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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.

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First Steps

What a month.

This was a good movie, though I did like Superman a little bit more.

So many little things made me smile, the chemistry between the cast in particular.

Galactus was done right this time around, and I liked the Silver Surfer character.

And that mid credits scene.  Whoa.

Nice nods to existing FF lore, too, both during the movie and during the… end credits scene.

Recommended.  Two thumbs up.  Go see it!

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Superman

Growing up I always saw DC Comics as fun and Marvel Comics as serious.

DC characters seemed to have no problems back then while Marvel’s characters thrived on personal drama (The Parker Luck, for example).

While I love both equally now, when I was a kid I was very much a DC Comics fan, with stories both in comics and on TV where the heroes always won, villains went to jail, and everything was black and white.

James Gunn’s Superman captures that feeling, the feeling of the invincibility of heroes through and through, almost as if the pages of a comic have come to life on screen.

This movie felt more like a comic book than any comic book movie ever has.  And it very much feels like the comics that I read when I was still in single digits, age-wise.

While some reviews call Mr. Terrific the MVP of the movie, my vote goes to Krypto, the goodest boy in the universe.  He stole every scene he was in, and it made me smile every time.

The cast is phenomenal, every character is pretty much a modern version, yet felling very classic in execution.

The plot is so much comic booky that somewhere, Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger are smiling.

There was so much I loved about this movie, it’s possibly my favorite Superman film, as much as I love the original 1978 film and Man of Steel.

Highly recommended.  Two thumbs up.  GO SEE IT!

Also, there’s 2 credits scenes.

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Deck

I first heard the term ‘cyberdeck’ or ‘deck’ in William Gibson’s “Neuromancer”, back in college.

I always pictured it as something not quite a laptop or a tablet, a fully featured PC in a not so standard design.

The closest thing that I’d ever seen that came close to how I envisioned it was something like the Sony PSP or Nintendo Switch, as far as the form factor.

But now I’ve seen something that totally matches my headcanon as what a cyberdeck is supposed to look like.

Valve Steam Deck OLED review: colour me interested | Stuff

Valve’s Steam Deck, which might get me back into gaming.

We’ll find out soon enough, I suppose.

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Agreeable Weekend

Friday: Loved F1 The Movie.

Saturday: Great time watching my niece in 13 Jr.

Sunday: Really enjoyed binge-watching The Bear Season 4.

Good weekend.

Except for the arthritis flare up when I was trying to open my water bottle.

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F1 The Movie

I gotta say I enjoyed this movie more than I expected to.

It’s actually bumped Days of Thunder down one on my list of favorite racing films.  Of course that could also be due to my waning interest in NASCAR in general.

I’ve become more of an F1 fan lately, mainly because I’m more familiar with the drivers and teams than in NASCAR, which I stopped watching after Jeff Gordon retired in 2015, and didn’t really pay too much attention after they made changes like the playoffs, the green-white-checkers finish, and the race ‘segments’.

F1 in general still holds a mystique that NASCAR used to have, prior to 2000, there was a line in the film about Brad Pitt’s character that gave me chills:

“If he raced with Ruben, then he raced with Schumacher, with Senna.”

But I digress.

This is basically a ‘listen to the old [white] guy because he knows all’ plot, but it’s done well, and is entertaining enough to carry through the movie.

Heck, I didn’t know one of the stars was the voice of Friday in the MCU films.

The race scenes were fun, as was seeing so many real F1 drivers and personalities.  I silently clapped when I saw some of my favorites, like Alonso and LeClerc, and just seeing the Ferrari logo bigger than life during one race made my heart soar. #forzaferrari #tifosi

Some of the casting surprised me, as in I didn’t know this actor was going to be playing this character and have a significant part of the story.  Y’all will know who I mean when you see it.

And by all means, see this film, in the theatre, because it deserves to be seen in the biggest, loudest theatre you can see it in, even though I didn’t see it in IMAX.

F1 fans, Brad Pitt fans, other cast (Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem) fans, will enjoy this one.

Thumbs up!  Go see it!

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Finale

Welp.

Yeah, we had a regeneration.

Yeah, Billie Piper is (possibly?) the 16th Doctor.

The bigger surprise to me, and one of my favorite moments of the Doctor Who finale, was the return of Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor.

The biggest problem I’ve had with this series as a whole is the writing.

Every actor who’s played the Doctor in nuWho have been brilliant IMHO, as have most of the companions.

Eccleston, Tennant and most of Smith’s runs had, for the most part, overall better written stories than Capaldi, Whittaker and Gatwa’s runs.

  • The Impossible Girl storyline just went on too long, and the whole Danny Pink plot felt too forced for us as fans to care.
  • The Flux storyline and the Timeless Child idea seemed not fleshed out enough, as did the Fugitive Doctor.
  • Space Babies.  ’nuff said.

Bringing back Jodie actually made me smile and tear up, she was wonderful in this short appearance.  That one exchange:

Thirteen: I should say that to Yaz.
Fifteen:  You never do.  But she knows.

Wow.

As for the Billie Piper thing, the credits simply said:

Not ‘as The Doctor’ as they usually do.  Is this a fake out?  Will she go by another name, like… Bad Wolf?

Of course the other question is how long until the next series, or if we’re even getting another series?

In any case, this finale, to me, was the perfect end to Gatwa’s short run as the Doctor.