Summer Movies part 1...

Well, I've had a chance to finally catch up on some of the big movie releases this summer season, with more to come in the next few days. Beware, I'm not the usual type that falls to the thumbs down side of things by default.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Highly enjoyable popcorn movie with lots of explosions, gunfire and tons of charisma between the major players in the movie (and I include Vince Vaughn there).

Fantastic Four: Didn't have high hopes after all the negative criticism on this movie, but I actually did enjoy it quite a bit. Jessica Alba's always a plus in my books, the Thing was portrayed better than I expected (not being familiar with the comic book I probably missed a few creative licenses with the character though), only had a couple of problems with the movie. 1) The guy playing Mr. Fantastic had ZERO charisma with anyone in the film, 2) how exactly did the Thing's transformation at the end of the movie happen, considering the circumstances they established it needed.

Return of the Sith: Not a lot needs to be said here, as I've agreed with just about everyone's basic thoughts of the movie... leaps and bounds better than the first two movies in the New Trilogy, still a little wooden acting from Hayden Christiansen although I found "NOOOOOOOO!" more in character than most. He did afterall JUST become Vader not long before that, I tend to believe that's the catalyst for Vader becoming the Uber Bastard we all know and love from the Classic Trilogy.

Bewitched: Meh, where to begin with this one? Outside of some decent acting by Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell (and good side roles by Kristen Chenoweth and Steve Carrell), this one left me cold for the major reason of a terrible plot. The premise sounded interesting, the tv remake within the movie remake, but it was totally all over the place and lost me several times. Taking liberties like Aunt Clara actually being Nicole Kidman's aunt rather than a character on the TV show really, and Uncle Arthur appearing to the Jack character against instead of being something on the show really dragged this one down. I tried to like it, I really did... that said, I wouldn't be opposed to Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman being paired up in a better movie.

That's it for now, more thoughts to come. And YeeHaw, Dukes of Hazzard out in less than a week.

And yet they keep The Simple Life...

Somehow I missed the actual release date, but the first two seasons of the 2000-2002 series Titus have come out on DVD and I finally picked it up this week. And once again I fail to believe how FOX could cancel a show as wickedly brilliant as this, even though it's been demonstrated time and time again. In fact, I think 2002 alone saw them cancel Titus, Family Guy, Dark Angel, Greg the Bunny, Fastlane... in short pretty much every show I watched on the channel save for their Sunday night lineup.

The irony of Titus is that it had strong ratings all the way through it's run and was unceremoniously cancelled out of nowhere, while a show like Arrested Development has meager ratings and nearly suffers the same fate only to get an 11th hour reprieve. Don't get me wrong, AD is the most brilliant comedy on television today, but it goes to show you that FOX will cancel pretty much anything at any point, any time... except a star vehicle for Paris Hilton.

Wussies.

The beginning of the end of the beginning?

Well, it's a day I didn't forsee coming. To join the ranks of the bloggers? Who really cares about my opinions, right? Blogs are for celebrities and angst-ridden teenagers, like Nirvana and Scientology.

But I guess if I'm going to live up to the name on this blog, I'd better have a blog. And without a blog, I'm not living up to the name. It's just one big vicious circle. Anyways, enjoy my little corner of the 'Net.