{"id":384,"date":"2002-03-06T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2002-03-07T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/06\/atlantis-ai-jay-and-silent-bob-say-anything\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:00:07","slug":"atlantis-ai-jay-and-silent-bob-say-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/06\/atlantis-ai-jay-and-silent-bob-say-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis, AI, Jay and Silent Bob, Say Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

While my DVD purchases are nowhere near what they used to be now that I don’t have the extra income and employee discount from Suncoast<\/a>, I do still occasionally pick one up here and there. I’ve picked up four over the past month (see? Four in a month<\/em>!) — here’s the scoop….<\/p>\n

Atlantis: The Lost Empire<\/a>: Disney’s most recent animated flick. I thought this one was very under-appreciated when it came out in the theaters, which was a shame — though not entirely surprising. It’s Disney’s first PG-rated animated film since The Black Cauldron<\/a>, and one of their few non-musicals. It’s also got a much more adult-oriented sense of humor running through it, which I very much enjoyed. Well worth seeing, though — I really like the fact that Disney has finally decided to stray from the standard formula that they held to for so long, and I hope that the fact that A:TLE<\/em> didn’t perform as well as it could have in the box office doesn’t scare them away from experimenting in the future.<\/p>\n

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back<\/a>: Hey — it’s Kevin Smith<\/a>! Sure, there’s not exactly much in the way of a plot, and many of the jokes won’t connect with people who haven’t seen the rest of his films. Being a Kevin Smith fan, though, I think it’s pretty funny. If nothing else, the news bulletin warning people to “stay away from the C.L.I.T” (C<\/strong>ampaign for the L<\/strong>iberation of I<\/strong>tinerant T<\/strong>ree-dwellers), and watching Ben Affleck<\/a> and Matt Damon<\/a> rip on themselves by selling out to make Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season<\/em> are worth watching. At least…I think so.<\/p>\n

A.I. Artificial Intelligence<\/a>: The single best film Spielberg<\/a> has done, one of the best movies of last year (if not the best), and certiainly one of the few must-see “thinking person’s” sci-fi films to come out in recent years (the only others I can think off off the top of my head being Gattaca<\/a>, Contact<\/a>, and 2001<\/a>). I watched the movie last night, and will probably be digging into the special features tonight…most likely with a seperate post to follow.<\/p>\n

Say Anything<\/a>: One of my favorite 80’s films, and the one to cement John Cusack<\/a> in my brain as an actor to keep track of. This is the second in the unofficial ‘Cusack series’ that my friend Royce<\/a> and I enjoy, where though they’re all seperate and unrelated films, we like to put them in a series simply because they star John Cusack, and he plays roughly the same character in each one. For the curious, here’s the series in full as it stands right now: Better Off Dead<\/a> and One Crazy Summer<\/a> for his formative High School years, Say Anything for High School graduation, Grosse Pointe Blank<\/a> for the 10-year reunion, and High Fidelity<\/a> for the thirty-something years.

Additions to the DVD library: Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and Say Anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[2063,2137,2135,1828,1035,23,977,1830,1825,2136,1827,1829],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-2063","tag-ai-artificial-intelligence","tag-atlantis-the-lost-empire","tag-better-off-dead","tag-contact","tag-film","tag-gattaca","tag-grosse-pointe-blank","tag-high-fidelity","tag-jay-and-silent-bob-strike-back","tag-one-crazy-summer","tag-say-anything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}