I Like Both 2006 "Superman Returns" and 2013 "Man of of Steel. Is That a Problem?

I must not look at movies the way the most harshest of critics does, cause I can just about find something good with any movie. it depends on what I am expecting at the theater that can make or kill a movie for me. I have went to theaters and been completely disappointed in a movie. It has happen a few times that I would miss a movie at the theater and it would get great reviews and have a strong box office showing and I would rush out to buy the DVD because of hype and expectations and get the movie home and think to myself why did I want this movie so bad, it sucked.

In 2006 the long awaited movie "Superman Returns" came out, I thought it was a great entertaining movie but Critics, friends was not as thrilled as I was with the movie. Ok I will give you that some parts where over done. I thought that Kevin Spacey role as Lex Luthor was just a tad strained, but over all still good. Come to think of it I feel as if I just blasphemed for suggesting that Kevin Spacey ever had a bad acting role. It could be that I hate the Lex character, he just pisses me off. Maybe I just don't like the ideal of Kevin Spacey doing anything wrong. I have no problem with Kevin Spacey playing a bad guy, but I always want to join him on the dark side. I just did not like the ideal of him beating up on Superman. So maybe it was just the perception that I did not want to join him this time. I love the video game series Call of Duty, Spacey was the voice of the bad guy Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare , again I wanted to join Atlas.

But on to the movie, Bryan Singer of X-Men fame, directed the movie , Brandon Routh played a convincing Superman. I had no problem with his role as Superman. I guess people had a problem with the story line being to much of a love story with Lois Lane played by Kate Bosworth and the possibility of Superman being a father. I am not sure , but I like the story, I thought it was well crafted and very imaginative.

But moving on to 2013 Man of Steel, all you can say is WOW, Freaking awesome, yes I did like it much better then Superman Returns, but it was a different story line altogether, more action and less story but I will not kick the 2006 movie to the curb. Its just a Superman story that I like. Man of Steel was directed by Zack Snyder who has a long awesome movie list in Hollywood. Again they pick a great actor to play Superman in Henry Cavill who has a nice acting resume himself, Amy Adams plays Lois Lane. And there was no Lex Luthor this time around and I missed him. WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!?....

I don't think you can go wrong with any Superman movie or TV Show including Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993-1997 on ABC staring Dean Cain as Superman and the 2001-2001 series Smallville, staring Tom Welling as Clark Kent. Both very different series. I guess the worst ever Superman movie had to be  1983 Superman III Staring the late Christopher Reeve and Richard Pryor, it was a horrible movie. The first two movies where the best, Reeve's made a comeback in Superman IV, it was not the greatest but much improved. So I guess you can go wrong with Superman.

We can never forget George Reeves in the 1952-1958 classic series Adventures of Superman.

However , with all that said I only have two Superman movies in my collection of 400 DVD's. the 2006 Superman Returns and 2013 Man of Steel, both great Superman stories. And that is what it is all about, the story. Am I right?

Destiny Was Not My Type of Video Game: I was Disappointed

Maybe I am to old or just don't think like the rest. I only have 10 games in my game collection. That is. because of money, and when I pick a game I have to stress about it for weeks before I make up my mind. Destiny was a impulse buy, because many people I trust was telling me I had to get this game, it's great and wonderful, you can do this and that. They did not lie, there are tons of options in the game. But I still like the one shooters like Call of Duty, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Need for Speed and a good Zombie Game.

While Destiny is awesome for most people I hope that type of game format don't take over like reality TV programs did on network TV did for a while. The big money thing can burn out and lose interest and destroy the fun for all.

I tried to get in to Destiny, but I just got bored and went back to playing my type of games. For me it was just to much and no central goal except to up your level. There is never a end to the game, it just goes on and on. For most of my friends, they love that, I did not. I did enjoy some of the hard battles, that was awesome and the public events where fun also.

Bottom line is that I could not keep up. If I had to go away for a few days and then come back to the game I was lost and I never advanced. It might be because of my life style that I never got into the game. Destiny is more for the hard core gamer and not the recreational gamer like myself.

Destiny is a world of it's own.

Melissa McCarthy Delivers the Laughs in SPY

The days of the Sookie St. James of the Gilmore Girls are a thing of the past for Melissa McCarthy. The woman is a full fledged foul mouth champ, and I say that as a compliment, her use of the F word is like poetry with a punch. But she was no Bridesmaid, or wife of a Police Officer, She was Susan Cooper SPY for the C.I.A, and she was as serious as she was funny.

I enjoyed the movie just for it's laughs alone. You did not know where the next laugh was coming from or who was going to get a bullet in the head. The story line was strong and was not predicable like some comedies, it was not the movie just because we can make a movie which is the way I feel about most comedies. The script surprised me with a original story line.

With the action, laughs and plot it is worth the ticket price because it is a movie to be seen on the big screen. The supporting cast of Jude Law, Rose Byrne ,Jason Statham, Allison Janney, and a cameo by 50 Cent made this a movie to remember. It's a movie to see with friends or a date night.

It's just a lot of fun.