Grandma's Boy - Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Adam Sandler, and the Karate Monkey

I just watched Grandma's Boy on disc. I saw it this summer at the theater and some of it was outrageously funny. Watching it at home...well, maybe it doesn't wear quite as well the second time. But it's still funny, karate monkey and all.

Allen Covert, who plays Alex, has a great quality. Likeability, I guess you'd call it. I just looked him up at IMDB. He was also "ten second Tom" in Adam Sandler's movie, "Fifty first dates", which was a fantastic movie (Happy Madison productions also did Grandma's Boy).

In fact (I just learned this), it looks like Adam Sandler does exactly what I've heard: he uses the same actors in his films. Allen Covert has also appeared in the following Sandler (Happy Madison) films: The longest Yard, Eight Crazy Nights, Little Nicky, Anger Management, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds (one of my favorite Sandler movies), Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy...and, good grief, Allen was also in The Wedding Singer and Airheads, two other Adam Sandler movies. Neat trivia there.

Here's the neatest thing, though, that I've learned about the cast of Grandma's boy: Alex's project boss was played by Linda Cardellini, who played Velma in the Scooby Doo movies. And as we all know, Velma as played by Cardellini, was HOT.

Halo 3 Trailer looks fantastic - can't wait for Halo 3 the game and the movie

I just downloaded and watched the trailer for Halo 3. Got the same feeling from it that I got from watching the Halo 2 trailer (god, has it been that long?) which was a bit of awe mixed with anticipation and excitement.

The whole Halo thing has always given me goose bumps and you have to hand it to the Bungie team. Not only do the Halo games have fantastic gameplay, great levels, and a rousing musical score, the story is wonderful. Of course, anyone who read the ringworld books by Larry Niven (also "The Ringworld Engineers", and the authorized series of "Man-Kzin Wars" story collections) prior to playing Halo was really primed for the game.

Nicely enough, the Halo 3 video game and the MOVIE (Yeah! and directed by Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson, ensuring that the movie will be given the epic treatment that it deserves) are both coming out in 2007, less than (hopefully) a year away. My great desire is that the people I've yakked to about how fantastic the story of Halo is will finally get what I've been yakking about for several years.