Pop Culture Update #9...

Summer Movie Roundup...Wolverine, Star Trek, and Terminator Salvation...Star Trek is the best of the three, thought it was amazing movie, which not only appeased the fan-boy in me, but also found a great way out of the dreaded "prequel trap", by developing this alternate future concept which I have always found extremely interesting. Unfortunately, Wolverine and T4 fell square into the "prequel trap", which takes all the suspense out of a film because you know every one's gonna live to fight another day. They are not absolute god awful films, they are just *gasp*, average. 2 1/2 stars out of 5 for Wolvie and The Terminator, and 4 1/2 stars out of 5 for Star Trek.

Netflix...God, I love this service. Get movies at the house or on the computer that you either couldn't find at the video store or were too obscure for the theater (heck, half the movies at the Blockbuster by my house are only in Spanish.) Recommend the following:

1. Documentaries - Expelled, King of Kong, Man on Wire.
2. Comedies - Role Models (the last 15 min. are hilarious if you are a Kiss fan), Fido (a loving story about a boy and his pet zombie), Priceless (a French comedy with Audrey Tautou, who is amazingly attractive and funny to boot)
3. Thriller/Horror - Blindness, Zodiac, Let the Right One In (Swedish Vampires!)
4. Classics - Bridge on the River Kwai, Taxi Driver, Silent Running, The Man who Fell to Earth (this one's pretty trippy!)

something for everybody!

Music Roundup...picked up the new Green Day, Tori Amos and the Indigo Girls. Odd mix. Always liked the dark lyrics of Tori and the guitar work and sound of the Indigo Girls, and got into Green Day from the American Idiot CD. Was really surprised by it, that they were not just a pop-punk band after all, and the new one is just as good.

More later....