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Monday, June 26, 2006

Super Wednesday

I'm very excited about this Wednesday. Now, Wednesdays aren't normally anything to write home about around the Wack household. Usually, it's the night we do our dusting and I'll usually make a pretty intense jello salad to enjoy afterward, but that's generally about as exciting as Wednesdays get.

This Wednesday, though, has been on my calendar for awhile now. It's the last day of school in the New York City Public School system. And it's the day that Superman Returns opens. Imagine two such thrilling events just happening to converge like this. It's rare. Really rare. I don't think I've had a day this momentous since I got blown and found twenty bucks in the street on December 29th 1992. That one, I wrote about in my journal.

The first Superman movie made such an impression on me as a kid and is so very dear to my heart that I actually wrote an entire sketch show just so I could do a scene where I got to perform "Can You Read My Mind?" onstage. This would be a whole lot funnier if it wasn't actually true. Superman is the movie that got me into comic books. So you might say it's responsible for my pissing thousands of dollars down the drain over the last twenty-seven or so years. Thanks, Richard Donner!

The scary part is, I'm looking forward to this movie so much that it's probably going to disappoint me somehow. That's the curse of being a fanboy. While everyone around you is digging the special effects and having a great time, you're bitching that they got Superman's belt wrong. (They did, too.)

So I'm trying to keep my expectations as low as possible, despite the fact that the reviews I've read so far have been pretty positive. I'm trying to prepare myself by telling myself that it's more likely to be akin to Superman III than Superman II.

Oh, Superman II. You had me at "Kneel before Zod."

posted by Joe # 9:25 PM

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Who doesn't love a little Supermythology?

# posted by

An Urban Femme : 9:21 AM

I guess the question is "what did you think of the first two Xmen?"

# posted by

the beige one : 1:23 PM

You know, sometimes you just can't recapture that magic.

Kind of like Star Wars. Watching the first trilogy as a 9-13 year old was awesome. Watching the next trilogy as a 32-38 year old sucked ass.

Jar-Jar Binks? Annakin Skywalker? Sheeeeeit.

# posted by

Prego : 2:26 PM

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		Monday, June 26, 2006 Super Wednesday I'm very excited about this Wednesday. Now, Wednesdays aren't normally anything to write home about around the Wack household. Usually, it's the night we do our dusting and I'll usually make a pretty intense jello salad to enjoy afterward, but that's generally about as exciting as Wednesdays get. This Wednesday, though, has been on my calendar for awhile now. It's the last day of school in the New York City Public School system. And it's the day that Superman Returns opens. Imagine two such thrilling events just happening to converge like this. It's rare. Really rare. I don't think I've had a day this momentous since I got blown and found twenty bucks in the street on December 29th 1992. That one, I wrote about in my journal. The first Superman movie made such an impression on me as a kid and is so very dear to my heart that I actually wrote an entire sketch show just so I could do a scene where I got to perform "Can You Read My Mind?" onstage. This would be a whole lot funnier if it wasn't actually true. Superman is the movie that got me into comic books. So you might say it's responsible for my pissing thousands of dollars down the drain over the last twenty-seven or so years. Thanks, Richard Donner! The scary part is, I'm looking forward to this movie so much that it's probably going to disappoint me somehow. That's the curse of being a fanboy. While everyone around you is digging the special effects and having a great time, you're bitching that they got Superman's belt wrong. (They did, too.) So I'm trying to keep my expectations as low as possible, despite the fact that the reviews I've read so far have been pretty positive. I'm trying to prepare myself by telling myself that it's more likely to be akin to Superman III than Superman II. Oh, Superman II. You had me at "Kneel before Zod." posted by Joe # 9:25 PM Comments: Who doesn't love a little Supermythology? # posted by An Urban Femme : 9:21 AM I guess the question is "what did you think of the first two Xmen?" # posted by the beige one : 1:23 PM You know, sometimes you just can't recapture that magic. Kind of like Star Wars. Watching the first trilogy as a 9-13 year old was awesome. Watching the next trilogy as a 32-38 year old sucked ass. Jar-Jar Binks? Annakin Skywalker? Sheeeeeit. # posted by Prego : 2:26 PM Post a Comment << Home		Links The Conversation Special Productions Izzle Pfaff Freida Bee Sometimes I Just Talk Alisa and the Stuff Alisa Does Tuna Girl Defective Yeti The Incurable Insomniac The Savvy, The Extreme and The Idealist Caballito del Diablo The Ambivalence of Open Spaces Bug-Eyed Blog Whiskeymarie Version 53 Things I've Noticed (S)wine: ShortLeanCuts Out of Tune Missives from the Beige Sister of Hairshirt Apostrophe Abuse Jonestown Tobacco Brunette The Public Intellectual That's Why Archives July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 March 2011 April 2011