MITY - Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness

I liked Scott Pilgrim, the First. I like it even more after the Third. It's a little too hipster, but it's older hipster, so way less annoying hipster. And still MAD nerdy, which is totally fun. At this point, before I start reading Vol. 4, I can totally recommend this series.

MITY - Punisher MAX

Read through some Punisher MAX comics cause I found a review that mentioned Duane Swierczynski and Victor Gischler were doing some runs. Big fan of Duane's two books, The Wheelman and The Blonde and Gun Monkeys by Gischler was solid.

Both entries were the same blood soaked Punisher stuff I expected since Ennis took over and did not disappoint. Duane's was better, but the art in Victor's was superior. Next, I intend to catch up on the rest of Ennis's run in the series, because I think I missed the last 2 or 3 series.

Media I Ingest This Year or MITY

So, in hopes of reviving this, I'm doing my best to keep track of things.

Hoorah, For Burn Notice Returns!

Burn Notice is ridiculously fun and entertaining and tonight, it was back with the start of it's third season, which is already starting off ridiculously fun and entertaining. Except for being a little exposition heavy up front, no worries. Always great to to awesome TV back on the air.

More Catch UP

Ah. The continuation of all the shit I’ve watched but not blogged about.
Let’s start with the big guns first.

E3 - Still Boring

E3 is something that no longer interests me. It should, I'm still a huge video game nerd. But nothing huge gets announced there anymore, 75% of the time is taken up by stupid press conferences and Nintendo just makes me sad now.

But, hey, remake of Secret of Monkey Island and new Monkey Island episodes! That's awesome. Might be my most anticipated gaming of the year, now.

I forget I have a blog.

Ok, ok. Catch up time, but for only like half the time.

Oh Boy.

Bakula was really good on Chuck tonight. Chevy Chase was ok. Damn bloated, too.

Chuck is fun. More people should watch so it doesn't get canceled. It's a nice, goofy show to just chill to on Monday nights and doesn't suck mountains of ass like Heroes.

Bolt is Boring

Yes. I know. Talking animals. I understand that it is not real. But I still can't buy the stupid premise of this movie which totally killed it all for me. Maybe it's because I understand how a movie/TV show is made. Maybe it's because they take every chance to shatter my disbelief ("18-39 year old demographics"? They don't fucking believe in a magic goddamn dog ANYWAY!). Maybe it's because I saw some of the early version of Bolt art when it was still looking like Lilo & Stitch's sweet-ass style. But I could not dig this movie.

I'm sure it's fine for kids who don't question anything, and again, I understand the silliness of accepting talking animals but not the McGuffin for the story, but still. Every human was a stereotype and unfunny. The action is good, but the whole time I was thinking how much better The Incredibles was. Sooooo much better. The art style is generic CG flick with no pizzaz.

This is another one of those times where I am so glad I don't have kids just so I don't have to endure these kinds of movies over and over and over and over and over and...

Scissors are scary.

Timecrimes is a great little flick. It reminds me of cool mind benders like The Usual Suspects and Memento and Donnie Darko and mostly, Primer. It's the kind of movie you show friends to melt their brains. And also, great Spanish boobs.

They've created a slick time travel flick that has some cool rules and a great looking bad guy, The Scissor Man! All right, not quite that classic villian from the SNES and PS1 era, but only because Timecrimes' S-Man has smaller scissors. But that look is very cool, very memorable.

It's a good movie, one you'll grin at as you start to put the pieces together. It won't turn your brain to mush and demand an instant, second viewing like Primer, but you also don't need a degree in quantum physics to know what the hell just happened, either.