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Feb. 19th, 2014
Interesting Links for 19-02-2014
Feb. 19th, 2014 11:00 am- Denmark bans halal and kosher slaughter as minister says ‘animal rights come before religion’
- The future of USB: next-gen connectivity revealed
- Mashtags: Birdseye launches hashtag-shaped potato smileys (Next up: Goatse-burgers)
- UK law: What proportion is influenced by the EU?
- The 24 Most Embarrassing Dungeons & Dragons Character Classes
- Kevin Smith’s ‘Comic Book Men’ Is a Compelling Argument Against Comic Book Stores
- Crossrail will be full pretty much the moment it opens
Just back from seeing it with my mother and seven-year-old Noah. Mother fell asleep for chunks of it, which is her traditional response to many things happening noisily at once. Noah laughed through the whole thing.
The plot is basically the same as The Matrix, only on drugs, and made of Lego. Huge amounts of imagination has gone into it, and it works very well (while having a couple of annoying features - it's all very well lampshading sexist behaviour in movies, but you then need to deal with it, and not then follow through with the same tropes).
Not life-changing, but very pretty, did some things I really didn't expect, and I'll undoubtedly watch it again at some point.
The plot is basically the same as The Matrix, only on drugs, and made of Lego. Huge amounts of imagination has gone into it, and it works very well (while having a couple of annoying features - it's all very well lampshading sexist behaviour in movies, but you then need to deal with it, and not then follow through with the same tropes).
Not life-changing, but very pretty, did some things I really didn't expect, and I'll undoubtedly watch it again at some point.