it’s a regular bro movie, with the difference that there’s pop cultural reference throughout the movie. it’s nothing new, the cast is fine, the situation is something we saw a thousand times before and after.

i think i saw the director’s cut. 2 hours is too long for that kind of movie.

Eleven years have passed since this movie came out, and it’s difficult now to really process the change in status that our hobby (speaking mostly about comic books) has experienced during that time.

Your average person in the street now has heard of the X-Men, Iron Man, and The Punisher from their movies, not so in the mid to late 90’s, in my experience. More people are aware that comic books contain more than just soopahero stories now than they did a decade ago. And, yes, there are more women in the hobby now (again, in my experience) than there were in 1998, at least in areas of central Kansas, which I admit tend to run about two to five years behind the times.

There were always women out there who loved pop culture and comic books, but now, the ones who demurred or hid their love because of cultural pressures seem to be less prevalent, and so it goes.

“Logic is the other guy’s schtick.” Heh.

Like I said in the review, the Shatner scenes were top notch, especially the “Imanginary Friend” scenes at the beginning.

I still stand by my inital rating of the movie, but who knows? My thoughts on Free Enterprise might change over time.