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The before time
As I posted in an earlier entry I recently paid off my car and got out of debt. I was at a loss what to do next so I figured I'd get back into debt again. This time I decided to sign away the next 30 years of my life instead of the 2 years for the car. I just bought a house! Why a house you ask? Well at this stage in my life it just felt right. I had (and still have) plans to eventually move back out east and officially settle down but right now I think the thing I want most is stability. Moving means new people, new places, and new job if I can even get one. That was something I really didn't feel good about and right now with the (insert the economy sucks comment here______) yada yada yada I figured I would settle in for now and check back again in 5-10 years.
Then came my next predicament. I wanted a house that was large, in Provo, and not attached to any other houses. I am not a huge fan of townhouses or duplexes especially since they are often inhabited by annoying neighbors (especially the rude people upstairs). Learn to discipline your children sheesh!! This would prove to be difficult because large and in Provo means more expensive than most houses. I had friends showing me houses in Texas or North Carolina that were very nice and cheap but obviously the in Provo criteria was not met. I was willing to pay a slight premium for location. (On a side note don't ask me why I wanted in Provo. I really don't know but it feels right).
Then I got lucky and found a house the size I want in Provo and the best part was it was in my price range. The negative part of that is that it was neglected and needed work. Lots of work. I don't know how people can live in a house they neglected so badly but I guess it is really none of my business. As with most home improvement projects I have take before pictures and will update with after pictures once I get stuff done. I'll post a few in the blog and you can view the rest here.
Snikt!!!
The summer movie season has officially started! Normally I don't get too excited about it since I'm never all that excited for most movies but this year may prove to be different. It seems like almost every week there will be at least one movie I am interested in seeing. At least for the month of May I will be busy every weekend watching movies. The first movie this year was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I grew up with this comic and Saturday morning cartoon so I was very excited and all in all the movie didn't dissapoint.
I'll try to keep this as spoiler free as possible for those who were somehow doing something more important than watching this movie already. The movie was good. Part of the fanboy inside of me would consider this movie good no matter what but then the other part takes issue with some of the artistic license taken with character backstories and powers. I really didn't mind when the original X-Men movies replaced Shadowcat with Rogue when portraying Wolverine's father-like relationship with the younger members. What I do mind is when they completely make up or change powers for characters. Or when they kill off or belittle characters for seemingly no reason *cough* X-Men 3 *cough*
I wasn't really aware of characters like Agent 0, Bolt, Silver Fox, Kestrel and never was a huge fan of Deadpool like some people are but why did we have to mess with their stories and powers so much? Out of the group Kestrel stayed most true to form since he at least still had his teleporting ability. The rest got all messed up. Out of the hundreds of X-Men you couldn't find any characters with the powers you wanted to portray? You really had to just make up new powers for existing characters? And what in the world were they thinking when portraying Deadpool? It's just blasphemy. At least they got one of my all time favorite characters, Gambit, more or less correct.
This is where they did a good job. Gambit, even with barely any screen time, was awesome! Kinetic cards, acrobatics, and even his helicopter jump with his fighting staff was included. I hope they make a movie with him in the future. They did mess up his age in relation to everyone else but I can forgive that. The Blob was done well as was Wolverine and Sabretooth. I was even pretty thrilled about them showing Emma Frost though they didn't focus at all on her real powers. Deadpool also was done quite well up until they completely ruined his character towards the end. This is a story about Wolverine and Sabretooth so it was refreshing they did a decent job of those two characters at least.
Overall I did enjoy the movie and was happy I went to see it opening day. When it comes to reviewing movies it basically always comes down to one thing for me; was it worth what I paid to see it? I paid full price for this one so I expected something good and it did deliver overall. Nitpicky fanboy complaints aside I liked the movie and will probably end up buying it. Oh and for those females out there not sure they really want to see a movie like this you get to see a naked Hugh Jackman and oft shirtless Ryan Renolds.
Next up Star Trek! Looking for someone to watch movies with as well since my brother is headed home and my cousin is broke.