Jasonisms

On Tuesday night I had a chance to see this movie in a sneak peek thanks to my friend, Andrea, who had an extra ticket. Or rather, thanks to Andrea's husband who had a Crossfit class to attend thus leaving her with an extra ticket.  Starring just about every white male in Hollywood, this movie was fairly entertaining with some humor and gratuitous gore. The story unfolded much like Get Shorty unfolded, it seemed that the end "movie" was based on the lives of the characters of the movie in a whole 'chicken and egg' scenario with a Pulp Fiction essence. And I couldn't help but think of The Mexican , either, a movie that showed us, if it can go wrong, it will go wrong. Usually because someone lacked basic common sense skills. Not in a (modern) stupid comedy format where they just try and throw characters into ridiculous positions for the quick laugh, but more along the lines of waking up one day and realizing that friend you have who always seems to be...

Let me copy and past the text, because this is hilarious and, well, true ! So after thoroughly perusing the pages of this novel (twice), I thought I'd share a few thoughts on it. The story starts off reasonably straight-forward, though the author of the first few books seems to be a bit vague and doesn't offer much background or detail about the world in which the story takes place before introducing the main protagonist, Adam. The early main plot line spends a great deal of time describing genealogical information of what I assume are the members of an important family (families?) involved with the story and descended from this Adam character. It seemed a bit overdone, though I guess Tolkien also spent a great deal of time on the seemingly mundane in his books and they're pretty popular. Speaking of which, there are a number of times that magic is invoked to turn rods to snakes or move large bodies of water around. There are also talking serpents and donkeys, so if yo...