I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately, some good, some not so good. None really deserve a whole post, but here’s some mini-reviews.

The Good

The Bourne Ultimatum: Wow, a trilogy of movies that’s good from the first to the third. You don’t see that often enough. This is an action move done right.

Justice League: New Frontier: Happily surprised how big a role the Martian Manhunter had, though disappointed that he really didn’t do much, considering his powers. The voice casting in this movie was terrific.

Eastern Promises: We rented this because my wife is a big Viggo fan and I’m a big Cronenberg fan. Neither of us were disappointed.

The Okay

Cloverfield: After all the hype, this was simply a basic monster film, full of noise and shaky cam, with characters doing dumb things. And yet, it was a nicely made action-suspense film. Still, Gamera would have kicked his ass with a plasma-formed foot.

Resident Evil (1-3): Not as bad as I expected, as long as I kept my brain from thinking. I’m a sucker for Milla movies, I admit.

The Bad

I Am Legend: Gah. So much money spent on so little. When will filmmakers realize that special effects just can’t make a shit script smell any better?

Live Free or Die Hard: How lame is it that John McClane can’t even use his trademark phrase in this PG-13 mess? Really lame.

30 Days of Night: Based on a comic series that I haven’t read, but probably should. I know there’s a certain amount of disbelief suspension that must be made for these types of survival horror movies, but really, it seems that if the characters had IQs above 70, these movies would be about 20 minutes long.

Atonement: I always hate it when overwrought, overacted movies are praised to high heaven.

It’s that time again: April 9th is CSS Naked Day. So it’s time to remove the CSS from the site to show off the nice, plain, mostly semantic markup. For more naked sites, visit the
Annual CSS Naked Day website.

Perhaps not as glamorous as Talk Like a Pirate Day, but likely celebrated more than Miracle Monday (coming May 19th this year!).

Another year, another Zombie Easter. For background, you can see what I did in 2007 (a bad Zombie Easter year), and in 2006 (a much better year). Each year, I celebrate the most famous zombie of all: Jesus. This year, I’ll be doing the following:

• Watching Resident Evil in HD. Zombies and Milla! I know it is a bad movie, but c’mon, zombies and Milla!
• Playing Last Night on Earth, a fun zombie game. Dibs on the zombie side!
• Waiting to see what Polite Dissent has in store for Peeps this year. The Legion of Super-Peeps will be hard to top.
• I also tend to watch Godspell on Easter, because watching Jack Bristow from Alias dressed as a hippie Superman reaches me deep in my atheist heart.

As always, let’s remember the reason for the season:

• Zombie Jesus
• Zombie Jesus at Uncyclopedia
• The Passion of Zombie Jesus

Some weeks, I just can’t work up enthusiasm for many, many things. So, with no commercial interruption, here’s the top things I don’t care about this week, in no particular order.

SWSX (South by Southwest)

I’m probably just jealous that other people are there. But it does seem like the whole thing is run off of "smug."

Secret Invasion

I barely have interest in company-wide crossovers when I give a crap about the characters, much less with Marvel characters. "He/She’s a Skrull" is this year’s "Superboy punch."

Iron Man and The Dark Knight movies

Just can’t manage to work up much enthusiasm for either.

There’s probably much more, but I don’t care enough to write about them.

Kinda sorta.

Nightwing on Saturday Night Live