Well, _everyone's_ doing it!

Welcome, DietCoupon, to the wide world of 'Johnnies Who Blog', which sounds like some sort of horrible, double-geeky variant on 'Girls Gone Wild'. Anyway. Speaking of risque things, which I wasn't really, but that's not the point. The point is today at my internship I fact-checked a review of The Aristocrats (lots of comedians, all telling the 'dirtiest joke ever'). One of the sites I ventured onto to verify something was this, which is not safe for most workplaces. It's an alphabetized list of various, uh, places, things, and acts mentioned in the movie. Including Betsy Ross' feces, I kid you not. I'm not sure which was worse: checking this one, or some of the reviews of various movies for the gay and lesbian film festival, including a review of a 'making of' about a gay porno.

Anyway, with that all said, since everyone seems to be doing it, a rundown on what I think about things I've seen and read this summer, at least the ones I can remember right off.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Delicious all-around. No, it wasn't flawless, but what movie is? It was visually stunning, the score was good if you're a fan of Danny Elfman, the Oompa-Loompas were glorious, and the kid who played Charlie (who also played next to Depp in Finding Neverland) was the perfect doe-eyed waif. Also, Mike Teavee so reminded me of someone I knew in high school.

Fantastic Four: Hollywood summer fare. Boom smash pow, pretty special effects, a handful of decent laughs. Enjoyable but utterly forgettable.

Batman Begins: Truly did justice to the Dark Knight. Intensely dark, visually speaking, and felt a step removed from the likes of Spiderman, which while also excellent, was a bit too true to the tone of old comics. Batman was suitably dark, I think, but not too dark.

Er. Real life calls; books'll get their own entry later tonight.