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Jacquie and I took in viewings of Jersey Girl and Walking Tall today, seeing as we both had the day off. Both were good movies. I was delighted that Jersey Girl wasn't a total chick flick and that Kevin Smith did indeed manage to slip in one Star Wars reference ("Punch it, Chewie!"). Overall, a good movie from Smith and definitely worth seeing. As for Walking Tall, it was good but not great. It's inspired by a true story but not actually based on said true story, so I was somewhat disappointed with the narrow plot. There were some good action scenes, but not a hell of a lot more.

Comic book talk again:

Transformers: Generation One #1, #2 and #3: I picked up the first three issues in what is the second volume of this title. I still haven't decided whether I like Dreamwave's books. I wasn't all that impressed with TMNT #5, and the new on-going Transformers: Generation One series isn't starting out in any coherent way. Some of it is interesting, but the storytelling is a little too shoddy for my liking. I'm frankly having a difficult time following it. The four issues I picked up of the first volume a couple of years ago were much better. Of course, I'll admit that the story arc in the first volume, with Grimlock tossing aside his Autobot loyalties and joining the Decepticons, was enough to keep me interested. Still, with a bit of work, the new TF: G1 comic could be alright.