We're on the road to nowhere....

Went to the doctor concerning my bad leg yesterday. The prognonsis is pretty much what I expected. Developing arthritis in my knee and ankle, and I'm desperately in need of strengthening the muscles and whatnot. The doctor was concerned that I never received any post-operative physical rehabilitation, so I'm gonna start going an doing that soon. I'm not sure when... they're gonna call me next week and schedule it. I'm not sure what that's going to be like, so I'm keeping an open mind. The doctor also suggested I start taking 1500 mg's of Glucosamine per day to reduce the swelling in the joints and keep the arthritis from developing any more than it already has. And... until I go to the therapy, that's all I got on that. Leg still hurts like a fucker, probably still will for the rest of my life, but what the hell... apparently it just comes with the territory. Crap.

Saw The Hulk. Man.... I was really looking forward to that movie. The Hulk's one of my favorite characters. Ever. Peter David and Gary Frank's run on The Incredible Hulk (right before issue # 400) was the shit. Some of the best stuff ever produced. Made me love the character... not the HULK SMASH version of the Hulk, sure, but the Hulk all the same... but the movie was rotten. Sometime around halfway or later through it, the audience just started laughing. And not because it was funny. And even though I was disgusted by what I was seeing and dismayed that such a classic character's movie had been turned to rot, I laughed along with them. Better to laugh than cry, right?

But it wasn't totally bad. The scenes in which the big guy's doing what he does best and is fucking shit up are brilliant. It's the scenes in between, in which the story's being moved along, where the problems occur. The script's shit, for one. The actors... well.... they do the best with what they're given. I have nothing but respect for Sam Elliot, and thought they cast him perfectly as Thunderbolt Ross (but not as perfectly as JK Simmons as J.Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man... that was fucking genius). But the acting throughout the movie is less than stellar, all in all. Nick Nolte in particular stands out for acting like what he is -- a goofball drunk. But what the fuck. He's entertaining. All the same, I'd rather sit through two hours of the Hulk smashing shit up than thirty minutes of Nick Nolte stumbling over his lines. I can dig that Ang Lee had a story to tell, but he should've understood that it was a pretty fucking boring story, and he should've given the audience more of what they wanted -- The Hulk smashing shit up.

I had more to write, but I can't recall what it was. Balls on it. Oh yeah. I'm doing the diet thing again. Officially. Yeehaw. Let the good times roll.