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Cloud Atlas – (2012 movie)

2016-12-30

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(on Wikipedia)
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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Millennium – (1989 movie)

2016-12-27

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/

An investigator of airplane disasters learns their passengers are critical to the plans of a woman he falls in love with.

This is one of the early time travel movies which really grabbed me and brought me into the genre. I don’t know that I’d call it great or could strongly recommended it to others, but I like it a lot.

Based on Air Raid – (1977 story), by John Varley

Timestalkers – (1987 movie)

2016-12-27

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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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Three Amigos – (1986 movie)

2016-12-26

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/

Three movie stars, mistaken for the heroes they portray, are lead to Mexico to protect townsfolk.

Maybe this was good in the context in which it was made, but god damn is it awful now.

Properly titled ¡Three Amigos!
See also Seven Samurai – (1954 movie)

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Tiko first impressions

2016-12-24

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Oh god, this thing isn’t usable.

Anyone can connect and fuck with a print job.
It has no pause functionality, they lied.
It has no built-in editor, they lied.
It doesn’t calibrate properly, so it can’t actually be used.

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Rogue One – (2015 movie)

2016-12-19

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/
https://www.starwars.com/films/rogue-one

Something something father something reactor something plans to the death star something hope.

A pretty terrible episode. I’m not going to bother watching another of these..

AKA Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, because fuck sensible naming.

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The Internet’s Own Boy – (2014 movie)

2016-12-18

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The Internet's Own Boy - (2014 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/
See https://participant.com/?s=the+internet%27s+own

A documentary on Aaron Swartz and some of the major events he participated in.

2014-09-06
Film by Brian Knappenberger – Luminant Media
(old) kickstarter campaign
gpvcc9C8SbM (archive)
was vimeo.com/ondemand/internetsownboy
was itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-internets-own-boy/id880571554

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

2016-12-13

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

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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.