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I'm hoping to see Cars 2 sometime in the next week...but, from what I've heard, well...I liked the NASCAR stuff, and the Route 66 stuff...but, near as I can gather, neither is present this time around.

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I took my two older boys to see it yesterday for my middle child's 4th birthday.

If you are going in expecting NASCAR and Route 66 you will be disappointed in it. However, if you are going into it for a fun movie, you will enjoy it. I won't spoil it for anyone.

It is worth checking out at the Theaters.

Me and my wife are going to see Green Lantern next in two weeks, more than likely it will still be playing. She may want to see X-Men: First Class.

As to Cars2 I wouldn't mind seeing it even though I haven't seen the whole first one yet. Evidently him and the tow truck go to Europe and get involved with spies.

HANNA I looked over but decided it wasn't my type of movie but I will take a second look.

Super 8 might be interesting.

Been waiting for Captain America but that's later. From the previews though I have problem with it already. His outfit doesn't fit right. It looks a touch too big for him instead of being skin tight.

In Cars 2 it's Japan, and it's more of a spy movie. I just get this from the theatres. I didn't like Cars all too much. It was still good, but my mind kept trying to figure out the biology of it. What are you if every piece in you can be replaced? Are the only people who die the ones who can't afford repairs? It drove me nuts. I don't know why I didn't have the same thing with Toy Story where it's similar. I guess I was younger when I already accepted the mythos of living toys. (In fact my first stories were about such.) Also they way the characters are designed they look like all they are are heads on wheels.

I want to see all the marvel films, as I'm a big fan of the characters. From what I've heard of Thor it's my number 1 want to see. The things people are saying make me think they got some subtleties from the mythology right, because the people who tell me things don't know Tyr about it.

I somewhat dread seeing First Class, because it just looks ugly to me. I read the comic books so I know that different artists bring different styles to the characters and world; and that this is a good thing. But I enjoy myself less when I don't like a particular artist.

What worries me is that the last two Pixar movies were so emotionally moving that grown men wept in the theaters...and, with this, from the outside, it looks like a simple action-adventure movie.

Cars2 in Japan??? Boy, was I off. Maybe the blurb I read said overseas and I thought that mean Europe.

And what was the other Pixor movie that had grown men weeping? I assume one was the latest Toy Story.

And any one see Super 8? With Abrams and Spielburg it could very well be better than one might assume by the plot.

I am behind on my movies too, except for the kids ones. This has more to do with my babysitting situation then anything.

I love the movies just as much as I love books. And just like books, I like movies with a good story.

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Can y'all imagine anything geekier than these wedding cakes?

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This week I'll be rounding up the Blu-Ray version of the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings movies, though I'm informed there's nothing that wasn't on the original DVDs, not even something from The Hobbit...

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Oh, we seem to have a lot more around here than we used to. Can't figure out why, we don't have any free standing water, the neighbors pools are kept clean.

My kids did sit through it without getting bored.

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Happy Fourth.!!!!

For those who live in the US of course

Still the same movie, no extras (unless you count a trailer for a video game), even the Easter Eggs are the same...but the look of it is improved, most of the things that looked back-projected on the DVD look better here (one exception: the Parley at the Black Gate, where they ride up to it, still doesn't look right---it was an add-on to begin with, maybe a shot never properly perfected).

And, when you get down to it, it's still a terrific movie.

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Moving, is usually dreaded by me, but this move represented a step to getting back on our feet.

However, they set up a mystery, and I figured out the answer to it about a third of the way through---I don't think I was tipped off by reviews, but some detail might've stayed with me. Let's just say I know all about cars that need special tools in order to work on them. This is one curse of being a writer---you spend so much time plotting things that you can see through someone else's plot.

I'll give it a good going-over again when it's out on DVD and Blu-Ray.

And there's another Star Trek one I can't think of at the moment.

I should say that are those under DWS he has other pen names some of which I don't know. and there are ghost writings he's done no one will know. However I think I know one of them.

B&N doesn't carry that many under DWS, I've looked. Maybe I should look again though. The first time I looked for OCS they only had a couple-- months later they had ten or so.

Hmm, I could try the search feature on my Nook.

I can't recall what group I was with but they decided to do a couple of skits to teach how to write. I can't recall the first skit except that the leader of the group was in it. I thought he was in the second one too but it turned out to be a girl playing a man. She had her hair down kind alike the leader's. But she also had an eyepatch and I recall thinking she wore it to look more like a man and I wondered what else she may have worn but that was when I woke.

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Second time I have dreamt about learning to write but I can remember what was said or taught either time.

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I'm not a dream analyst, LD, but this seems like an important one. I have read and experienced that language is not the easiest thing for a dream to contain. I wouldn't worry about what was said in the dream so much as what you saw.

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Besides, leaving out a n't on can, I wonder what that dream was saying. That one of my favorite guy authors is really a girl. There is Rob Thompson by whose picture Rob is either a nice looking cross dresser or actually a woman. I like her writing even though I decided not to read any more of her books. The reason is a while back on the what you are reading thread and on my blog.

That I should listen to a girl who is pretending to be a guy while teaching writing?

Or the other way maybe I should listen to a guy with long hair and join his group, too bad Butcher cut his hair. Or is there a group that teaches writing by drama presentations? Hmmm, my church has been showing short videos by a certain group who have a rather unique way of getting Biblical teachings across. Lighthearted and serious at the same time. Maybe another group does the same for writing.