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Constantine (2014 - 2015) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489184/
https://www.nbc.com/constantine

A man attains mystical powers originally for selfish reasons, but they taint with a life fraught with danger and demons.

Not a bad show, but the lead character’s personality isn’t attracting, and there’s the old celestial stick-up-the-ass personality in another. The lead female is hot. Hotty hot hot.

This was cancelled after one season. Back in the 90s this show would have done well, but I’m guessing this genre has alternately been well-poisoned or saturated. This show has too much it has to be better than to catch enough attention to survive. I think that it’s magic-fantasy was competing with an extraordinarily-strong superhero-fantasy genre.



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Malcolm X (1992) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/

A black man is black and something something racism white men are bad but that’s totally not racist.

Oh god this is so bad. I gave this more than a half an hour and I was bounced between being insulted, offended, angered and bored.



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Warcraft (2016) poster

Entertainment > Movies (World of Warcraft) >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/
was uphe.com/movies/warcraft

A warrior race escapes a decaying world by invading a new one.

I hold no strong opinion of this. It’s .. mediocre.



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Archer (2009-) tv poster

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/
https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/archer

A spy does spy stuff, drinks, hits on women and makes a jackass of himself while being surprisingly competent.

A fun, light, series which has a whole lot of laugh-out-loud moments.

  • Though I’ve seen it all, I didn’t begin taking notes until later on.



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X-Men - Apocalypse (2016) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3385516/
https://family.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/x-men-apocalypse

An Old One is awakened, and renews his takeover of the world.. except we already know the good guys win because this takes place in the 80s and a past movie, set in the then-future, has an intact world with all characters accounted for.

A standard superhero movie, with nothing particularly interesting. Extremely confusing given that this is a sequel to a sequel to a prequel or some shit.

I would have done a few things different, and even a few subtle changes would have made this movie a hell of a lot better.

Definitely pass on this unless you’re really into this particular series.

  • Properly titled X-Men: Apocalypse


TODO – Oh god my DVD looks awful. I’m spoiled by Blu-Ray.

Natural City (2003) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378428/

I’m not really sure what’s going on with this movie. Something about cyborgs and a guy who is in love with one that he’s trying to “resurrect”.

It’s an interesting watch, but probably only because it’s Korean. I don’t get to see a lot of foreign science fiction movies outside of the glut of Japanese anime. I sort of like it, but I tend to get confused in a couple of places. It’ll be recommended, but only to those of a similar mind to me.

Very good subtitles; very few were awkward for me.



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The Boondock Saints (1999) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/
was boondocksaints.com

Tired of lax justice, two brothers become particularly effective vigilantes against the criminal element in their greater area.

I don’t know what to say about this movie. It’s fantastic. Good characters, a good story and with a good flow to it.

  • TODO – A two-part comic book story, serving as a companion to the movie sequel, was released in May 2010.