Dear Die Hard; YOU ROCK

I saw the new Indiana Jones Movie last night, I enjoyed it... it was pretty much what I was expecting. Thank you Señor Spielbergo for another box office smash!... ( I will however never EVER forgive you for A.I... just saying).

When I came home Aimoo was watching Jurassic Park! So of course I sat down with her and watched the rest of the movie (until the wee hours). Jurassic Park and I have a long and sorted history, I saw it 8 times in the theater and lost track of how many times I'd seen it around 60 viewings (and that was in 1996).



I'm super wicked cool, I know...

Due to this long and sorted history, I was very surprised to learn that Stan Winston passed away recently. Mr. Winston was a special effects guru. He worked on the Jurassic Park series, the Terminator series, the Predator series, Aliens, Edward Scissorhands and much more.

For a far more informative and far better written tribute to Stan, please check out this L.A. Times article....

sweeney

We saw Sweeney Todd yesterday. Except for the guy in front of me who through his empty glosette raisin box over his shoulder and hit me, it was a good movie experience ( I was forced to kick his chair a couple times as a form of mild retribution).

I'd never heard of the musical before this movie came out, so I have no idea if the movie was faithful to the original idea. I did however enjoy the movie, it's not amazing but it's fun and pretty to look at. The biggest problem I had with the move was the songs, not that they were there, but that I found them boring. They weren't catchy, and they didn't seem to advance the plot, they just seemed to slow stuff down. But then again I'm not much of a musical person, The only musical I actually like is Evil Dead the Musical....