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Hot Wife and I managed to take in a movie this weekend and we both really enjoyed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Of course, we have the final book on order and we are both looking forward to how the series ends. I started the series in 2003 and found this article very useful in recalling the major plot points on the previous books.

I also saw Transformers last week with my coworkers when I was up in Mesquite. It was a very fun movie — I really liked some of the action sequences when the A-10 and AC-130 air strikes were called in to defend some ground troops from a marauding robot. At times, the movie felt like either a toy commercial or a General Motors commercial but overall it was a very fun movie.

I can’t think of the last time I saw two movies at the theater in less than a week. I need to get out more often — it was fun!

[Ed. note] I just found out from my brother Steve that the Air Force had a big role in the movie with over 300 airmen playing speaking and non-speaking roles. To me, the military scenes appeared very accurate:

Along with the F-22s, F-117 Nighthawks and the CV-22 Osprey are featured prominently throughout the movie. Also featured are the A-10 Thunderbolt II, C-17 Globemaster III, MH-53 Pave Low, HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant, AC-130 Gunship, C-130 Hercules, MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle and Air Force One [VC-25A]…

“Military people will get a lot out of this movie because of how realistic they depicted the way it is in the field, the way we all work together, and the equipment we use,” said Army Sgt. Charles Eggleston, a Walter Reed patient. “The whole thing was action packed and I loved seeing the A-10 ‘bringing the rain’ the way they always came to help us out while I was in Iraq. Some of my fellow Soldiers and I were talking about it’s funny that with all the movies out there, it took a movie about alien robots invading the planet to get the military stuff right.”

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