I recently checked Borne Ultimatum out of the RedBox, and watched this thrilling movie on my temporary home theater system. I’ve seen a number of movies over the Christmas break, and this is one of my favorites.

This movie features ex-CIA agent Jason Borne seeking to find out about the top-secret CIA operations which have turned him into a killing monster.

It is pretty easy to make a recommendation for this movie, as it is very similar to the previous two movies in the trilogy. Those people who liked the other Borne movies will like this movie as well. Those who didn’t enjoy the other movies, probably won’t find much to enjoy in this movie either.

This movie was packed with thrilling fast-paced action, but it didn’t seem as novel as it did in the first movie because it is a lot of more-of-the-same type of exciting action. This movie was great in that it had more plot progression than did the previous movies, and it did a fairly good job at tying up the trilogy story line.

I don’t think they should come out with any more Borne movies, if they did, I think the next movie should be called Borne Again. (laugh, its a joke).

Stranger than Fiction was a funny, original, and somewhat intelligent film that was mostly refreshing in these days where it seems just about every new film is the same old same old.  The movie stars Will Ferrell as the IRS auditing main character, Maggie Gyllenhaal as the cookie baking Ana Pascal, Dustin Hoffman as an English professor, and Emma Thompson as the narrator.  The premise of the movie is that that a novel writer is unknowingly narrating Harold Crick’s life, from work, to love, and even to death.

The movie is one of the most intelligent films I’ve seen, with many subtleties to be picked up on by intellectuals and smart people.  If you want to see a movie with stupid humor, go see Borat or something, but if you enjoy finding humor in hidden subplots, then you might enjoy this movie.

This film is for the nerdy: math nerds, environmental nerds,  space nerds, and literary nerds can all connect with some of the character traits presented.  This provides for a lot of the humor as you can laugh at just how nerdy we all are as presented by the characters.

This movie, while rated PG-13, is not as uncomfortable as walking across a liberal college campus.  It makes a great date movie, especially if you are going out with a that girl or guy from your English class who knows how to laugh.

I’m not sure what I think about all these “The” movies. I think they should come out with a movie called, “The Blogger” or “The Insomniac.”

The Prestige was one of those movies which tries to keep you in the dark about some fact only to reveal it to you in the end. Of course, I’m not going to tell you what it is, but it is a little better than, “Oh, the aliens don’t like water.” I figured some of their secrets out a little early, which either makes me think that they were too obvious or that I’m still missing something.

Overall, the movie was interesting, but it did some of that time jumping that I thought was overly excessive and confusing. It was so bad that I’m still not exactly sure the order of some of the events.

Two thematic elements of the movie are secrets and obsessions which I’m concluding are both bad.

This movie is not scary, not overly exciting during parts, but makes you think a little bit. Watch it with friends because you will probably want to talk about it when you are done. A movie to see, but I wouldn’t recommend haste to see it. I can’t remember any musical score, which probably means that it wasn’t exceptional. It is PG-13, probably because there is hatred and death in the movie.

Last night I finally saw Superman Returns with some friends (who happen to be some really cute girls). I really liked it. The musical score was very well done. The casting was good, in fact, really much better than I thought it would be. The suspense was pretty good, but I didn’t exactly find myself biting my nails. Some of the parts were kind of predictable. For example, someone falls off the building… of course Superman is going to fly in and catch him just before he hits the ground.

The movie did a good job at explaining some of the Superman fundamentals, such as kryptonite, but left some other subjects as to why Superman is called Kal-El and who is Jor-El less discussed. It made me wonder if they were trying to tune the movie to those who had never seen anything Superman before, or those who have grown up with Superman.

The dialog was entertaining, especially some of Lex Luthor’s lines. However, “I forgot how warm you are,” made me want to gag.

Overall, it was a good movie. I don’t know if I will go out and spend $20 bucks to buy the DVD, but I’m likely to want to rent it and watch it again.

I got a package of baja california starbursts, and the blue ones definately aren’t my favorites.

Sweet corn is delicious. A little butter and salt on corn on the cob is one of the best things in the world. When it is really good, you just want to invite the whole world over to share in eating some. It can be a great social event, something simple from a time when the world was simple. Pure joys are shared by all.

If on the other hand, you have really dull, tasteless corn, maybe it isn’t the wisest thing to try and share it with the world. Then people will just get full on ears of less than fully satisfying corn.

Bottled in Orem, Utah, Howie’s Premium Root Beer is some of the best root beer that you can drink from a 2 liter bottle. Root beer is one of my favorite beverages, and I’ve tried many brands, so don’t take it lightly when I saw that Howie’s Root Beer is great. It is smooth, creamy, with the frosted mug type of taste. It is especially great with icecream to make root beer floats.

I recently viewed the film, The Brothers Grimm, and I was pretty disappointed. I felt that this movie had so much potential, but completely failed at being a great and entertaining film. The basic story was good. Many of the actors were good, except for maybe that one guy who was maybe suppose to be italian, and the special effects were ok. But there was so much of the movie that just plain didn’t make sense. The continuity of the movie was aweful, and I felt like there was too much that wasn’t introduced, such as some of the characters.

Although the movie was pretty bad, I did have a chance to see some of it a second time, and it was better the second time. However, it is too bad that you have to watch it once first in order to be able to see it the second time.

Even the second time through the movie, the friend that I was watching it with continuously asked me questions about who was who and what was going on, and I really couldn’t answer her at all.

I don’t recommend this movie, unless you really want something that doesn’t make complete sense. If you do see it, you might consider doing some research about the actual Jacob Grimm first.

Well tonight was the premiere of all new episodes on Scifi Friday.

Stargate SG1 didn’t meet my expectations. Its almost like a brand new series, and most scifi series aren’t very good for the first couple seasons.

Lt. Col. Mitchell is a nice character, and I think that once he gets some rhythm with the other characters that he will be great. I think that his relationship with the other characters needs to be established more. The new General is pretty good. He seems to have more depth and action that Gen. Hammond did. The Vala character unnerves me. She seems too preoccupied with lust which is distracting for the show and makes me uncomfortable. Its almost like the writers are trying too hard to put some appeal for hormone driven males.

The storyline for the first episode was also disappointing. A treasure hunt is not the most exciting thing and didn’t seem very original. I was also hoping for more explanation why all of a sudden everything has changed. Why did O’Neil quit all of a sudden, and weren’t him and Carter getting together?

Ahh! Transition woes. Perhaps after all the excitement the last 5 episodes of last season, the new season seems kind of dull.

Stargate Atlantis Tonight’s episode was great. Although I’m a little disappointed to find out that their cliff-hanger of last season was solved simply by a sudden arrival of the starship from Earth. I mean, it was kind of predictable, I was hoping for something a little more surprising. But that is about my only complaint.

The whole Lt. Ford deal going bad was a great twist. Having the captain of the Starship seems like a great character, and I hope they keep him around. New characters seem like they will do well with the series, the story plot of tonight’s episode was great and exciting. I hope that this season will be full of adventure and not full of some alien power fog.

Battlestar Galactica. I was glad that finally Number Six’s role was family appropriate. And I just saw that there is a director’s commentary downloadable through a podcast, so I might actually watch the episode again tonight.

Tonight’s episode picked right up where we left off. It was a normal level of excitement, pretty good stuff. I wanted to see a little bit more time spent on Starbuck’s adventures on Caprica. Overall, a pretty good episode, better than most, but not anything I would write home about.