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The Signal - (2024 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25375256/

A mysterious message is detected by an astronaut, who learns its senders are on their way to Earth.

Fair, and moody, but it feels like there should be more content.

  • Original title: Das Signal



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Babylon Berlin - (2017 show) poster

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4378376/
https://www.babylon-berlin.com/en/

Intrigue about pre-WWII Germany.

Slow, tense, and boring.



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Leon Must Die - (2017 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6427156/

A dying man wants to save himself by creating digital immortality without considering the consequences, and time travelers go back to murder him and save the future of humanity.

Fair, but it does have some significant holes in it. Nisan Arikan is beautiful, but that can't make up for the flaws. It's fair, but not recommended; it's for the extreme collectors.

  • Trailer
  • aka Leon muss sterben
  • The movie itself says it's 2016.



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Time Jumpers - (2018 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8041916/

A compilation of short films of various topics, a couple of which feature time and jumping but none of which justify this title.

Some of these might have been padded out into a passable TV-movie, but nothing is really any good.



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Dark - (2017 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/
https://dark.netflix.io/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80100172

A large town has mysterious repeated incidents the residents try to figure out.

It starts strong but gets weak and weird. Recommended for people who like reality and time-related stuff.



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Mute - (2018 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464763/
http://www.liberty-films.com/project/mute/

In a futuristic Germany, a mute guy has relationship troubles.

An interesting world, but generally terrible writing.

  • German is unnecessarily sprinkled throughout this movie.
  • Intended as a spiritual successor to Moon - (2009 movie), though I don't see how.



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Look Who's Back (2015) German language poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4176826/

Hitler is pulled into his future, and being able to do nothing but be himself, he is taken to be a comedian.

I know this is meant as a comedy, but.. it's just off. It's worth a watch, but just the one. It touches on quite a lot of .. well touchy subjects. Perhaps this movie will greatly improve in time, while things aren't so sensitive.



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Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher (2014) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/

A young, broken, man, enters an underground community of computer crackers, trying desperately to prove himself but with consequences.

An extremely good movie. While not quite mandatory, it's definitely a proper advancement of the "hacker kid" movies that have sullied past movies. Highly recommended, even for people that "know their stuff", as it doesn't lay on the techno-babble which describes everything painfully wrong. Instead, it takes a reasonable middle ground, staying away from pop culture and fairly-firmly on the social side of storytelling.



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