Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Superman says "Hop on the welfare wagon!"
Monday, July 7, 2008
Superhero Fashion Emergency
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Spider-Man (Columbia 2002)

If most of us were completely honest, we would do the very thing the hero did in this tale. Use your new power to make money! But as the tag line for this film says..."With great power comes great responsibility..."
Again, here is the movie review from IMDB...
A rather odd thing has just occurred in the life of Peter Parker: after being bitten by a genetically modified spider, his body chemistry is altered muta-genically. He can now scale walls and ceilings, he has superhuman strength and super-fast reflexes, and he develops a precognitive sense that warns him of approaching danger.
Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his newfound powers to make money, but after his uncle is murdered at the hands of a criminal Peter failed to stop, he swears to use his powers to fight the evil that killed his uncle. At the same time, scientist and businessman Norman Osborn, after exposure to an experimental nerve gas, develops an alternate personality himself: the super-strong, psychotic Green Goblin!
Peter Parker must now juggle three things in his life: his new job at a local newspaper under a perpetually on-edge employer (who runs stories degrading Spider-Man's heroics), his battle against the evil Green Goblin, and his fight to win the affections of beautiful classmate Mary Jane Watson, against none other than his best friend Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn! Is this challenge too much for even the Amazing Spider-Man to handle?
Doing the right thing, making sacrifices, fighting the press and fighting evil...sounds like a guy I know...minus the red and blue tights of course.

Check out Spider-Man 2 & 3 also!
Here is an interesting trailer from Spider-Man that featured the World Trade Center. Of course after 9/11 this trailer and the scene were both pulled from the original cut.
Here is a scene from Spider-Man 3. Pretty cool!
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Superman (Warner Bros. 1978)

THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN AND DORKBOY!
After watching the film Superman (and I going to assume that most people have either seen the film or at least know the comic book story) isn't it strange that his parents who were living on this doomed planet "Krypton" with all of its technological space advancements chose the evil, blood-thirsty, decrepit, Jesus-loving, money grubbing country the United States for their son to be brought up in? Now come on! They could have landed him anywhere!
And in Kansas? KANSAS? A RED STATE? Why didn't they land him in Berkeley, California or Madison, Wisconsin? I can hear a lib now...Well, that's where all the trouble is in this country! No it's not! He needed to learn what was so damn great about his new country FIRST and why it was so important to defend!
We don't teach these things much anymore. As a matter of fact, there is a growing desire in this country to do the very opposite. If anyone has seen Superman Returns (see clip below) apparently even the greatest super hero in the world doesn't stand for "truth justice and the American way" anymore.
Someone might say, Well isn't Superman an illegal alien? Look man, any guy who can fly around and put the roof of the White House back on after beating the crap out of Zod and his evil henchmen gets my vote for citizenship. When these border-jumpers can do that with Al-Qadea I'll buy them all a Dos Equis or Corona or whatever the heck their drinking.
My advice, stay way from Superman Returns (2006) and check out the original 1978 Superman and Superman II (1980).
My sister still loves the part where he smiles at the end.

