If you’ve always been intrigued by the stories of “easter eggs” in Pixar films but haven’t had the time to look for them yourself, this video does a pretty good job of showing and explaining them to you.
The video was made a while ago around the time of Wall-E’s movie release, so the majority of the video here focuses on Wall-E being hidden in some earlier Pixar films. Whether or not you believe the very brief reference to Wall-E in Toy Story, you have to admit that it’s incredible that anybody even caught this while watching the race sequence at the end of the film. Just watch the video to see what I mean.
It was a short stint I guess, but after only a week or so of playing around with VMware Fusion on my Mac, I’ve gone and run back to Parallels.
Parallels recently released version 4 of their desktop software and it’s basically the best of both virtual machine worlds.
One gripe I had while running VMware Fusion was that access to my Mac desktop via shared folders was incredibly slow. It took forever for a folder to open and when it finally did, accessing its contents wasn’t exactly what I would call immediate. On top of that, the speed and performance issues with VMware Fusion while running simultaneous applications in Windows and in Mac was just too slow and frustrating to deal with.
Parallels handles speed and performance a lot better in version 4 and I’m glad I switched back. Parallels also made the virtual machines easier to handle and easier to configure individually.
So why did I switch to Parallels? So that I could run Windows with AnyDVD on it and rip Wall-E to my harddrive. Yay. And it worked. Flawlessly.
I hate when studios do this on a DVD release. They put out several different DVD versions of the same film all packed with different features.
Here’s a rundown of what to expect when buying Wall-E on DVD:
Single DVD – Movie and two shorts plus some extras
2-disc DVD – Movie and two shorts plus lots of extras
3-disc DVD – Movie and two shorts plus lots of extras and a stupid “digital copy” of the film (this version is for idiots, basically)
This kind of choice is terrible. Studios should just put out one DVD at the release time with all available extras and then, if they feel necessary, put out a second “special edition” one years later.
So Wall-E gets released on DVD tomorrow and Netflix just notified me that the disc is already in the mail and on my way to me. This means that I don’t have to worry about going out to buy it (or getting disappointed when I find that it’s sold out everywhere). Even better is that it arrives in my mailbox on the day it gets released and not a day later!
If you haven’t heard already, Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E is coming out on DVD and Blu-ray on November 18, and like all Pixar films, the DVD (and Blu-ray) includes a Pixar short as an extra feature. The short was available for viewing on YouTube for a while before Pixar claimed copyright infringement and YouTube took it down.
But if you really cannot wait until the release of the DVD/Blu-ray disc, you can have a look at the short here by snagging the torrent file. The torrent is the 720p version of the short so it’ll be pretty large for a 7 minute or so short. It’s worth it though.
This time around, the short is called Burn-E and it depicts the life of a repair robot (named Burn-E) during the events of the actual Wall-E film. The cool thing about this short film is that it is sort of like an extension of the Wall-E film because everything that Wall-E and Eve do affects this welding robot.
As always, the short is very entertaining and funny. Once again, the folks at Pixar have made me want a robot more than ever. And in a way, I’d much rather have Burn-E than Wall-E.
After watching this official trailer, I can’t wait for the full movie to come out! It’s going to be so awesome. There’s nothing better than a movie about robots! And to top that off, it’s about robots in LOVE. Haha, how cool!
gets released on DVD tomorrow and Netflix just notified me that the disc is already in the mail and on my way to me. This means that I don’t have to worry about going out to buy it (or getting disappointed when I find that it’s sold out everywhere). Even better is that it arrives in my mailbox on the day it gets released and not a day later!
