Comic-Con has been a staple of San Diego county summers for 40 years. It is, in fact, become so large an entity that other larger venues are wooing the convention and the consensus is that Comic-Con’s days at the San Diego Convention Center are numbered.
Oddly enough, I have never found the time to make it to this 4-day event and on the occasions when I’ve decided to go, the event was sold out. But because I have a friend who goes religiously every year, this year I got a goody bag.
In addition to the 2010 souvenir book, I got Brightest Day (issue #0) and a beautiful tee-shirt for the upcoming Jon Favreau directed movie, “Cowboys and Aliens,” which I am not showing here until September.
Sadly, because there are so many creepy people in the world, I don’t want to name my friend, but I have directed her to this post and I want to say publicly and loudly, “Thank you so much!! These gifts made my year!”
Apparently, the latest fad this week is to mash-up the trailer from the Chris Nolan movie, “Inception,” and mix it with other movies. So far, I’ve seen a couple of really good ones and and some that frankly aren’t so good.
I offer you what I think are the best three so far…this week. They are Bill & Ted Excellent Inception, Up and my favorite, Dora the Explorer.
This has been a long five day weekend for me and it’s been an interesting couple of days.
- Have been reading Quotable Star Trek by Jill Sherwin all week. If you are a fan of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, this is a great book to have. Be warned that it does not have any of the quotes from the last years of Deep Space 9, the last year of Voyager, the last two Berman movies or the 2009 Star Trek movie. Nevertheless, this is among my favorite books. And for the record, the doctors in Star Trek
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Last night, I saw the movie, Kick-Ass. I’m not going to lie to you. The movie was laugh out loud funny, violent, profane and disturbing.
It has qualified as a guilty pleasure, but I can’t in good conscious recommend this as a “must see” film.
The problem with this film starts with its title (which is not kid-friendly), its MPAA rating of “R,” its gore and the fact that the best character in this film is not the character pictured above. See it when it comes on pay TV or see it in the theater if the price is heavily discounted. Otherwise, wait for this movie to show up as a DVD and hope that someone gives it to you as a gift. That’s the only way I’d see again.
There will be many reviews this weekend that will tell you that Shrek 4 is not worth seeing or is disappointing. Well, I’m here to tell you don’t listen to those reviews, go see this movie.
The synopsis of this movie is very simple: our hero Shrek becomes George Bailey of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” He wishes to undo a moment of his life that he feels changed him into a drab, dull and boring individual. Like George Bailey, Shrek doesn’t realize what he has until it’s gone.
It’s not often that I go to a movie and laugh out loud, but I assure you I did. And I wasn’t the only one. The matinee I attended, was equally divided between children and adults. And the adults were laughing louder, harder and longer than their children. To be honest, many of the jokes and gags in this movie, flew over the heads of many of the small children. But rest assured, I’m confident that the adults got every single one of them.
By its very title, this movie tells you that this will be (most likely) the last film. I really wouldn’t put much bank on that. We already know that Antonio Banderas, who plays Puss in Boots, is already signed up to do a spinoff film on his character. I, for one, can’t wait if the writing is as sharp and the direction is as tight as this movie was. This is a movie you can go see and enjoy again and again, even without kids.
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