Shifty Eyes

My sister's question: "Why a roadrunner?"

My answer: "Why not?"

Fourth of July

Happy Fourth!

Even though the fourth is almost past at the time that I'm posting this I thought I ought to get something up to mark it.

I had a pretty good week this past week. I now have a much needed job working at Hobby Lobby in the framing center. I officially start on Wednesday but I'll be heading in Monday to fill out some paperwork and to watch some training videos. It should be good.

My internship continues to go well. I'm having a blast at the station getting to see everything that goes on and following reporters or writing stories for the nine p.m. show. It's all good fun.

My brother, a friend, and I caught The Last Airbender this weekend. It's getting reamed by critics but I'm really not entirely sure why. It's a decent movie, not great, but enjoyable. It could stand to be a bit more light hearted and the dialogue could stand to be punched up. It's a little heavy on exposition; the characters seem to spend a lot of time explaining the rules of the world. But the actions scenes were fun and the special effects are solid if unspectacular.

We saw it in 2D which is the way it should be seen anyway. Not just because 3D is a pointless distraction, but because like Clash of the Titans this is a movie that was shot in 2D and then converted to 3D and apparently they did not do a good job with the conversion. (That's what I read anyway.) That may be one reason why the reviews are so poor. I have my suspicions, though, that a big reason why the reviews are so bad is because its written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan seems to be the popular director to hate now. After his last two movies, which were admittedly bad, I'm noticing more and more people are bad mouthing him and his film making skills. Some even claiming that he hasn't made a good movie, but I think most will agree that The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable were good movies. You don't have to rush out to see this movie but there are worse ways you could spend your money at the theater.