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Starship Troopers 3 – Marauder – (2008 movie)

2016-05-16
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Starship Troopers 3 - Marauder (2008) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844760/

The war with the bugs rages on, with humanity starting to lose, but something about god and wining and things.

This started off as a great or at lease decent tv-movie, but its “wrap up” took enough of a nosedive to spoil it. It has a much higher budget and is generally better than part two, but.. that ending, man. That ending. This is still worth a once-watch for fans of the original.

  • Properly titled Starship Troopers 3: Marauder



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Starship Troopers 2 – Hero of the Federation – (2004 movie)

2016-05-15
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367093/

Soldiers flee an unwinnable battle, but find themselves trapped in a bunker surrounded by an enemy desperate to get in.

Recommended for fans of the original who can tolerate less character development, story and budget. It’s definitely not bad.

  • Properly titled Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation



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Starship Troopers – (1997 movie)

2016-05-15
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Starship Troopers (1997) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/

Aliens are sending spores to colonize Earth, but when humans send a retaliatory force to their homeworld they learn the bugs are a far more dangerous foe than anticipated.

It’s a largely flawless movie. Amazing fun for what it is, which is the sort of military movie where only one soldier runs out of ammo once in the entire movie.



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No Man’s Sky – (2016 game)

2016-05-12
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DO NOT BUY. DO NOT TRY.

No Man's Sky icon

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/
https://www.nomanssky.com/

Explore, survive, gather and trade while making your way to the galactic core.

Every single described goal of this game has failed. It is a bad flight-simulator, with bad crafting, bad technology, and bad survival mechanics. It is set on procedurally generated planets so vast that nothing matters, in a procedurally-generated universe so vast that nothing matters. What’s worse is that it is so godawfully crowded with hand-holding that it becomes both easy and repetitive. Being ugly and with abysmal performance, it’s not even an exploration time-waster.

Perhaps in some years they will change/fix many of its issues, but I believe it has a fundamental casualness to it that anchors its core gameplay problems. This is not a game made for gamers.

2017-05-07 update: I tried it again, and it just isn’t worth it. If its graphics were the same as before (they’re busted now) then maybe. I have another video card but I’m not going to swap things around or fiddle with installing an old version of my card’s drivers. I just don’t want to bother any more.


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Absolutely Anything – (2015 movie)

2016-05-12
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Absolutely Anything (2015) post

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727770/

To judge the Earth, aliens grant a single man the power of wishing, but he’s an everyday guy and has no idea how to handle it.

A moderately good movie, with solid comedy throughout it. I only really care about it because of its subject matter and the way it handles it. Strangely, he grants himself wisdom early on but never clues into using it to give him proper understanding of it and how to use it. That’s the major theme of the movie, and the source of its comedy.



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Midnight Special – (2016 movie)

2016-05-10
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Midnight Special (2016) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2649554/
https://twitter.com/midnightspecial

Having been caught uncovering government secrets, an eight-year-old goes on the run.

While good, it’s a sort of non-movie. It’s hollow and without real substance or resolution.

Some of it reminds me of Race to Witch Mountain.



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The 5th Wave – (2016 movie)

2016-04-16
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The 5th Wave (2016) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2304933/
was 5thwavemovie.net

An alien invasion begins with horrifying disasters but peters out into a lengthy siege wherein an unlikely girl struggles to survive.

Yawn.



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Batman v Superman – Dawn of Justice – (2016 movie)

2016-04-02
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Batman v Superman - Dawn of Justice (2016) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/batman-v-superman-dawn-justice

A privileged white nerd-boy never got his patriarchy membership card, so he sets up the most powerful being on earth by using astonishingly advanced alien technology because astonishingly advanced alien technology isn’t good enough and he has to take down competitive patriarchy because something about good and god and evil and stuff.

This movie makes no fucking sense on so many levels, I may as well give it that fuckmenazi description. Characters don’t make sense. Motivations don’t make sense. Lots of action that didn’t need to happen, or happened in the wrong way.

A character that gets whipped up out of nowhere, who only the comic book nerds will vaguely recognize.. and not even understand. Does anyone think all the little comic book nerd boys always wanted to be a woman-superhero? Uh, no. So not popular. So having no explanation, she was dropped in as a deus ex machina. A hot awesome one, but terribly-written and disruptive.

Furthermore, the appearance of The Flash (who I had to look up), made no fucking sense whatsoever. It wasn’t even a deus ex machina, it was entirely unnecessary and confusing fluff.

Yet another bland superhero movie.

  • Properly titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

  • Yes, it’s properly titled Batman v Superman, because American theatre-goers know neither “versus” nor “vs.”.


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Heavy Metal – (1981 movie)

2016-01-10
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Heavy Metal (1981) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/heavymetal

A girl kills her father, blows up her house to hide the evidence and flees the scene.

While this might have been good at the time, and particularly notable because of the nudity, it’s only vaguely entertaining like a sort of late-night TV-movie. It’s too low-brow compared to science f
iction movies, too adult compared to fantasy movies and too childish for grownups.



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Stargate – (1994 movie)

2016-01-08
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Stargate (1994) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/
https://www.mgm.com/movies/stargate

An ancient discovery in Egypt, from before the pyramids, is found to be a gateway to another world which is still kept as a slave planet by Ra, a self-appointed god who is an alien just trying to get by.

A fantastic movie. Not exactly mandatory. Perhaps elements of it don’t feel like they have held up well, or maybe there has been so much excellent science fiction before, during and since its time.



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