I went to an
IPv6 seminar in a movie theatre today, where they explained the how and why of the latest version of the internet protocol (that is, IPv6 has been around for more than a decade already) and stressed that in a couple of years, things will have to be v6-ed or we'll be in a heap of trouble, since IPv4 (the version we're using now) is at its end.
Seeing that IPv4 was concocted almost forty years ago, this doesn't really surprise me.
After the lectures and a small pause, we went back into the theatre to watch
Up; Pixar's latest animated flick. To heighten the experience, we got to see it in 3D, by using special goggles.
An old balloon salesman, Carl Fredericksen, uses a lot of balloons to fly his house to the Venezuelan jungle. By accident, he takes an eight-year old Wilderness Explorer scout named Russell with him, who was hoping to earn his "Helping the Elderly" merit badge.
They meet an old hero of Carl along the way, but not all is what it seems.
It was a good one. Not a movie particularly for kids (like Cars was) and therefore blissfully without an ominous message hanging over it, despite Pixar being part of Disney now, which says something about Pixar in general and this movie in particular. :)
It's pretty out of whack sometimes and even handles topics which aren't usually in Western animations, so points go there as well, but do not step into the few plot holes present in the film.
The Pixar short "Party Cloudy" which was shown before Up was quite a funny one, at least up there with "For The Birds" and "Lifted". Granted, the stork-approach for delivering newborns is a bit dated (and prude), but it fits.
As said, Up was shown to us in Digital 3D, which had its merits; some things really get towards you, and appear to be hanging over the heads of the people in front.
However, the effect is gone as soon as the object hits one of the sides of the screen, and you can clearly see that it's just an effect. The only time this does not happen is when the object is as dark as the walls surrounding the screen.
Despite that, it's a neat trick and adds to the movie.
I reckon that Up will make it into my collection some day.
Cheers, K.