Wreck-It Ralph (non-spoiler review)

[tuftears]

boingdragon was in town and dracosphynx wanted to drop something off (eyes package warily) so I suggested we head out to a movie today.

We hit up the Century theater on Shoreline. Good news! This time the closed captioning device worked. This puts Century theaters up big over AMC theaters for me now because AMC theaters generally don't have closed captioning, but all the screens have closed captioning (as far as I know) in the Century theaters. This is a device that installs into the cupholder of your seat, with a bendy-neck so you can tilt the display to where you can easily see it, but it won't distract other people near you.

The Paper Man animation that opened the movie was pretty cute. I'm sure dracosphynx is thinking that I need to learn to throw paper airplanes like that now.

Wreck-It Ralph was surprisingly good, for a Disney movie, by which I mean it wasn't an obvious and predictable Hero's Journey, but instead, they threw a few curve balls. It was amusing how they interpreted the pixelated style of old video games as 3D animation as well, i.e. the Nice Land dwellers only had a few frames of animation apiece, and were sort of blocky in form. It's worth sitting through the credits, there are some really amusing pixel art pieces. Someone spent a lot of time on this stuff!

Comments

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

'Tis true, 'tis true! They foreshadow the plot twist pretty well too.

[rowyn]

Yep! It's all there, but not so obvious that it's the first thing you think of. :)