Last night Sarafina and I made ratatouille and watched Ratatouille. You know, the one with the rat who wants to be a stand-up comedian. Brad Bird continues to be the best shooter in Hollywood who never shoots anything - the "camera"work in that flick is pretty damn terrific. I found the fact that certain of the animated elements (the water, the book pages) were photorealistic while others (the rats, the city) were not fairly interesting; there's the beginnings of a good idea there. But poor Remy still lived in the valley for me. I will happily grant, though, that this is goddamned adorable and makes me actually want to see that flick. I never learn.

Meh, I'll believe this when I have my Blu-Ray monkey kong. Until then, I will say that Disney makes the worst Blu-Ray disks ever. Not because they are lower quality than any of the others, but because of the 45 minutes of trailers and bullshit that inevitably start every single disk and can only be skipped one at a time on players that need to think about the entire skipping process, at length, for several minutes before deciding to do anything about it.

I know, I know. Early adoption. Now that the war's over I'm about to be shown a chump for my player choice, aren't I?