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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2674430/
A guy who builds the technology to turn dirt into water goes to Mars, and even though he knows the ship better than anyone else, somehow, he has trouble on the way.
A patient, somewhat interesting movie. Worth watching if you’re into such things, but definitely not if you’re new to this style.
I watched the whole thing, and don’t really regret it, but I wouldn’t categorize this as anywhere near awesome.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399664/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210721174231/www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager–108
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g13rt
A dude begins his career as a night manager for some place somewhere but gets used by British intelligence to act against an arms dealer.
Fairly decent, but I suspect it’s only because this is another show with a British accent being thrown around carelessly.
Based on The Night Manager (1993 book), by John le Carré
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https://github.com/learningequality/ka-lite/
An offline version of Khan Academy.
A free lightweight solution providing high-quality education where you need it most.
Though this software is unofficial, it is known of and approved by the official website.
disliked – because it has no concept of building a larger topic of things to work on, and showing an easy path to progress through them. Needing to pick through a large number of topics, sub-topics and quizzes and then manually and repeatedly going back into that list is inexcusably frustrating.
Once installed it’s seen at 127.0.0.1:8008
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/
https://movies.disney.com/wreck-it-ralph
In a world where video game characters are alive, a lonely bad guy tries to earn appreciation but ends up threatens ruin.
A fun movie, most appropriate for the nostalgia fans of various old arcade games. It goes very very old, like Pixels – (2015 movie), which puts it in a particularly odd space. I think this one ends up being childish and unique enough that its various reference aren’t in the way of an actual proper movie.
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Entertainment > Movies >
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2667380/
A mercenary group is sent to an island for training exercises, only to learn that it was being used to train military robots.
Although pretty stiff because of the lead character, this is a decent enough movie. Worth watching for science fiction fans, but not for military movie fans.
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628841/
https://family.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/independence-day-resurgence
Twenty years after the near-annihilation of Earth, aliens return.
Not a particularly good movie. Definitely not worth a watch for science fiction movie fans. I don’t know who the target audience is supposed to be. There’s no character development, poor drama, uninspired action, un-notable writing.. so un-notable that I made a word up. Screw you, red squiggle.. I defy you.
Properly titled Independence Day: Resurgence
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3410834/
was thedivergentseries.movie
The last remaining city in a ruined world learns it has an oversight committee funding a research project overseeing them.
An adequate movie, filled with no character development, an uninteresting world and a mediocre plot. Good for a watch for people who like the earlier movies in this series, or people too young and dumb to know what a good movie actually is.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489184/
https://www.nbc.com/constantine
A man attains mystical powers originally for selfish reasons, but they taint with a life fraught with danger and demons.
Not a bad show, but the lead character’s personality isn’t attracting, and there’s the old celestial stick-up-the-ass personality in another. The lead female is hot. Hotty hot hot.
This was cancelled after one season. Back in the 90s this show would have done well, but I’m guessing this genre has alternately been well-poisoned or saturated. This show has too much it has to be better than to catch enough attention to survive. I think that it’s magic-fantasy was competing with an extraordinarily-strong superhero-fantasy genre.
.. which in turn is based on the DC comic book series Hellblazer.
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/
A black man is black and something something racism white men are bad but that’s totally not racist.
Oh god this is so bad. I gave this more than a half an hour and I was bounced between being insulted, offended, angered and bored.
Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X by (1965 book), by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
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Entertainment > Movies (World of Warcraft) >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/
was uphe.com/movies/warcraft
A warrior race escapes a decaying world by invading a new one.
I hold no strong opinion of this. It’s .. mediocre.
aka Warcraft: The Beginning
