Man of Steel was amazing. It was the first Supermen film to live up to the characters potenial. I really hated Superman II when it came out for a number of reasons, and watching this showed how a battle between Kryptonians should look. Not only was the Krypton scenes as epic as they always should be, Michael Shannon was a great General Zod. As much as I love Terrance Stamp his Zod was cheesy.

The critics who are dissing this film don’t seem to like that this is a post-911 Superman, but its also more realistic and believable. If a being that powerful showed up the government wouldn’t just accept him on face value.

The cast was uniformly good. Love Amy Adams as Lois Lane. She was perfect. And Henry Cavill is the best Superman yet.

The theater was packed on Friday so I went this morning at 9:30 AM and there was a line even then. It’ll be a bi;;ion dollar film for sure. And they showed the great new Hobbit trailer which looks fantastic on the big screen.

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Its looking good, though I see a lot of changes here. Legolas wasn’t in the book. And when they escaped in the barrels the Elves didn’t chase them. But I’m still very psyched to see this.

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Now that’s a bad ass superhero trailer

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Nixon was a lot smarter and more competent than Obama. He also actually had a sense of honor and the importance of office which is why he resigned. Obama will not resign unless he really has to. And he will do everything in his power to try to blame others for his own misdeeds.

I just found out yesterday, for example, that Bosch Fawstin, the comics artist who gave us Pigman and who I interviewed for my podcasts, befriended Senator Ted Cruz on Facebook when the Senator wanted to follow him there. And the second he did, the so-called Justice Department started following Bosch on Facebook. Nixon wasn’t as obvious as these clowns, either.

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This is an excellent interview with James Ellroy, my favorite living novelist. It’s about his recent novella Shakedown and a host of other things. I have to say this is one of the best interviews with Ellroy I’ve seen because the interviewer really knows and gets his stuff.

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While it seems Americans have squandered their sacrifice by electing politicians out to strip us of our liberties it should never be forgot that many of our ancestors, friends and relatives risked their lives for us. And many never returned from far away lands. Many died when they were still very young. In some cases fighting to free people who didn’t seem to appreciate the effort. But they did it anyway.

So while many of us get to take a day off and watch sports or hang out with friends, try to spare a thought for those people who made it possible for us.

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All of the Arkham games have been awesome. Can’t wait to play this one.

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It looks like someone finally made a decent Superman movie. We’ll see if they got it right. I couldn’t stand the 70s movies, especially Superman 2′s fake battles. The effects were so weak and even though I am a Terrance Stamp fan, the script was so rank. But here we see something more intense and powerful. Looking forward to it.

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