Spidey 3

Well #1 wife and I bit the bullet and went to see Spiderman 3 at the big, big screen at the Muller theaters in Lakeville. Wow!! that is a screen and half and a gorgeous theater. Any big time movie that you want to see should be viewed on that screen or the I Max at the MN zoo. Just a great experiance and one I would recommend to anyone.

The movie sucked.

Toby McGuire was a cute wimp in #1 and ok in 2, now he is just a wimp. I have never bought him as a superhero and after 3 tries not at all. I am one of those fellows who has to believe the character to, well, believe in the character. I bought his namby pamby goodness in #1 but his wussy evil in #3? com'on. And the villains. Com'on again. I've seen nastier grandmas although Thomas Hayden Church's Sandman was not bad. He lent a certain vulnerable heavyness to his absurdly unlikely thug. Do not even ask how he became Sandman as you will start to snigger.

And Kirsten Dunst is simply not cute enough to be a super-hero's main squeeze.

In these types of movies one must suspend your usual values but this one really requires suspension of Herculean proportions.

In Star Wars you became one with the characters. Even the villains were identifiable. In short you bought them. Here not at all. I bought the DVD's of the first 2, I won't be buying this one.
Doug

The Poet - Michael Connelly

A fantastic serial murder whodunit. I thought I had this murderer pegged three times and...I was wrong. No, just because the name of the book is "The Poet", the killer was not Robert Frost or T.S. Eliot. Although, "The Poet" does leave evidence in the form of poems from another famous poet.

Connelly jumps away from his every day detective hero, Harry Bosch, in this book and picks up on an (I think) more interesting character. Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career. His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield.

That is all I am giving you. It is a fantastic book...if you like this genre.

I am about 1/2 way through the follow up to The Poet called The Narrows. So far it is pretty good but not up to speed with The Poet. Harry Bosch picks up where McEvoy left off. Can't say more here because I want you to read The Poet and not know the ending!

I have read one other by Connelly called City of Bones. Also, ok, but not in line with The Poet. He really pulled The Poet out of thin air and it worked!

Read it, you will not be disappointed.

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Although there is good information on this site...OMG, is there a lot of ads. It is so distracting that I almost feel dirty when I visit the site. If you are prone to flashy light, squiqqly lined carpet induced siezures, then this might not be the site for you.

www.pcmag.com is the site. Beware of ad overload.