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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/
An comet’s path crosses the earth’s, and a shuttle crew is to rendezvous with it to plant nukes to divert its course.
With a decent story and good characters, the science proves, unfortunately, fundamentally flawed. It’s still a good watch and doesn’t show its age.
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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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(on Wikipedia)
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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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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Entertainment > Movies >
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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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Entertainment > Movies >
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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.
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/
to re-watch
#1 in the Men in Black franchise
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Software >
(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)
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.
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