Prior to seeing Little Miss Sunshine tonight, I had only spoken to three people who had seen it. All three said it was a “must see” and that it was really good. Normally I take these things with a grain of salt but two of these people are among those whose opinions I think I trust (at least in terms of spending $9 on a movie). The third was our waitress for dinner right before going to the theater.

All I have to say is: they weren’t joking.
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We went to see X-Men: The Last Stand over the weekend. Neither one of us had heard too many good things about the movie and weren’t all that excited about going. Well, we were definitely more excited for Superman Returns. (Image from Wikipedia)

I have to admit, we were both pleasantly surprised. Both of us liked the previous X-Men movies with the second one being the better of the two. Normally we only make it out to the theaters only once or twice in a year. Not twice in seven days. We hadn’t even planned on seeing a movie but we were out to dinner near a theater, wanted to see X3 on the big screen if we could and didn’t have other plans, so we went to see it.

Some (probably obvious) spoilers below…
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Well, he’s back. After a 19 year hiatus from theaters and a 5 year absense from Metropolis, Superman Returns. This time Brandon Routh (like south) portrays Clark Kent/Superman. And he certainly looks the part. He’s got the mannerisms for both roles down pat.

As the movie opens, Superman is returning to Earth after a five year journey searching for remains of Krypton. When he gets here, he finds that the world seems to have moved on. Lois even won the Pulitzer for an article titled “Why the World Doesn’t Need Superman”.
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