Justice League Crisis on Two Earths!

I stopped by Walmart on my way home tonight and picked up Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. Loved it...maybe I'm too easily amused but I really enjoyed it. Hyper-speed fun...looking at it deeply though, it was missing some things but it was fun and enjoyable. Like a summer blockbuster movie.

Wasn't too fond of William Baldwin as the voice of Batman but...he was acceptable. Not horrible. I enjoyed Mark Hamill as Superman though I thought he sounded like Tim Daly from Superman: TAS so maybe that is why I enjoyed his performance...that and I really enjoy NCIS. The other voices were fine and the animation was really good. As much as I love the Justice League and JLU series, I realize how much it is cleaner and more polished these DTV movies are. Especially after viewing the accompanying Justice League 2-part episode that was included in the 2-disc set after watching Crisis on Two Earths.

The Spectre animated short was also enjoyable. They animated it in a sort of noir-ish fashion. Hopefully WB Animation continues to create animated shorts of other characters on future DVDs.

The DVD also included a preview for the upcoming Batman: Under the Hood movie. Seems interesting and seems to follow the "Death in the Family" storyline till "Under the Hood" storyline of recent years. Of course since it is a DC and especially since it is a Batman centric story I'm excited.

I also found this new Batman figure while at Walmart. I didn't even know this one was coming out. It is from wave 10 of the DC Universe line. I think it is based on the Batman comics from the mid-late 90's.

New iPod...

I finally went out and got an iPod Touch the other day...

My main hold back was usually the fact that unlike my old iPod nano, I couldn't clip it onto my belt and "blindly" play and scroll through my songs. I usually wear my iPod on my belt with the ear buds running up my back under my shirt. With the iPod nano, I could start the iPod up, fast forward, reverse, pause, etc...without having to look down at what I was doing. Because it was still a "button" layout, I just reached down to my hip and press a button. With the iPod Touch, I thought that you had to be able to see where you were pressing on the screen to start the player or do anything...that was one of my main hold backs.

I was at Best Buy and a sales girl came up to me and asked if I needed any help. I explained the situation and that I was just contemplating on getting the iPod Touch. She explained that if you double tap the home button, it brings up a basic player menu and you don't have to unlock the iPod. That and a later conversation with a sales girl at the Apple Store who told me that there is a remote control on the ear buds that would allow me to also "blindly" control my iPod is what finally sold me...that and the fact that I can now play Dragon's Lair and Space Ace on a portable platform!

I will miss the way the album art was displayed when playing a song on the iPod nano though...that and the music quiz that came with it.