Today I decided to watch some things off the DVR while I worked from home for a while, and decided to watch “Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny”. BIG. MISTAKE. Clearly this is 93 minutes I will never EVER get back and probably have to go through counseling just to trust another film any time soon.

First off, I am totally cool with a movie having no redeeming intellectual value. I have seen almost every Jim Carey movie, and enjoyed some of them. The stupidity of this movie could have been okay but the language and the overt sexual references were not tastefully done and held no artistic value. I recommend that if you haven’t seen this movie, just don’t even waste your time. It’s really not worth it.

Yo ho-ho and a bottle of rum.

Good movie… all I have to say is:

“LOOK! An Undead Monkey!”

Well, I just returned from seeing V for Vendetta. While technically a well done film, as are all of the Wachowski brothers movies, I disagree with the politics of the film. But who wants to hear about that?

The real story here is this: That creepy mask.

This guy is the main focus of the film… now we could start on a long drawn-out discourse on his reasons for wearing the mask, or his blank face being expressionless as a way of semiotic message that shows how he represents all those in the revolution.. but NAY! I think I have uncovered the real meaning here….

He was introduced into show business by his cousin: None other than “Burger ‘King’”

Yes, our masked friend above couldn’t have been introduced if our society had not already been desensitized by the creepy “King” waking up people in their beds with a sandwich that has more pig than a BBQ festival. It’s a PLOT I tell you! A PLOT!

According to this article, Chewbacca will become a U.S. Citizen.

My lovely and talented wife and I decided that in lieu of the sure to be rained out performance of “Much Ado about Nothing” in the park, we would venture out to the opening weekend of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We forgot that our free passes don’t work on opening weekend, so we decided to go see Batman Begins.

GOOD MOVIE!!!

Oh man, what a great flick… dark, yes… kinda scary at times, yes…. would I take my kid, probably not… but I don’t have a kid YET…

Grant was right. This movie would have been great to show the youth group from a storyline perspective, but it would be hard to sell the parents of 13 year olds on going to see that dark of a movie with a church group. But for us grown-ups… GREAT FILM! The best of the batman movies by far.

So afterward, we are both still very awake and not tired of sitting yet so we decide to splurge and buy tickets for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I must admit, I was previously unfamiliar with the story. Sure I knew that Willy Wonka was in the movie, and he had a chocolate factory, but I had never seen the original movie or read the book. This movie was very good too, though. I have to say that immediately after Batman Begins, it was a little calm for me, but hillariously sarcastic and dark in true Tim Burton fashion.
Johnny Depp did an excellent job with making the character silly but creepy.

Speaking of Johnny Depp, they are doing two new Pirates of the Caribbean movies. WOOHOO!!!

Here is some info I found about it:

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest Premise/Synopsis:
This time around, Johnny returns as Captain Jack Sparrow and is caught in yet another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. It turns out, Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. If Jack can’t figure a crafty way out of this one, he’ll be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation. And as if that weren’t enough, Captain Jack’s problems throw a huge wrench into the wedding plans of the blissful Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who quickly find themselves thrust into Jack’s misadventures.

So very cool. I can’t wait!

Still can’t reveal what i’m preoccupied with just yet. Looks like it will be next weekend before I can talk about it on here. Some of you already know what it is, but i’d appreciate it greatly if you’d keep it down until I write about it here! Thanks!