Heroes pt. 1

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Summer Blockbusters

So it’s getting in to that time of the year again where epic, sometimes amazing movies com out. This year is the same as any other; Spiderman 3, Shrek 3, Transformers, Oceans 13, and Pirates 3, just to name a few. Every summer, there’s at least 8 or 10 movies that in May, I’m dying to see. Last year was disappointing for some. Pirates 2 was adequate, the Da Vinci Code was terrible (especially if you’ve read the book), MI:3 was awesome, especially considering how lame MI:2 got, and how nutty Tom has gotten. You, Me and Dupree and some others last summer were surprisingly entertaining but there are always movies that I get excited to see that end in disappointment.

I say all that to say that there are (and were) a lot of movies I was looking forward to seeing this summer, but Spiderman 3 left me with a sour taste in my mouth, it was extremely contrived and silly, which is not what we’ve come to expect from the previous Spiderman Movies. They tried to hard to force to much into one movie and it was just terrible. The CGI wasn’t good either, it was epic in Spiderman 2, but cheesy in 3. Shrek the Third was pretty funny. Kristi and I went to see it last night and it was pretty funny. It was a Shrek movie so there was a lot for kids but also a lot for adults so we appreciated it. Pirates: At World’s End looks awesome, better than the last, but I guess that I’ll reserve judgment on it until I see it. I’m still excited about Transformers and Harry Potter, which both look amazing.

On a different note, there are a couple of TV shows that I’m addicted to that had their finales on Monday, 24 and Heroes, which coincidentally air at the same time. Heroes is a simply phenomenal show. It’s written in a way that each episode follows a number of storylines which slowly came together to weave a single, central storyline. In the finale, a number of the “heroes” finally came together to battle Sylar, the main villain, whose fate I’m unsure of and I don’t want to ruin it for those of you that haven’t seen it yet. 24 though was disappointing, and I’m not sure if I’m just being cynical. The finale of season 5 really set up this season with Jack being taken away on a slow boat to China, and season 4 ended with Jack walking away from CTU. This season however ended with everything being resolved, which isn’t to say that Jack Bauer doesn’t deserve it but it was just kind of a letdown after an altogether intriguing season. We’ll see how they continue next season. Well there’s my two cents, take it for what it’s worth ©
Z