We saw Doctor Strange last night, and I'm... ambivalent. I wanted to like it, because Doctor Strange was one of the first (and the only Marvel) comic I collected regularly, back in the day, and I loved it, cheesy alliterative spells and all. I started reading it during the Steve Englehart renaissance of the 80s, and picked up the classic Ditko ( Read more... )

My problems with this production can be summed up in three words: Rocky's wearing boxers.

Also I think it would have worked better if they'd cast a woman as Rocky, too. And the audience framing device just... isn't working.


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Tomorrow. Boo. Though it will only be for a week, as I'm taking the twelfth through the twenty-third off to get Mom moved, and get a start on getting her stuff dealt with. My brother will be coming out to help, and my sister might be coming for a few days as well -- if she does, Mom pointed out that it will be the first time in... geez, thirty ( Read more... )

Everyone should post your most ten CRUCIAL CRUCIAL - ASS movies, like the ten movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnation (not necessarily your ten favorite films but the ten films that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you). This is hard, mainly because I'm terrible at ( Read more... )

Oz the Great and Powerful sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that the main character is (I think) supposed to be a clever, charismatic rogue, and instead is a boring jerk, and in consequence of him being a boring jerk, all the other characters who are supposed to fall all over him fawning have ( Read more... )

Watching The Devil's Carnival. Except for the costumes, not impressed. I get the impression from the reviews that it's supposed to be ~shocking and ~subversive, but I keep feeling as if I've seen it all before, and better. The songs are trying too hard, the singing is meh, and I keep thinking everything would be sharper and harder-hitting if it ( Read more... )

1. Saw the Avengers. Liked. ( Do we still need spoilers for this? Probably, because some people will complain if you tell them that Troy falls and Odysseus makes it home. )

Mostly harmless.


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I haven't been posting because I've been feeling down lately, and it all seems like too much effort. I miss Sam. I miss Cuervo. I've been thinking about getting another dog. I miss having a dog more than I thought I would. There are all kinds of good reasons why I should not do this, and yet I find myself browsing adoption sites and going out ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I have to go over to Mom's and stand around while the Registrar of Contractors inspects some shoddy porch railings she's made a complaint about. Once that's over, I intend to drop my car off at the mechanics', where hopefully they will discover what's making the 'check engine' light come on, and hopefully it will not require a small ( Read more... )