"It'll have a lot of characters you recognize from X-Men, Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four."

"It's been a long time since I saw Fantastic Four."

"Do you at least remember the characters?"

"The blue guy, the fire guy, Ioan Gruffudd, and… um… the sand… Hulk?"

(looking over list of movies from library)

"So is this the one we want to watch?"

*pause*

"'Want to watch' is a rather strong way of wording it. Let's just say it is the one we have not yet watched."

"Who's this raccoon in the spacesuit"Rocket Raccoon. One of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and upcoming star of the next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. Probably going to team up with the Avengers at some point ( Read more... )

Today I finally saw The Hobbit. Overall it was great fun ( Read more... )

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I have recently been reading both Darths & Droids, which is almost but not quite like Star Wars: A New Hope, and the original novelization of Star Wars, which is almost but not quite like Star Wars: A New Hope. The parallels are amusing.

(eight minutes into Pirates of the Caribbean #4)

"Wait, where did we last see the Black Pearl in movie 3?"

"It sank, didn't it?"

"I don't remember... Pause the movie; I'm going to look this up so we have some idea which res we're in media of."

"The Red Balloon": boring.

"The Red Balloon" played at 16x speed with "Yakety Sax" as the soundtrack: FREAKING HILARIOUS.

Seriously, go try it.

So here's what I want ( Read more... )