Travel Time

Today I and my fiancée got up at two thirty in the morning to drive from Norman, OK to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. We then had to

1. navigate a terrible structure
2. find parking that costs well more than I thought it would
3. get into the airport
4. get past security
5. remember that I left my phone in the car and I got to repeat steps 3 and 4.

We then got onto a plane that had screaming kids on it for 3 hours until we arrived in Chicago. The connecting flight to Baltimore was on the same airplane, so we got to wait for 45 minutes waiting for the next batch of cattle to get onboard. Another hour of turbulence filled flying and we touched down in the BWI airport, which neither of us has any real familiarity with.

Next we got onto a shuttle to get into Washington that made the turbulence feel like a massage chair. From the time that we registered for the shuttle until the time that we arrived at our hotel (which is about 31 miles away) 2 hours and 10 minutes had passed – a little side note: I’ve been to Honduras where they have one lane highways and gone faster than this experience.

We then got to the hotel and unpacked. My brother was there to pick us up and the three of us walked in the sleet/snow/hail for about 15 minutes to get to the subway. 20 minutes later we got off the subway and walked about another 10 min or so to my brother and sister-in-law’s house. I figure that, all in all, we spent about 13 or 14 consecutive hours in one form of transit or another.

And then I got to see my nephew for the first time.

Today was a good day.

Comic Book Movies

I was watching reruns of Scrubs tonight and JD was talking about how much he enjoyed the movie "Judge Dredd." That reminded me of when I went to see that movie (in the theater, no less) and after watching it, my brother made the astute comment, "I wish I had just burned my $5 [yes, back then movies only cost $5 (I sound more and more like my dad every day)]. It would have been faster and less painful to watch." It also got me to thinking that there have been some pretty bad-as-in-god-awful comic book movies made recently. With that in mind, and with Ghost Rider out this week, I'd like to pose a question: What are the 5 worst comic book movies ever made?

Here are the contenders:

Judge Dredd
Catwoman
Daredevil
Electra
Hulk
Batman Forever
Batman and Robin
Blade II
Blade Trinity
Constantine
Punisher
Spawn
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
X-Men 3

Of these, I think the worst are
5. Hulk
4. Judge Dredd
3. Batman and Robin
2. Electra
1. Catwoman

Any that I'm leaving out? What are your 5? And in case anyone is wondering, there is only one movie up here that I haven't seen. I love comic book movies. I think that they can be some of the best action movies out there (see X2 and Spider-Man 2) and, unfortunately, some of the worst.