Back from Wisconsin Dells & Chicago and waiting to hear the results from the Chicago Comedy TV Pilot Competition, but also focusing on the eminent trip to Los Angeles in support of Reality Check, and still waiting to hear if we made it into the New York competition - so keep those fingers crossed!
The CSz trip to the Dells for the WELS Youth Rally was fun, as always, but it was shocking to see Lake Denton completely drained due to the Midwest flooding. The famed Ducks had no water to drive through and it was a little sad. The weather was very overcast and we were unable to hit any of the many water parks. However, we did make it to what has become a CSz tradition - breakfast at Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty. If you've never been there, they serve family style and just keep bringing food to the table until you can't move...for only $10! It's awesome! We got to initiate Corey & Mo into our little tradition this year and they were pretty happy, as evidenced below:
Keeping the tradition alive of refusing to pay outrageous prices for movies, I saw The Dark Knight and snuck (is that the past-tense of 'sneak'?) into Wanted last night.
The Dark Knight was an awesome film, but I thought it got a touch to 'super-heroey' at the end after pounding home a very realistic feel throughout 98% of the film. There's an old graphic novel called Batman: The Killing Joke that I purchased when I was little and it always stuck with me in the way that it presented the Joker as a normal person that was driven to the madman he'd become, and I thought this film really hit on that - whether intending to or not.
Yes, Heath Ledger was amazing - there's enough glowing reviews out there that I'm not going to turn this into another one. Not to be overlooked, however, should be Aaron Eckhardt as an awesome Harvey Dent/Two Face.
Wanted was a nice surprise as I knew very little about it except it was about assassins and had Angelina Jolie in it - I'm sold. It's also based on a graphic novel, which I actually purchased at Borders after seeing the movie. It's definitely not a movie for everyone & quite a departure from the Mark Millar book, but reminded me a lot of Shoot 'Em Up from last year with it's fantastic action sequences and graphic dialogue. There's a cool story twist in the film that I won't ruin, but it's definitely worth a NetFlix rental. at the very least.
Next post should come from L.A. Take care!
The Dark Knight was an awesome film, but I thought it got a touch to 'super-heroey' at the end after pounding home a very realistic feel throughout 98% of the film. There's an old graphic novel called Batman: The Killing Joke that I purchased when I was little and it always stuck with me in the way that it presented the Joker as a normal person that was driven to the madman he'd become, and I thought this film really hit on that - whether intending to or not.Yes, Heath Ledger was amazing - there's enough glowing reviews out there that I'm not going to turn this into another one. Not to be overlooked, however, should be Aaron Eckhardt as an awesome Harvey Dent/Two Face.
Wanted was a nice surprise as I knew very little about it except it was about assassins and had Angelina Jolie in it - I'm sold. It's also based on a graphic novel, which I actually purchased at Borders after seeing the movie. It's definitely not a movie for everyone & quite a departure from the Mark Millar book, but reminded me a lot of Shoot 'Em Up from last year with it's fantastic action sequences and graphic dialogue. There's a cool story twist in the film that I won't ruin, but it's definitely worth a NetFlix rental. at the very least.Next post should come from L.A. Take care!
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