I saw both Matt Damon and Ben Affleck yesterday. My father and I went to see The Bourne Supremacy and I think we both really enjoyed it. It was very good indeed. I am curious why they changed the frame up to Russian Mafia as opposed to Chinese politician that was in the book, however. Relations with the Chinese aren't all that different now than they were in the 80's when the book was written. My father pointed out it's easier to take a train to Moscow from Berlin... Affleck was interviewed during the Red Sox game last night. (Good game by the way.) Why the hell are they allowing him to speak at the Democratic Convention? And those rumors about him and Jennifer Garner in Canada better be false... Speaking of the Sox game, ESPN, though they kiss Yankee ass whenever they can get away with it, they at least try to be impartial. Fox, on the other hand, seem to want to be sodomized by Yankee bats...If you watch a game where the Yankees aren't even playing they will be brought up probably more than once. We really shouldn't be that surprised since Fox News sucks up to the current administration but I find it totally disgusting and way unprofessional. Did you see the Mets game last weekend I think it was when they were interviewing John Franco and they asked him if he'd like to pitch for they Yankees? Very stupid question indeed. Stargate SG-1 was surprising this good this week. I never thought of Anubis coming back at all. With O'Neill now base commander, this season should be very interesting indeed. Stargate Atlantis was able to show a way there show is original. I really cannot think of any show that has a team take over an abandoned alien base that no one knows anything about. It's pretty cool if you ask me.
Marvel screwed the pooch with the Thor franchise from the beginning. They took the more modern notion that the Asgardians are aliens not gods. In itself, that's fine but I can't help but think that just made it more complicated not less. (Wonder Woman just killed them off which is better but that's still a big nitpick from me about THAT movie...)
I stopped regularly reading comics after I graduated college in the early part of the century so I don't know when secret identities became passé but I think this also hurt the franchise. Originally, instead of dropping Thor on his head and giving him amnesia, Odin put him the mortal body of Donald Blake and then Eric Masterson. (Was that a complaint about Ghost Rider? Same concept really...)
In Thor: Ragnarok, to me, this '90's era of the comic where Eric Masterson WAS Thor was the best run of the comic and there were many Easter eggs from that period from Thor's Earth garb (with Mjolnir disguised as an umbrell…
I stopped regularly reading comics after I graduated college in the early part of the century so I don't know when secret identities became passé but I think this also hurt the franchise. Originally, instead of dropping Thor on his head and giving him amnesia, Odin put him the mortal body of Donald Blake and then Eric Masterson. (Was that a complaint about Ghost Rider? Same concept really...)
In Thor: Ragnarok, to me, this '90's era of the comic where Eric Masterson WAS Thor was the best run of the comic and there were many Easter eggs from that period from Thor's Earth garb (with Mjolnir disguised as an umbrell…
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