Well, I guess that Fox decided to scrap the Jack in Washington and Tony goes evil storyline.  Instead, we get what appears to certainly take 24 in a new direction!  Check out the trailer…

I’m just sitting here doing some work and I have “Little Big League” on TV. After 12-year old Billy inherits the Minnesota Twins, he proceeds to fire the manager. Then, while playing horseshoes with his friends, this conversation occurs…

Joey – “Who you gonna get to replace O’Farrell?”

Billy – “I don’t know. Whitey Herzog turned us down, same with Valentine. None of the good guys want to work for a kid.”

Joey – “You should do it!”

Billy – “Yeah, right. Get real!”

Joey – “No, you get real. You’d be great!”

Billy – “You know how hard it is to manage?”

Joey – “It’s the American League. They’ve got the DH. How hard could it be?”

That’s awesome! What a great quote. I just love the DH rule, don’t you?

I just returned from a late showing of Spider-Man 3 with a bunch of guys from church and I had a few thoughts. I’ll leave it to Adam to draw some spiritual implications and applications out of the movie. I will simply tell you what I like and what I didn’t. Oh, and by the way, if you want to avoid spoilers, don’t read this…

What I liked…

• The Ending Fight Scene – Most of the fight scenes I thought were not very good, but I thought the scene of Peter and Harry fighting the Sandman and Venom was well done.
• Redemption – Harry went about 2.5 movies hating Peter. Yet the redemption his character experienced was cool.
• Parallelism – The first movie ended with the funeral of Harry’s dad and this one ended with Harry’s funeral. It made for a cool parallel structure.

What I didn’t like…

• The Acting – David and Eric Forman, I mean, Tobey Maguire and Topher Grace, couldn’t act their way out of a paper bag. At times, it was downright distracting.
• The Photography – I just thought it was weird the scenes where they showed only Peter’s chest. What was that about?
• The Script – Ok, I know that when you watch a movie you have to suspend belief in things like physics and the amount of pain a human could tolerate. But a relatively good script was compromised to me by what I thought were really thin plot points. For example, early in the movie you find out that Sandman has a weakness with water. If that is true, why in the big scene near the end doesn’t Spidey just get a message to the fire department to hose him down?

Oh well, that’s all I’ve got. Peace out.

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