Comic Con 2009

Last week, I attended Comic-Con for a half-day for my second year in a row. Just like last year, the convention was sensory overload and standing room only. KPBS reported that there was about 126,000 attendees and another 25,000 exhibitors in town for the four day event. Over the four days, it was estimated that [...]

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Movie Review)

I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie at the local IMAX theater. I have long been a fan of X-Men and Weapon X series, so I had pretty high expectations for this movie. Learning that one of my favorite comic book characters, Deadpool, was going to be in this movie gave me some hope that he [...]

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Watchmen (Movie Review)

It was about a year or more ago, when I found out the Watchmen movie was coming out. I hadn’t remembered this graphic novel and I wasn’t familiar with the story. Somehow, I had missed this comic.
I avoided spoilers and reading the novel before the movie because I wanted to see the movie first. [...]

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Batman: The Dark Knight (Movie Review)

I’ve seen a few bad and a few good movies since my last review, but I’ve skipped over them since most of my reviews so far have just been focusing on comic book movies.
Growing up, I didn’t collect many DC comic books other than maybe a couple collector or special edition Superman comic books (I [...]

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Comic Con 2008

I’ve been wanting to go to Comic Con for a few years now since I’ve moved to San Diego. This year, I waited a bit late to get tickets, so the only day that was still available was Sunday. Sunday was the Comic Con kids day, but besides seeing a few little kids dressed up [...]

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Movie Review)

I’ve mostly written about Marvel movies, but I think that I’ll try to write a few more reviews about other movies that I’ve been watching.
I saw Hellboy 1, I a few years ago, but I can’t remember if I saw it at the theater or on DVD. I thought Hellboy 1 was pretty good and [...]

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Incredible Hulk (Movie Review)

Much like Iron Man, I wasn’t too excited with the release of this movie. However, unlike Iron Man, I wasn’t much impressed with the movie.
When I first saw that Ed Norton was playing Bruce Banner, I had a feeling that I wouldn’t like the movie. I still think that Dr. Banner needs to be someone [...]

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Iron Man (Movie Review)

As a sucker for Marvel movies, I couldn’t pass up Iron Man. Even though I didn’t follow the Iron Man comic books when I was younger, I was still familiar with the basic storyline and characters.
The movie starts off by changing some of the original story to a more modern day story involving Tony Stark [...]

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Spider-Man 3: The battle within (Movie Review)

As you may have noticed with my last movie review, I’m a bit behind on watching movies. I’m just now getting around to watching Spider-Man 3 on DVD.
Growing up, Spider-Man was never one of my favorite superheroes. I always thought that Peter Parker was too whiny in the comics and so far I think they’ve [...]

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