Dark Knight and Tropic Thunder

The last day before our vacation ends, we went to see Dark Knight, the new Batman movie. I really had no desire to see it, I mean, it wasn’t like I had an aversion to it–I just wouldn’t have seen it had Ryan not wanted to.
It was really fantastic. Nevermind that they pulled a Bewitched [...]

Incredible Trilogy Becomes a Quadrilogy

It has been a while since I last blogged (well, before Comic-Con), but that’s only because of a purchase I made on a whim.
You know how your parents used to tell you that money was burning a hole in your pocket? Well, it even happens to 27-year-olds. I picked up a 500-page book titled “Twilight” [...]

Comic-Con 2008

Hardly anyone knows what I’m talking about when I say Comic-Con. This leads to me attempting to describe the event, which is quite difficult. At its heart, I suppose it’s a comic book convention. At least, maybe that’s what it was 10 years ago. Now, it’s a celebrity-filled time in San Diego for four days [...]

Oh, Wall-E …

Continuing the streak of seeing a movie each week (in the theatre), I saw Wall-E over the holiday weekend.
It actually made me forget that it was animated because it was like watching a video of the potential future. Yes, it’s full of social commentary, including:

The world’s inability to clean up after itself
Society’s widening waistlines
The do-less/self-indulgent/selfish [...]