Summer Movies that DID Suck - 2012

It's time for that end of the year review of the movies from last summer that we all loved or hated so much.  I'll be going over the movies featured in late-April and early-May's Summer Movies I Hope Don't Suck posts and giving a thumb's up or down on them. 

Please note, most of these movies have been reviewed previously and in some depth in this blog, so this will be a brief recap.  Filler, as it were.  Yes, it's like the clip-show version of a blog post here, folks!

Post-Christmas Thoughts from the Very White Board - Dec 26

The before:

A little snow in the backyard.  Took this Christmas Eve in the afternoon.

The After:

Lot's more snow.  And that was taken this afternoon.  By tomorrow, who knows?

And Christmas morning stuff.  We had a great meal of potatoes and sausage and eggs, plus chocolate birthday cake (my wife's family tradition is having birthday cake on Christmas, for semi-obvious reasons) and best of all home-made cinnamon rolls.  Best ones she's made yet.  Way better than store-bought.

Pre-Apocalyptic Thoughts from the White Board - Dec 20

So the Mayan's say the world is going to end tomorrow.  But what do they know?  They've been a has-been civilization for hundreds of years now.  I think.  Hey, I don't know much about Central American anthropology, nor much on the region's history to be honest.  Maybe they are all just hanging out down there in the Yucatan, laughing at all us stupid modern people and sacrificing goats and squirrels and the employees of run-down video cassette rental stores to their pagan gods.  I don't know.  Do you?

Movie Review: Men In Black 3

I know I said I wouldn't do hardly any reviews, either book or movie, in December.  I'm gonna break this rule this time though.  Just to get this one out of the way.  Then I promise, I'll take a break.  I am pretty caught up on school stuff and coasting toward Finals Week.  Instead of the usual frantic rush that accompanies this week of the semester.  Which is a nice switch, but also feels a bit disconcerting.  As though I'm walking around with my fly down or something.  Know what I mean?

Anyway, here's the review.  Thanks for reading!

Men In Black 3 (2012)


Agent J travels in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s, to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.  Short synopsis of Men In Black 3 taken from IMDb.com

Ah, Men In Black.  I have found memories of seeing it for the first time, in a local theater called the Cinedome 70.  The Cinedome was one of those throwback '70s theaters that, though they lacked the Ritz and glamor of truly old time movie palaces, were all about seeing a movie as an experience.  The interior of each dome was cavernous, and the screen was huge.  I saw some great flicks in that movie theater.  I even got the chance to take what would be my future wife there not long after she and I started dating.  I believe the show we saw was Serendipity, that one with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.