Today we left Clinton NJ heading for Boston. Our first stop was in New Haven, home of Yale and Louie's for Lunch, America's first hamburger. While in New Haven we were going to do a pizza challenge as seen on Travel channel. There are two restaurant's Sally's and Frank Pepe's and it is very debated which one is better. So the challenge is to eat a pizza from each place to determine which we prefer. Our first stop was Sally's unfortunately they were closed so by default Pepe's won the battle of the pizza just by being open. The pizza was good but I don't know why all pizza that is considered legendary has a hard, burnt, thin crust. I prefer a thick crust personally. Also mom made a scene as we were about to be seating by trying to cut in line.

driving was in town but it was so bad even Deb (our GPS) flipped out, sent us in one direction then immediately told us we were wrong.


Well needless to say we do get parked and with the help of the hotel bellman we get the bags in. The rest of the day was spent cruising the touristy areas, eating at Cheers, and watching street performers.

Day 1 of the New England tour was spent traveling to Clinton NJ. We stayed in the same hotel as always and ate at our favorite pizza spot, Pizza Como. It was at this point that I broke my small canon camera, I still have my good Nikon of course but with the small camera I can easily do things like take photos of the cheeseburger I had for lunch with out looking like a complete freak.

At the hotel me and Sally (names changed to protect the innocent) decided to go out to the Jitterbug to listen to music. There was a 12 dollar cover charge which I found to be horrifying on my tight budget but it was going to a good cause,hungry children or something like that. We immediately picked up a friend by the name of Tim. He was very happy to be in the company of two lady's who were hopefully drinking themselves into loose inhibitions. He was out of luck though Sally was only to the white man's overbite phase and that isn't nearly drunk enough to follow a stranger home to his sex dungeon.

Other than the fun that comes along with random people in bars the music was also very good. All the bands were part of a local record label and they were all surprisingly good considering the venue, we only stayed around for 3 bands, then we had to call it a night for the long drive to Boston the next day.

Predators

It is confirmed that Robert Rodriguez is going to do a "reboot" of the original Predator. I'm still a big fan of the original and ordinarily I'd say, oh come one that movie is classic why mess with it. Then again we are talking about Robert Rodriguez and I like just about everything he does (except his kid movies but then again he has to do the lame, popular with the kiddies movies so he can get the cash to do the movies he wants the way he wants to do them) so I for one am stoked to see his version of Predator. I do so hope Antonio makes the cast.

Also apparently getting the green light for Rodriguez is Machete which was a mock trailer that appeared during Grindhouse, so loved was this trailer that it is actually getting a movie. He is also working on Sin City 2 and there is some talk that he is going to do a Jetson's movie


The Green Lantern

Not too much out on this movie yet it is still mostly rumors but it looks like Bradley Cooper will be playing The Green Lantern, this still may not be 100 percent sure. It is set to come out according to imdb.com in June of 2011 and will be directed by Martin Campbell.

Again this isn't a character that I'm too familiar with just saw the info and thought I'd pass it along.




The Birds Remake

While looking up info on Martin Campbell I saw where he is set to do remake of The Birds staring Naomi Watts. I'm sure this could stand to upset a lot of Hitchcock fans but I for one would like to see that movie done with some better special effects. I always thought it was a very creepy concept but when you go back and watch the movie now the effects are quite laughable, I mean I'm sure at the time it came out it was cutting edge but man today's movie goers have slightly higher standards.

I have been on a bit of a dry spell with movies lately. Partially because of time and also because there really haven't been a lot of great movies out lately. Oh but it is summertime which means a rush of action and comedy flicks are sure to find their way to the big screen. So I did manage to take in a few movies over the last couple of weeks.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I tend to be a big fan of comic book movies though I don't keep up with the comics. So all I know of Wolverine I know from the X-men movies, and I can say with that in mind that I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. It was action packed, had good visuals and I thought the story was good to. My comic genius boyfriend who would have a way better review for you from the point of view of someone who knows the character said the story did in 2 hours what it took comics years to get to. Well that's fine with me because I hate a story that takes forever to get where it is going.

Terminator Salvation

Now you just have to turn your brain off to enjoy this franchise. The writers are given the grueling task of writing sequels for movies that were not necessarily ever intended to have sequels. Because of this they have to ignore things like "no fate but what we make" and change it to, there is nothing you can do to stop the future. Not to mention dealing with the time travel logic flaw created in the first movie of John sending his father from the future to impregnate his mother in the past. But with all they must deal with they still crank out great movies, you'll enjoy them best if you just don't think too hard about it.


Drag Me to Hell

OK I'm just going to go ahead and give this one five stars. This is the fist horror movie from Sam Raimi since Army of Darkness. This is a man who knows how to make a horror film, unless you can go for horrifying then don't take yourself too seriously. The first Evil Dead was meant to be scary but when it got more laughs than screams of terror he tried again with Evil Dead II. This time he got it right and created a cult classic with his brand of horror/hilarious.
Well this new movie is no different, there are moments that are creepy, gross and make you jump a little but in true Sam Raimi fashion there are more moments of laughter and even a few classic one liners.

Next week I'm looking forward to Land of the Lost and Away We Go.