Time For a Geek Moment

Don't Call Me During...- Summer Edition

I know what you are wondering.

What does a TV-holic such as myself watch during the summer?:

Sunday:
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Deadwood/The 4400/Chappelle's Show: The Lost Episodes
10:00 PM - 10:30 PM: Entourage
10:30 PM - 11:00 PM: The Venture Brothers/Dane Cook's Tourgasm/Reno 911
11:00 PM - 11:30 PM: Lucky Louie

Tuesday:
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Rescue Me

Wednesday:
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Blade: The Series*/Project Runway*
10:00 PM - 11:15 PM: Hustle

Thursday:
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia/Hex (BBC's Buffy The Vampire Slayer)

Friday
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Monk
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Psych*

What do I do with all my free time? I watch my Netflix movies. I have a queue of 300 so there's no better time than now to blow through it. I'm also going to try and read some of the Harry Potter books (breaking with my previous stance) and teach myself sign language or French.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be doing all that either.

* On probation

Movie of the Week Pt. 2: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Johnny Depp was really good. That ended up being a huge problem.

Talk about a movie I really wanted to like that let me down.

• The first thing I thought as I looked over to my movie going companions and saw THREE of them sleeping (granted we saw the 10:15 PM show but we would have never slept through the first one), I ask again...Why is Hollywood afraid to make a 90-105 minute movie? This movie was too long. I mean, I seriously believe this movie could be a whole hour shorter and not suffer much in the way of character development (wait, there wasn't any) or plot.

• For a movie based on a Disney ride, this movie was incredibly dark. Should we blame Empire Strikes Back for making every 2nd movie in a trilogy dark as hell.There were too many cheap references to the first movie in order to generate a laugh. My friends and I always joke, "But why is the rum gone?" After they refer to that one line at least 5 times, it's not funny anymore.

• Do you know how good Johnny Depp was in this movie? When he wasn't on the scene, everyone took a nap, went to the bathroom or went to get popcorn. The entire Will Turner portion movie...when are they going to realize NO ONE CARES ABOUT THIS CHARACTER. We're all here to see Captain Jack Sparrow. And with the way this movie ended, it's going to be a rough start for part three.
  

I can't believe how much money this movie made. I mean it didn't suck but it was unnecessarily bloated.

Movie of the Week Pt. I: Cars

I wasn't expecting to hate it, I just wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did.

Dear Mr. Lasseter:

Congratulations on another successful Pixar release.

I did not think I would laugh and enjoy myself as much as I did. I came into the theater only wondering if it would be better or worse that A Bug's Life (it was the former).

Two things:

1) How much money did you have to pay the writers of Doc Hollywood for making an animated version of their movie with cars? Did you know right away that you were stealing a multitude of plot points or did you see the finished product and think to yourself, "Why do I have an image of Michael J. Fox in my head?"

2) As much as I love your movies, I feel like Pixar cartoons are moving farther and farther away from children's entertainment. While I don't mind seeing animated feature for adults, the fact of the matter is that these are supposed to be children's movies. While I watching the movie (we went to a latter showing this time to avoid the problems I had with Over The Hedge), I was wondering what the children in the audience were getting out of this aside from the visuals and the occasional flatulence/gross out jokes. I thought the same thing during The Impossibles but I think with all the car specific references, this was a little worse.

Otherwise, keep up the good work.

I Watch Too Much TV Pt. 846,213

I just realized that everything I know about epilepsy I learned from an episode of Degrassi Junior High when Caitlin went to the sleep over against her mother's wishes and didn't take her medicine because she was trying to fit in and she had a seizure.

Basically, I don't know anything about epilepsy.