The Lewis Show

Four years ago, yesterday, Janine and I caught the midnight showing for Batman, The Dark Knight. We all always remember that modern classic and the good time that we had. Now, exactly four years later, we are embarking again on a midnight run to see the last of this trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. I decided to look back at my blog and do a recap of my world then as it compares to my world now. The similarities and differences will be astounding. This also will mark my 8th year of blogging, if you want to call it that. I know it's a dying art form, but I still like the platform. Four years ago this week, I took a small cat to an animal hospital for a blood transfusion. She is healthy, happy, spoiled, and just as weird now as she was when she was a fragile and sick baby. I was also a heavy Pownce user four years ago. I wasn't marginally using Twitter, Facebook was a joke (still is), but I had put all my eggs in the wrong social basket. We were seriously house shopping ...

It was decided months, probably years ago that Janine and I would catch the last Harry Potter flick with the devoted on the Thursday evening of its release. Without disappointment  we were treated with a grand finale. My strongest feeling centers around this being the close for another chapter with new and exciting chapters beginning now. I'm sure there will be other flicks that inspire people to wear robes and carry carved sticks, but the feeling for me isn't around the pomp, it's about the two lifetimes that I have lived since I started following the series. In 2005 I started to reluctantly watch the series after heaps of mocking by accidentally watching the third movie on DVD. I was quickly able to pick up on the hype and quickly became a part of it myself. I'm left with many great memories in Lynchburg and here in Richmond of meeting with friends and watching this movie. It's not the movie, it's the events wrapped around it that stick out to me. ...

My review best said by a strip from Scott Johnson  

Post one in my July of blogging extravaganza! Last weekend, Janine and I were thrilled to catch the latest and potentially one of the last Toy Story movies. Toy Story 3 was all in all a great movie. We laughed yeah, but lately, and especially with Pixar flicks, we cried. We really, cried. Girl quality crying. Lifetime movies wish they could spur this kind of emotion. The next night, we caught Monsters, Inc on Netflix. Now I'm secure enough in my manhood to admit that lately their movies have left me a blubbering mess. I have to hand it to them, creating a bond with the characters on screen is the best way to ensure people really enjoy a movie. We've all seen too many high budget flicks that were majestic visually or had fun, surprising plot twists, but without getting the audience to really connect with the main characters, it becomes difficult to create TV or movie gold. I recommend everyone get caught up with all of their movies. I'd just ask that you not get so...

I decided months ago, that I wanted to catch the midnight early showing of the new Harry Potter movie. Not so much because I'm some crazed fan, but I wanted to see it with people that were. I'm learning that half of the movie going experience for me is feeding off the audience around me. What made The Dark Knight such a great movie last year apart from it being brilliantly played was the enthusiastic audience. So I decided to take the day off so Janine and I could catch the midnight showing. It's funny when I realized as I predicted that we would be surrounded by teenagers that have grown up to this series. I was reminded how I grew up watching the Star Wars series in my youth. It's funny watching these kids now. They network in  more diverse circles, they utilize tech to some degree mostly via texts and Facebook. I remember having a telephone in my room. The movie was really good. It's way too early I think to give any kind of spoiler free review, but I would...

It's stuff like this that makes me feel really, really old. At least I'm comforted knowing that with every month not only am I getting older, but November and the debut of the sixth Harry Potter movie hits theaters. They were just children! Sheesh!

Janine and I went to see a darn good movie yesterday. A darn good movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I will agree with critics that the movie is great for Indy fans, but it's pretty much the same kind of film for anyone else. But that's not why I'm posting. I'm posting because of statements involving how far fetched this movie was especially as it involved people from another planet. We all know that Spielberg loves his aliens and this movie now completes the Spielberg alien collection, but I can't for the life of me understand the exasperation with this movie! Let's recap the first three Jones movies, shall we? The first movie, Indy is drawn into an international affair involving an ark created by Moses to house the 10 Commandments, the rod of Aaron and other artifacts (my theological background shines when it comes to these things). The movie is packed with action in which the ark is found by Indy, captured by the Nazis, retaken by Indy...

New trailer. I could not resist.

So I watched the movie that won the 2008 Academy Award for best picture tonight. No Country For Old Men , directed by the Coen Brothers, details the violent life of drugs and money in a very gripping way. I could not stop watching the movie mostly because it was a spectacle of good acting and great directing. The cast featured Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrleson, Josh Brolin (which was pretty damn good), and newcomer to American film, Javier Barden who was so evil and so brilliant. I didn't know if I was supposed to hate the guy or revere his dirty, work. But alas, this is a movie that I can only really review by discussing the ending. The plot is simple enough, it's the course of the last moments of the film that's drawn the most discussion. I will not do that, I won't even post a spoiler warning. I will just say that people will either thank me for recommending such a fine, but evil work of art or people will hate me forever for wasting their time. It will leave people,...

Janine and I just saw this trailer. Our response, Holy Crap!!

But since I have posted so many recent pictures from the soon to be released Batman film, I thought I'd just post the..poster.

I think Heath Ledger is going to be a terrific Joker. I also think the studio making this film is going to keep "leaking" out these little teasers which are just only going to succeed at driving me insane until the movie is released!

I'm looking forward to taking Janine out tonight to watch The Simpson's movie. Here's a funny clip of Bart's prank phone calls to Moe's Pub.