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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975856/
Time travelers recruit an everyman to help save their world.
Crude and un-funny.
- Apparently inspired by The Last Starfighter – (1984 movie)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80097140
Pseudo-immortality is reached when alien technology allows humans to save their consciousnesses to reusable disks, and a criminal’s disk is brought online from deep storage, for him to investigate the crime against an ancient and powerful man.
Finally, a science fiction show with real depth and darkness. Highly recommended.
I forgot season 1 and so it basically goes to confusing shit in season 2 so I gave up.
- Based on Altered Carbon – (2002 book), by Richard K. Morgan
- Altered Carbon – season 1 notes
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3672742/
was turbo-kid.com
In an apocalyptic wasteland, a boy and his friend stuff and things.
Simultaneously childish and gore-heavy, this movie doesn’t have anything going for it.
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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.
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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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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..
- My edition published 1993
- ISBN-10 0-14-017739-6
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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.
- ISBN-10 0-425-16172-2
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I had a sticker with two, and the book had two.. and none of these are coming up with anything:
- This is apparently a series, which I won’t pursue, and there is also Tom Clancy’s Net Force Explorers
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This inspired Netforce – (1999 movie)
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An unlikely little hero is swept into an travel-adventure through dangerous lands to recapture the lost treasures of a fallen Dwarvish kingdom.
Considered a classic fantasy book, it’s definitely a children’s book from it’s narrative tone. It’s slow and awkward in a lot of places, and takes too long to pick up into anything interesting for me. Perhaps it’s because I had read it long ago, and perhaps it’s because of the staggering quality of its associated movies, but I didn’t like it.
Definitely not recommended as an entry into fantasy fiction, in spite of its popularity. Veterans of the genre may as well read this just to say they have.
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Published 1982-01
- ISBN-13 978-0-345-33968-3
- Note: This is an edited edition.
- Followed by The Lord of the Rings – (1954 book), by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Adapted into a movie which I don’t have notes on.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/superman-movie
An alien grows up with super powers.
Bunches of this movie make no sense. It’s cute and dated, but ultimately not great because of moments of terrible writing.
