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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158423/
Netforce, a United States federal agency, tracks major hacking activities on the internet that point toward major criminal activities.
Definitely a TV-movie. Mediocre, and only moderately interesting. Definitely missing key elements from the also-boring book.
Inspired by Net Force – (1998 book), by Tom Clancy
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4649466/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/kingsman-the-golden-circle
A superspy agency suffers apocalyptic disaster as a precursor to a global hostage act.
A-list actors join to demonstrate their irrelevancy. This is a mildly amusing movie.. but with a lack of comedy and uninteresting action, it’s not recommended.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5610626/
https://www.uphe.com/movies/dragonheart-battle-for-the-heartfire
Dragonborn-twins have drama.
If you like the others in the Dragonheart series, then I suppose this is worth a watch.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5519340/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80119234
Yet another buddy cop movie, but this time instead of <random race> it is an Orc, and instead of </random><random drugs> it’s magic.
An adequate movie.
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A too-forgiving man and his stupid brute of a friend travel as farm hands to scrape together money for the dream of owning their own land.
A thriller, a gripping tale … that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick.
— The New York Times, who are about as smart as Lenny.
An unforgivably-terrible book. Awful almost beyond reason. Plodding and boring, it’s only a “page turner” because it’s tauntingly short enough to tear through like ripping off a bandage. But on the plus side, although it’s littered with written-accents, it’s not difficult to read.. plus the ending is great!
2019-08-07 – Wow, this was so forgettable that I couldn’t actually remember reading it until I read the first few paragraphs..
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 Unhappy married old man
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86 percent of men suffer severe mental illness issues over age 85.
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In a world where everyday people use the internet through total-sensory virtual reality, a specialist intelligence agency tracks down murderers and terrorists.
Slow and confusing, this book isn’t just a challenge to read, it’s a challenge to read with a straight face. One of the risks of speculative science fiction is that they can get very, very, wrong in their predictions. This book hand-waives people being transported into a magical world with no explanation as to how it’s possible or what it’s like. It is vague in everything it demands the reader suspend their disbelief in. It is awed at 900 Mhz computers. This is definitely a 1998 book that had way too much hope for its future.
I had a sticker with two, and the book had two.. and none of these are coming up with anything:
This inspired Netforce – (1999 movie)
