Iron Man starring Robert Downey, Jr. was a great success in my opinion.  Now, there are some super hero movies that I’ve liked and some I just haven’t cared for.  This one was top notch though.  I LOVED the fact that the reason Iron Man was created was the result of being taken hostage by militants in Afghanistan or wherever they were.  They brought the war straight into the movie.  I’ve written before and I’ll write again that in times of crisis, the world turns to super heroes.  And shortly after 9/11, we were deluged with super hero movies.  This movie doesn’t skirt around the issue of war, it jumps right into it.  It’s GREAT!

While I’m on the topic of super heroes, here’s a list of some of my favorites (the heroes and the shows/movies inspired by them)…

Top on my list is Superman.  I LOVE the old radio shows and The New Adventures of Lois and Clark (and yes, I’m a nerd…I have every season on DVD.)  I’ve never gotten into Smallville, but I could see how it was be attractive.  If it had come out when I was a teen, I may have gotten into it.  As for the movies, I love the original with Christopher Reeves.  2 is pretty good, too.  Honestly though, Superman Returns, the newest one, isn’t so hot.

Next on my list has GOT to be Spiderman.  As a kid, I never cared for Spidey.  I’m a convert with the new movies though.  And hey, Tobey McGuire can pull it off.

Ghost Rider is one of the tops, too.  Not sure if this started off as a comic book hero or not, but it’s a good one.  And Nicolas Cage.  Great stuff!

The Incredible Hulk was good when it was a TV show.  The last release wasn’t good at all.  The new release coming out looks amazing!

Never got into Elektra…

I LOVE Sky High.  Not your typical, old fashioned super hero, but one non-the-less.  Well, it’s later on a Friday.  I’m going to try and finish up and head out!

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Oh, my goodness!  Did anyone see that Law & Order:SVU on Tuesday?

Okay, now I started watching Law & Order:SVU in college.  I really like Stabler and Benson as a pair.  I also love Fin and Munch as a pair.  The other people who have come and gone…ho hum ho hum, but wow!  I haven’t watched much since Adam Beach joined the cast as Detective Chester Lake.  But…wow.  There was a cold case Lake was working on.  He ends up finding the guy who committed the crime and everyone thinks he killed him.  So Lake is being held in the hospital and then disappears.

Nobody understands what’s going on.  (The detectives from SVU…don’t have a clue.  Stabler in particular.)  Stabler and Fin get into it and then suddenly Lake has been spotted.  He’s in an abandoned warehouse with a hostage.  What it turns out happened is that Lake had been helping a Philidelphia group with a cold case.  The cold case is the first case Lake ever worked on as a detective, so he’s personally invested.  He found the guy (who’s actually a NY cop now) and then killed him.  It turns out though that he killed him in self defense (if I’m remembering correctly…)  He got shot in the process though.  Lake ran because he needed to find the girl…and this is who his hostage is. 

So now the detectives find out that the case was that two girls were picked up by two cops.  Both girls were raped.  One was killed.  Lake finds the other girl.  So as Lake’s talking to Ice-T Benson and Stabler find out who the two cops were.  One was the one Lake killed.  The other one…he’s a sniper with the NYPD and now has a gun trained on Lake.  It was sweet justice when Stabler held his gun to the bad cops head.

But that’s not all!  So it goes to court and the stinking jury lets the bad cop go!  The last scene in the show is Fin, Munch, Stabler, and Benson seeing cops leading Lake in handcuffs into a cop car outside the court house.  Lake killed the bad cop…and now Lake’s off the show, but what a way to go!

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Just curious if anyone else has heard of a House spinoff starring Chase???

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Okay, as most of you know, I LOVE House and Bones.  Last night was the episode before the season finale for both shows. 

It was cool on Bones because Ace Young from American Idol was on the episode.  He was short lived, but hey, he was on the show and that was neat.  Then of course they had the climactic ending.  The psycho woman, Pam, pulled out a gun and shot at Brennan.  Booth was the only one who realized that Pam was shooting, so he stood up and ended up getting shot.  That was totally in character.  But then Brennan jumps down from the stage (the gang from the Jeffersonian was at an open mic night) picks up Booth’s gun and shoots Pam, leaving us, the audience, to believe Pam is now dead.  Okay, having the psycho woman shoot…good idea…having Brennan kill psycho woman…totally not good, and was rather unrealistic, even for this show.  We’ll have to wait til next week to see how the story line plays out.

As for House…the show reminded me of when House got shot, except this time, he wasn’t hallucinating the whole thing.  It was rather…okay, we’ve seen this before, move on.  I knew something was kooky when Amber first appeared in House’s hypnotic dream and then when they pointed out that the lady was wearing a mosquito encased in…amber.  But it didn’t really hit me until House was starting to put it together that Amber was on the bus with him.  But seriously the previews for next week!  This weekend my brother was at my house and we were talking about House (he’s a new convert to the show).  He wanted to know why Wilson was friends with House when House was always such a jerk to him.  Next week’s episode will probably answer that question and put more in our minds.  The question comes up that House wants to know if he’s supposed to risk his life to save Amber’s.  That’s not the only thing though.  Wilson is believing that House and Amber had an affair???  What’s up with that?  And I LOVE Wilson and all, but Wilson has had many affairs.  That’s why he’s lost three wives…(okay, okay, wife #3 had the affair, but still…)  And I really don’t think Amber and House had an affair, although they’d probably be a perfect couple.  That just isn’t House’s way.  Oh, well.  Next week will tell. 

Til then!

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Oh, my, goodness.  I hate these two movies.  And when I say hate, I mean in a good way.  For anyone who wants the movies to be a surprise DON’T READ ANY FURTHER…………………….

I watched Stephen King’s The Mist, a few weeks ago, and I had to have time to process the movie.  It’s a world is coming to an end, apocolyptic movie.  It’s freaky, with huge bats and mosquitoes.  It’s totally Stephen King, but I underestimated him.  And I love Stephen King’s warped sense.  (Now I’ve been told the short story ends differently.  I have the short story, but haven’t been able to bring myself to read it.  I’ll write more when I’ve finally read it.)  At the end of this movie, the group (the old lady and old man, the young lady and the boy, and the main character) are in an SUV and they end up running out of gas.  They were trying to outrun the mist, but just couldn’t.  They had a gun.  The gun only had four bullets.  So instead of letting the things in the mist get them.  The guy shot the old couple, the lady and his son.  Leaving himself to die by the things in the mist.  The only thing is that shortly after he shot everyone, the mist starts to clear and military men and a whole bunch of people the group had been with come marching through the mist.  He killed everyone, only to find out that if he had waited a few minutes, everyone would have been saved.  Stephen King IS WARPED!!!

So now fast forward to last night.  I watched I Am Legend.  Not quite as warped as The Mist, but just as freaky.  The main guy (Will Smith) is the only person alive, or so he believes.  Everyone else has warped into these night creatures who kill everyone.  All he had was his dog Sam.  By the end of the movie, Sam ends up being killed by Will Smith.  Will Smith ends up dying (but his death is justified).  And it’s just as freaky, but not as freaky as The Mist. 

If you have a choice, go with The Mist.

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Um……..Not a lot.  I’m looking at tonight’s prime listing and morning last year’s prime time line up.  Last year we had House on Tuesdays.  That’s moved to Mondays.  Tonight FOX 47 has American Idol and Hell’s Kitchen.  I’ll watch Idol at work (one of the benefits of working at a TV station) and I’m taping Hell’s Kitchen.  KTTC has Most Outrageous Moments…for an hour.  Okay if there’s nothing else on, but they’re going against Idol.  After that, KTTC has two hours of Law & Order:SVU.  I’m guessing that most reality tv fans aren’t going to be Law & Order fans.  CBS has Shark and NCIS.  I’ve seen Shark, and it’s okay, but not something that’s a must see in my book.  ABC has Dancing with the Stars for two hours.  Smart move for them since that’s going to be about the only thing that would draw Idol fans away from FOX 47.  Women’s Murder Club and CSI:Miami are both on, but they’re in the 9pm slot, saving them from the battle of reality TV.

For me, I’ll watch some of Idol and Hell’s Kitchen.  Then maybe catch the new SVU.

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I know it’s sweeps and the shows tend to pull out everything they can to attract viewers, but why on earth did Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage from Mythbusters appear on CSI?  I don’t watch a lot of CBS shows, but I don’t think the guest appearances of Jamie and Adam were advertised?  At any rate, it was great for someone who loves both CSI and Mythbusters.

As for last night’s shows, House was kind of a disappointment.  I was able to guess my way through most of the show.  My sister (who heads up the biggest House mailing list out there – Go LAURA!) began to question how good the show was back at the end of the second season, beginning of the third.  I liked the show all through that.  She’s beginning to like the show again.  I just LOVE the show, but last night’s episode could have been so much better.  Is all they could come up with for House trying to mess with Cuddy him eating lunch in the morgue and her calling House "Sweet Sauce"?  BORING!  Oh, well.  I think next week should be the bus crash and amnesiatic House.  That should be fun.

Bones was the other show from last night that I watched.  The writers have done a great job with making the battle over Bone’s father not be the central focus of the show, and having it only be a storyline.  Now, her father is free to go find the person who put him in jail.  It should be interesting….

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