Well, Attack of the Clones premiered last night. I, on the other hand, got a very restful night's sleep. I've been waffling like Clinton about whether it would be good, but of course I bought tickets online last week. They're for this Saturday morning. My hopes are pretty even right now, but I'll post my review Saturday evening. In the meantime, check here for the latest info.

And for an . . . interesting . . . viewpoint about the Empire, check this out.

When The Day After Tomorrow was released, Beloved Bride expressed an interest in seeing it. For some odd reason, she couldn't understand the spluttering reaction that she got from me. I steadfastly refuse to give any money for that movie, but I couldn't really articulate why.

Well, Pejman has taken care of that for me, and in a (typically) far more eloquent fashion as well. The money graf:

...the reason this movie has brought about a visceral reaction is, as explained above, because it is being used as a vehicle for setting the parameters of the debate about an important and very high profile public policy issue. Given that, and given the fact that in discussing said issue, it matters whether or not we have our facts straight, it is entirely right and proper to wonder whether a blatant propaganda piece will unfairly skew the debate in one particular direction by demagoguing through a lousy film plot and some fancy special effects.

As they say, RTWT.