review of Despicable Me

Last week I saw the movie “Despicable Me”, and I highly recommend it.   It’s a CGI-animated movie, starring Steve Carell.   There are trailers online, of course, but it’s probably better if you don’t watch too many of them, just because some of them show parts of the movie that are better left discovered during the movie.  So I’m not going to say much about the plot and storyline, except that it was great.  And that the main guy wants to steal the moon.  How original is that?

There are some great quotes in it, along with numerous laugh-out-loud scenes.  The main guy’s minions are hilarious, too — they remind me of the rabbids from the video games Raymond’s Raving Rabbids (and their own games, too).  There’s quite a bit of funny randomness in the movie, both in the story and dialogue.  So there’s no hesitation for me to speak on behalf of the staff of Buffet o’ Blog to say you should watch this movie.  (In the interest of full disclosure, some of the staff has yet to see the movie, but that’s because they made excuses and need their priorities refocused.   Perhaps we should have a organization-wide required viewing… Yeah, I think it’s that good.)

So go see it.  Although if a disclaimer is needed, I will say, “Your mileage may vary.”  But if you enjoy this blog, I would expect you to enjoy the movie, too.  The plot of it sounds like some discussions that have happened in these pages.  In fact, we’ve even had an idea for a movie featuring two evil mad scientists competing against each other.

caption contest, violinist in ocean

For our next weekly caption contest, let’s use a picture of a violinist playing his violin in the surf of the ocean.  The waves are splashing up around him, which doesn’t seem like a good thing for the violin, but that’s not our concern.  What we have to do is figure out what’s going on here.  Write a caption explaining why this man is playing his violin / fiddle in the ocean.  Or your perspective could be of someone watching this… or just commentary about it.  It can be whatever — just make it funny.

(To see our other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)

Los Links!

The other day in a Mexican restaurant, I saw a TV commercial for Microsoft’s search engine Bing.  It looked like a parody of a Spanish soap opera.  I’ve since seen it on English TV.  There’s two of them I’ve seen so far, and they’re funny because the acting and script is so bad.   Actually, there’s more bad acting than storyline, which works in terms of randomness.

Los Links, Episode Uno

Los Links, Episode Dos

If you actually want to make more sense of the commercials, there are extended versions of both, which are about a minute long each.

Los Links, Episode Uno (extended version)

Los Links, Episode Dos (extended version)

caption contest, people playing game in rubble

Here’s this week’s caption contest, featuring a group of people that appear to be playing a board game amidst rubble from some catastrophe like an earthquake or bombing.  I realize such events are tragic in real life, but the people in the picture are trying to have a good time despite whatever went wrong there, so in that same attitude let’s think of funny captions that go with this picture.

(To see our other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)