Tuesday, December 22, 2009

MY TOP FILMS OF THE DECADE

In no real particular order, here are my favorite films of this decade:

District 9
Children of Men
The Dark Knight
LOTR (Trilogy)
Crash
Donnie Darko
Kill Bill
No Country for Old Men
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Incredibles
Man on Wire
Pi
Memento
Wall-E
Up
Traffic
Iron Man
Star Trek
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
It Might Get Loud
Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace
Hotel Rwanda
March of the Penguins
8 Mile
Punch Drunk Love
The Simpsons Movie


BONUS: Movies I wanted to like but really didn’t:
Happy Feet
The Aviator
Minority Report
A.I.
King Kong
The Wrestler
Michael Clayton
Knocked Up
Letters from Iwo Jima
Lost in Translation
Spirited Away
Ratatouille
Pan’s Labryinth

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

*TOYS I WISH I OWNED: THE ROAD WARRIOR SET


If I had $35 to blow I could easily own four of the Road Warrior Toys, in the box, over at Frank & Sons in Diamond Bar.

One vendor has the following toys:

*Mad Max w/ wild boy
*Gyrocopter pilot
*Lord Humungus
*Mowhawk Rider Wez

He's told me I could have all 4 toys for $35, but that's still a bit pricey for me.

What I really want is just the Mad Max figure with his dog.

Another vendor there has all of them (which includes the version w/the dog, and the girl figure with the white shoulder pads), but she wants $60 for the set, and will not break them up individually.

(sigh)

I've determined to wait until I can find the figure with the dog out of the box for less than $20.

AMERICAN FLAGG - THE REST OF THE STORY


Thanks to the awesome deals at Frank & Sons in Diamond Bar, I have filled out my American Flagg! comic collection with issue #'s 8 through 25 of the series.

It's amazing how entertaining and intelligent this series was. In fact, it's a lot better than anything on the stands right now from the big guys.

There. I said it.

Oh, and I picked them all up for .25 each!

Eat your heart out.

NEW MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER/SOLAR: MAN OF THE ATOM – JIM SHOOTER



I can't really fully explain why, but ever since I heard that Jim Shooter was returning to write new Magnus Robot Fighter and Doctor Solar stories for Dark Horse I've been itching for this to release.