The Duc Pond

Today I went to an event at the local AMC theater that showed all 5 Academy Award Best Picture nominees. I’m not sure why these were the Academy’s top 5, but it’s always a mystery. I judged them on their entertainment value to me, and not necessarily their worthiness for being nominated.
Michael Clayton - Some […]

For the love of all that is holy, go see Superbad. Pure. Hilarity.

NBC has my heart this season.
The best show on television (IMHO) is Battlestar Galactica on the Sci-Fi Channel (owned by NBC). Think it’s too nerdy for you? Yes, it takes place in space and yes, there is battling with cybernetic organisms, but when you find yourself cheering on an insurgency consisting of human suicide bombers, […]

So why exactly are Tim Burton’s Batman movies considered good? I recently finished watching Batman and Batman Returns, and while they’re certainly a step above Joel Schumacher’s travesties, they’re still a bit campy. Especially the penguins with rockets on their back. The Prince music in the first one is especially unnecessary.
There are a couple reasons […]

I know I have a lot of blogging to do for the London trip, but when you go on vacation, you always come back to a LOT of things to do. I’ll get to it.
But for now, let me discuss the awesomest movie I’ve seen in a long time. I’m so happy Batman Begins turned […]

Here’s the new DC logo as it will appear in front of DC Comics movies (like the so-far-well-reviewed Batman Begins). It’s a rather large animated gif, so let it load, and it’ll continually loop.

Kind of rips off Marvel’s logo, but that’s not such a bad thing.

Fuck the haters. This movie was awesome. So awesome I saw it twice. In the same day.
Some coworkers and I decided to see a 1:20 PM show and catch some food afterwards since there’s a TGI Friday’s in the same parking lot. One of my former coworkers (Jeremy) couldn’t make it to our afternoon viewing, […]

Amy and I just saw this!
I love Pixar. Ever since Toy Story, they’ve never done me wrong.
They haven’t this time either. The movie starts a little slow, but the later parts easily make up for it. And the slowness isn’t bad; it sets up the midlife/post-hero crisis very well. Pixar is so incredibly imaginative when […]

What is the quintessential nerdfest? That’s right. A Star Trek convention. I have no shame in admitting that I’ve always been a huge Star Trek fan. I’m not as into it as I was when I was younger, but I’ve been renting the Deep Space 9 DVDs from Netflix lately and I’m falling back in […]

I finally saw The Village last night. It’s the first movie I’ve ever gone to see alone. This may sound sad, but it was actually pretty convenient. I was 20 minutes late, but they were still showing previews. The theatre was pretty packed for a Sunday night, but since all I needed was one seat […]