Fantastic Four, with Ioan Gruffudd and Jessica Alba. Basically the only reason to watch this is because of Jessica Alba. Special effects are great, but overdone. Not much way to avoid that given the nature of their powers, but still. The characters were rather 2 dimensional, the only real depth was with the Thing, everyone else just bugged me. The bad guy's name is Von Doom, how did they not see his turning evil coming a mile away? Silly names aside, one thing that really stuck in my craw was how the movie was just one giant commercial for name brand products. Shameless plugs. Oh well...

New Jesus fish. Still no Stalin fish, but that one is pretty cool.

Something that occurred to me recently: at our dojo the vast majority of the students are nerds, either band nerds or Trekkies. Martial arts and nerds seem like a very unlikely combination, but sure enough they work splendidly together. But why is it that specific demographic that seems more interested in martial arts than say preps or frat boys? Perhaps a subconscious instinct to learn how to avoid being shoved into lockers? I think it may have to do with dedication; the hallmark of any good nerd is a fanatic devotion to a particular field, be it musical instruments, TV shows or computers. Your typical frat boy, on the other hand, is rather fickle and not normally committed to a single endeavor. Since martial arts requires devotion and dedication, it would only seriously attract those with said qualities. Martial arts also teach self-improvement, something that nerds, being a lower caste in social circles, would be naturally drawn to. Preps and the like generally believe they are better than everyone already, so they would consider self-improvement a waste of time. Whatever the reason, nerds kick ass.