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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102562/

An evil scientist constructs a robot surrogate and transfers his consciousness into it to carry out his plans for global domination by kidnapping a very wealthy sheikh’s son.

A watchable moderate-budget movie which somehow still falls into an 80s-cheese style. It’s rare to find such a bold movie, even with it being unashamedly graphic to the point of dark comedy. I think that’s why I like it.

It’s worth watching once.

See also RoboCop – (1987 movie)

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110200/

Upon hearing of his master’s death, a man returns to Shanghai amidst tensions from its Japanese occupation, and learns there was foul play.

Quite a good movie, with all the basic elements. There’s next to none of the B-movie cheese that’s pervasive of such films, so it’s good enough for everyday people.

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Cloud Atlas – (2012 movie)

2016-12-30

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/cloud-atlas

During the thrashing of an epileptic seizure, an editor stitches together bits of various unrelated shorts into a single movie filled with famous people and great music.

If one can labour past the non science-fiction, it’s pretty good. In fact, I think if one cut out everything except two of the storylines, they would make for good shorts. I may do that one day.

I wouldn’t imagine this to have been a critical success.

Based on Cloud Atlas (2004 book), by David Mitchell

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Timestalkers – (1987 movie)

2016-12-27

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094154/

A scientist from the future goes back in time to do (stuff that I wasn’t paying attention enough to figure out), but his assistant’s daughter goes back to stop him with the help of one of the grandfather’s of time travel.

For an old TV-movie this is pretty good.

The actual movie is copyright 1986.

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G.I. Joe – The Rise of Cobra – (2009 movie)

2016-12-13

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046173/

Newly-developed military nano-technology is stolen by terrorists in a plot to take over the world, and only a super-elite team chosen from the international best can stop them.

This movie is another example of both an astonishingly wide gap between its original audience and current audience, and a needless unimagination in original movie universe-building authorship.

Properly titled G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Based on the G.I. Joe toy / cartoon franchise.
In association with Hasbro.

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Men in Black – (1997 movie)

2016-12-09

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/

to re-watch

See also R.I.P.D. – (2013 movie)
#1 in the Men in Black franchise

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Sound juicer

2016-12-09

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(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundJuicer

An audio CD ripper.

A graphical frontend for cdparanoia

~2011-03-07 – (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded, probably Lubuntu)

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Software >

https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef
https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/

An audio player.

Straightforward, with few dependencies and a lot of audio format support.

Dark Moon

2016-12-06

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Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions + Pale Moon dark themes >

https://github.com/Lootyhoof/darkmoon
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/darkmoon/

A dark theme for Pale Moon.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300902/

In a world where everyone must take a daily suppressant to survive a deadly plague, one cop is put on the case of a string of murders targeting its researchers.

As usual, Christopher Lambert is a terrible actor. I just realized he’s another Keanu Reeves, where if you like the guy you’ll be just fine.. and you’ll also know how each of his characters will look and feel.

Kelly Brook is a work of art.

Released 2003-12-16

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