The Beginning of the End

So I've been treating this blog a bit like a film blog as of late... and for good reason. Movies are awesome and my opinions on movies are awesome. Hah, okay, last part is debatable. But ever since summer classes let out I've been able to appreciate a torrent of films (mostly awesome)... and this has been the place for me to let loose about them. I don't really have any immediate friends in Huntsville that share the love of film as deeply as I do. Some people I know love movies but it's more on a casual level, or we have very different taste, stuff like that. So the internet becomes my outlet, even if it is yelling into an empty void - or probably more like yelling out an opinion in a really loud stadium.

Anyways, here's another opinion: 20th Century Fox, you SUCK. You're miserable. Why? You're having this little thing called "Avatar Day" on the 21st of this month (Friday). On this day, at 70 IMAX theaters across the US, you're showing 15 minutes of the movie in order to get people pumped up. This is a positive mood, this makes me happy. But why in the world would you NOT include Huntsville, Alabama on your list? California alone has like 30 different theaters, some cities in other states are showing it in multiple locations in the same cities... this is just mad. Especially considering a lot of the IMAX theaters showing it aren't true IMAX theaters. So why would you avoid showing it on one of the few REAL IMAX THEATERS!?!?!?!?! The movie you're promoting is a Sci-Fi Epic in space on a distant planet! This is HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA. As in, home of Wernher von Braun, Space Camp, NASA... we're called "Rocket City" and have a Saturn V rocket right outside the entrance to our city. Oh, we probably wouldn't appreciate 15 minutes of a crazy special effects space movie even though we actually have a real IMAX. Yeah... sure... Fox, you're terrible, and I'm frustrated at you. Plus you killed Firefly.

If you don't live in Huntsville though, I suppose you should check out http://www.avatarmovie.com/ticketing/ to see if you can get a ticket for your free 15 minute screening. I give that link to you very bitterly. At least the trailer is coming out this week so I'll still be able to see that.

Okay, so on to the title of the post... beginning of the end. My first day of my last year of college was today. And I'm absolutely ridiculously tired. For Senior Design at UAHuntsville we're going to be working with real companies, doing 6sigma/LEAN kind of stuff, and in order to work in those companies we need to get some certifications. So this entire week, 8am-5pm, we have to go through this training stuff. This means I'm missing my entire first week of classes. Blah. It was somewhat interesting today, but man, waking up at 7am is tough. However, in celebration of this being the beginning of the end, here's a pic of a Praying Mantis that I took on Saturday. I think it's praying that I graduate in May 2010.