SPP, I don’t think you’ll be missing much except a showcase of current/next gen CGI Performance-Capture tech. For me, I think you have the right of it.

The first was often panned as “Dances with wolves in space” and while it was rather preachy I rather enjoyed it. However it didn’t rise to the current standards.

I do wonder if in thirty years we will be talking about this era as the second roaring twenties.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Thursday, February 02, 2023 - 07:40 am: Edit

The comic strip Terminal Lance just used Avatar as it's subject. If you've spent any time around US Marines you'll get it.

https://terminallance.com/2023/01/13/the-pandorussy/

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, February 05, 2023 - 02:35 am: Edit

Leanna and I watched the first episode of THE ARK and enjoyed it very much. I wish they had dropped the whole season on one day, we'd have binged it.

Leanna and I very much enjoyed TROLL.

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Sunday, February 05, 2023 - 12:35 pm: Edit

What's The Ark?

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Sunday, February 05, 2023 - 03:32 pm: Edit

Sy Fy channel series:

https://www.syfy.com/the-ark

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, March 13, 2023 - 02:22 pm: Edit

WOLFPACK is a new series on werewolves by PARAMOUNT PLUS. Supposedly staring Sarah Michelle Geller (Buffy), she has only a limited role in what is mostly a teen-angst story. (P+ grossly oversold her involvement in the series. She's in about sixty seconds of the first two episodes.) Still, it's a watchable show although some of the teen angst will turn off some viewers.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, March 19, 2023 - 09:42 pm: Edit

DRAGON DAY is a 2013 movie we found on Amazon. China launches a massive cyber attack on the USA, causing all (but a few old) cars to stop, all commercial planes to crash, and the power grid to go down. Everyone gets a cell phone call telling them that the People's Republic welcomes their allegience. Then things get bad.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, March 19, 2023 - 09:43 pm: Edit

HOME INVASION is another movie we found on Amazon. There are several movies with the same name but this one is a sci fi comedy. Two burglars launch a "home invasion" only to discover that the resident family are aliens setting up the invasion of Earth. Then things get strange.

By Dal Downing (Rambler) on Monday, March 20, 2023 - 06:37 am: Edit

SVC Sarah Michelle Geller get a bigger and bigger role as the show grinds on. Kind of a snowball effect.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Monday, March 20, 2023 - 07:29 am: Edit

The League. It makes me want to care about professional football...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, March 20, 2023 - 11:30 am: Edit

I watched the entire WOLFPACK show and while her part got bigger she was never the central character that the ads billed her as.

By Warren Mathews (Turtle) on Friday, June 02, 2023 - 06:50 pm: Edit

A book to read if you can find it. Two Faces of Tomorrow by James P Hogan.

It deals with the perils of AI. It is science fiction and was written well before drones became a thing.

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Friday, June 02, 2023 - 07:17 pm: Edit

Ah yes, always check on the solution before approving ...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, June 03, 2023 - 02:27 am: Edit

Now on Netflix ... FUBAR

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this fun action-packed series as a retired (almost) CIA agent who is forced to extend his service by a loose nuclear weapon.

Monica Barbaro, the actress who played a female pilot on MAVERICK, co-stars as his daughter (who has daddy issues to the max). This chick kicks ass.

Neither knows the other works for the CIA until everything goes horribly impossibly wrong.

I think there are eight hour-long episodes in the first season. The language is very naughty but the show has all of the spy tech, guns, fights, explosions, and chase scenes you could want. Along with some humor and some very good writing.

Well worth a watch.

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Saturday, June 03, 2023 - 08:50 am: Edit

We're about halfway through binging it. Great fun!

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, June 03, 2023 - 02:10 pm: Edit

A movie that I want to see made: TOP GUN - Phoenix.


Garth L. Getgen

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 01:49 am: Edit

INDIANA JONES 5
Avoid this mess like the plague. It is a standard Kathleen Kennedy dumpster fire. Take a beloved hero. Show him as a wreck. Kill him. Replace him with a young female who knows everything and cannot do anything wrong.

KK needs to be fired before she ruins anything else.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 02:25 pm: Edit

"F" that.

As in a grade of "F".

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 06:18 pm: Edit

Like the last James Bond? (Not hers but the same issues...)

Kennedy's other crap:
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

She destroyed the whole modern era Star Wars franchise.

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 04:21 pm: Edit

All posts prior to 2023 will be deleted June 27, 2023.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, June 23, 2023 - 11:04 pm: Edit

PANIC IN YEAR ZERO
Available free on YouTube, this 1962 film presents a family (led by major actor Ray Milland) that went on a fishing trip just before the Russians bombed major US cities. The film follows as the family (including the son played by then Teen Idol Franie Avalon) as they obtain supplies, hide out in a remote region, deal with the collapse of law and order, and try to stay alive. Not as corny as it sounds, it is actually a serious dramatic movie showing some powerful events. Could or would you do what Ray Milland found himself forced to do?

It is a film of the time. Guns can be bought at any hardware store, and nobody ever heard of doomsday prepping, but it has serious lessons and Ray does an amazingly innovative job finding safety.

The UN declared that this was year zero because civilization had to start all over from that point.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 10:29 pm: Edit

CAPTAIN NOVA
On Netflix, this is Dutch science fiction dubbed in English. The world in 2050 is a mess, and they send a female pilot back to 2025 in a capsule to tell a scientist to stop drilling for oil at the North Pole or it will ruin the entire planet. The pilot arrives in 2025 but has regressed to being 12 years old. We discover that the pilot/girl and the scientist live in the area, which is why she was picked. She is injured, but a small flying computer convinces a local boy to take her to a nearby farm. The Dutch military arrive. Their examination of the capsule showed that identical fingerprints from a woman of 37 and a girl of 12 both exist in the capsule and both are new. They quickly go to see the girl from our time who of course has no idea what is going on. Things proceed as the Dutch military intelligence lady seems amazingly willing to accept the time travel premise.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, September 09, 2023 - 12:16 am: Edit

RADIUS
Canadian scifi on Amazon. A guy wakes up with amnesia, and finds that everyone (including birds, goats, etc.) who comes within 50 feet dies. Later, he meets Jane, who doesn't cause this effect but she doesn't die, and if she is within 50 feet, he doesn't kill people with his invisible death field. Imagine the fun when police catch them and (standard procedure) separate them for questioning.

They spend a lot of time in the typical movie trope of "We have to figure the out without government help because..."

What I would have done was go to a remote area, call the cops, tell them the story and that I know they don't believe it but if they will come to where I am with just a few cops, a chicken, and a piece of string I will surrender and prove it's real. "Can you afford to be wrong? Obviously something is going on (there being clusters of dead bodies all over the place) and my story has an easy test unlike that rumor on TV that I'm a Russian spy with a commie brain-frying gun."

Tie one end of the string to the chicken and the other to a rock 50 feet from me. Wait a few minutes to prove I didn't scatter poison chicken food around. Then the cops get back 60 feet, and THEN Jane walks away from me. Jane hits 51 feet, chicken drops dead when I was handcuffed and had never been within 50 feet, proving my theory. Test is easily repeatable with other things including that stupid pigeon who pooped on the sheriff's car and then flew over me and dropped dead. The cops then take Jane and I somewhere controllable and remote, keep us 35 feet apart for questioning, and send for the scientists.

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Saturday, September 09, 2023 - 06:00 am: Edit

Wouldn't that also kill insects; bacteria, microbes, viruses, etc.? Including those within his own body?

By Michael F Guntly (Ares) on Saturday, September 09, 2023 - 09:49 am: Edit

And if the death field is generic, killing living organisms, wouldn't it also kill plants?