There's no crying in human interest reporting....

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This was a just way too funny video of a woman getting mauled by a house cat while trying to do a report and then breaking down in tears. The cat gave her plenty of warnings though so its her fault for not putting him down.

Van Andel Hockey

Well, we had our game Saturday, a 4-4 tie. Kinda took the wind out of me for partying on St. Patrick's Day. I ended up skipping the Griffins game and just went home for a while and headed back out with Michael, Matt and Nick after they got done at the game. So, a shot of Jameson and a few Guinness later and I was done with March 17th. Oh well, there's always next year. And with next year on a Monday, I think we'll be making a long weekend of it.

WTF is wrong with Parents

I came across an article on Yahoo today.

Revised R rating has a parental guide

So apparently parents have been taking their kids to R rated movies, and then complaining that the movie contained material that they don't want their kids exposed to. I'm sorry, but WTF is wrong with these parents. The movie didn't receive an R rating because it was full of Disney characters.

This brings me to Ghost Rider last weekend. Some idiot decided to bring his infant and two kids who weren't older than 6 or 7 to the movie. Now I realize that the ratings are in English, but damn, find a freakin babysitter. If you can't, wait till the movie is out on DVD. Instead his kids played in the aisle, and he left about halfway through because the baby was getting restless.

I swear we need to have some kind of breeding license. You can't drive a car without a license, but you can have and screw up as many kids as you want. Explain that one to me.

300

Well, we missed the movie in the IMAX. We had planned for 8:30, which is what the theater had for Monday, but they switched their schedule so we had to settle for the regular theater. It was still worth it.

The new all-digital medium is a boon for comic book movies and even more so when you get a director who wants to duplicate a particular graphic novel exactly. This was excellently done with '300'. Its a very bloody movie and definitely not for kids and the story is one that only Hollywood could come up with. Except that it really happened.

The one thing that really amazed me, and this was something I knew but it hit home with this movie, was that Sparta was an entire city-state who's entire purpose was to breed warriors. They didn't bother with artisans or philosophers. The bred, raised and trained warriors. Anyone else was cast aside.

After seeing this and 'Sin City', its unfortunate that 'Batman:Year One' was turned into 'Batman Begins'. I loved 'Batman Begins' and still think it is a great turn for the Batman franchise. But what if Chris Nolan had decided to do what Robert Rodriguez and Zack Snyder have done. Imagine an almost completely digital and panel for panel telling of Frank Miller's Batman. It would have been amazing.

After seeing 300 on the big screen, I am going to have to make sure to go see it on the big big screen. I'm sure it won't disappoint.

Movie Time

Well, I'm finally getting a chance to go see '300' tonight on the IMAX. I'll have a review of it when I get back.