The Galactic Senate

And yet again, it comes round...

May the Fourth be with you all!

Kong: Skull Island. Not as bad as I was expecting. In fact, more entertaining than The Last Jedi. Much more. Nonsensical, to be sure, but entertaining enough for a diversion while preparing and eating dinner.

Eurus.

Colossus , by D. F. Jones. A moldy oldie from 1966. It never gives any specific date indications in the course of 220+ pages, but hints at events taking place round the turn of the century--that is, the 20th becoming the 21st. It tells the story of a runaway supercomputer--well, two of them really-...

Saw the film Tuesday afternoon, as soon as I could clear time to spin the disc. I have six or seven pages of notes I'm working up into a proper post for the proper thread. If anyone is interested. If not, well, that's cool, too. 6-7 pages?!?!? Eagerly awaiting your essay. I think it should arrive s...

The Last Jedi . D (and then I'm generous). Generous? You have a gift for understatement... The last film I watched was (part) of The Conjuring 2 , which was just a little too stupid to finish. I don't usually laugh during horror movies, but this one was a laugh a minute. The Warrens... Ugh. And the...

Sherlock, 4.2, "The Lying Detective." That was just...weird...

Weird, weird, weird.

I think I want the 1890s back, please.

Fear the Walking Dead , Season 4.1, the much-hyped Morgan Jones crossover from The Walking Dead . Okay, actually, the last show I watched was Talking Dead after this one, but this was the last fiction I watched. Underwhelmed, I was. That's still an improvement over my (dis)satisfaction with the thr...

Zero Dark Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Hawk

Prometheus. Yes, that one. It's a mess, but it makes good mealtime viewing. And it's way better than that awful "sequel."

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg by Philip José Farmer. Reread, it actually, for the first time in...golly, probably fifteen years? Not quite as good as I remember it being.

Something I shouldn't have, I think. My diet's been all weird since lunch...

Still waiting...

Eager to caption...

Into the Badlands, 2.8, "Sting of the Scorpion's Tail," if memory serves.

Yeah, I was really underwhelmed. After the first, 6-episode event series, I felt done. Sounds like there's no reason for me to jump back in. Not unless you enjoy being bored and wasting your time. After the big build-up to last season's finale, they pulled back, way back this season, and it was mos...

The Terror by Dan Simmons.

I'm not exactly sure what it was supposed to be--historical novel, horror novel, soporific--but, in the end, it's...

Dances with Eskimo

It's readable, and it has its moments, but it could have been cut, tightened, and cleaned of anachronisms.

So. As I've said elsewhere, I've seen it now. Remarks forthcoming.

Meanwhile, I make this prediction:

Episode IX will be called...

The Whimpire Versus the Gelded Alliance.

The X-Crement Files, "Event Series" 11.10: "My Struggle IV"

Well, what can you expect from a series that's ripped of a title from der Führer four freakin' times?

Adios, Mulder and Scully. Don't let senescence hit you in the ass on the way out.

Yeah, I was really underwhelmed.

I saw this thing...what was it called? Episode VIII, I think, or maybe it was The Last Jedi ? If that was it, I can see why it would be the last... Saw the film Tuesday afternoon, as soon as I could clear time to spin the disc. I have six or seven pages of notes I'm working up into a proper post for...

Remind me...you are a fan of Blade Runner or no? Look forward to hearing your thoughts on the new one compared to the original. After a fashion, yes. It's not the easiest movie to enjoy, it's not popcorn flick, certainly; however, I do derive enjoyment from it at certain levels, and especially--ah,...

The X-Files, 7.12 (I think), "X-Cops." These programs are not ageing well. I remembered this one as amusing when it first aired. Last night, it just put me to sleep about 20 minutes in.

Count to Infinity by John C. Wright.

Reading it was strangely like counting to infinity: it took forever (or seemed to), and wasn't very enjoyable.

Holy crap, I think Alien: Covenant is still the last film I've seen. You have to fix that, LT. Many worthier movies you need to get in. Agreed. I have a lot of discs piled up I'm eager to get to (whether or not the prove worth it in the end of course remains to be seen): F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu , ...

Unimpressed. I liked the short teaser better than the long teaser. I really didn't like the long teaser, or, I suppose they're calling it "the trailer." Probably only trailer, in my estimation. I don't like the look of the actor playing Han Solo. Ah, yes: Sham Faux-lo. But it it just me, or is Maz ...

thepepgal wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2018, 2:21 pm

Tesla the movie is released in the cinema on May so dvd probably released in November in time for Christmas gifts.

Ah, so they shall be dual-purpose discs: coasters and lumps of coal in recipients' stockings. What won't they think of next...

Thanks!

It was...

Damn. I could really use the head-scratch smiley about now, because...

I can't be sure what the last film I watched was...

I don't think it was very good...

Holy crap, I think Alien: Covenant is still the last film I've seen.

rhinoplasty

The last book I read was: The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout.

I'm still working on Gregory Benford's Great Sky River.

About to start John C. Wright's Count to Infinity.