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Alien 3 (1992) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644/

Survivors of an alien attack crash next to a prison and learn that the alien came with them.

This was my first movie with a shaved-headed woman. I guess I was all “oh no she di’int, now wesa gettin serioooos”.

In my mind, the franchise was significantly weakened by this movie. It just didn’t “feel right”. Perhaps the previous two were so good that they became too tough to follow, but after yet another re-watch this movie really just doesn’t seem all that good.

  • Alternately titled ALIEN3



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Andromedia - (1998 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303658/

A girl is digitized, becoming a valuable commodity for people seeking power and immortality.

This might be interesting for fans of science fiction history, but it’s dumb in too many places for me to enjoy it.

If you end up watching this, here are my edited Andromedia subtitles.



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Software > Scanners >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.hamrick.com/

It really looks great.

VueScan supports the CanoScan LiDE 120, which I tested it with.

It watermarks what it scans, unless you buy it. It’s not worth $50 for something decent, because my scanner cost that. $100 to get OCR cooked-in also isn’t worth it.

Black Panther - (2018 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/
https://movies.disney.com/black-panther

After the assassination of his father, a new king is crowned for an insular but extraordinary nation, but he does not go unchallenged.

I decided to watch this, breaching my “no more superhero movies” position, because there was some fascinating drama surrounding it.

Not recommended: I can’t understand why anyone would think this is particularly good for any particular reason. Aside from being all manner of racist, it does not provide any intellectual cud to chew on.



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Logan - (2017 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3315342/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/logan

Logan (Wolverine) gets tangled up with a girl fleeing a mutant research and breeding lab that is definitely nothing like that of Dark Angel – (2000 show).

Not recommended.

This is like a DC version of X-Men. It was passable at best, and a good way to put the whole series and concept of comic book movies to bed. I think I’ll end them all on this low note.




2018-02-23

  • 2:30 — The claw thing is a reference to drunk men having trouble achieving full erection.
  • 3:15 — Shooting him didn’t do anything, why would they fight him, let alone try to stab him?
  • 4:00 — Texas license plate WER 112

    • Is he in Texas?
  • 4:15 —

    • West 62 — Is that West Virginia Route 62?
    • El Paso is in Texas. So apparently there were Spanish-speaking gangsters in Texas for some reason. Is that a thing?
  • 4:45 — So apparently he can (or needs to) flex bullets out now.
  • 5:00 — The year 2029
  • 5:15 — He’s a professional limousine driver.
  • 9:00 — “South of the border” a reference to Mexico.

    Alkali | Transigen
    Donald Pierce
    Chief of Security
    Cell: 915 122-2425
    Office: (obscured)

  • 10:00 — He is presumably now in Mexico.
  • 12:15 — Taco Bell
  • 13:45 — So I thought he was dead. Wasn’t he disintegrated a couple of movies ago?
  • 14:00 — What are those pills, anyway?
  • 14:30 —

  • 15:00 — Statue of Liberty

  • 18:45 —

  • 20:45 — The tag on the glasses means he just bought them, and the previous “cannot read” comment was apparently near-sightedness.
  • 22:00 — Canada
  • 23:15 — That’s an X-Men comic book, and I’m certain there are nerds who know what specific one it is.
  • 24:15 — North Dakota
  • 30:15 — Why not shoot him?
  • 34:00 — Ageing:

    • Octogenarian = 80-89 years old
    • Nongenarian = 90-99 years old
  • 35:00 — Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
  • 38:00 — Casual misandry.
  • 42:15 — They could catch up with them.. pretty trivially actually.
  • 43:15 — That’s a reference to Dracula?
  • 43:45 — OH! Is that the super-kid from some earlier movie? Oh, wait.. no.. no I just don’t know the reference to him working for their team.
  • 48:30 — Pringles

    • 48:45 — .. and a drink I don’t recognize.
  • 49:30 —

  • 54:30 — I don’t know that movie offhand.
  • 56:00 — So they can implant titanium again?
  • 56:30 — Another X-Men comic book.
  • 56:45 — I don’t know if this is the same movie as earlier.

    • 57:30 — It’s possible to track down this movie based on these lines.
  • 59:30 — More comic book stuff.
  • 1:07:30 — It was already established that her adamantium was implanted.
  • 1:11:00 —

  • 1:17:30 — Corn syrup
  • 1:23:00 — Westchester, but I don’t know which one..
  • 1:46:45 — If they were all raised together, how can they have different accents?
  • 1:49:45 — Quadcopter
  • 1:56:30 — Why is any of that non-lethal? None of them were to be captured..
  • 1:58:00 — Why would they pause instead of shooting? Oh, more non-lethality for some reason.
  • 2:04:30 — How come he can’t just slash the cable?
  • 2:06:00 — It was already established that he can be stopped, so how come the vehicle didn’t temporarily-splat him?

Thor - Ragnarok - (2017 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501632/
https://movies.disney.com/thor-ragnarok

I don’t even know where to begin with summarizing this mess.

I guess it’s watchable, but it’s not exactly exciting.


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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2387513/
was libertadorfilm.com

Inspired by the French Revolution, a rebellion is launched against Spaniards in South America.

This movie leverages the “yeah freedom!” but spins the old yarn that all of the rich are bad and oppressors and the poor are good and oppressed. Entertaining, though propagandistic. It is particularly interesting to think of the underlying themes of the events portrayed in this movie, and how Socialism has plunged Venezuela into a dark age. I don’t know that I would bother recommending this; it’s alright.

  • aka Libertador
  • Although this is in Spanish, a tiny amount is English, and a tinier amount is in French.




2018-02-08

  • 3:00 — Wouldn’t he be in a stronghold, or some well-defended place?
  • 5:15 —

  • Madrid, The kingdom of Spain – 28 years earlier
    FIXME – early version
  • 6:15 — CaracasVenezuela province
    FIXME
  • 9:30 — Province of Venezuela – Kingdom of Spain
  • 11:00 — Guava
  • 13:15 — Rousseau
  • 13:30 — Catholic Church
  • 13:45 — Against nations, something akin to Anarchy or possibly just Communism.
  • 15:00 — Paris
  • 15:15 — Sugar Cane
  • 19:30 — Oh my.
  • 20:45 — I thought Spanish women rode side-saddle at that time.
  • 24:00 — I’m sure a pregnancy would seriously weaken her.
  • 27:30 — South America
  • 29:15 — Champs-Elysees

    • Also, presumably they have been in France, likely Paris since that was mentioned earlier.
  • 29:45 — Napoleon
  • 31:30 —

  • 31:45 — So he’s basically, what, pre-Marxist?
  • 32:15 — Dillitante
  • 33:00 — Thomas Jefferson
  • 35:15 — George Washington
  • 35:45 — TODO – Creole people in South America
  • 36:45 — Valencia, Province of Venezuela – The Kingdom of Spain
  • 37:10 — Wilhelm scream
  • 52:15 — I’ll make you free, to be my slaves.
  • 59:30 — He’s had more time to talk..
  • 1:09:15 — Kingston, Jamaica

    • September 6th, 1815
  • 1:10:00 — “Privelage”

    • It’s an amusing irony that this immediately references freedom of thought and expression.
  • 1:10:15 — “Equality”. This sort of phrase needs to be clarified these days.
  • 1:13:15 — The Andes
  • 1:13:30 — Hanibal crossing the Alps
  • 1:14:45 — Dublin
  • 1:16:45 — Why would you bring a pregnant woman?
  • 1:19:15 — Cortez – burning boats
  • 1:26:00 — Wilhelm scream
  • 1:32:45 — A little nod to the problem of economic sovereignty.
  • 1:35:45 — It took all this time to actually get back to “the present”.
  • 1:46:30 — Port of Barranquilla – December 1st, 1830
    TODO
  • 1:50:30 — “Fire”. HuH?
  • 1:50:30 —

    Simon Bolivar never arrived in Venezuela.
    His death was announced 16 days later.
    The official cause of death was tuberculosis.