Today was spent catching up on some work, the gym, the World Series (currently watching) and Meet The Press. While watching the latter (great roundtable discussion), I saw a preview for this upcoming film, which looks really entertaining... I hadn't heard of it before:
Wreck-It Ralph is Disney's newest 3D CGI movie, and it looks like a fun ride through some familiar territory for me... video games! Of course I'm talking about the "old school" days, when I handed over much of my free-time to such characters as Ms. Pac Man, Q-Bert, and Donkey Kong. Ralph in this movie is reminiscent of the king Kong... a bad guy, preventing the character from fixing a building in their game. The twist is that Ralph is having an existential crisis... he tires of his "job" and wants to be recognized as a good guy. From the trailer it looks like he jumps into a number of different games to find his way... what a creative concept, and fun to see some familiar games from the old days making cameos.
The New York Times has a cool article in today's edition about how the filmmakers strived to make the old school video game look like it did back in my middle school days... wonder if my buddy Ralph Baer has heard about this film... Here's the link to check out the article.
Huh... just when you think it's "game over" for the movies, there is a whole slew of interesting, creative concepts on the way... from presidential biopics (Lincoln and Hyde Park on Hudson); the awesome James Bond, Daniel Craig (Skyfall); to movies about shih tzus-! (Seven Pyschopaths)... all look pretty entertaining.
Speaking of which... the San Francisco Giants just swept the Detroit Tigers! Wow, talk about getting your game on...
Related Links:
disney.go.com/wreck-it-ralph
"Disney’s New Hero Is So 1982: How ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Revisits Retro Video Games," New York Times, October 26, 2012
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