Force Watch: Star Wars Episode 3 vs Episode 6

Kmac:

A long time ago, in the galaxy we live in, a young girl watched the ending to a trilogy that would become a huge part of her life. I might as well dive right in and lay my nerd cards on the table because for me Star Wars will always be the version that came out in the 70’s. For this week's Force Watch Jmac got the pleasure of watching the last episode of the true trilogy, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. I however got to watch the last episode of the prequels, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I have no intention of eviscerating this movie, as it is part of my nerd lineage, but I have several issues with the movie that have intensified over time as the newness of the movie wore off. This feels like a place for bullet points so I will dive right in.

The Good Side of the Force:

* Any Star Wars is better than no Star Wars, Phantom Menace excepted, and being around other fans will always make the experience better. I waited around the theater for the midnight showing when this came out and you could feel the energy from the crowd as the theme started. That community spirit was even evidence on my own couch as Jmac and I both smiled and sat up straighter as the opening rolled. We proceeded to debate the movie, point out callbacks to the original, and get excited for our favorite scenes. Watching Star Wars with a new comer requires a slow dolling out of your geekiness, grab a veteran and you can let your nerd flag fly.

* The callbacks to the original films is my favorite part of this movie. They recreated the set of Princess Leia’s ship and added a tangible element I find most of the movie lacks. I enjoy seeing how the Emperor turns into the scar ridden, gravely voiced villain that always scared me more than Darth Vader. The movie was full of little tie ins, such as the introduction of the Emperor's red guard that would go unnoticed to the unobsessed. There is also a scene at the end on Tatooine looking out at the two suns and playing the Tatooine theme music that provides a perfect bridge to A New Hope.  I almost wish this was the only prequel made just for the purpose of filling in back story. Shove the Boba Fett storyline in at the beginning. Have Anakin just meet up with Padme and skip the part where she meets him as a child, because that always bugged me, and volia you skip so much of the hate lovers of the true Star Wars have thrown towards the new movie.

* The battle on the lava planet, yes Jmac I know it has a name and no I don’t care to learn it, between Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi was genuinely exciting. This was the battle between good and evil that I was looking for the rest of the movies. While I like tush kicking Yoda, I still miss the puppet, and it’s great to see the Wookies, this is the battle of the new series.

* As always I have nothing bad to say about a John Williams score. It makes the movie so much that by the end when I hear strains of the old score I get emotional. That score is tied to my childhood when my Daddy first introduced me to these movies that were so special to him. It was the first movie I ever saw by myself in theaters. Jmac and I cuddled up to watch Star Wars on our first at home date. I get misty when I talk about Star Wars because it has meant so much to me, and music is the trigger thats starts the water works.

* The aliens from the Trade Federation die in this one. I know this is supposed to be about positives but it really is a good thing. The constant yammering on in the first two movies about trade federation politics turned Star Wars into Cspan. I go to the movies to see duels, heros, and romance, not to see NAFTA negotiations. It felt good to watch a drain on the series go down, may they rest in alien trade federation heaven.

The Dark Side:

* I don’t feel like I can touch anything in this movie. Jmac likes to point out the advances in technology since then but the fact remains that when they did build sets in this movie I was interested and when it was clearly nothing but CGI I checked out. I’m not saying that everyone has to love the filmed scaled models of the original, though to be fair Jmac didn’t realize they were models so point original trilogy, but there needs to be some balance to the force, I mean CGI. To harp on a well established point I feel the director at the helm of another trilogy, Peter Jackson, captures the balance well in building sets when he can and when he can’t using sets for the close ups and leaving the background to CGI. It is why I was so upset with the remastered versions of the original trilogy, besides losing the ewok song at the end of Jedi, is that they took cities that were built sets and set CGI on top of them, thus failing the can I touch it test.

* I feel like taking a swipe at the dialogue is almost cliche at this point but fair is fair and this was pretty bad. I’m not going to argue the original trilogy was any better, you should really do a reading of it sometime as it is hilarious, but this dialogue coupled with the characterization makes it feel ten times worse. My Daddy and I were trying to put our finger on exactly why in the aftermath of this movies release we had been excited in the theater but didn’t love the movie. He settled on the lack of heart and I think that is exactly why this movie fails for me. This trilogy didn’t make me care about any of the characters. It was like we were supposed to import our feelings for the characters in the original series over to these movies and it got lost. Sure this was a dark tale and not a hero’s journey but I never cared enough about Anakin to be sad about his downfall. Acting, writing, and staging all went into creating a world that felt sterile. It wanted you to care about the fancy visuals and expansive worlds at the expense of the characters that inhabited them. These are not characters that stick with you when you leave the theater. I saw it, was excited, and then left.

I’m glad we picked Star Wars for this week's Force Watch. This is not a bad movie to sit through and we got some fun debates out of it. Ultimately though when I tell you I’m a Star Wars nerd don’t talk pod races to me. To win my heart is to know that when I say I love you, the correct response is “I know.”

I give Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 3.5 out of 5 Jedi’s left in the universe.

For the record my order from greatest to least is: Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, the one where they date on Naboo, and the one that shall not be named.  

Jmac: So I picked Revenge of the Sith because I feel that it not only binds the two, soon to be three trilogies together, but it shows why Darth Vader is such a jerk right off the bat in episode 4. I mean we really have no back story to show why hes a dick... we just have to trust that he is really an evil guy, who actually turns out to be a very complex character with emotions all over the place (especially with Hayden Christensen’s whinny acting). From there we also see why Darth Vader turns on the emperor in Episode 6, and its not because the emperor is force lighting the crap out of Luke, its because he was betrayed by the emperor back in Episode 3 when he couldn't save Padme like the emperor said he would teach him to do. Why would Darth Vader care about his long lost son that he has only met a few times, and who is actively trying to mess up everything that Darth Vader has been working on pretty much all his life.

Ok so about Episode 6:

* I have no idea why anyone finds Carrie Fisher good looking, Adriana Lima in the same slave bikini looks good, but not Carrie Fisher.

* What is the matter with Lucas, who knows about them being siblings, and still making Luke and Leia kiss.... the guy is messed up.

* Why is it that force choke and force lighting are only Sith tricks, but Jedis use force mind tricks, I mean which one is really the more sinister thing, knowing someone is coming at you and who is doing it, or having your brain messed with and you don't know its happening or who is doing it... the Jedis are the evil on that particular bit.... its not honorable

* If you have the majority of you resources put into a huge planet or moon sized base, why in hell would you only have one shield generator on a planet full of little bears that hate you... also with what seems like infinite resources there should have been a whole lot more troops loitering about on Endor, its just stupid. If you Emperor is supposed to be this super smart conniving guy then he should have thought of that, or at the very least his admirals should have so they don't get force choked out

* So they blow up the death star and there's this massive celebration, now what.... there's like a thousand Star Destroyers still hanging out throughout the galaxy, it doesn't make sense. Also its not like force powers was the thing building the Death Star, clones were, and if they built it twice, they can build it again.

So as much as I loved my Ewok village play-set from childhood, Episode 6 always felt like a cop-out to me, its essentially the same big ending. If they blew up the Death Star Mark 1 in Episode 4, why was there not a huge party like in the end of Episode 6, its not like all those different worlds knew the Emperor was actually dead, its not like the Sith are not cunning folks.

I give Episode 6: Return of the Jedi 2.6 poorly planned military strategies out of 5.

My breakdown of best to worst episodes is: 3, 6, 5, 2, 4, 1.... no one likes Jar Jar binks (and its just plain racist..... super racist..... {whispered} super racist) 

PS this is the best thing in the entire Star Wars Universe.

Jack the Giant Slayer

Jmac: Jack the Giant Slayer is pretty much the straightforward Jack and the Beanstalk story with a bit more violence, backstabbing,  and love interests than previous versions.

Same old same old.... in fact Kmac fell asleep watching what is billed as a children’s movie, which I normally fall asleep for, or at the very least start browsing Reddit.

Jack gets beans, Jack messes up and beans suddenly sprout (wish my garden acted this way), Jack likes girl, Jack, through a series of happenstances not affected by himself at all, wins girls heart and somehow kills some giants, Jack is king..... I call BS. They use the word “Albion” which is one of the oldest ways to refer to Great Britain, and if a commoner were to do anything to get the crown, the royals would stomp them into the ground.... that being said I like how they tied in the old English kingdom and folk lore of Jack and the Beanstalk into the modern age. It makes the lore continue on for kids, but I don't have any idea how that sky island full of giants wasn't picked up on radar... maybe it moves.

It begins quite slowly, and in typical fashion, but later picks up with more action, so maybe this one is more for your male children, than you girls. The princess is pretty helpless and whines a lot, so maybe not the best role model for girls.

Personally I enjoyed the Disney's Mickey and the Beanstalk version much better, at least the peasants were portrayed historically in that one..

I give it 2.8 cute princesses you would never get in any other life out of 5.

Orange is the New Black

Kmac: A upper-class woman makes friends and enemies in a women’s prison sounds like the premise for a late night movie, not an hour long drama. But this new show, from the creator of Weeds, certainly makes the most of its premise and makes you care not just about the main character, Piper, who is played wonderfully by the relatively unknown Taylor Schilling, but also about the wide array of racially and socioeconomically diverse prisoners who also make up the prison ecosystem. Netflix debuted three original series this season, and this was by far the least publicized and the most deserving of praise.

Orange is the new Black tells the story of Piper, a well-off white woman, who goes to prison after a college relationship gone awry had her smuggle a suitcase of what turned out to be drug money. Now before the 12 year statute of limitations has run, she is sentenced to a year in women’s prison for her role. Her story, as well as that of the other inmates, is told through flashbacks to their time before prison. This allows the viewer to better see the inmates as people and I enjoyed finding out what everyone did and how it affected their life on the inside. All the characters felt real. If you didn’t find out a back-story, you started hoping for season 2.

And I do hope there is a season 2. This season leaves Piper about midway through her prison sentence at Christmas time. It also ends with one heck of a cliffhanger. Without giving too much away, the show had made a point thus far of saying that women fight more with their words than with actual physical violence. The last episode turns this on its head in a way that is actively terrifying. This is more of the women’s prison that was in my imagination and my imagination was right to want to follow all the rules and never end up there.

The reason the violence comes as such a shock is that the general demeanor of so many of the inmates tricks you into thinking maybe it’s not so bad. As a sociological study it is fascinating to see the rules the inmates set up for themselves that govern their day to day action. For instance they call each other by their last names to keep some separation between their inside and outside lives. Or the complex barter system for commissary goods that can buy you everything from a dye job to a strategic favor. Some are funny, some, like the voluntary segregation of the races, can be uncomfortable, but they all shed light on a different world most people don’t think a lot about. For those wanting to dig deeper, the real Piper wrote a book about her experience that is entitled the same as the series. I know it is number one on my Kindle wish list.

I can hear the trepidation some people will have. Will there be nudity, cursing, and lesbianism? The answer is yes. You could not tell the story realistically without these things. However, after the first episode the frequency of nudity goes way down. It is one of those things that if the story is interesting enough I will look past, but fair warning has been given to the squeamish.

I give this series 4 out of 5 prison khakis and screwdriver shivs. 

Oncoming Media Onslaught: The Royal Baby

Like a squirrel storing up for winter there comes a time when avid internet readers must hoard little acorns of entertainment for the onslaught of something so big, it will dominate most every site. I personally will be fine during this time. Between the Royal Baby and the Emmy nominations I have plenty to read and react to. But if you could care less about the future English monarch, or, shudder, don’t watch that much TV you may want to be prepared. You may be thinking that the sites you read won’t mention it much but I find that if the media event is big enough it will be everywhere. After all every January football somehow finds its way into my internet reading. If I may make a suggestion www.fullhousereviewed.com is a project started several years ago to review each individual episode of Full House. If you like to bathe in nostalgia this may be a good way to pass the time. There may be no better antidote to the Britishness of the royal birth than the Tanners. The show features self centered characters, over broad humor and laugh tracks, and more embarrassing 90’s clothing choices that you could shake a glow stick at. Ahhh America. So bookmark those long articles, dig into those archives, and settle in. Because winter is coming... That is meant to be a call back to the opening sentence and not a suggestion the baby could be named Winter, though that would be awesome. Happy Royal Baby Week. 

Jmac: its all a hoax, and she's not even pregnant, its just a distraction to move our attention away from Snowden and the NSA.  And, and its popping out of this

Movie 43

Kmac:

I had no expectations for Movie 43 except that I figured with this many famous people agreeing to be in  the movie, at least something had to stick. And there are a ton of famous faces. From Oscar nominees and winners, such as Kate Winslet and Naomi Watts, to familiar comedy actors, Kristen Bell and Jason Sudeikis, and on and on. I suggest not looking at the Wikipedia page until after you watch the film. Half the fun came from guessing who would show up next in this crazy, raunchy, and entertaining comedy made up of a series of sketches.

Upon checking the credits after the movie I was not surprised to see one of the Farrelly brothers was instrumental in bringing this thing together. Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary both traded in this kind of dirty, absurdist humor. It will not be for the faint of ears or eyes. The whole idea is to shock you with the main plot of the sketch. If, however, you can give yourself over to the filthy and sometimes violent nature of the sketches, you will laugh loud and often.

For those of you who brave this movie, I particularly enjoyed Sean Williams Scott and Johnny Knoxville playing two roommates who catch a leprechaun to steal his gold. Everyone knows you can’t let him go, or he will trick you out of it. In a close second for favorite sketch would be Robin speed dating with pervy Batman making the world’s worst wingman. Nerds everywhere will enjoy.

Overall this is not a movie to watch with kids or the prudish but for the experiment it was, I found most sketches worked.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 “wow it’s that guy” or girl, ladies can be funny too.

Jmac:

Ha....ha ha. In what has been called the “the citizen kane of awful” (Chicago-Sun Times), Movie 43, or what seemed to be an extremely raunchy hour and a half long SNL skit show, actually proves a point..... and that point is that even if you have the most absurd, crazy, messed up scenarios, if you populate your movie with actual actors instead of C or D lists like the Scary Movie franchise, or my personal hatred (which I saw half of on one of the worst dates ever) Date Movie, you can actually get a little bit of funny just from the actors.... or maybe I'm biased because I find it funny when actors step outside their normal roles and just do silly stuff.

This movie is lewd and crude, but still has a lot of laughs in it, if off-color comedy and shock humor is what you are into. It is full of double entendres, poo humor, and extremely awkward scenarios. I think my favorites were the second one when two parents who homeschool their kid haze him so he gets a “real” high school experience, and then of course if you put Sean Williams Scott and Johnny Knoxville together on screen I'm going to watch, as they capture leprechauns, which, as it turns out, are extremely foul mouthed buggers.

All in all, this on is not for the faint of heart, but if loaded with academy award winning actors and actresses, which lends to the funny.

I give it 3.8 balls out of 5.

Oh and Kristen Bell will make nerds everywhere throw off their Spock ears or their official Lord of the Rings cloaks, and nerd-gasm all over the place.

Moone Boy Season 1

“That’s right buddy, just the right combination of destruction and caution”

Jmac:

This is another British import direct to Hulu, and this time Hulu Plus, so if you don't already have Hulu Plus, this may be a good reason to get it, or at least do the one month free trial. You can watch the first two episodes for free on Hulu, so you can try it out.

Moone Boy is about a young idiot boy in the west of Ireland and his imaginary friend who is a grown sarcastic man. It is set in Boyle, Ireland in 1989, which I'm not sure why, but maybe that will be revealed later. Kmac thinks it’s possibly a semi-true story about the show’s creator, Chris O’Dowd, who plays the imaginary friend. Being set in 1989 the show also has several historical puns, which made it even funnier for Kmac and me, as we both have history degrees..... maybe why we started this site; am I right? Martin’s (Moone Boy’s) family is also featured prominently without Martin or his imaginary friend, which gives the show a sitcom angle.

This show is just full of puns and funny Britishy lines, so if that’s not your bag, then you may not like it as much as we did, but it’s still a funny show. The 5th episode about an altar boy mafia is probably the funniest in my opinion.

Oh to be back in times that were simpler, when playing with yourself didn't mean playing with yourself.

I give it 4.8 jumpers out of 5.

Kmac:

You can tell when a series will be one of our babies; it’s why we are childless, and that we will end up arguing over who loves it the most. For the record I love Moone Boy, but I agree that Jmac love loves it more, so guess I’ll let him have at the full recap. Instead I have a few thoughts below:

* I’m glad that Chris O’Dowd, who played the cop love interest in Bridesmaids, is gaining attention from Hollywood.

* I thought the differences between this Irish comedy and British comedy was interesting. Moone Boy was still a bit dry, but it seemed to have a less biting tone. Think about it as the difference between The Office and Parks and Recreation.

* The boy who plays the main character is a treasure. He plays the character with a happy innocence that is often missing from child actors. It helps that the show has a similar innocence to it. 

Spring Breakers

WTF????

This movie is the REASON, that everyone should not listen to big name well renowned movie reviewers and critics. It was billed by these soooo called experts, as a female heist movie, and that James Franco shone brighter than any star. That is a lie.

Jmac: If I had heard “its spring break y'all” or “spring break fo ever” one more time... ONE MORE TIME!! I would have totally lost it and taken to the streets to riot. The movie turned out to be a lower class male's wet dream, with boobs everywhere, and I'm not saying I don't like boobs, but when they are in literally every scene for the first hour of the movie, it cheapens them. So it was nothing but boobs, and not even good pairs at that, a bunch of drugs and booze, guns held at that angle that only trashy like to pull off, and 4 terrible “actresses” screaming “Spring Break Y'ALL!” every three seconds. Also if anyone in the movie attempted a southern accent, they butchered it. Really all southern people should be enraged about all low class folks taking their word ‘Y'all’ and destroying it, so that now anyone that uses it automatically looks stupid and trashy.

Another thing that was crazy about the movie was that three of the girls in the ‘crew’ were always joking about Selena Gomez always going to church and “praying”, which was always said in a really sarcastic and surly voice by the other girls, and I don't think she ever does anyway, so there are two stupid things. I have no idea how church groups were not burning Hollywood to the ground for this one, and I would have been right there with them, not for their cause, but because this movie got green-lit at all.

DO NOT watch this movie, even if you are a preteen and you are just looking to see some boobs, I feel like I lost so many brain cells from this one. Kmac even went to bed it was so slow and terrible.

I give it 1.2 terrible grills and dreadlocks out of 5.

Seriously if you have kids and they say they saw this movie and didn't walk out, or if they even ask to rent it, immediately grab a Webster’s dictionary, hit them over the head with it, and make them read it from cover to cover.

Kmac: I have nothing to say about this movie other than indies should always be talkies. Why was this movie so devoid of talking? They kept repeating phrases over and over. Also Jmac has been surly since we watched it. I hate the Karma from picking a bad movie. There is no greater advantage your significant other can gain. I’ll be watching action movies for a month.

I give this nothing because I just don't care. Kids now days.

Force Watch: The Baby Sitter's Club/Lethal Weapon 1

Jmac:

So we watched The Baby Sitter’s Club from the 90s because Kmac wanted to hear my smart ass comments about it while we were watching it. She is supposed to post my funniest impressions in her post.

The Baby Sitter’s Club was silly, just plain silly. I feel bad for all the dads that had to sit through it back in the day. The only thing that made it bearable was playing the ‘hey what's that chick’s name, I've seen her in something?’ and the ‘will they be hot when they grow up’ game. Answer 60% of them are, and coincidentally the bad guy girl in the Baby Sitter’s Club is the bad guy girl in Sugar and Spice from last week’s Force Watch. I hope this is not becoming a trend.... I can't take much more.

Anyway the movie follows a group of girls, that laugh, then cry, then argue, then cry some more, then supposedly learn something meaningful about life, then laugh, and then cry again.... all while rearing the next generation in the same shenanigans. Silly silly girls. I really had a hard time finding the nugget of the story, or what was the driving force.... I still don't know. Some chick who tucks her shirts into her boxers.... that’s right into her boxers, because she is suuuccchhh a Tomboy and has to prove it to everyone, has her deadbeat dad show back up and this causes stress between her and everyone she knows, because he doesn't want her to tell people he's back. This while the girls are trying to fix up a greenhouse for a new office, which I guess is the driving force of the movie... I don't know. Of course in the end everything works out for everyone, because this is America Dammit!! and everything always works out in ‘Merica.

I was soooo bored, and please God don't let me have girls.... I don't understand them at all.

I give it 2.3 girls yelling at others while crying when its their fault out of 5.

Kmac:

Regardless of what Jmac kept telling me, I had seen Lethal Weapon. I didn’t care for it because it is one of the quintessential 80’s action movies...and I just do not do action movies. This movie has the good cop, who is too old for these shenanigans, and the bad cop, who is just straight unhinged. They fight various crimes while solving a bigger mystery and because it is the 80’s there is cocaine and boobs everywhere. Hmmm... I wonder why I didn’t like this movie.

I’ll give the movie this in that it has its funny moments. Mel Gibson’s brand of crazy has always been funny to me in movies. His real life crazy is a whole other ball of wax. In one scene Mel Gibson calmly walks through a hail of bullets with a cigarette dangling from his lips as if it was a regular day. He catches the bad guy and we all have a laugh at the crazy man defying the laws of probability.

I wish I had more to say about this movie but is a genre that has been redone over and over. If you like the modern buddy cop movie you will like its ancestor. If you don’t like the buddy cop movie then you may want to rent The Breakfast Club and enjoy a true 80’s classic.

I give this movie 2 out of 5 criminals who are terrible shots.

*** I will be gathering up Jmac’s witticisms for their own post later tonight. When he gets ranting, he just goes on and on. 

Dead Man Down

Jmac:

I sort of half hearted watched this one while doing other things, but it was nothing to write home about anyway. I'm not sure what I expected out of Terrance Howard and Colin Farrell trying to pull of a slight Hungarian accent, which the movie tries to explain by saying that that when he got to America he tried to lose it as quickly as possible.

Anyway this was a straightforward story of revenge and shoot’em up movie. Farrell’s family was killed by Howard’s character, so he is out for revenge, but along the way finds a woman he likes, or rather she finds him because she knows he’s a hitman. Its actually a slow movie, with very little character development outside the main three characters. Of course in the end the bad guys die and he gets the girl, and somehow on their subway ride home, both totally soaked and bleeding, no one says anything to them..... and this is in New York after 9/11 so Im pretty sure someone would have said something.

If you like action, this movie really is not for you except the last twenty minutes, sure there are other small action sequences but they are over far too quickly and usually end with a copout reason.

I give it 2.4 mentions of burning everything someone cares about out of 5.

A Good Day to Die Hard

Jmac:

Alright, so while I was stoked about this when it was first announced, and was still wanting to see it, I had not heard a lot of “OMGs” or “You have to go see this movie” from friends that had gone to see it in theaters. So while I still wanted to see it, I was a bit wary. This wary feeling turned out to be validated in the end.

One thing that really threw me off, was that I was expecting to see some of the scenes from the trailers..... scenes that did not show up. It could be the stupid restrictions on rental disks, and how they dont included the extended cuts, but then again if you show a scene in a trailer at least put it in the theatrical cut. The whole scene with the taxi driver was just his terrible singing and Bruce Willis attempting Russian... which came down to not be all that funny.

Another thing that I was looking for is pithy dialogue from Willis..... I saw none. We can all remember that scene from Die Hard I where Willis is in the air duct and say “Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs,” all while bleeding profusely from pretty much everywhere as he tries to fight ‘Hans Gruber...... who was Simon’s bro”. (Just a side note if you love the franchise you have to watch the Guyz Nite Die Hard Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa8_UiDfipA) Well there was none of that. No “yippie ki yay Mother***ers” even though one of the taglines for the movie was “Yippie Ki Yay Mother Russia.”

So the whole plot of the movie centers around Bruce Willis who travels to Russia because he thinks his son is a screw up and has gotten himself in jail. Once it is revealed that his son is actually a CIA agent, there are several car chases, fights with Hind helicopters, and bumbling through Pripyat, Ukraine; which some of you may know, some of you may not.... I guess i'm trying to stay away from spoilers. The movie is non-stop action which is actually a detriment to it, because as mentioned above, I think there should have been better dialogue, or at the very least a little more backstory. Just tell me why I’m supposed to hate the Russian billionaire Oligarchs.

In the end I enjoyed the movie, but was still let down because it was not the Die Hard of yester years, nor did it make any attempt to be. I will probably still purchase it when it gets cheaper just to placate my OCD need to round out genres.

I give it 3.2 khoroshos out of 5. 

Oh and since his boy, as he calls him in the movie is in the CIA, and I'm feeling lazy, its also Spy Day Friday.