Space Janitors - 8/10 - Found this and binge watched 3 seasons. A parody(ish) web series about 2 janitors working for the Empire. Ep 1 is so so and very short, but it gets better from there and they are around 15-20 minutes each. I say parody(ish) because it is clearly a parody, but not quite in the over the top Spaceballs or Naked gun manner. It mostly revolves around Star Wars, but there are nods to many different sci-fi shows (Star Trek, Terminator, Alien, Firefly to name a few). The writing and acting is excellent. Highly recommend if you are looking for something to kill some time.
Note that this is NOT related to the old youtube video of janitors on the deathstar.
Haha, fair enough. I'm not really a dinosaur guy, so don't care so much. I like the first movie, but it's not one I need to re-watch anytime soon. I do love me some Goldblum though, if not for him, not sure how much I would even like the first film.
sunday morning, 11am, $6.25 per ticket...I actually ahd to check that again, because even "matinee" tickets the last ~decade for me have been a joke. ...I actually checked the confirmation to make sure that I didnt' pay $13 to go see some 10 minute preview.
...anyway
don't go see this movie. The first Jurassic Park was perfect. The rest were not worth seeing. This is nothing more than a shallow remake of the first. I'm not too upset because it was "cheap" and the nephew enjoyed (Actually, even he was jaded by it being the same movie), but whatever.
This is a movie you forget before you find your car. Like Avengers 1&2.
oh: 5/10. It was enjoyable, well produced and all that....it wasn't michael Bay...so +5 to the score.
I liked Pandroum quite a bit. I'd probably give it 7.5/10. I like Ben Foster a lot as an actor, and apocalypse-type movies are one of my fav. I thought the reveal at the end was pretty cool, actually.
I liked Pandroum quite a bit. I'd probably give it 7.5/10. I like Ben Foster a lot as an actor, and apocalypse-type movies are one of my fav. I thought the reveal at the end was pretty cool, actually.
All in all it was very solid. The mix of his home videos, overlay of music, and above all his notes and journals really made it feel personal and I think truly gave you a sliver of a glimpse into his (troubled) mind. I could have done without some of the animated sequences, but I get why they were there.
Lack of Dave Grohl was odd I thought, and I looked up why. Apparently they DID interview him, but it was too late for inclusion. Which, quite honestly seems like a hell of an exclusion to the documentary. Though more reading shows that his interview may be included in future cuts of the film. That being said, I actually like that there's only a few people actually interviewed. Again, it seems to keep it more "personal" of a story.
It really made me miss his (their) music and stop and think what he'd (they'd) be doing today if he was still around and kicking.
I find apocalypse-theme movies interesting in general. For Pandorum, while the normal plot of finding another planet to colonize is cool, what makes it stand out for me is that you find out they're already on the planet, under an ocean, and like 800 years have passed. That's just frickin cool. I do have a thing for stories that involve time travel, or passage, into the future like that. "Time Machine" (2002) is another movie that got crappy reviews but I find the idea of going 500,000 years into the future awesome.
Mad Max (saw it in 3D) - 9/10. Holly smoke. The two big chases (before the storm and at the end) were some of the best, if not the best action vehicles smashing up ever. Will watch the sequel for sure(confirmed that it will come out) if the same director and crew members are in it.
Tomorrowland - 6.5/10. So much potential yet it was lost because the movie was not sure what it was really about, action/drama/???. What a shame because I love the old future stuffs from the 50s-60s.
Entourage - 5/10. I never saw this show on TV before until this one and was not impressed.
Fantastic film. Weird ending. The ending isn't bad, but not great. But aside from that, it's pretty cool. It's like a Wes Anderson film mixed with Guy Ritchie. Guy Ritchie like plot, but not the fast dialogue and ultra quick cuts. I loved the look of the film. Great selective focus and color balance.
I love films that has scenes wait for the reaction after dialogue. I could imagine the whole crew working methodically on everything.
Gleason, Ferrel, and Fiennes were awesome.
Still have never watched Zero Dark Thirty, will have to check it out.
Argo I still watch now and then if it's on HBO ad nothing else looks good, is a good movie.
I need to rearrange some movies in the bedroom HTPC, needs a bigger HDD in there to begin with.
That or just look at the old Raptors I have laying here and build a separate software RAID on it I guess to be cheap, it has room and replaced a few things in peoples stuff awhile back, and mine.
Since I'm a canuck though, I wonder if I'm going to be biased. The Canadian media, and Jimmy Carter, also said it was good, but criticized it for leaving out so much of the Canadian component.
Since I'm a canuck though, I wonder if I'm going to be biased. The Canadian media, and Jimmy Carter, also said it was good, but criticized it for leaving out so much of the Canadian component.
My NAS just uses single drives as single volumes. RAID has extra overhead, and is not as dead simple to manage. Potentially not as safe either. Personally with current drive sizes, if I ran RAID, I'd want RAID 6, but that requires more drives to be viable and there is too much of CPU hit.
My NAS just uses single drives as single volumes. RAID has extra overhead, and is not as dead simple to manage. Potentially not as safe either. Personally with current drive sizes, if I ran RAID, I'd want RAID 6, but that requires more drives to be viable and there is too much of CPU hit.
I was just thinking out loud myself, I'm probably never going to use the old Raptors myself a couple finally died to begin with and not screwing with em again after a decade or so at least.
The ones I have are just old low volume 10K RPM, I won't even put those in my secondary computers these days I guess.
Even pulled a couple out of my Sister in Laws not log ago and put a good Crucial MX2 SSD in their place.
Ex Machina - 10/10 - I have to watch this again. This movie is one of the best sci fi films ever. Best I have seen in a few years but I am putting this up there with the best of them. Wow. I'll get long winded in a review if I watch it again. It is a thought provoking sci-fi movie. You need to watch this with your brain turned on!
OK ... I wrote the above with 15 minutes left to go. And I will now give it an 8/10. Wow .... The ending needs a rewrite. Will watch again.
Ex Machina - 10/10 - I have to watch this again. This movie is one of the best sci fi films ever. Best I have seen in a few years but I am putting this up there with the best of them. Wow. I'll get long winded in a review if I watch it again. It is a thought provoking sci-fi movie. You need to watch this with your brain turned on!
OK ... I wrote the above with 15 minutes left to go. And I will now give it an 8/10. Wow .... The ending needs a rewrite. Will watch again.
Jurassic World: It had a few *hints* of the original movie. A few sparks where they could have gone somewhere.
But let's be honest (and I'll just spoiler tag EVERYTHING):
- The kids more or less are there for the same reason: visiting a relative, who owns/runs the park
- The relative has no real time to deal with them, so sends them into the park
- The park, of course, proceeds to try to eat the kids
- The kids have a "JUMP!" scene, albeit sans the electricity this time
- Chris Pratt, while fun the watch, is a barely a shadow of Dr. Grant (with some Ian Malcom added in for the "you can't just play god" moments, and I guess some of Muldoon too. Without being as cool as Muldoon.)
- Is that control room for an amusement park or a space program?
- Dr. Wu somehow has gone from young genius to no morals, totally OK with getting tourists killed (I almost said more tourists. The last time it was only InGen employees. And a lawyer.) He has no qualms continuing his research. Doesn't seem to fit.
- Those high heels. Wtf?
- They repeated the "vehicle you just escaped nearly falls on top of characters" thing
- The scene where the raptors attack the humans was more or less reminiscent of the raptors hunting humans in Lost World.
That's a number of the points I could think of. It was cool to see a brief glimpse of the old park...but they might have done SO much better to force the kids to run quite literally into the old park - to stumble upon an old paddock, find the old track or something. At least JP2 and JP3 took you to those old places and gave you some of the feel. They would also have served well to show more of the new park, instead of just a few shots from a distance. The shots showing the older brother creepily staring at girls were just....weird.
In the end, JP1 held A LOT of magic for me. I was young, and the CGI/Animatronics looked great. They still hold up. Rewatching the original movie, it still has that magic. The new movie misses all of that. When I was at the Universal theme park and saw the old JP jeeps, some part of my childhood came back to life. Nothing in JW really does that for me. Oh, and I found the *constant* product placement annoying as hell. Jeep made sense in the original movies. I didn't really need to see tons of Mercs in JW. It was just offputting.
I'd go with borderline r. You see people get eaten a couple of times, other times it's off screen with blood splattering around (such as someone having an arm bitten. You assume the rest gets chewed up too, but instead just see blood splatter.)
Fantastic film. Weird ending. The ending isn't bad, but not great. But aside from that, it's pretty cool. It's like a Wes Anderson film mixed with Guy Ritchie. Guy Ritchie like plot, but not the fast dialogue and ultra quick cuts. I loved the look of the film. Great selective focus and color balance.
I love films that has scenes wait for the reaction after dialogue. I could imagine the whole crew working methodically on everything.
Gleason, Ferrel, and Fiennes were awesome.
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