Summertime

I'm surprised I still have a Blogger account as it has been so long since last I posted. I know, the tragedy of it all. Still it is almost summertime (the season of movies, not season of temperature as if you use temp as a requirement it is summertime 9 months out of the year down here) the movie studios are on overdrive to get you to spend your hard-earned dollars seeing their many big-budget features. Noticably absent is a big Will Smith movie. Totally breaking the streak Will. As I am a big-time movie buff/sucker, I have already partaken of a few big name movies and so far, not too bad.

Saw the X-Men Origins: Wolverine. If nothing else, go to see Hugh Jackman in all his shirtless gloriousness. Ryan Reynolds isn't too bad either though no shirtlessness to speak of. I'm no comic book fan so I don't know the history of these characters and if it jives with what the Marvel world says is supposed to happen so I was quite happy to watch in my comic book ignorance. Good times.

Also saw Star Trek - the reloaded version. Less cheese, more action. Plus who doesn't love Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and John Cho (Harold and Kumar...) as Scotty and Sulu. Love them. Good effects, comic relief and really glad they didn't go overboard with the ol' cliche Star Trek lines. There were a few but well-placed.

What's coming up? Terminator: Salvation, aka the movie Christian Bale went apesh*t on some poor director's assistant on. Really Christian? You're an actor, not curing cancer or negotiating world peace. Get over yourself. Hope the movie is halfway decent otherwise he looks more like a douche than initally believed. Night at the Museum 2 will probably be seen by me and the kids. Looks okay, love Hank Azaria (he's Moe from Simpsons folks!) and Steve Coogan so hope it doesn't suck. Up looks like a cute movie and so fax Pixar hasn't disappointed with their movies.

Anything else going on this summer? Well, kids are off of school soon (oh how I miss summer vacations) and hurricane season is just around the corner (joy of joys) so that should be fun. Not really.

Updates should be forthcoming on movies, news or whatever fits my fancy for the day.

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