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My True Colors

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At the risk of being forever banned from Guild Avatar, I found this little clip extremely amusing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkYHH7oYp4&NR=1

Captain America, The First Avenger

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As of last night, I've finally seen all the Avengers movies.  I really liked Captain America, The First Avenger, but it was a bit less than the sum of its pieces and I put it on a par with The Hulk, Iron Man 2, and Thor.  I liked all of those movies, but all of them fell short of the standards set in Iron-Man, Batman Brgins, The Dark Night, and by Sam Raimi in Spiderman 1 & 2.  Frankly, the best superhero movie ever may be X-Men First Class.  We've finally got a trailer for the Jos Whedon directed Avengers movie, to be released next summer, and it looks fantastic.  I'm not sure how the disjointed, dysfunctional nature of Avengers stories will translate to the big screen, but I'm looking forward to it.  In the mean time, if you've missed any of the previous Avenger's films, go see them.  Here's my take on Cap:

Blenderfoundation: Sintel

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I very cool movie created with a small team and open source animation tools

new iron man 2 trailer

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The Lightning Thief

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I just got back from seeing the movie version of The Lightning Thief.  When I first started seeing previews for this movie last summer I was inspired to go read the books.  They are kind of like the Harry Potter series in that they were obviously written with a younger audience in mind but are good enough to be enjoyable for everyone.  I liked the book series quite a bit, they are a little simplistic but I enjoyed the basis in Greek mythology and they were fun and quick to read.  Unfortunately the movie I just saw had virtually nothing to do with the books I read a few months back.  The movie's story is completely different from any of the books; even some of the locations have changed.  There are quite a few important characters missing and others are written to be entirely different than they were in the book.  In short

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

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2.5 Stars out of 4

I took my son to see the "#1 Movie in America" last night. Frankly, it was shallow, the characters were mostly sketches with all but the most basic outline of their motives left to our imagination, and the villainous plot had major holes in it. Basically, it exceeded my expectations for what a G.I. Joe movie ought to be. The action was relentless, mostly very well done, and less engaging than it might of been until the climax, which hooked me despite my lack of caring for the characters. Overall, I was pretty surprised it was as good as it was. So, go in with low expectations and you should be pleasantly surprised.

District 9, original short that the move is based on

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This is the short that D9 is based on, well worth watching.

Movies in 2009

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I heard a critic the other day claiming this had been a horrible summer for movies. My first reaction was "Not! Star Trek was incredible!" Then I realized that Star Trek came out in mid-May, and was not technically a summer film. Up came out this summer and immediately became my third favorite animated film ever, after The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, just nudging aside Finding Nemo and Aladdin. One summer gem, then. I started to think back on the movies I've seen this year. There was Star Trek (twice) and Up (thrice) and ... Hmmm. I didn't see Transformers 2, but it sounds like a movie I'd have despised. I saw some VERY good movies at the beginning of the year, but they mostly came out last year; Grand Tourino and Changeling, specifically. I don't really recall what else I watched this year. Push? Not memorable. Please help jog my failing memory. What else worth noting came out in 2009 and failed to disappoint?

A short list culled from a release website:

Up!

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Pixar's new masterpiece, Up!, was simply fantastic IMO. I laughed, I cried (almost), I kissed $10 bucks goodbye ($50 if you count the family, popcorn, et al.)! It was by turns, and often simultaneously, funny, endearing, exciting, and worth some post-movie pondering. I liked it about as well as Finding Nemo, which remains my top 5 animated films of all time, following The Incredibles and The Iron Giant. This film is in the mold of Nemo and Toy Story, a movie with nuanced themes to appeal to adults and children of all ages.

Just see it.

Dr. Horribles's Sing along blog, or calling all Buffy fans

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This might be old news for some but Joss Wedon is out with his new project Dr. Horrible. This is a low budget super vilian musical. Act one http://drhorrible.com/act_I.html was dam funny and shows a lot of potential. I'm sure this will be a short lived experiment that we should not get to attached to (*cough*firefly*cough*) but this is well worth watching IMO. It's out on itunes too, where I picked up a season pass for it to help support it. The web site uses Hulua which has decent playback quality, though no HD version right now. Anway if your a Wedon fan, and liked the Buffy musical episode definitly check it out.

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