A better title might be Dan vs. Sheer Boredom. Guess who wins? Monsters vs. Aliens is an overlong slapstick and booger joke with no character development, no emotion, and few laughs. I saw it for free and I still got ripped off. However, to be truthful, it is funnier than getting cancer. Probably.
MadMania
Faith, Books, and Stuff
Category: reviews
For 11 years now I have been going to the same flower shop: My Sister’s Garden in Higginsville, Missouri. I first went there simply because of the close proximity to my house and my job, but I ended up staying because the customer service on my first visit was so awesome. I suppose the prices […]
We went in for breakfast at a quarter to 10. The food was excellent; I had the Country Boy breakfast with bacon, eggs, and pancakes. The bacon was crisp, the eggs were done just how I asked, and the pancakes were flat-out awesome. If you like sissified coffee, then this place is not for you: […]
One of my favorite bookstores is 2nd Street Books in Osceola, Missouri, a small town about a half an hour south of Clinton on Missouri Highway 13. The store is in an old building just off the square, and has a pretty large inventory of books from all genres. Prices are very good: almost all […]
I have found that it is certainly much easier to write a list than to actually try to assemble words into sentences and sentences into words, so on that note: The Top Ten Six Reasons why M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening Is Terrible (contains spoilers, but they aren’t as spoily as watching this movie) Zooey […]
While I was at my in-laws over Christmas, I picked up Trouble is My Business, a collection of four short Philip Marlowe stories by my favorite detective novelist, Raymond Chandler. If you haven’t read Chandler, he writes very economically, kind of the Anti-Tolkien. Where Tolkien might include the names of a landmark in three languages […]
When I made my previous post of Best Movies of the Year, somehow I forgot one: Fireproof. Fireproof is a Christian movie about a couple on the verge of divorce. It was made by the same guys who made Facing the Giants, and unlike a lot of Christian movies, has decent production values. The directors […]
My friend Kaleb introduced us to a new place to eat called Habashi House, located in the City Market in Kansas City, Missouri. The place is amazing. We always get the same thing, which is the lunch special consisting of a gyro accompanied by either rice, hummus, or salad. Coffee and hot tea are free. […]
For Christmas my pa-in-law got me My Word is My Bond, a memoir by Sir Roger Moore of James Bond fame. It was a lot of fun, and I read it in two days. Moore had some hilarious stories involving scads of people in Hollywood and the theater and film industries. The book was awesome except […]
Iron Man and Kung Fu Panda, in that order. I won’t belabor this point with extensive reviews, first, because lots of people already have, and second, if you don’t want to see them you don’t deserve to see them. Iron Man is a good, fun movie. The protagonist shows a lot of character development (sort […]