It was just cloudy when I got up this morning. In fact, I ended up riding to work. Work was on-and-off busy all day, depending on what Mother Nature was doing, though it wasn't as bad as last week. I did run into some trouble getting out. The woman who was supposed to come in for me showed up sick. A manager came in for me so I could get home.
The rain was coming down so hard by 5PM, Rose ended up driving me and my bike home. It's continued to come down hard for the rest of the night. It's also supposed to get really cold, down just to freezing. (Rose mentioned snow as well, but it sounds from the National Weather Service like we might just avoid that.)
I spent the rest of the evening eating leftovers for dinner and watching The Wolverine. Logan "Wolverine" Howlett (Hugh Jackman) went into hiding after the events of X-Man: The Last Stand left him traumatized. A young Japanese woman rescues him from a bar brawl in Canada and tells him that an old friend from World War II wants to say good-bye. She finally gets him to come to Japan and give his dying friend his last respects. It seems his granddaughter Mariko has inherited his company...and everyone, from her former boyfriend to her own father to the Japanese mob, wants a piece of it and her. Logan has his own problems. A nasty mutant with a lethal poison tongue has stripped him of his healing power. Now he has to figure out how to save Mariko without the healing that's kept him alive for two centuries.
The darkest entry in the X-Man franchise to date has some plot problems, but is definitely an improvement over the so-so X-Man Origins: Wolverine. As with Man of Steel, don't come here expecting a superhero romp; this is more like a crime drama set in Japan. There's a lot of blood, really too much for a PG-13 movie. Interesting movie for teen and adult X-Man fans; younger fans will want to go to cartoons like Wolverine and the X-Men or X-Men: Evolution first.
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