I managed to snag three games from Circuit City yesterday for 9 bucks each: Indigo Prophecy, Gun, and Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (or MEsGU:CUP?), and I'm pretty happy about it, because none of them are even a year old. I was hoping to find a copy of Drill Dozer or some new games for my shiny DS lite, but it was slim pickens for the portable business.

I also went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at the crazy midnight showing. It's a good movie, but it certainly could have waited until daylight. I wanted to see Superman Returns in 3D, but they were still sold out. I wonder if IMAX sales are included in the regular box office calculations, because it seems like a completely different animal; especially now that they're doing the stereoscopic thing.

I was thinking about this the other day... Superman Returns is 154 minutes long and cost 220 million dollars (if you don't include the 40 million involving a Thanagarian Snare-beast, and Brainiac, wrasslin' polar bears). That's like 24 grand for every second of film you watch... Madness.

I don't think Dead Man's Chest was better than The Curse of the Black Pearl, but it was a really good movie. There were a lot of good jokes and sight gags (any Monkey Island fans should recognize the rowing-with-the-skeletal-leg scene at the beginning), and the visual effects were amazing, but it just didn't seem like as much of a fully fleshed out story as the Black Pearl.

I will say that I think I'll enjoy it more if I go see it again, because I was really tired around 1:30 or 2:00am while Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Commodore Norrington were going for a swash-buckle on the broken wheel of a water mill. But if I do see it again, it'll have to be a matinee, because I don't think I'll be able to fork over another 10 bucks to see the same movie, and not feel like I've just been mugged...

And who do I have to bribe to get a Galaxy Quest sequel?