Sometimes, I put on a critic hat, and then shoot myself in the foot.

I'm looking forward to M. Night Shyamalan's new movie, Lady in the Water. Ross Douthat wrote an interesting article defending Shyamalan's approach to movie-making.

And since I'm writing about movies, I might as well point out that I also need to find time to go to see "A Scanner Darkly," which is based off of Philip K. Dick's novel of the same name. The novel is absolutely brilliant (as most of Dick's works are), and I have high hopes for the movie.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest gets a decent rating from me, but it suffers due to length and the simple fact its one movie, split into two years. Yeah. If you want to see the ending, you have to wait until next year. Pirates I was a much better swashbuckling affair.

Superman Returns also suffers from being too lengthy. Some of my friends try to compare it to Spiderman, but Superman has always lacked a little something... But its still a good comic book movie, and soars well above X-Men 3 in entertainment value.

Don't die.