I walked in, just expecting something on par or atleast somewhat better than last year’s trainwreck, but gosh, they honest to god had to try to make Transformers 2 sucks that fucking hard.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so bored by explosions.
This was actually my favorite part about my trip home, I’ve been wanting to hang out with my little cousin Trenton for ages! Well, I think the term is second cousin, since he’s the son of my cousin Kristin, but who’s counting, eh?
Anyway, Trenton’s a real sharp kid, just had an odd up-bringing.
Not to say he isn’t well adjusted, he’s always really polite, and kid’s king of the school yard from what he tells me, and he does pretty well in school. Which is great, I’m proud he’s made the best of a less than normal situation.
So I took him to the comic shop near him, “Fourth World”, which is hands down the best comic shop I’ve been to in the 22 years I’ve been alive, and I figure this would be a great opportunity to get him into some comics, I offered to buy him any book in the store, since he’s apparently big into Dragon Ball Z, he ended up getting the first volume of DragonBall. A good place to start, methinks, Akira Toriyama is a great jumping point into the world of comics, a good style, fun story, and plenty of fighting to keep a 9-year old occupied.
Now, I gave him the choice between seeing UP or Wolverine: Origins, but since he’s supposed to go see UP with his family next week, he vehemently chose Wolverine, because, c’mon, he’s a kid, he wants to see a superhero beat the crap or of other people.
Jesus Christ. It sucked. It sucked sooo hard.
But, I had to stick it out for my little cousin. I guess this is how it’s going to be whenever I have children, and they want to see some really shitty movies. Lord help me. But hey, he seemed to like it, well, aside from there not being enough blood of course! Afterwards, I dropped him off with his mother then dumped a whole load of some of my old Manga and Legos, and a mannequin, since he’d been getting into drawing lately, I wanted to see if maybe I could help nuture his abilities, like my cousin Shaun did for me when I was a kid.
I’m sure he’ll freak out to see that I drew him into the comic, and I can’t wait to see him the next time I visit! Good Luck Trent, you’re going places! And keep drawing!
Seriously, I’d see this movie as soon as you possibly can, while I don’t feel it was better than WALL-E, my all time favorite film, it certainly stands up there in my favorite film pantheon.
There’s something about the movie that just… brings you back to a simpler time, and leaves you with this beautiful feeling afterwards. I really can’t describe it, it’s just such a wonderful feeling.
On my little phone chat with Dave Wheeler, it was odd, he’s just graduating, and it’s sort of just dawned on him that he might not see alot of people in Savannah again for a long time, so in that respect I felt I comforted him somehow, but it just made me look back on my own life since I’d moved out on my own in Savannah, and how lucky I’ve been, and how many wonderful people I’ve been truly blessed to meet.
I know you’ve still got two weeks left in Savannah, Wheeler, but I’m going to lose a good friend, and I hope life takes you where you want to go, and all that other shmaltzy crap. You’re the man, you have the connections, now go and use ‘em!
This Adventure Brought to You By: Rifftrax! Spice up a shitty movie with commentary tracks from the comedic talents from MST3K!
Anyhow, what a weird situation to be put in, what are you supposed to do when everyone but you runs out on a movie. Which was terrible but the rifftrax definetly made it super funny to watch. Marion has the habit of being a little ADD at times (we all do), but it felt pretty crappy to have things end suddenly.
I’d like to be a little more understanding, but she simply wouldnt tell me what bugged her and why she had to cut the movie short, so I really don’t know what happend. If it was something life threatening or equally important, then I’d apologize for being miffed, but for now, I simply don’t know what to think, other than “What the hell?”
But the real problem here is the twilight movie, don’t see it unless you have the Rifftrax, it’s a terrible, terrible movie. Aaaauugh.
It was actually my first time watching the movie too. After years of only knowing the movie through references on Animaniacs, it was pretty damned good. Though I’ve sure I’d enjoy it movie on DVD.
So, just lemme say, that BOLT was a pretty cool movie, probably on par with Pixar’s worst (which is still pretty damned good!). What really struck though, was the animation on Bolt himself. As a dog lover, I could see that they did there homework. He moved, acted and just felt like a real dog. Whihc at certain points of the movie, can really pull on your heartstrings.
Also, my parents cleaned my house much to my protest. Oh well!
Brannon and Marion came over and we planned to have a little cooking extravaganza. It was pretty fun, and there really isn’t anything better than making food for others.
Also for the first time in history, Sci-Fi Channel was showing the ONLY good thing on TV, this has never happend before. Hannibal came on AMC and I think Joe Dirt was on Comedy Central, Some crap on Cartoon Network, but Sci-Fi was showing Blade Runner: Final Cut. Damn that’s a good movie.