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Robot Chicken - Star Wars (2007) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020990/

A standard Robot Chicken, but with various skits parodying the Star Wars franchise.

Have a half hour to waste? Give this a shot, but if you don’t like it within the first few minutes go do something better; Robot Chicken is hit-and-miss.

Salt (2010) poster 2

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/salt

CIA agent Salt is accused by a walk-in Russian defector of being a Soviet spy.

This leverages actual Cold War issues into a reasonable plot and interesting action. Though I only vaguely liked it, because the general movie type isn’t my thing, I would recommend this for fans of action movies. This is not a spy movie, as such.



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Fantastic Four (2015) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/
https://family.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/fantastic-four

Five young scientists invent a technology to teleport to some other world, but there are terrible consequences.

An adequate movie. Recommended if you’re already into this class of movie. Apparently this superhero retardation is now an entire class of movie. God dammit this is some lazy bullshit.

  • Stylized as Fant4stic

    • No, really.
    • I’m not sure if this is actually done in print with text or only with that image/logo.


Jessica Jones (2015-) netflix

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2357547/
https://www.marvel.com/tv-shows/marvel-s-jessica-jones/2

A woman with the powers of strength and PTSD is tormented by a former not-boyfriend and whose description spoils the show.

I watched this for a bit, and it’s slow and boring.



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Pi (1998) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

A man stares into the sun as a child, and develops superhuman powers of math, pattern recognition with a side order of paranoia etc.

I don’t think this will appeal to most people, since it deal with topics only the fringe of humanity have any comprehension of. I happen to like it quite a bit, for reasons I certainly never hinted at in the previous sentence.

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Extinction (2015) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3467412/
was vacafilms.com/en/welcome-to-harmony (under the old name)

It’s the post-zombie apocalypse, and somehow in permanent-winter a nine year old is a whiny first world prissy little bitch.

There is no plot. Even if, and especially if, you like zombie movies.. avoid. I liked it at first, but it soon drove me mad with confusion and annoyance. I had to stop before the half way mark.

  • Trailer
  • Formerly known as Welcome to Harmony



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SAGA - The Shadow Cabal (2013) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2250234/
was arrowstormentertainment.com/theshadowcabel

A ramshackle band of misfits find themselves aligned when they work towards parallel goals to save the land from the resurrection of the god of death.

Adequate. If you like orcs, one elf and one kickass dwarf, and if you can handle overacting, then this is recommended.

  • Properly titled Dragon Lore: Curse of the Shadow
  • Also known as SAGA: The Shadow Cabal
  • Also known as SAGA: Curse of the Shadow
  • Contains no dragons, dragon lore, lore .. and I don’t even remember if there was any sort of curse or shadows.



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The Untouchables (1987) picture

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226/

The story of Al Capone and his network of criminals being chased by the United States Department of the Treasury.

Overall it’s an entertaining, albeit predictable, film to me. I understand it was popular at the time, but I can’t imagine it’s held up well at all. It puts me off because it’s so very clean, yet has so much violence. There is a sort of strange “Disney violence” oil-and-water that makes no sense to me.



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