Category: Movies (Page 1 of 6)

Final Destination movies aren’t serious, but are worth watching.

For teachers, it’s retirement party season.  My former colleagues are fun and interesting people, so the party was a good time.  It’s comforting to be home and drunk by 5 pm, like back in the good ol’ days.  I used to attend the Friday Happy Hour about once per month.  When I got home, I wasn’t good for much, so would cut the grass for a few hours and try not to drive into the creek.

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Mickey 17 was a fun movie, and gets a 7.5/10.

Mickey 17 was called a clumsy, pandering clown show by Critical Drinker.  I enjoy Critical Drinker’s Youtube channel, but we don’t like the same movies. 

The premise of the movie is that technology exists to make a duplicate of a person, and load the brain with the most recent memory update.  Earth bans the technology because it can be used to make a copy of a living person.  One commits a crime while the other has an airtight alibi.

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Disney may be trying to do better.

Disney Puts Tangled Live-Action Remake on Hold

After losing what will be hundreds of millions of dollars on the live-action remake of the movie, Snow White, Disney is holding off on the live-action remake of Tangled.  A problem with Snow White, was the decision to make several changes to the movie late in the production.  Re-shoots drove up the cost and made the plot less coherent.

Disney may be rethinking their approach to live-action remakes.

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Actor Richard Chamberlain made it to 90.

Actor Richard Chamberlain just passed away at 90 years old. 

Chamberlain was trying to be an American Peter O’Toole.  He was a little much.  Chamberlain started out as the lead character in a medical drama, Dr. Kildare, in 1961, then bounced around doing TV movies and being a guest star on other TV shows.  He kind of settled on mini-series.

He seemed kind of cheesy, so I knew what he was in, but don’t recall ever watching any of it.

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The Space Force wants a space bunker.

Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit.

Such a module would isolate the satellites from the space environment, sparing their batteries and sensitive electronics from harsh thermal cycles every 90 minutes, and provide some shielding from radiation. In addition, the orbital carrier would obfuscate the satellites inside from observation by other nations or hostile actors in space. Then, when a satellite is needed, it can be deployed into multiple orbits by the carrier.

This reminds me of the comedy/science fiction/action movie, Iron Sky (2012).

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