Man of Steel Review

      Who better to review Man of Steel than Superman himself? ;)  I thought it might be really good because I heard so many people say it was. They were mistaken. It wasn't good. It was a rerun of the same old Zod story with slightly different twists. I figure they put General Zod in the Christopher Reeve movie for comic relief. Why Smallville and Man of Steel have to dig him up and put their own twist on him, I don't know. The only reason I can think of is that they don't have an original idea in their head. If I see one more story about Zod I'm going to puke. Maybe they're doing too much coke or smoking too much crack. I guess people who never read every comic book where Superman made an appearance might think it was good. My niece thought it was. The one plus I will give it is that PARTS of it were closer to the comic books that I read from the time I was six or seven through high school. What really ticked me off was the music. Let's compare.

                                                                     John Williams

http://youtu.be/e9vrfEoc8_g

                                                                    Hans Zimmer

http://youtu.be/LaxqxfpSzMQ

     In comparison, I think that Hans Zimmer's version would be a good lullaby. John Williams' version gets you excited and ready to see some super action. What's worse is that it didn't get any better throughout the movie. Every music scene had uninteresting music that really didn't match the scenes. After all, the music is supposed to set the mood for the scene. I guess that's why they had Superman's takeoffs sound so loud. They needed SOMEthing to wake you up. Hans Zimmer should write for movies like Out of Africa.

                                                   John Barry – Out of Africa Theme Song

http://youtu.be/eWZ2adCaKo4

     Comparing him to John Barry might be a bit too much of a compliment for Hans Zimmer, but to be fair, I haven't heard any other of Hans Zimmer's music.  John Ottman did a much better job than Zimmer.

                                                     John Ottman - Superman Returns

 

http://youtu.be/MRjW8d98198

     Another thing... they had to go and change the back story of Superman going from a kid to Superman as did Smallville. No Superboy. I don't like when they completely screw with the original story. It's like reading Moby Dick then when you get to the movie the story is about Jaws. I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5 at the most. 

 Love, Hope, Peace, and Christ is With Us All,

Cal Jennings

What the H Happened?

Sometime in March, I woke up lashed to a hospital bed. I didn't recall going to the hospital nor did I recall being rushed to surgery. All I saw was Vietnamese-looking nurses and wondered if I had been captured by the Vietnamese... though I never went to Vietnam. Too many war movies I suppose.

I didn't feel like I had been operated on. I guess the anesthetics they injected inside me were still working. I was informed that I tried to pull out my breathing tube and had torn my vocal cords. I must have tried to pull out one of the blood tubes from my neck also. In fact, I think I remember doing it, though it is a brief memory. I know I at least touched it. I finally gained enough

My hospital stay was brief compared to the last CABG. Although I felt great compared to the first one, they did let me out of the hospital too early. They ignored the pneumonia that I had in my left lung which caused me to have to go back into the hospital a couple more times.

My chest cavity was raw inside where they tried to wash away all of the blood that had been spewing from that artery that detached. They told my mom that the heart was so covered with dried blood that they didn't know how it was still beating. It caused me extreme pain but they didn't want to give me pain medication that would actually work. I did finally get them to double my hydrocodone and that helped somewhat... kind of like better than nothing.

Although I feel better than last time, I haven't really felt well enough to write. I just didn't have the energy... especially with this COPD which they're blaming on smoking but is more likely from the asbestos that was floating in the air when they tore it down from the unit. In fact, the operators who smoked lived longer than the people who didn't as a rule. I suspect the tar probably decreased the amount of agitation from the asbestos. The company doesn't want anything like that to be exposed, though so they'll probably never look into it. Besides, I didn't smoke that much. Just enough to protect my lungs if that really was the case. I did sometimes smoke a pack a day but I also had years when I quit. Now I'm smoking three to nine puffs a day... sometimes up to one cigarette a day if it's really a stressful day. Still, the doctors want me to quit completely.

There really isn't much left that they can remove without causing me extreme medical problems, so hopefully they don't TRY to remove anything else. I've really been wanting to blog something... ANYTHING, but today is the first day I was able to sit here and type... mainly because of the breathing problems I believe. I was having some chest pain too, but that seems to be absent today. Hopefully it will stay absent and I can blog regularly again.

I've been watching the news and there doesn't seem to be much of value to report on. Well, maybe of value but I've decided that there's nothing much we can do peacefully and I'm too broken down to do anything other than yell and shake my fist. Of course, that would be seen as a terrorist action and I'd be hauled down to Gitmo for the rest of my life... if I survived the flight or boat ride over there.  My only hope in life now is to meet +Katy Anders, but I hope not under those circumstances.

Love, Hope, Peace, and Christ is With Us All,

Cal Jennings aka Space Eagle aka Cal-el