Tom's Journal

Eddie Izzard stars in this fantastic movie with a bunch of other lesser-known people like Uma... Umm.a... something. Anyway, it was a cute flick. Not going to win any awards, and not going to make a lot of money since it is NOT kid-safe. However, Eddie fans rejoice... the URL that his charactor mentions is real! ”Oh, and you can email me at professorbedlam.com. All one word!”

Saturday night quietchris and I went to see The Devil Wears Prada (IMDB, Wikipedia). I have to say it was THE BEST MOVIE EVER.

The line for popcorn went pretty quickly. The woman at the ice cream counter wasn’t “confused” by such a big order (2 items... usually well past her limit but not this time).

Things were looking good. But they only got better.

We found perfect seats. Right at eye-level to the screen and directly in the middle. The problem, however, was that the row in front of us was a mother flanked by an 8 year old and a 6 year old. I whispered to quietchris that these kids were way too young to understand this film and were going to be talking, squirming, and being a total distraction.

But then 5 minutes into the movie, the mom realized this wasn’t a movie that kids would enjoy AND LEFT.

THEY LEFT! WITHOUT BEING SHOUTED AT! THEY LEFT ON THEIR OWN BEFORE THERE WAS EVEN A PROBLEM!

Then I realized nobody was talking on the phone, text messaging people, or yelling at the film.

About half way through the film a baby started crying and within seconds the mother quieted the baby and it was quiet for the rest of the movie! Awesome!

Man! This was the best movie I’d seen in years! I might even go see it again.

In conclusion, I highly recommend The Devil Wears Prada. Excellent movie!

I can't believe the slowness of the people at the food counter. This is completely unacceptable.

...wait... let me start this review over.

Superman Returns was a disappointment. The audio was completely screwed up for the first fifteen minutes. It sounded like the left audio channel was occasionally going at the wrong speed while the right channel was fine. Then once that was fixed there were new problems with the audio. In particular, whoever mixed the audio seemed to have two babies in the mixing booth while he was working on the film and their crying bleed onto the soundtrack. And his cell phone kept going off. Oh wait, that may have just been the audience in MY theater.

...let me start this review over...

Superman Returns is Pixar's best production yet. You could hardly tell that the entire film was computer generated. In a daring risk, the director decided to make an entire film about the lead-up to Superman returning. I guess he'll return in the sequel. Meanwhile the film was about talking cars who...

...wait... let me start his review over...

Ok, here we go. Superman Returns. I was freakin' appalled. With all the advances in computer animation in the last 25 years why weren't we able to have Christopher Reeve playing Superman? He's the only real Superman (except his dad, George Reeves, who played the one on TV). Sure, I know Christopher Reeve is technically dead, but so is Danny Devito and he keeps making appearances all over. Heck, Devito's got a new TV show on TBS! But seriously, what's my real problem with the new guy playing Superman? He's sooo straight! This movie should have been called SuperHeterosexualMan. Bring back Gay Superman! I mean Christopher Reeves wasn't just cute in the old Superman movies, he was clean-cut-cute-gay-gay-1970's-porn-gay-cute! I mean, in the 1980's if you were too embarrassed to go into a video store and rent a gay porn flick you could just rent Superman, Superman II: Deathtrap, Superman III: Monsignor, or any of his other films where he plays a super-hot-cute-gayboy-sexy-sexy-awesome-hotness. Did I mention he was teh hot cuteness!?!?!?!!!11!!one!!11!!

Now this new guy is ok, but he's not Gay Superman. I had to actually pay attention to the plot. Which seemed to be about some guy that could fly and didn't like green rocks. Or bald guys. Or something. Nice tights.

Meh.

I saw it last night and IT WAS AWESOME.