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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-JediKermit Recent reviews written by member JediKermit en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_489777434244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Last summer we picked up Transformers: The Complete First Season.  Partly out of my nostalgia for the original Transformers series, and partially as a way to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489777434244 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:20:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489777434244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490729672324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - One of the things that makes Superman a challenging character to write in comic books, television or movies is that he's pretty much invulnerable.  It's what we all love about him, but it makes any threat against him kind of pointless.  Except,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490729672324 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:20:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490729672324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490575990404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - At the end of the first volume of 1987's Justice League International, the Justice League expanded its roster to include two new... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490575990404 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:30:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490575990404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490575335044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - One of the fan favorite characters of the original Star Wars trilogy is Admiral Ackbar.  A member of the species Mon Calamari, he commands the Rebel Fleet as they take on (and take out) the second Death Star.  Best known for his line,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490575335044 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:18:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490575335044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489817542276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - At the end of Rebel Force Book Two: Hostage, Luke Skywalker has fallen into the sights of Imperial assassin X-7. The Emperor and Darth Vader are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489817542276 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:19:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489817542276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489778548356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - By the early 1980's, the Justice League of America had been around for more than two decades, and had gone through several incarnations.  The most recent one had been headquartered in a bunker in Detroit, and had only Aquaman as a powerhouse, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489778548356 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:02:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489778548356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489575124612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - When we visit new and exciting worlds of fantasy or science fiction, whether through books or movies, it's sometimes interesting to discover where those worlds came from.  The Narnia of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, and Lewis Carroll's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489575124612 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:49:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489575124612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489567784580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - The mission of Star Trek has always been to "explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations..."  Some of those strange new worlds became explored so well that it seems like we knew them as well as we did our own... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489567784580 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:14:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489567784580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489557560964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - My seven year old is going to be a werewolf for Halloween.  He's been on a classic movie monster kick for several years now--it started with Dracula, then the Mummy, and last year he was Frankenstein.  I guess it was the Wolf Man's turn. ... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489557560964 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:07:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489557560964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489330413188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Last summer when I was out of town, my wife ended up seeing a lot of movies we would normally watch together without me.  That included The Proposal, a Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy that we both wanted to see.  I was fine... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489330413188 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:53:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489330413188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487399067268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - My five year old, seven year old and I love the Cartoon Network series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.  It's more campy, more tongue-in-cheek, and more retro than Batman: The Animated Series, and that has a lot of fanboys... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487399067268 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487399067268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487399263876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Aquaman always gets a bad rap.  Seen as a generic superhero with a lame superpower (talking to fish, who don't necessarily talk back), he's been getting kicked around since the early 1940's.  But he's still around.  The latest version of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487399263876 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:26:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487399263876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487398936196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - My boys and I love the Cartoon Network series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.  The cartoon just wrapped its first season, which had Batman teaming up with a different superhero each week, and taking on bad guys from around the world...and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487398936196 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:02:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487398936196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489237483140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - I've been a bit slow to get on the Dan Brown bandwagon.  I read The Da Vinci Code in 2006, then picked up Angels & Demons shortly after that.  I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489237483140 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:27:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489237483140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488987070084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - One of the great things about growing up in the 70s and 80s is that most households just had three network television stations, a PBS station, and a smattering of fuzzy UHF stations.  So once a year, you knew every kid in your class saw The Ten... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488987070084 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:02:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488987070084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488880377476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Sometimes I like Chick Flicks.  That might be because my wife likes them, or because they're generally populated by good looking people and have happy endings.  So when I saw that my wife had picked up Confessions of a Shopaholic, I figured... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488880377476 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:52:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488880377476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488283606660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - On the Adam West Batman series of the 1960's, Robin never got to drive the Batmobile, Batcopter, Batcycle...he was always in the passenger seat.  Sometimes even in the sidecar.  True, the sidecar could launch so that Robin could still go... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488283606660 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:13:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488283606660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485747297924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Sometime next year we're going to get a new desktop.  Ours is a few years old and already looking long in the tooth, but we're not quite ready to pony up for a new machine yet.  One of the ways we're trying to expand the capability of our old... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485747297924 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:07:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485747297924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488277642884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - A few months ago I realized that my sons (ages 5 and 7) still hadn't heard some of the classic stories, and I wanted to be the one to share them with my sons.  One story that I remember being fascinated by as a child was the story of King... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488277642884 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:41:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488277642884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488277053060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Justice League Unlimited on Cartoon Network was a high point of DC Comics' many different animated series for me.  The culmination of years of character development from Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488277053060 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:26:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488277053060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488264535684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - A high-speed game where all players compete at the same time to change the word on the table using the cards in their hand.Scrabble has never been one of my favorite board games.  I like playing with words, I have a decent... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488264535684 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:11:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488264535684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488260341380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Our family loves playing games together.  Whether it's card games or board games, we love the friendly competition, and will usually play a game together at every family dinner.  One of the latest that we've fallen for is the Days of Wonder... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488260341380 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:03:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488260341380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488260013700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - My sons have both had long obsessions with trains.  My 7 year old doesn't play with them as much as he used to, and these days if he's building a train track, he's adding elements like long trestles or loops--things to put the trains in mortal peril... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488260013700 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:52:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488260013700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488174096004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - I've been a fan of Scooby-Doo for decades.  The live action Scooby movies of a few years ago (Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, etc.) came before we had kids old enough to watch them, and I figured they were more fart joke than ghost... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488174096004 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:44:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488174096004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488173440644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - A few years ago I played a Zobmondo game with adult friends for the first time.  The game is basically an exercise in the wildly imaginative, disgusting and obscene, as you try to guess if the other player would rather ______ or ______.  You... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488173440644 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:35:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488173440644?linkin_id=8003929