Greatest Movie EVER (Transformers), HP5 & My Job

Well, if you know me you know that I have been with Disney for close to 11 years. I haven't worked anywhere else and I have been around long enough to not have the "pixie dust" and I have been called "old Disney" by many of my peers, friends and those that report to me. "Old Disney" means that I can turn the "Disney" on and off depending on the situation and that I realize that to do business you can't be successful by always being "Disney". So it is no surprise to me that I am at the end of my career rope and I finally have an interview for a potential promotion which would mean more money (nice to have, just look at Amanda's blog to see why), better schedule, a step up to a senior leader (I would have salaried leader's reporting to me) and I could be able to build my own team which I would love to build a team the right way and kick the crap out of every other team in existence!! I would hire like-minded people with my philosophy and work ethic...we would bring the "old Disney" style. They would not be clones because I love to debate, argue and get push back...it makes me better! Now I leave this in the public realm on my blog and I ask that everyone prayer for me on this Wednesday at 4:00-5:00 pm. I want and need this job, it may change my life!

Less seriously...I can not review the Harry Potter movie because I thought it was excellant and it reminded me of the "Empire Strikes Back" piece of the Star Wars Epic. It was a great story and I am amazed at the level of acting that Daniel Radcliffe has grown to. I guess naked plays in England help...not sure. But it is nice to see him grow as an actor because he could easily just ride this out and not get any better. I can say this, I wish that Ron would've had a little more to do or say as he at times is the comic relief.

Transformers was amazing. It was sexy, funny, action packed (they blew everything up!) and the CGI was the best ever. Michael Bay must've learned how to make a movie or Spielberg had a lot of influence on this. I actually got in my truck and thought..."am I driver a Transformer?" I hope they make this a franchise but continue to use the same amount of cutting edge movie making. I want to have this in writing: I predict that Shia Labeouf with the next Tom Hanks. This guy has great comedic timing, amazing depth and he has a great amount of momentum right now carrying him into Indiana Jones 4. Who would believe that he was once on "Even Stevens". Add that to the list of names from the Disney machine... I will do more on Transformers after I see it in IMAX.

Oh yeah, I want a H3...no way to work that in, so I just said it.

Catching Up...

Well...what friggin' crazy month this has been and it won't stop...yet! My job is in limbo, not that I will be fired or anything but my current role (Disney term) is up as I was in a temporary position. I have a good amount of prospects (finally) and hope that I will get the one that pays more and allows me to go to church again. My Ox not only got into the ditch but I think it fell into a ditch made of quicksand but I guess until then I will continue to go to my parents church via their CD ministry... Amen! Oh yeah, did I mention that I signed papers for a house...that could be THE most anxiety ridden process I have ever been through. All Amanda wants to do is talk about furniture and paint but I just want to watch the ink dry on the first mortgage payment so I can breathe again. Anyway, if you want to see it go to Amanda's blog she has posted a link.

What else did I do? Well, not too much we saw Pirates and Fantastic 4... Pirates was a good ending to that story path and I hope if they do more that Jack Sparrow [CAPTAIN] I mean "Captain Jack Sparrow" will have new adventures with new side characters and villians. What an amazing character. F4 was pretty good and would've been great if it didn't seem like two movies into one. It was like the director said "I don't like the Fantastic 4 characters...let's do a Silver Surfer movie" and then he remembered that he was doing the F4 movie so he made it good when they were on screen too. Not complaining, I will get the DVD, watch it again and probably love it. Silver Surfer movie will be interesting if they can keep Larry Fishborne as the voice actor. Now I am anxiously awaiting the Transformers Movie (seeing it tomorrow) and then HP5 which looks amazing!!! (and don't forget the Simpsons Movie)

Finally for this post I wanted to show some pics of when Amanda and I went to Disney MGM Studios for Star Wars Weekends. What a crazy event! It is 200 degrees out there and people are in full Jedi/Sith attire sweating the force right out of them. THEN there were the people who just a strange because it was dress up day... But we saw Ray Park (Darth Maul EpI & Toad X-Men I) and some other cool things... I am attaching a few of the characters we were able to see.