AZ Pictures

Just a quick debrief:

While in Arizona last weekend, Annie and I took advantage of the no-kids/no-curfew situation we were in to catch a few flicks at the local cineplex.

Here is a Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer display at the theater.

If you're interested in watching the trailer, you can see a hi-res version here. Or the YouTube version below.

The two movies we watched were Invisible, and Spider Man 3. Invisible was a little predictable but pretty well made movie starring Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds) that has more than a little of Tom Cruise's charisma and and has perfected Cruise's mouth-agape, pensive stare. Starring opposite Chatwin is silver screen newcomer, Margarita Levieva. Levieva looks like a young Angelina Jolie to me. Wait for the DVD.

SM3, which was panned in many reviews defied the critics and scraped in $59 million in one day; $148 million in the weekend; and over the opening weekend, worldwide, it took an incredible $375 million. I think people just want good old-fashioned stories of good versus evil anymore. I had a few gripes about continuity (like, what happened to Spidey's Spider-Sense?) but if you haven't already contributed to the pot, go watch it now.

The flight home was relatively uneventful (except for the fiasco with the long term parking shuttle.) Here is a picture of another plane coming in close for a landing at SFO. It must have been no more than 200-300 yards away.

Here is a picture of part of the San Mateo Bridge, the world's thirteenth longest bridge measuring just under 37,000 feet.