This Is't About a Book or a Movie...

Shocking, I know, but this blog isn't about a book that I've read, or a movie that I've seen. Weird, right? I've been kind of lax on reading for the last week, and the only movies that I've seen are re-watches. What I am really excited about is the trip to Europe that my boyfriend and I are leaving for in 3 months and 18 days! It seems like it's still a while away, but it's coming up so fast!
I ordered a backpacking pack on the internet the other week, and it came yesterday! It's everything that I wanted! It's big, not too heavy, the day pack that attaches to it is the perfect size, and it's really well made. My stoke-o-meter is at, like, an 11! So excited that I can hardly contain myself!
I'm going to set up a travel blog that I'll be writing in while we're away so that my friends and family, and whoever else in the blog-verse can see what awesome things we've been up to! Here's the link, although not a whole lot is going to be happening there (with the exception of a countdown) for the next 3 month and 18 days...I just couldn't wait to set it up!

So Once Again, I've Let Too Much Time Pass Between Blogs...

...and I've seen a few movies and read a couple of books that I haven't blogged about. Last weekend, we went to the movies to do a 'double feature' night. The first movie that we saw was The Losers. During the day I read the first volume of the graphic novel, so that I was at least a little in the know about the source material before seeing the movie. I've gotta say that it was acutally pretty damn close to the grpahic novel, despite changing the ethnicity of two of the main characters, and making Aisha's back story a LOT less interesting and bad ass, but more palatable for American mass consumption. All in all, the movie was really entertaining, and I actually loved it. I didn't have the highest of hopes going into it, considering that it had earned a PG rating, but it was actually pretty damn good. It was fun and fast paced, the characters were fairly true to their comic book roots, definitely worth seeing.
The next movie that we saw that night was How to Train Your Dragon, which for some completely baffling fucking reason has been marketed as Dreamworks Dragons...does anyone know the logic behind this? 'cause I'm at a total loss, is How to Train Your Dragon too hard to say, or is it the vague innuendo of auto erotic exhileration that made Dreamworks decide to try to market it as Dreamworks Dragons instead? Like I said, baffling. But enough about the bizarre name change, and back to the actual movie: IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING!!! Possibly the best animated feature that I've seen since Wall-E, and that's saying a lot, 'cause I fucking loved Up too. It's definitely, hands down, Dreamworks' best animated feature film (sorry Shrek, I still love you, but this movie was just amazing). The animation was stellar, the story was amazing, and the 3D just blows you the fuck away. I'd definitely say that it's a 'must see' movie, not just for kids, or families, but for everyone...and if you want to avoid the kids and the familes, then go to the late show. That's what we did.