By Joshua Garner
 

I am an angry critic.

  I wasn’t always angry. In fact, before going to see the midnight showing of “Fantastic Four: The Rise of The of the Silver Surfer,” the follow up to the 2005 hit, I was quite forgiving. 

 I was willing to forgive my disappointment as the original film’s awful script.I was willing to forgive how slow it was, how UNentertaining, unlikable, and awkward the characters were. I was even willing to forgive myself for paying to see the latest film adaptation of a Marvel Comic franchise. 

  In the mist of the good times the Silver Surfer appears and ruins the wedding. He’s fast. He’s Cool. He looks like actor Doug Jones but sounds like Laurence Fishburne and MAN can he deliver a one liner. Imagine a bald Ken Doll dipped in silver and like Ken he is anatomically incorrect. The Fantastic Four eventually realize that the Surfer is just a middle man who does little more than prepare meals for an omniscient being called Galactus who feeds on planets. Oh, did I mention the lovable Doctor Doom makes a return?   

 The film has all the making of an action packed superhero movie but fails to rise to the occasion. You keep waiting for it the fun to begin, but it doesn’t until film credits start rolling. 

 I left the theatre angry, and a little less forgiving.

In a direct back-slap to the Democratic-led Congress, President Bush vetoed a bill this afternoon to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

It’s his third veto (so far) and drives home this message : the White House refuses scientific advances that would allow researchers to pursue the potentially life-saving work but also destroys human embryos.

Here is the ethical line and you can’t cross it says W.

“The Congress has sent me legislation that would compel American taxpayers, for the first time in our history, to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos,” Bush said.

Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton didn’t waste any time to criticize the move.

“This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become,” Sen. Hillary R. Clinton (D-N.Y.), said during a speech to Democratic activists in Washington just hours before Bush’s veto.

First, his single “Buy U A Drink (Shawty Snappin’)” peaked at number one on the Billboard singles chart and has dominated the R&B charts for the past 4 weeks. Then last week T-Pain beat Rihanna last week to have the number 1 album, Epiphany, in the country selling 171,000 copies.

That’s not all folks, his second single from Ephiphany, “Bartender” (featuring Akon), is already number 22 on the Hot 100 Billboard Charts. T-Pain’s croon can also be heard on the remix of Unk’s “2 Step,” the remix of DJ Khaled’s “We Takin’ Over,” and of course R. Kelly’s newest hit “I’m a Flirt” (T-Pain even speaks a little Spanish on the track).