A few stray thoughts on a few movies I've seen recently...
Cowboy Bebop: the Movie: Watched this last night. Looked great. Tons o' style. Plot was immediately disposable (slight variation on psycho badguy out to destroy the world). Not in the same class as movies like Roujin Z or Ninja Scroll or a series like Serial Experiments: Lain but enjoyable. I was expecting the music to be better, though, having heard some of the music from the original series. I wonder if they re-scored the movie for the dubbed version (which is what we watched)
Finding Nemo: Sweeter and less frenetic than Monsters, Inc but the expected brilliancy of animation from Pixar. WTF is Disney gonna do for animation now that Steve Jobs has packed up his toys and moved on? Well, for one thing, I guess they'll continue to tell stories featuring dead Moms. What is the deal? Do they have some kinda rule book? (Page 1: if Mom is not dead, kill immediately)
Shaun of the Dead: Hilarity definetely ensued! For some reason, I had thought this was an Aussie movie. Of course, it's Brit. And was filmed at Ealing (as I learned from some of the bonus material on the DVD) (no sign of the Creeping Kid, however...) Anyway, this was quite gory. But funny as hell. And they understand the zombie shuffle. No CGI-ed crankhead zombies here.