all the movies I watched this year (Only movies I had not seen before).
Batman’s New Suit. I don’t think I’m liking this. They promised more cloth.
Friday June 15, 2007The Criterion Contraption: #65: Rushmore. Great write-up on the Criterion edition of Rushmore.
Wednesday March 28, 2007Ratatouille Japanese Trailer. Mmmmmm Pixar.
Tuesday March 20, 2007My views on consumerism and the value of money have changed so much that I didn’t even bother blogging when the Apple iPhone was released. Things like gadgets and cars that I used to drool over no longer matter to me as much as they used to. Granted I’ve still had many discussions with friends about the iPhone and its impact on the cell phone industry, but it’s not a product I’m going to be owning myself for at least a couple of years.
My point is that a lot of my interests are no longer all that blogworthy, and the rising popularity of community link sites such as Digg and Reddit have rendered a lot of my quickies redundant. So let’s see what’s been going on in my interesting life.
My roommate bought a munchkin cat and he’s both cute and annoying at the same time. Annoying cause he loves biting feet and apparently when I fight with the cat it looks like a big kid trying to discipline another kid. It’s not my fault that he likes drinking my herb tea and getting his head stuck in my chair and unrolling the toilet paper.
I’ve been on track with my reading resolution. So far this year I’ve read:
I’m currently reading “Fortress of Solitude,” although it’s a heftier book, so we’ll see if I can stay on track and still finish two books this month. No one asked for reviews, but I’ll give ‘em anyway. Gould’s Book of Fish: eh. Being Dead: eh. Life of Pi: Alright. The Things They Carried: Highly recommended.
300 comes out in theaters this Friday. It’s the first movie I’ve been really interested in for a long while. I’ve got tickets for the Friday Imax viewing, and it’ll be all the better for the sweet CG renders. I’ll be disappointed if I don’t come out of the theater shouting “SPARTA!”
After sampling Supreme Commander and Command & Conquer 3, neither of them can stack up against Company of Heroes in the RTS realm. Granted I’ve heard multiplayer is a vastly different experience for both games, but from the single-player demos I tried, they didn’t even come close. Both games had essentially the same strategy of building up a giant force and then sending them out to crush the other side. CoH has the constant back-and-forth of holding key territory and choosing the right upgrade at the right time. I’d like to hear what the really good CoH players think of Supreme Commander and C&C3.
My health benefits kicked in as soon as I started my new (old) job, and a regular check-up for me was in order. I can’t say I was too surprised to hear my cholesterol is a little high, although a bit scary for sure. I’ve been on a “lazy” diet ever since, consisting mostly of Subway and Souplantation and lots of fruit every day. I still indulge myself every once in a while, but always in moderation. I go back to the doctor’s in about a week to see how my month-long diet has been helping.
I started watching Battlestar Galactica. The first season was a bit slow but still interesting, but then they ended it on an amazing cliffhanger. The first episodes of season 2 were just amazing with the story development and several main characters in peril, and of course season 2 ended with another great cliffhanger. Now I need to download season 3 and try to catch up with the regular network airings.
Dwight: Do you ever watch Battlestar Galactica?
Guy: No.
Dwight: No? Then you are an idiot.
Sam’s Myth: TOP FIVE: 2006 Movie Posters. The Brick poster is sick.
Tuesday December 12, 2006Darkon. This looks really well-edited.
Wednesday November 15, 2006The Spider-Man 3 trailer has hit, and I want it now.
From the trailer, it looks as if they are doing the symbiote storyline justice and dedicating the entire movie to Spider-Man and the suit, and hopefully saving the next movie for Venom. I was worried that they would rush the Sandman plot and then bring out Venom for the second half of the movie, but it looks as if it is not so.
I’m sure people are disappointed that there’s no shots of Venom in the trailer, but they gotta have some surprises.
Spider-Man 3 Trailer Online Thursday!. Will we finally see Venom and the symbiote suit?
Monday November 6, 2006Making of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Awesomeness.
Monday October 2, 2006
I finally caught a screening of Little Miss Sunshine at CBS studios courtesy of Tommy tonight. I highly recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it yet to go out and do so. I loved the use of DeVotchKa’s music as well.
Before the movie we were at the horrible Chinese-food-for-white-boys restaurant Pickup Stix and saw Samaire Armstrong walk-in and order food to go, and then sit at the table looking hot while she waited. Hotness.
Battle of Thermopylae. Wiki entry on the actual battle that 300 is based on. Apparently the quote about the arrows and the shade is true.
Thursday September 21, 2006300 Promo Trailer. Awesome.
Wednesday September 20, 2006The Shire of Bend, Oregon. I took a long look, and it appears this is for real.
Thursday September 14, 2006Scriptland: Reading Charlie Kaufman’s Next Project - Los Angeles Times. A rave about Charlie Kaufman’s next screenplay (which he will be filming himself), “Synecdoche, New York”.
Thursday September 14, 2006The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen. For future reference.
Sunday September 10, 2006Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I hope it’s at least PG-13 so we see them actually use their weapons this time.
Thursday July 20, 2006Kevin Smith on His Superman Script. Giant spider!
Thursday July 13, 2006Smooth-E. Entertaining enough to sustain my ever-shrinking attention span. Reminds me that I haven’t seen a decent romantic comedy in a long time.
Monday July 10, 2006Eric Lim smells like noodles; enjoys driving in traffic in the Los Angeles area; is scared of girls; tries to make people feel bad; is allergic to hot wings; is (almost) undefeated Go Fish Champion; is the destroyer of toasters; is a self-qualified CSS Ninja; wants to learn to ride a unicycle just so he can call himself "GizmoDuck"; and is an aspiring writer who doesn't write.
He is eagerly awaiting the revolution.
Reach him at
eric at pres.umptuo.us
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