Avatar

We went and saw Avatar this past Friday in Imax 3-D, and it was amazing. We had heard that it was a really long movie (almost 3 hours), so we were a little apprehensive about whether it would hold our interest the whole time. We didn't have to worry about not being entertained at all. It was an exciting ride the whole time. I honestly cannot think of a part I would want them to cut out. Other than having too much language, there wasn't anything that wasn't relevant to the story. The movie makes you feel like you actually go to this amazing planet of Pandora. It almost seems like a National Geographic film of this place that doesn't even exist. The effects are absolutely breathtaking. We walked out of it not knowing which parts where CGI and which were actually there. We assume that pretty much all of it is computer generated, but it is amazing that it was so well done that we didn't know for sure. Some critics said that the story was lacking, but I felt that the story was really good. It had a good message. Although it is hard to miss the liberal agenda in this film, I didn't feel like it was shoved in my face. I felt like I knew it was there, but I didn't have to see the whole movie in that light. The action blended perfectly with the story. The more quite moments were nicely balanced with awesome action. We really enjoyed this movie, and as we were walking out all we could think of is when we can go back and see it again. We give it a 9.5/10

Thanksgiving in LA

We recently took a trip to California for Thanksgiving. We saw Conan live, went to 6 Flags, and visited friends. It was a really great trip, and it was Sally's first time making Thanksgiving dinner. Luckily it turned our pretty well.

Here we are waiting in line for Conan. These are our excited faces. We made Andy and Conan t-shirts.

Here is Sally and Sarah waiting in line. Sally is trying to recreate Andy's face.... unsuccessfully. Sarah has LaBamba's face on her shirt.

Here is Garr with some of the guys on the show. They were doing a bit with Pierre Bernard in the 5 million dollar jock strap. It was on of Garr's finest hours.

Sally posing with "Wonder Woman". This "Wonder Woman" is obviously a fake, since Sally is actually Wonder Woman.

Here we are posing with Bugs Bunny, Garr wanted a picture with The Flash...next time.

This is Garr embracing the Families of Gotham City at Six Flags, I guess he just got carried away in the moment.

Thanksgiving at Denny's, for our Slamapaloosa. It was almost worth the pointless 45 min wait.

Here is a second picture that was taken when Sally went a little crazy and Garr really liked the food.

Sally about to open the best Secret Santa gift ever.

Melissa in a phone booth in Solvang a little Dutch town, it felt just like home.

Garr and I sitting outside some mission in Solvang after walking all the crap long day.

Summer Sequels

We thought we'd give you a quick rundown of the summer sequels we saw. So in no particular order, here it goes.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had everything in the original, just MORE. So that's both good and bad. The good: more transformers, more action, more explosions, more cool special and visual effects. The Bad: more stupid annoying pointless characters, more language, more sex and raunchy jokes. It was one of those movies where you walk out of the theater blown away by how awesome it was, and then later as you think about it and you realize that it wasn't that great. I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10.

We actually liked Madagascar 2 way better than the 1st one. The 1st one didn't have that great of a story, but what it did have is some great characters. Add that with the great story of 2nd one along with some great new characters and some fantastic music makes for one heck of a movie. I'd give it a 8.5 out of 10.

Terminator Salvation was great. We've since gone back watched all the Terminator movies edited and they are all good. For some reason there are a lot of people that were disappointed with T3 or TS or both and I can't understand why. I'll agree that T2 was the biggest jump in quality from its predecessor, but they're all good. We recommend them all and TS is probably the best because you don't have to watch it edited.

The 1st reboot of Pink Panther with Steve Martin was surprising at how hilarious it was. We totally recommend you see the 1st one if you haven't seen it, but unfortunately we can't recommend the 2nd one. The 1st one stuck to a certain realism that this one did not and that ruined the overall comedy. Also the 1st one was what you'd expect: a spy comedy. This one was more of a romantic comedy. I'd give it a 6 out of 10.

And finally and quickly I'll just say the Night of the Museum was surprisingly just about as good as the 1st one.