Who's watching them?

Apparently much of the country considering the box office take from this films opening weekend. I too was sucked in to shelling out a cool $9.50 to see the latest offering in comic based movies. Having been horribly disappointed by the Spirit I was yearning for comic redemption. What did I get? About an hour and a half nap followed by another hour and a half of actually intriguing plot. That’s right, a three hour tour. On many titles I crave more and three hours is an easy sit for me, but somehow this film managed to bring character development to all all time high in boring factor. The constantly switching internal monologues and convoluted mish-mash of back story was enough to give anyone not familiar with the comic series a migraine. Perhaps the die hard graphic novel fans ate it up, however I must admit I was practically snoozing half way in. And seriously, is Dr. Manhattan’s schlong a credited character? For the amount of screen time Mr. Winky captured that man should get a porn bonus. Having not read the book I have to ask… is he that exposed for movie hype or are they trying to be true to the comic? Wavering blue balls aside, Dr. Manhattan’s back-story and eventual set-up are the most intrigues points in the movie. I think all the actors played well, it just is too long and tries to cover too much in one sitting.

Yes, that IS 2 stories of movies…

When you’ve been collecting movies for more than a decade, a simple DVD case just WILL NOT cut it. How do you store nearly 1300 VHS, DVD, and Blue-Ray disks? Well, your pretty much gonna have to go custom. Luckily these type of bracket wall shelf systems are relatively easy to install and we went with raw unfinished Hemlock boards to span the full 7′ with single shelves. Multiply 7′ of movies times 10 shelves, not to mention the top 3 shelves are VHS that are double stacked… you get the picture. I have a TON of movies. Thank goodness there is a little data base program for addicts like me to track large libraries or I would end up with way to many duplicates. And, yes… it is alphabetical…well, sort of…

I watch A LOT of movies and enjoy most of them to some degree, self confessed I’m easily amused. However, Pixar has gone above the stars and beyond with it’s latest release WALL-E. Hands down my new all time favorite CGI film. The captured humanity and sweet emotions of this little tin can are more expressive than most live actors on the big screen. I’ve heard complaints about no dialog in the beginning 1/3rd… I say to this: it was a FANTASTIC change to the general yapping without meaning other than to fill the air garbage of the majority of mainstream pop culture. The two main characters have less vocabulary than a Speak-N-Spell but manage to clearly communicate the pure wonder of discovering friendship, courage and maybe even robot puppy love…

Besides, any movie that makes a cockroach seem adorable deserves at least one overpriced movie ticket…