I had a super-hero movie craze this weekend, so finally got to see all the recent movies I'd missed in the theater.

Superman Returns: I thought it was good. Great FX. While I'm watching it, I really had the sense that we're getting to the point with special fx that you really CAN'T tell that it's not real. Then I think it'll come down to how you setup the scenes and act em out etc. There was a really rad scene in the beginning where he's trying to save a plane, and it looked great. Um, I just really don't care for the Superman character. So lame. At least on Smallville he doesn't know all his powers, and there's still some sense of purpose to it all (haven't watched that show in a couple of years though.) Like I'm watching Kent pretend to work at the Daily Planet and I'm thinking "How many people are getting killed n shit right now while he's acting all pussy-whipped over stupid Lois?" Jesus dude, she's COOL but you're SUPERMAN, you can have ANY chick in the world.

X3: So after watching Superman, I watched the last X-Men cause I'd missed it. It's weird, the effects weren't as good. Couple of times you can totally see the fuzzyness of the effects and that kinda killed it for me. What I don't like about the X-Men universe (at least in the films, don't know the books) is that there are MILLIONS of fucking mutants. Mutants protesting in the streets n shit. So cheesy to me. And Wolverine is such a little bitch in this one. "I love you Ant-Man, please be safe!" Yeah, whatever dude. It had it's ok moments, but honestly, I think that whole trilogy is just kinda booty. I just don't like the setting.

And then finally, I just finished Fantastic Four. Kinda some cheapy SFX in it too. Not horrible, but Superman definately had the best of the bunch. FF was ok. I liked all the actors OK, but really, not a whole lot seemed to happen in this one. Yeah, I know, they have to do the origin story in the 1st one, but that was really it. They get powers, Doom gets evil, they have a super short fight, and that was the whole flick!

In conclusion, I think they just need to do some Marvel Universe movies (but you're not superman!? Batman is cool, he don't need a DC Universe movie.) It'd be cool to see Spidey, with SOME of the X-Men and the FF fight some of the REAL bad guys.

I had also watched "Coffee and Cigarettes" this weekend. Some of the segments were kinda good, some were absolutely horrible. Meh, it's artsy, so I wasn't really dissapointed or nothing. The Rza, Gza, Bill Murray scene was surprisingly funny. "Bill Groundhog-Day, Ghostbustin'-ass Murray!"

Jesus, I also watched Lost in Translation. I liked it. Way too many movies this weekend, huh!? I just don't have no games to play, still worked on music, but there's a lot of hours in the day! Went to a used bookstore kinda near Eric's house (next to where Big Wok is now) and picked up a few books. The 2nd book of Neil Stephenson's after Quicksilver (got the hardcover for 8 bucks, and actually scored the hardcover for the 3rd book at a Barnes n Noballs the other day for 7 bucks - kinda beatup copy in the discount piles.) And got "Puppet Masters" by Heinlein (never read it) and that book called "Red Mars" that I had wanted to read in highschool and never got around to it.

Well, that's my entry for the year! See ya guys in '07 and keep on juggling!

PS By the way, some of those superhero movies took me like 4 hours to finish, cuz I kept pausing em to look up the characters on wikipedia! There's like insane amounts of info on every fucking stupid superhero comic character on there, giving you their whole fucking life stories, alternate realities, crossovers, etc etc. It gets addicting! There'd be some bullshit shmuck side-villian in X3 and I'd look it up, and go off on weird tangents about Secret Wars 2 n shit! FUN!