AI Finale Part 3

...and yet David Cook wins it all comfortably. I know that makes the redhead happy. (Don't tell her, but I was pretty good with it too...)

Idol finale

David Archuleta kicked David Cook's ass. Plain and simple.

I'll still buy both of their albums though.

Indiana Jones

Point 1: Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Point 2: George Lucas likes to take a dump on my favorite childhood memories

I have amazingly low expectations of the new Indiana Jones movie. I fully expect it to suck. Like 'Speed Racer' suck.

But I am still going to see it Thursday night...I just can't help myself.

I think I need medication.

Idol finale

A brief history of me and American Idol: I didn't watch the first season, because the idea of a prime-time talent show held zero appeal for me. The second season, I watched because I got dragged into it. And ever since, I have been shamelessly addicted. Since that second season, I have accurately predicted the winner every season within the first week or so of the final group, sometimes as early as the initial auditions, except for last season (I never would have thought Jordin would have won).

This season, my early pick was David Archuleta, and sure enough, he is in the final two. I wavered back and forth about who I thought would be the other finalist though. I had a friend, the redhead, that I would discuss the show with, and about week two she said that I should really pay attention to David Cook, because he was growing on her. So I did. And ever since it has been the two Davids and everyone else. It never mattered who got voted off, because if your name wasn't 'David', you were going to go, it was just a matter of order.

Well, now the finals are next week. And it is my David against her David. I am pulling for my David, just on matter of principle, but if her David wins, I will be equally happy.

Now on to 'So you think you can dance'. (I think I have to turn in my 'guy card' after this post)

Iron Man

I saw Iron Man on Thursday night. My brother and I went to the 11PM showing, and I figured it would be packed. Now, anyone that knows me can attest to the fact that I like to have a good seat when I go to the movies. So I tend to get to the theater early. The more packed I expect the movie to be, the earlier I get there. In this case, I expected there to be legions of people out to see the movie, so I got to the theater about 9:30.

I was the only one there.

I was the only one there until about 10:40.

I guess Iron Man was either playing early at lots of places or not as many people cared about seeing it early as I expected. Either way, we got great seats.

The movie itself was good. Really good. It suffered some because of the expectations problem, i.e. I had really high ones, and it would be hard to live up to them. But, for the most part, it lived up to everything Ihad hoped for it. The action was great, the CGI was good enough that I didn't notice it, and the cast was spot on.

If you like action movies, especially if you like comic book movies, I highly recommend it.