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This past weekend friends asked if we wanted to go the movies.  It took a few seconds for me to completely comprehend the question since my husband and I haven’t been “to the movies” in about two years.

Not wanting to be rude, I answered, “Huh?”  What I really wanted to say was, “Are you guys out of your freaking minds?  You want to go to the movies with a bunch of screaming, rude, ill mannered teenagers and babies who will cry through the whole movie?  AND pay a fortune to do this?”

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TRON,TRON, T-R-O-FRIGGEN-N!

Can you believe it! Ok so those of us in the geeky universe get so worked up with the generic minutia of our realm, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane, Furries at Comic Cons, Harry Potter showing his stuff with horses… Its all so normal to us. Now something on the horizon has my hackles in a bunch…

It is back! Enter TRON Legacy, why not really? It’s like the Holy Grail for those who enjoy such movies as The Matrix, Reloaded, and Repackaged.

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If you’re a gamer like me you know as well as I do that another summer means another Xbox 360 system update. xbox which has added much needed functionality to how Microsoft incorporates Netflix streaming into their console.

Prior to this update you were required to choose the movies you wanted to watch on your Xbox on the Netflix website. You would add them to a queue, and that queue would be viewable on ones console after they linked their account. But this latest update allows the Netflix-Xbox experience to become completely independent of any computer. In other words you are able to choose any movie that Netflix offers directly on the Xbox without first needing to select it on the PC. This helps all of us become more efficient couch potatoes!

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“Harry Potter encourages satanism”, said an Austrian priest Rev. Gerhard Maria earlier this year. Now, the Vatican is praising Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for its “clear” depiction of its struggle between good and evil.

Vatican has gone surgical on the movie, analyzing a bit too much. The movie brings Harry and the Dark Lord Voldemort face to face as the battle continues. Hogwarts is no longer a safe place. Darker than ever before, Harry tries to understand his nemesis better by visiting his early days as a child and a student of Hogwarts. Death will come to the Muggle and the Wizarding world but in the end it is a fight between good and evil.

The Vatican’s official newspaper stated that this movie is by far the best adaptation of the JK Rowling books, and described it as “a mixture of supernatural suspense and romance which reaches the right balance”. It also said ”the search for immortality epitomised by Lord Voldemort” was wrong. Vatican also approved of the young romance in the halls and corridors of Hogwarts, saying it reached the “correct balance”.

Last year it was nothing but criticism about the movie from the Vatican, calling it diabolical, satanic and calling Harry “the wrong kind of hero”. Now, quiet the contrary, it is being praised by the Vatican.

The movie did not get great reviews during the pre-screening with one viewer saying anyone who had read the book will find the movie “severely disappointing”. Will this stop me from going and watching the movie? Probably NOT,  there will always be haters.