{"id":16,"date":"2007-10-22T08:21:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T08:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-10-22T08:21:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T08:21:03","slug":"rat-a2e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Rat&nbsp;A2E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Pixar offering is pretty good, you should probably go see it. Random thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The preceding short (&#8216;Lifted&#8217;) is brilliant; nothing mind-blowing from a technical perspective, but hugely funny non-verbal humor.<\/li>\n<li>The main film has a few too many sequences which seem designed to be really easy to turn into a video game. (The Incredibles had the same problem, but to a lesser extent)<\/li>\n<li>Visually it&#8217;s stunning,  with a nice balance between realism and comic observation. It&#8217;s more realistic \/ less stylized than The Incredibles, but given the more mundane setting, it works well, without falling into the <a href=\"http:\/\/booboo.phpwebhosting.com\/~ubiq\/index.php?p=124#more-124\">uncanny valley<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The pacing is a little off in some places &#8211; not to the point of boredom, but it doesn&#8217;t flow quite as smoothly as most previous Pixar films. Perhaps this is because it&#8217;s a full two hours in length? (it certainly felt that way)<\/li>\n<li>Kids&#8217; films have kids&#8217; adverts, which are truly frightening. Seeing phrases like &#8216;healthy nourishing goodness&#8217; being used with complete disregard for actual evidence depresses me, though I realize the Milkybar kid, Cocoa the monkey and many other fountains of wisdom have been doing this for years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Pixar offering is pretty good, you should probably go see it. Random thoughts: The preceding short (&#8216;Lifted&#8217;) is brilliant; nothing mind-blowing from a technical perspective, but hugely funny non-verbal humor. The main film has a few too many sequences which seem designed to be really easy to turn into a video game. (The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}