Well, I was supposed to be out in the OC for two weeks, but due to poor planning, my client had to push their production deployment until next weekend. So I basically spent the week on my thumbs... But, I did get an opportunity to take in a few movies this week:

Eragon - Boy, this movie could've been so much...more. If you saw the movie, that quote makes sense. But the truth is that while watching this movie, I felt like they took major parts of the movie and cut them out. The editing was horrible. If you're read any of the Inheritance series, you know that Christopher Paolini is a pretty good writer. I'd stick his work in the same arena as J.K. Rowling - mostly adolescent reading material and not the J.R.R. Tolkein wordfest. It's not overly complicated, but it's an interesting world that Paolini has created. The movie, however, tries to be the red-headed stepchild of Peter Jackson and a straight-to-video production crew. And it succeeds. Strangely, when I walked out of the theater, I noticed that the movie was only 1 hour and 39 minutes long - a short movie by today's standards. I had planned to take in The Good Shepherd, Apocalypto or Casino Royale, but all of those approached 3 hours in length - too late for me at the time. At any rate - wait for Eragon to come to video, and then put it on in the background while you're doing something else. Like reading the book. :)

Next up: Night at the Museum