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Imagine, if you will, that two directors make a movie. One director is known for making consistently great movies and has won several Academy Awards attesting to that fact. The other had one awesome idea a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away and has pretty much sucked balls since then. How would that movie turn out?

Probably something like the latest Indiana Jones movie.

Firstly, it was better than Temple of Doom. But that’s not saying a whole lot.

Okay, so the opening scene was pretty awful. Indy putting on his hat ruled, but they HAD to get a few “Ewok moments” in with the horrible CG prairie dogs. I mean, generally with an Indiana Jones movie I can throw the laws of physics to the wind in order to enjoy the movie, but they were really pushing my suspension of disbelief there.

I prefer to think of this as a Lucas part of the movie.

From Indy teaching until they enter the skull chamber we were pretty much back to good old Indy doing Indy things and it was pretty damn great. I call that the Spielberg part.

Well, to be fair, I think he let little Georgie stick some things in his part – like the snake-rope (poor snake!) and the second Ewok moment with the vines and the bad CG monkeys. If you have to pee, go do it when you see the first monkey. Trust me. It was bad.

The ants were cool, though.

So we have more Indy stuff, the big secret that everyone’s guessed already, and then they get to the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It’s still good for this part… until they get to the skull chamber.

I won’t do the spoiler thing for those who haven’t seen it, but let’s just say it’s safe to say that this is a Lucas part. Especially considering that he wanted to call it Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars. Suck fest.

Good ending – very Spielberg-y with blatant foreshadowing – dun dun DUUUUN!

Overall – glad I saw it on the big screen, but Raiders & the Last Crusade were still much better.

YES!  That was a great movie!

It made Land of the Dead look pretty shitty in comparison.

Seriously – go buy it.  It’s definitely getting back to the more traditional Romero fare.  The characters are, for the most part, believable, the dialogue is Romero-y and there are some really really awesome zombie scenes.  Oh, and they’re shambling Romero zombies.

It somehow manages to capture the old Romero zombie feeling while being set in modern day.  Seriously, what would YouTube & blogging do for the zombie apocalypse?  Think about that.

Man Babies.

I think I just heard the sound of a shark being jumped.

I also think I smell a pre-teen spinoff.
It smells like glitter and shit.
WORST EPISODE EVER.

Wanna see our new house?

Do ya?

Okay, here’s the back patio door and the living room/master bedroom/bathtub windows:

LOL.  It’s coming along nicely, though.

We went & picked out all our interior shit on Thursday.

Here’s our granite (it will be slab, not tile, though), cabinets and hardwood:

The hardwood will be in the living room/dining room/kitchen.  The floor actually looks darker than that in regular room lighting.

Oh, and we actually get to go to the fabricator and pick our own granite slab!  w00t!

Master bath tile will look like this:

We picked a darker grout color to set it off nicely.

I’ll post more as it’s built.

Okay, so my problem with this movie was that I HATE Iron Man.  I hate Tony Stark.

Always have – ever since the cartoon when I was a kid.  The Civil War thing just served to drive it home even further.
But I love Robert Downey Jr.  LOVE him.

So… it was a good movie.

The suit was awesome, Robert Downey Jr was awesome (and hot), Tony Stark was annoying – just like he was supposed to be – and Stan Lee had the best cameo yet.  Seriously – it’s all about Stan Lee.

Best Marvel movie I’ve seen in awhile.  But the best is (hopefully) yet to come -  round about June 13!

Oh, if you go see it – sit through the credits for the little secret scene at the end.

Samuel L. Jackson.

All I’m gonna say.

Also, 20 days to go: