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Man, it seems like I never have time to update my journal(s). Then when I sit down I find I have little to say, I ma very impressed with what so many others have to say about the worlds of manga and comic books, particularly telophase; really just amazing essays.

I may make this my main journal though. I am drawn more to Livejournal than anywhere else.

In which I again speak of a movie I went to go see.

This time, like a good sheep I went to go see Pirates of the Caribbean.
Shiver me timbers, I really liked this movie! It was a blast from start to finish. Everything just kept getting more and more wild until it all verged on ridiculousness but it was all in fun. And you were supposed to know it was ridiculousness.
Johnny Depp was much better looking in this movie and his teeth were cleaner. we also learn what further depths Jack Sparrow has sunk to make himself the greatest pirate ever. He was just great.
Keira Knightley was really lovely and darling in pirate drag.
Orlando Bloom was... kinda just there. He was the most noble and least selfish of everybody but that didn't make him interesting. Jack Davenport as the broken Admiral Norrington was far more interesting. And he looked a lot better this time too. Bill Nighy was! so! great! I love it when you see him just playing some older kinda nerdy British guy and then playing an over the top character like Davey Jones.
All the CG was beefed up and all the sets were just amazing.
All in all I loved this film. I was not disappointed at all.

So I am actually writing an entry in this journal.
Of course I have decided to write about something that is world shaking in its importance. I write about "Superman Returns."

I went to see Superman Returns. I disliked it a lot because so much of it was devoted to rehashing a movie that came out over a quarter century ago. I dislike that a lot. If I wanted to see that movie, I would have. And in point of fact, I did. I watched it two days before I saw the new one.
Superman says the same line when he meets Lois Lane. Lex Luthor has the exact same evil plan but on a bigger scale. He asks the super computer made of advanced alien chandelier technology to "tell him everything" and he gets the exact same plan as before, only bigger. His plans are undone not only by Superman but by his soft hearted accomplice.
I also did not care to be hammered over and over and over and over with the idea that Superman was Space Jesus. Superman is not Space Jesus. Space Jesus is Space Jesus and Superman is supposed to be a guy that does his best to help people where he can with his abilities, not become mankind's savior. That was so wrong. Superman is not supposed to be some idol to be worshipped-- he is supposed to be a fireman that can fly. Something goes wrong and he tries to help people. I admit that he himself does not behave like a god but the director steers everything so you are supposed to feel that way.
I also did not like that a man was killed by a small child and that it is completely acceptable. There are people railing about whether Lois is smart or not or whether Superman is gay and nobody cares that a kid KILLS somebody. It is excused because the guy is a bad guy and probably a serial killer (mentioned earlier in the film). Still, what sort of message is THAT?

It is a dumb, flawed, expensive, lazy movie. Unlike the Spiderman movies and the Batman Begins movie it does not learn that the best parts of the character's mythos are the best parts from the comics and relies far too heavily on the idea that you wet your pants over the old Chris Reeve movie.

I felt horribly ripped off and I did not want to feel this way. When I saw the trailer I thought this would be really good and it was not. And that's a damn shame because Superman should be really cool instead of what we're given all the time.

I am hoping that the DC movies will maybe follow the Star Trek Movie formula and every other one will be good. Batman good, Superman bad, Wonder Woman good; like that. Crossing my fingers.

Mostly I just have way too many people and things I want to look at and my regular journal's friends page fills up too fast. So this is the new overflow journal. People I know of or like the work of but do not personally know go in here.