Politics were kind of a forbidden topic for me when I started this blog. I had been making a more deliberate effort to pull away from politics as 2010 progressed into 2011. I paid attention as the Presidential campaign progressed last year and tried to swear things off after the sequester stuff in December.
Frankly, I found the 2012 Presidential Election to be repugnant on both sides of the aisle. Nothing was too low for anyone to try and throw at the other party. The media also joined the fray and pretty much flushed any of their remaining credibility down the toilet in an attempt to get Obama re-elected President. Facebook wasn't any better as people really shed the clothes of civility as November neared. Needless to say, I found it all to be a highly distasteful experience. So I was done with it and I was wondering why I even bothered to vote when January came around.
Then the IRS scandal happened, I read and paid attention to that. Then the intentional misreporting of the George Zimmerman trial caught my eye and the next thing I knew, I was plugged into the political realm again. I decided I was going to remove the limitation I placed on my blog and talk about politics. I'm still going to talk about sports, movies, comics and video games. I'm just going to open the floor for some of my political thoughts as well.
So what does that mean for you? Well, I'm neither Democrat or Republican. If I did come to identify with a political party, it would be the Libertarian party. With that said, I don't support their views in a lot of areas such as drugs, capital punishment and their childish views of foreign relations. I'm a strict Constitution and small government person. In my general opinion the government's job is to build and maintain roads, build and maintain an army for our protection and to insure our rights as citizens of this country. All that other crap that's going on? Sorry, not in the Constitution so it's not within your authority.
That's a really brief and dumbed down summary of my beliefs. So be warned, politics may come up in the future at some point.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Wolverine and You
Friday was my wife's birthday and we went and saw the Wolverine in theaters. If I haven't mentioned it before, Wolverine is my wife's absolute favorite comic book character. She collected his series as a teenager. Needless to say she was extremely supportive of my comic habit when we first started dating.
I hated the first movie. I can't state specifics because I only saw the movie once and a long time ago. I thought this one was a lot better. It picks up the pieces from X-Men Last Stand. The movie takes place mostly in Japan and is loosely based on the original limited series from the 1980s.
Wolverine and Japan are a good mix. It was long overdue for the movies to take him there. The action was good in this movie. I little different for a superhero flick but Wolverine is a good character to go in a different direction with. It felt more like a 90s action flick when the fights started up. More grounded in reality and a little more gritty. Not as flashy as you would think a superhero usually has. I thought the plot was good overall. It was a pretty focused plot. There were just the right amount of characters and it felt like everyone served a purpose.
The pacing was a bit of an issue though. It felt like it took 30-40 minutes to do all the setup necessary for the plot. Wolverine starts out in Alaska and that part of it felt unnecessary. His "one with nature" act was really cliche and eye rolling. The movie suffered from being really predictable as well. There were a couple of twists in there and no one was surprised by them.
Overall, I would give this a high C+ or a really low B- depending on my mood at any given moment. I was dreading this movie but I was pleasantly surprised. I doubt I would ever purchase this on blu-ray but if I ran into it on TNT several years from now, I might stop and watch.
I hated the first movie. I can't state specifics because I only saw the movie once and a long time ago. I thought this one was a lot better. It picks up the pieces from X-Men Last Stand. The movie takes place mostly in Japan and is loosely based on the original limited series from the 1980s.
Wolverine and Japan are a good mix. It was long overdue for the movies to take him there. The action was good in this movie. I little different for a superhero flick but Wolverine is a good character to go in a different direction with. It felt more like a 90s action flick when the fights started up. More grounded in reality and a little more gritty. Not as flashy as you would think a superhero usually has. I thought the plot was good overall. It was a pretty focused plot. There were just the right amount of characters and it felt like everyone served a purpose.
The pacing was a bit of an issue though. It felt like it took 30-40 minutes to do all the setup necessary for the plot. Wolverine starts out in Alaska and that part of it felt unnecessary. His "one with nature" act was really cliche and eye rolling. The movie suffered from being really predictable as well. There were a couple of twists in there and no one was surprised by them.
Overall, I would give this a high C+ or a really low B- depending on my mood at any given moment. I was dreading this movie but I was pleasantly surprised. I doubt I would ever purchase this on blu-ray but if I ran into it on TNT several years from now, I might stop and watch.
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