Here are some new rants… enjoy.

• Oversized spoilers that either help the vehicle in question to achieve escape velocity or serve as a place to hang your wet laundry.
• People who insist on placing the word “good” before “morning” when speaking, presuming that there is anything good about being awake before noon.
• Van Helsing on DVD.
• Our cyclist brothers and sisters who demand equality on the road but shirk any of the rules and responsibilities that govern that road.
• People arriving late at the theater who ask you to move over one seat (when you’ve been there for over an hour) to make room for their screaming baby and their ritalin-starved 12 year old.
• People who feel that the value of freedom when earned is the same, as when it is given.

While not the first man to don the blue tights or the red cape, he will always be Superman in my eyes. Not only for the role that made him famous, but for his inspiring struggle against the paralysis that has held him these many years. Christopher Reeve passed away today of heart failure at the age of 52.

Now that he is free of his broken body, he is finally able to fly. Godspeed Superman.

Once again I have let far too much time pass between posts and have missed you all terribly in my absence. 🙂 Working on our short film Will has taken up a gargantuan amount of time. However despite the taxing schedule of writing, shooting and editing a film, I still find time to bitch. As my friends know, there is no end to it. It’s my nature. Frankly, I sometimes don’t know how people put up with me. 🙂 So, as an exercise that will hopefully have a cathartic effect, I’ve decided to note down some of those things and expose my inner B for all to see. Some of them are painfully trivial and quite silly, and others I expect you will clearly identify with. I would like to call this new section, the “Daily Bitch”, but since my parents actually visit this site, I will instead give it a G-Rated name.. The Daily Rant. I cannot promise that I will update it daily, as I am often to busy bitching about the world around me to post anything, but I encourage feedback and your own rants to fill in the gaps. Let’s blow off some steam together.

So today I will start out with the list below. This is by no means a complete list, and nor is it any particular order. And believe me, nothing is to too Politically Incorrect to post. And it is only the beginning.

• People who practically have to scale their grossly over-sized vehicles like it was their personal Mount Everest are obviously compensating for some inadequacy they hope is comfortably hidden, but in reality is painfully transparent to us all.
• Packs of motorcycles that swarm through traffic prentending our ride home is their Motorcross.
• The server at Chilis who insists on on replenishing my tea every time she wanders near, forcing me to dump yet another package of Splenda into my glass.
• On hold listening to a message in a foriegn language waiting an eternity to hear: “Press 2 for English”. Last time I checked, English was the primary language in this country and deserves to be “Press 1 for English”.
• People who think “Everybody Love’s Raymond” is actually funny.

That is all for now… Post away!

We caught a late but packed showing of Spiderman 2 the othernite. Unlike other films we have seen this year (and I put Shrek 2 and Van Helsing at the top of that list), Spidy 2 was actually worth the $10 and 10 minutes of commercials we had to endure before the previews started. It definitely feels more like a Sam Rami film, with a number of signarture shots this time. Good performances all around with hats off to Alfred Molina, who plays Doc Oc.

As usual the actions sequences were over the top and for the most part brilliantly executed. As of late I have grown numb to action sequenece (all things Lord of the Rings accepted of course), but this film delivers. It was actually nice to feel a little adrenaline pumping and some genuine excitement for a change.. somthing I thought “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Van Helsing” had all but drained from my veins.

It’s not all marigolds however. There were far to many speeches about honor and love and sacrifice. WAY TO MANY. And like the first film, the special effects vary wildly in quality. Doc Oc’s extra arms are amazing while Spidy still looks like Playdo… and did you catch those helicopters at the end? Ouch. I also had trouble with how Spidy stopped the train… too much like Superman. Spidy is all about agility, speed, intelligence, and those web spinning wrists… not about brute strength. And the explanation for the existence of Doc Ocs fabulous tentacles? Tenuous at best.

But then I am gently reminded that it is a comic book afterall. So I shrug my shoulders and enjoy the ride.