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So, 2012. My official review: Awesomely terrible. Everything you inferred about this movie based on the previews is EXACTLY right. The writing is terrible, the acting is phoned in, but there are EXPLOSIONS!! And SHOUTING!! And PEOPLE DYING!! And GIRAFFES ON HELICOPTORS!! WOO!!

I enjoyed this movie for all it's cheesy glory. Obviously if you go and see this movie, you will need to shut your brain off. It is the very definition of a "popcorn movie." It is not in the least bit Oscar-worthy. It was all the fun of The Day After Tomorrow without Jake Gyllenhaal.

If you liked Godzilla (1998) and Independance Day for the horribly written awesome explosiony movies that they were, you will enjoy this movie.

Also, this movie has probably the best final line of any movie EVER. Liz and I have never laughed that hard at a movie that wasn't actually supposed to be funny.

So, to reitterate, awesomely terrible.

We Mallratted a bit today. Mostly we bought clothes and stuff, but the thing I'm really excited about is a) all the awesome stuff I got for my friend boombashpow for her birthday (which was actually two days ago, but her anniversary present for Liz and me was like 2 months late), but, more importantly, b) I found this movie called eXistenZ at Suncoast. If you understand just how long I've been trying to find this movie, you'll understand why I'm so excited. Basically I saw this with my mom's last husband (my sister's father) like... 10 years ago, probably, when it first came out on video. It struck me because it was such an unusual concept for a film. The plot consists of Jude Law and and Jennifer Jason Leigh in a realistic-future-time video game called "eXistenZ." It's probably not NEARLY as awesome as I remember it being, but I'm still ultra pumped about it. I might make Liz watch it later today. I've been trying to find a copy to buy for the longest time, and the only place I've ever seen it is on Amazon.com. So, naturally you can understand why I about peed myself when I saw it on the dvd shelf.

No matter what happens now, this has been a thoroughly exciting weekend.

***E.T.A.***

Apparently, unbeknownst to me, this film was directed by David Cronenberg, a name which you might recognize as being the director of Scanners, Video Drome, The Fly, Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, and, more recently, A History of Violence. I'm even more excited about this piece of nostalgia now!

Yes, it's true. We saw Wolverine last night.

Yes, it's true. It was pretty darn good. Was it as good as the first two? Nope. Was it as bad as The Last Stand (which is not to imply that movie was TERRIBLE, I mean... it had it's merrits. I liked it for what it was). Nope. It was really a good flick, though. My only real complaint was that all the characters which we were bombarded with in the previews, leading you to believe they would have pivotal roles, only managed to get a total of 5 minutes of screen time, with the obvious exceptions of Wolverine and Sabretooth, but the not so obvious exception of Gambit. His role was still frustratingly limited, considering he's one of my all time favorite characters in that universe, but he did play a key part in the story, so that's good. It's a shame that he probably won't be coming back, unless they find some way to include him in Magneto (assuming that project ever gets greenlit. Maybe the studios were just testing the waters with this one, because everybody loves Wolverine and his bona-fide bad-assery. Gambit gets his own movie? y/y?). Oh, and there was obviously mythos crap that was all kinds of wrong, but that's just nit-picking at this point considering how wrong the stories have been in the first place.

Nathan's official rating: 8.0. Don't expect Shakespeare, obviously. Expect X-men goodness and cheesy dialogue. There was a stinger (apparently those are called cookies now? I'm sticking with stinger) at the end of the credits (two, if you include the one that came after the principal cast), but it wasn't anything Earth-shattering, so decide for yourself if you want to stay.

New year.

That's about all I have to say on the subject.

We're back in OKC. The drive was uneventful, as always, save for the THICK AS SNOT FOG that we hit about a half hour from home. I also noticed that somehow the drive from LA to OKC seems to go by a lot faster than the other way around. Maybe it has to do with the elated feeling of being free from your past. Or maybe I'm being overly existential about it.

Also, before we left yesterday, we finally found Adrian's headstone. We spent a solid hour looking for it before my mom called my cousin, who had been to it in the snow before, to come help us, and it took her all of 5 seconds to find it. We were all annoyed at her. I took a picture of it, below the jump for anybody who wants to see it. It's fairly uninteresting. I mean, it's a tombstone. A picture of Adrian, too, because I felt like it.

( A picture is worth some words, apparently )

Also, we saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was kinda slow to start. Basically the first 45 minutes or so is just "hey look, he looks old, but he's really only 10! Do you get it yet? He's aging backwards. See? See? He's old, but not really." After it picked up it was a pretty good flick. Like any story worth telling, it's about a girl (that's a blatantly ripped off quote from something, if anybody can remember where I stole it from, I'd be greatful). Funny, touching, blah blah. David Fincher is a pretty cool cat.

Thus ended this post.

Gaffigan was awesome last weekend. I had every intention of actually updating about it, but... then I didn't. Pretty much his whole set was new jokes, with maybe 5 minutes of old stuff, but it all segued seemlessly into new stuff. Awesomely exciting. We also got him to sign our ticket stubs. We were going to have him sign a bag of bologna, but one of the cats stole it. Stupid cats.

Work is work. There's nothing new to report there. So far I've only had one author this month tell me she didn't like any of the covers, but all she wanted was red shoes, so I gave her red shoes and she was like "THIS IS AMAZING!!!11box"

We just got back from The Dark Knight. It was amazing, and it makes me sit back and wonder why all the cool people die young. I seriously forgot that it was Heath Ledger, because he was just perfectly insane.

Sara is getting married tomorrow. I suck for not being there, but I crovals you forever anyway. Plus the Bear will be there, and she's basically just me with boobs, so nobody will really miss me. Right?

My birthday is on Thursday. What are you getting me?

http://www.monstercampmovie.com/

This movie looks so awesome it hurts.

Saw Juno. Totally lived up to the hype and then some. If you haven't seen it, seriously do. Ellen Page is awesome, so is Michael Cera and Jason Bateman. J.K. Simmons wins at life.

Jennifer Garner, however, has the emotional range of a napkin.

Seriously, at the beginning it was shaping up to be, "Oh, God, not another one of THESE movies," but then it got awesome. I so want a kid like Juno. She's the best.

I am Legend.

Okay then.

( possible spoilers... )

I'm going to just have to stop watching Will Smith movies I think. Or just stop watching anything that doesn't have "indie-cred."

So, we're going to the midnight of Harry Potter tonight. Naturally, we're dorks, so we have to have costumes.

( Get your geek on )

I have nothing better to do, and I'm feeling utterly uninspired, so I'm stealing this from Jean.

That's right, it's guess the movie quote time! Most of my friends are the same kind of nerd I am, so I hope most of you can get these. At least some of them. Plus I got kinda lazy near the end. Anyway.

( let the good times roll! )

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