Month: July 2023

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Sci-Fi in the 90s

It was weird, to say the least.

I got my pledge rewards from the Cyberpunk Red Combat Zone campaign yesterday, so of course it made me want to watch something related, so I ended up watching 1995’s Johnny Mnemonic, which I don’t believe I’ve watched since seeing it in the theatre, 28 years ago.

Hooboy, what a stinker of a film that was.  I had forgotten who all else was in it besides Keanu Reeves.  Ice-T?  Dina Meyer?  Henry Rollins?  Dolph Lundgren?

Yeah.

Now I’m watching Starship Troopers, admittedly  one of my guilty pleasure go-to movies, but yeah, this one isn’t that great either, truth be told.

Maybe I should follow this one up with Mars Attacks or Independence Day.

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Secret Invasion

I didn’t hate it.  There was a good story in there.  The execution and writing were just pretty poor.

For every good moment there were a couple of bad ones.  And there were a lot of bad moments.

Overall I feel that this was one of the weaker Disney+ shows.

And I’ll just leave it at that.

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Dead Reckoning Part One

I seriously wasn’t planning to go see this on in the theatre.

But then I remembered how much I love this franchise.

It was long.  Ridiculously long.  Some of the set piece action scenes were long.  Too long.  They could have cut many of them short.

The movie clocks in at 2 hours 49 minutes.

That’s long.

But it was a good movie.

It hit all the right notes for an M:I film, for me.

I’d recommend it to die hard fans of the series.

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Parallels

I’m a Giants and Mets fan, except when the Giants play the Mets, and I’m totally a Mets fan.  Even though the Giants are my hometown team, and the first ball club that I knew.

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I’m a Godzilla and King Kong fan, except when Godzilla fights Kong, and I’m totally Team Kong.  In this case I recall seeing the original King Kong (1933) before I ever saw a Godzilla film, the first of which might have been King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963).

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I drink Coca Cola and Pepsi.  I prefer Pepsi.

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I’m a Star Wars and Star Trek fan.  Period.