My First Comic-Con
Jul 21st
Today I depart on a journey to become a man. No, wait. I did that
already (at least thrice). Today I depart on a journey to become a
boy. A fanboy.
I embark on the geek version of a pilgrimage to Mecca. A Nerd Haj, if you will.
Comic-Con. Where Lucas sold Star Wars t-shirts in the late 70′s.
If I see less than 56 Stormtroopers I will be PISSED. I don’t mean a
Clonetrooper/Stormtrooper mix. I mean 56 or more old school
Stormtroopers.
I’m not dragging my doughy ass to San Diego for 4 days for Clonetroopers.
Happy Fourth!
Jul 4th
I think my feelings about the founding of this great nation (and the
unquenchable spirit herein) can be best described in, my friend,
Brad’s Home of the Brave T-Shirt.
iPhone 4
Jun 17th
Why is it easier to buy 27 U2 tickets than 1 new iPhone? AT&T’s servers were crawling like a tranquillized Grizzly. It’s as if AT&T was a sleepy high schooler “Wait. What?? I thought the pre-order thing was July something?” Get your act together, AT&T!! I gotta get a iPhone!
Iron Man 2
Jun 8th
I don’t have any Tony-Stark-like eccentric billionaire buddies but I am bestest buddies with David Malloy and he invited me to see Iron Man 2 on opening night at the Arclight Cinema Dome in LA. The Dome is the perfect place to see a big movie and this was a BIG movie. Iron Man was insanely successful and I loved it so I was looking forward to seeing this sequel.
Due to some family planning (not the baby making kind) I had to get to Burbank via TRAIN! WHAT? They have those? I didn’t know people still rode in them. I thought they were just freight trains with mannequins in the windows. You know, so our kids can wave at them from the beach and we can feel like Americans. Turns out you can actually ride in them and it’s pretty nice, provided you bring noise canceling headphones so you don’t have to hear the Russian kid get to know the Mexican girl in the seat behind you. “What kind of music do you like?” “So, what, um, is your background, ethnically?” “What do you think of the Arizona immigration law?” “I’m Russian.” He didn’t even sound Russian. What a ripoff. He spoke like some punk on Road Rules. I was totally hoping for Yokov Smirnoff. Or better yet, Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2! See how I totally brought that back around to the movie I saw and then completely derailed again by pointing out what I did just now?
Mikey Rourke was awesome as a Russian bad guy! Robert Downey Jr was awesome (again) as Tony Stark! Don Cheadle had a tough job to do in that he was replacing Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) as Tony Stark’s buddy, Rhodey. I thought he did a great job. Not sure what happened there. None of my business. OK, fine here. Scarlett Johannson & Sam Jackson filled in nicely as members of S.H.I.E.L.D. Loved Sam Rockwell too! Check out his movie “Moon” on Netflix. Great movie & it’s surprisingly not about hanging your naked arse out at passing trains. There’s people in there, you guys!!
I DID NOT HATE IT!
Robin Hood
Jun 6th
Out of the clear blue, my friend and Bows-man, Geordie Speak invited me to go see Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. Also in our merry band: Ben Ewart, Woodsman and deadly with a hockey stick. Ben and I traveled far and joined up with Geordie on the borders of Yogurtland. From there, we traveled east across the street to the theater. Once we purchased our replenishments we made haste for our seats. My cunning and scouting skills were rewarded with three of the finest seats in all the theater!
Our timing was perfect for just as we were seated, the MovieTickets.com wench began her plea for our business. Making claim to it’s conveniences in her life in Las Vegas where she forgets Hugh Heffner and tends to the needs of the wise Wizard, Criss Angel. After an assortment of funny trailers it was SHOWTIME!
That’s when the math got all screwy. Great director + great actor + insanely great actress = great movie, right? Not right. Unright. I don’t know what happened. I didn’t care about any of the characters for the first quarter of the movie. It picked up a little when we meet Max Van Sydow’s Sir Walter Loxley and we got to see Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe do some acting together. It’s just that we’ve seen it all before and not in the good way. Since they were telling a “before Robin Hood became Robin Hood” we didn’t get any of the fun Robin Hood stuff. We got hints, but it just wasn’t enough.
I don’t hate anybody involved with this movie, BUT I Did Hate the movie. Sad.
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