Ferris Bueller's (Indie) Day Off

This is probably all the funnier to me because I just watched Ferris yesterday (next to Empire Records, one of my favorite, "there's nothing good on background noise movies").  Scenes from the movie cut and set to emotionally overtoned piano music to make you think it would be something more along the lines of 500 Days of Summer.

This is the magic of editing, something Ace recently found out is capable of stealing about two hours of your life if you're not paying attention.  However, whereas he was pissed that the Adjustment Bureau sucked instead of being awesome, in this case, I would be supremely pissed to find out that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is an amazing comedy that I would have never seen, instead of some stupid, overly sappy teen drama.

Nerds Rejoice! New Tron Trailer!

Debuted at Comic Con. Enjoy!

movie review

Go see the new Star Trek.  It was far better than I could have possibly let myself hope.

A full spoiler-tastic review will come later, and I promise I'll do my best to pull it lovingly apart and ruin it for everyone else.

Where's My Watch, Man?

If it wasn't bad enough that I lost an hour of sleep to daylight savings time last night, I sat through Watchmen today.

Good God, what a disjointed, boring, slapped together pile of crap this was.

I don't mind the money I spent so much as the THREE HOURS of my life that I will never be able to regain from having sat through such a poorly made movie.

For anybody who hasn't already seen it, that might be contemplating it, tide yourself over with the trailers below. They're literally the best part of the entire endeavor that became the movie. Then, some day a year from now, when you're too hungover to want to get off the couch, order up a greasy sandwich and a coke and flip this trash on on Showtime to waste an afternoon.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch The Dark Knight so I can remember what an actual good movie looks like.