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Not much sports news today. Since last we spoke, the Magic finished off the Cavs in a pretty definitive fashion. LeBron was evidently a pretty poor sport about the whole thing, but that's only because he's a "winner." Except that he lost and still acted like a loser afterwards. So, where does that leave us?

Jameer Nelson is looking to return for the Finals. Considering how easily the Magic dispatched the Cavs without him, his return would make them pretty much unstoppable, right? Right?

Yeah, so really, not much sports news.

I have plenty of movie news though. Bryan and I watched two movies this weekend: X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Neither was fantastic, but one was significantly better than the other.

I've been reading a lot of old Marvel comics online, and I'm starting to see how so-called fanboys could get so upset about the different plot moves that the different movies have made. I'm not necessarily upset by the differences, though. There are some great stories in Marvel history, but some of them are uber-complicated and rely on years of canonical information that don't really fit into a few movies stretched over half a decade. I'm not a big fan of arguments based on "canons" anyhow. Strict canons have a tendency stifle creativity, which I consider a negative for creative works, like comics or film. Just because the movies are establishing their own canon that is separate from the comics' doesn't necessarily make the comics' canon somehow negated. It just means that we now have both. Again, one may be better than the other.

One of the weirder things about the Wolverine movie is the inclusion of a number of pointless shots. Do we really need to see Wolverine driving to work as a lumberjack from two different angles? Do we really need to see him looking up a staircase that he's about to climb after we've already established that he has to get to the roof of the building? Are Wolverine fans not intelligent enough to figure out that Wolverine might take stairs up to the top of a building? I guess maybe it's important from a character development standpoint to show that Wolverine would prefer six flights of stairs over the elevator when people's lives are at stake. We all know that Wolverine doesn't play by the rules, unless that rule is: "In case of emergency, use the stairs."

Bryan and I decided it might be worth watching last night's MTV Movie Awards, mostly because Andy Samberg hosted. Samberg didn't disappoint, but the rest of the show was incredibly (maybe purposefully) awkward and not that entertaining. Other than the handful of awards that were given out and the few musical acts, the show acted mostly like a movie trailer release party, with exclusive (until they hit the internet) looks at the new Harry Potter, Twilight (blood-curdling scream), and Transformer movies. At least they didn't play any music videos. It'd be really out of character for MTV to actually air something that they promise.

In one of the more relevant moments (to my age group) of the night, Ben Stiller won the "Generation Award." During his acceptance speech, MTV showed a shot of Will Ferrell either as a way of mocking the potentially more important actor or possibly as a sort of apology, as in, "We're sorry Will, but Ben Stiller used to work for us, so we kind of had to go with him."

I'll be traveling for the next couple weeks, mostly to St. Louis, so blogging may become erratic. But, E3 starts today, so I'll probably try to get a post in about that at some point. Right now I'm just trying to watch it. It's streaming on IGN and live on G4, but my IGN feed keeps "stalling" (a rather appropriate but underused term for the internet), and my Time Warner Cable pretty much murders G4's watchability. At this point I'm trying to watch G4's internet feed of the Microsoft press conference. I'm so glad I own a TV and pay for digital cable just so I can watch TV on my computer. TWC: worst company ever.

QotD (from MTV's Movie Awards):

Movie of the year?

1. Twilight (blood-curdling scream)
   
2. The Dark Knight
   
3. High School Musical Three: Junior er... Senior Year
   
4. Iron Man
   
5. Slumdog Millionaire
   
6. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull
   (Just kidding. This wasn't an option. It probably would have won though.)
   

My take: Well, I've seen two of them, and I liked The Dark Knight more than Iron Man.

MTV's viewers: Twilight (blood-curdling scream)