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Project Hail Mary

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I should have seen this in the theatre.

As everyone says, Amaze, Amaze, Amaze!

I liked this one a lot.

I’ll admit that even having this available to me for a couple months, I couldn’t find the time to watch it, and the two previous time I tried to watch it, I was to tired and started to doze off about 5 minutes in both times.

But once I was rested enough to sit down and watch it, I still had to pause about halfway because I almost forgot about the France-England 3rd place World Cup match.

I loved Rocky and everything he brought to the movie.  Whodathunk that a sentient rock would be such a smart, lovable character?  To be fair he was flying around in a spaceship when we met him.

Biggest surprise to me was Lionel Boyce as Carl.  I love that guy in The Bear as Marcus, so seeing him in this was great.

The rest of the cast was great, from the kids in Grace’s class to the scientists/astronauts he met later.

I’m no xenobiologist, but the plot seemed feasable.  Do they sell Taumoeba t-shirts?

Anyways, I’m sorry I missed this theatrically but glad I did finally get around to watching this one.

Recommended.

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The Odyssey

Took me a couple days to collect my thoughts on this movie.

Out of the theatre reaction, I really liked this movie, a lot.  Did I love it?

A few days later I’d say yes, but initially it stressed me out as much as Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning did.  Othe than saying that the Cyclops really freaked me out, there’s not much more I can say without spoilers.

But can one really spoil a 2,700 year old story?  I mean, I can say the Circe scene freaked me out; heck, the mere mention of her name and knowing her part in the story had me tensing up.

It was like watching Apollo 13, you know how the story ends, yet you’re caught up in how it plays out on screen.

And watching the press interviews after the fact, I can see another reason I love this movie is the cast.

I didn’t recognize John Leguizamo even after I heard and recognized his voice.

I had trouble placing where I’d seen Himesh Patel before this movie.

Tom Holland, Brad Pitt, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattenson, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, all very much favorites of mine from one project or another, or multiples.

I don’t plan on watching this in the theatre again, but I’m looking forward to watching on streaming, and I hope the IMAX aspect ratio will be available to watch, because damn.

CDN media

Highly recommended, and try to see it in IMAX.

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Supergirl

This is the James Gunn DCU Supergirl.

She’s different from the CW version by a country mile (maybe a parsec?).

She’s different from any other iteration of the character, as great as previous ones have been.

That said, I loved Milly Alcock in the role as much as, if not more, than I have any other version of this character.

Overall, I thought this was a good movie and I enjoyed watching it.

It was slow at parts, and Lobo felt shoehorned into the story.  Superman’s cameos made me love this version of that character even more, which is saying a lot.

The differences between the graphic novel and the movie made sense, especially with [redacted], and the ending, except the main villain didn’t seem as intimidating as he should have been.

I especially liked how they did the Argo City parts and Kara’s flashbacks.

On a scale of 1-10, I’d give this a 7.

And I also recommend reading the original source material, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, before or after seeing the film.

Thumbs up.

Go see it!

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This is the Way

It  was good.

As my nephew said, it could easily been half a season of The Mandalorian on  Disney Plus.

The story was good, I was entertained, and there was lots that I liked and a thing or two I didn’t.

It was great to see Mando and Grogu in action again, along with Zeb and Ripley, er, Colonel Ward (Sigourney Weaver).

And it was simply great to see (and hear) a Star Wars film on the big screen, IMAX in the case of our screening.

Recommended if you’re a Mando/Grogu fan.

Go see it!

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The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-78) — Contains Moderate Peril

I’m watching episodes of this show on and off, and I find that I haven’t seen most (if not all) of these episodes since they were first broadcast, almost 50 years ago.

We didn’t have a VCR in the mid-70s, and I didn’t watch reruns back then.  Heck, I think I only watched the Bigfoot episodes when Sci-Fi Channel picked up the show at some point during the late 90s/early 2000s.

Anyways, I recently watched “The Song and Dance Spy” guest-starring Sonny Bono.  Imagine my surprise when I recognized Bruce Glover as the main bad guy and Jayne Kennedy as one of Bono’s backup singers, or looking up the episode on IMDB.com and discovering Star Trek TNG director Cliff Bole was an assistant director on this episode.

Or that the background singer who Bono introduced as his girlfriend was actually real life girlfriend/future wife Susie Coelho.

The Six Million Dollar Man" The Song and Dance Spy (TV Episode 1975) - IMDb

And part of this story took place in Manila, Philippines, and Guam.

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Happy New… oh, it’s almost February?

This year has officially sucked so far.

I lost two uncles, both of them from my Dad’s side of the family, in the span of 10 days.

Hopefully the bad stuff will stay in January and the rest of 2026 will be fine.

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I was going to write more, but just writing that above has sucked the life out of me.

I will say that I enjoyed Wonder Man on Disney+.

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I will also say than in the span of about a week I went from being really excited about the Super Bowl down in Santa Clara @ Levi’s Stadium to not caring about game day except for the commercials and movie trailers.

My Broncos did better this season than anyone expected, including me.

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I think today marks 10 days until Pitchers and Catchers report for Spring Training, so least that’s coming soon.

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Rewatch: GoT

After watching one reactor’s reaction to Game of Thrones Season 1 and part of Season 2, I’ve decided to continue from there, and I’m about to finish Season 2.

Having never gone back to rewatch after the debacle, er, ending of the show (i.e. Seasons 7 & 8), I had forgotten just how good this series was, at it’s peak.

Plus, the reactor’s reaction watch prompted me to dive back into some forgotten Game of Thrones games that I had picked up over the years, I’ll need to see if I can find where I put the card game in my storage unit.

So I may or may not continue this to the end of the series, or maybe stop after Season 6, Episode 9.

Did I toss my House Stark shirt in the move?

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Messages

Even at 58, I go through periods of self-doubt, times when I wish my parents were there to talk me through it.

Most of the time I just push it aside and go about my business.

Sometimes I get a message through media.

Parents aren’t for telling their children who they’re supposed to be.

We are here to give y’all tools, help you make fools of yourselves all on your own.

No.

Your choices, Clark. Your actions. That’s what makes you who you are.

I’ll tell you something, son.

I couldn’t be… [sniffs] …more proud of you.

Thanks, Pa.

Miss you, Dad.

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POLICE SQUAD! IN COLOR!

I actually wasn’t planning on going to see this right away, I felt a little burnt out after seeing 2 movies 4 times in 3 weeks.

But at the last minute I decided to go, and I’m glad I did.

It was a small crowd, but we all pretty much laughed throughout the movie.  It was pretty damn funny

There was a cameo I didn’t expect, the credits listed some non-standard crew, and there was an after credits scene.

I think it held up on it’s own compared to the original movies.

Recommended if you’re a fan of the original TV show/movies/Liam Neeson/Pamela Anderson.