A few movie reviews/recommendations for you as well as some great new shows on the Idiot Box you have to see! Movies. If you haven't seen the Pirates sequel, and you loved the first movie, you need to. Don't look for historical accuracy or any crap like that, just buckle yourself in and hang on for a rollercoaster ride of a movie. The Wife and I were discussing how versatile of an actor Johnny Depp really is. And to think this guy got his start on 21 JumpStreet. If you like Jason Stratham (The Transporter, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch) then you have to go see "Crank". It's over the top, non-stop action. Don't even bring your brain in, just leave it at home you won't be needing it. My Wife actually likes his movies and we went and saw it. Lots of fun. Rentals: If you want a couple of surprisingly new story twists in a movie rent "The Matador" with Greg Kinnear and Pierce Bronson. Strange (not quite Donnie Darko strange, but weird enough) and unpredictable (someone in Hollywood actually making a unpredictable movie!!!!!). Also rent "Lucky Number Slevin" with Josh Hartnet, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley and Lucy Liu. If that cast doesn't make you want to see it, the plot line and story progression will leave you glued to the screen until it is over.
Now for TV: There are crime shows galore on TV now, but none better than the original CSI. It's always a good show. For a new twist on the crime genre, you need to catch "Criminal Minds" and "Numb3rs". Both have ensemble casts of great actors with each character being very distinct and memorable (with the exception of the one blonde on Criminal Minds...she's a background character almost who they are trying to give more screen time to lately but it's not helping). Now for what I call the Renaissance of TV: Jericho and Heroes. Mainstream TV has always screwed up Sci Fi.....either cancelled it prematurely, or it was way too intelligent for your average TV viewer to grasp. Good examples: Max Headroom and Firefly. Max Headroom was a way too critical view of the future of TV...to the point that I think it scared the execs at ABC so they cancelled it. (Bastards!!! I loved that show.) Then we have Firefly. Fox screwed around with the schedule, played episodes in the wrong order and generally did whatever they could to sabotage a great show. Now back to the review. As you may be aware of, Super Heroes are becoming a big deal now. We Comic Book Geeks are becoming mainstream and accepted now. Look at the box office receipts of the past 5 years....X-Men, SpiderMan, Superman.....plus a bunch more of our beloved spandex heroes on deck. NBC has developed a new TV show that explores the question: "What if you woke up one day and you had super human abilities?" They have explored that question very well in the new show "Heroes". So far we have an Artist that can see the future, and paints it. A highschool cheerleader whose healing factor makes Wolverine look like a chump....she gets hit by a football player, lands with her head twisted around backwards and then gets up and she is fine!!!! A wage slave in Japan who can bend space and time. Two brothers who can fly. An average beat cop with esp. A single Mom who has a "double" that acts independently of her (but she can only see the double in the reflection of a mirror). We also have the cheerleaders adopted Dad who seems to be "The Super Villan", but you aren't really sure if that's where they are going with it or not. Then we have on CBS a show called Jericho. The prodigal son returns to his podunk Kansas town after being gone for years, and he seems to be lieing about where he's been. To top it all, that same day in the direction of Denver there is a mushroom cloud. All communication has been cut off, and a kid in the town has an answering machine message from his Mom where you can hear an explosion in the background. You find out she is in Atlanta. That's two nuclear explosions. At the end of last episode, a man is putting red pins in a map on most of the large cities in each state.....you get the impression that they have been hit too.
Oh yeah, and we can't forget "The Unit". Definitely a guy show.
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