Because I can’t keep from messing around with stuff constantly, I’ve created a photoblog here on my website. It’s not (yet) easily accessible from this blog, but you can click on that link to go visit. I’m posting about one picture a day, but I already have a few up. Again, I’m not quite sure why I’m doing this. I guess it’s just because I can (and because more people visit this blog than my Flickr or DeviantART accounts).
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So I went and saw Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer the other day. I must say, it wasn’t as horrible as I thought it would be. Granted, it did have it’s moments (as I’ll explain below), but it was a decent sequel, or at least as decent as it could be given the original movie (I wasn’t floored by the first Fantastic Four, either).
Superhero movies have the tendency to get campy. Most of the recent ones have, luckily, avoided that pretty well, albeit with some glaring failures (emo Spidey, anyone?). Batman Begins was good, all three X-Men were good, Superman Returns was all right (could have only been better with Chris Reeve). Sure Catwoman sucked, but she wasn’t really a superhero anyways. I know there are a lot of other superhero movies I didn’t mention, but that’s because I didn’t want to make an impromptu list of every superhero movie made recently. That’s what Wikipedia is for.
Anyways, Silver Surfer really wasn’t that bad. Good action sequences, good villains (Dr. Doom makes a reappearance!), and a good storyline, especially for fans of the Fantastic Four comics. All in all, it was typical but enjoyable summer movie fare. My biggest beef was the Fantasti-Car. If Reed Richards built it himself…why was it a freakin’ Dodge?! I mean, seriously. If the iconic Dodge grill design wasn’t enough, they had to show a Dodge commercial for the car before the movie. Come on! Blatant advertising within a movie is something that just doesn’t fly for me. It was the same way with Minority Report with the futuristic Lexus I had to keep hearing about. It’s okay to use branded stuff in a movie; just don’t overplay it.
Anyways, that’s my take on the movie. It really wasn’t too bad, unlike certain sequels (or should I say threequels? …I hate that word). Oh, and for anyone complaining about Galactus being just a giant cloud, be sure to look closely when the Silver Surfer is inside the cloud. There’s a glowing silhouette that’s the exact shape of the comic version’s helmet. Of course Stan Lee is going to make a homage. I personally think the movie would have been worse with a gigantic man threatening to consume Earth. Dark clouds are much more sinister.
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Sphere: Related ContentAh, summer. That time of joy when there’s no school to bug you. No tough classes, no bad college food, no nothing. Unless you’re taking summer classes (haha!). It is, unfortunately, a time where a summer job would come in handy real nice.
I’ve been back from the U of Washington for about a week now, and I still have yet to be hired, even though I’ve applied to numerous places even before the school year ended. Anyone familiar with my past exploits would know that this isn’t the first time I’ve been ignored (for a time) by employers. I figured this year would be different, considering I had a job during school. But noooo. Granted, I’m not being completely fair, considering it’s still only the second week of my summer vacation, but since both of my younger sisters already have jobs (okay, one is still in the interview stage, but she’s pretty much guaranteed a job at this point), I think I have a right to complain a bit.
On the bright side, I went into Best Buy today to ask about an application I had submitted (my experience would suit a job there perfectly) and they told me they’d be calling applicants over the next few days. Unfortunately, Best Buy is one of the best (no pun intended) places to work during the summer. My significant experience with both computer hardware and software (not to mention cameras, TVs, phones, MP3 players, etc.) should put me above most other applicants, but even that’s not certain. For all I know, there are a whole bunch of Boeing ex-employees looking for jobs in Burlington. No clue why they’d want to do that, but it could happen.
I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for any other possible job openings (and there are probably going to be a lot). I can’t imagine I wouldn’t get a job this summer. It was bad enough last summer, when I thought being 18 would get me a job. Now I’m 19 and I actually have work experience and professional references. Plus I’m good at Halo. They can’t possibly turn me down! Soon, I will rule the world! Or maybe just the lower Skagit Valley…
Sphere: Related ContentWeb browsers are interesting things. Most people don’t even care which they use. If you have Windows, you use Internet Explorer. If you have a Mac, you use Safari. If you’re smart, you use Firefox. But the operating system barriers have been slowly breaking down. Internet Explorer can be installed on Mac OS, although the Mac version is outdated and fairly crappy. Now, however, you can install Safari, the formerly Mac-only browser, on Windows. Granted, it’s only a beta version (more like an alpha, as I’ll later explain), but you can still try it out if you so like.
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