The deaths in the hospital after exposure were pretty awful. There was some extreme bravery and some poor fools who were lied to about what they were doing.Originally Posted by Tuefelhunden
The deaths in the hospital after exposure were pretty awful. There was some extreme bravery and some poor fools who were lied to about what they were doing.
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
saw this in Imax this past (opening) weekend.
Very well done. Strongly recommend Imax.
"glad to be here"
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I have been a fan of NHK sumo and it's running now. However, the level of talent as disintegrated as the top ranks have retired or forced to resign. Even the lesser ranks are pretty mediocre. Their one yokuzuna spends more time doing nothing and is pretty boring. It's like he was promoted just to have one.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
Ripley on Netflix.
Sorta-remake of "The Talented Mr. Ripley," this miniseries is a nice little Noir (shot in B&W no less) set in Italy in the 1960s. Lowlife grifter type travels to Italy, pals around with trust fund puppy and gets up to all sorts of no good. The acting is great, the setting amazing (shot on location in Naples, Rome, Venice, etc.).
The whole thing channels Italian neo-realist cinema of the era, and is filled with art, architecture, and all sorts of little visual jokes and double-takes, like a cat who sees everything the protagonist/villian is up to, and just sits and watches it all go on.
Great story about a sketchy guy who is making it all up as he goes along, as it gets more and more complicated.
Dune 2 - pretty good.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
Boy Kills World: H. Jon Benjamin kills/maims a lot of people with (in no particular order): pistols, shotguns, rifles, knives, swords, hatchets, a cheese grater and a carrot. There's a plot in there somewhere, but it's mostly just killing. 2.5/5
Atlas
1 of 5 stars
Atlas
1/5
OMG This thing is stupid. I’m surprised that the troglodytes who wrote this script can turn a light on and off.
The first and most fatal idiocy is that the AIs” live in a single body. So chop off the head of a robot body and you’ve captured the AI ????? Seriously?? They aren’t distributed cross multiple platforms, like we did as backup in the 2000s? Drop an A-bomb on our building and every piece of data is backed up on multiple servers on both coasts and in the mid-west.
Then the whole premise that they’ve been expelled from Earth and living in space. but now they want to come back, necessitating the extinction of humanity? So they send human looking robots to fight us in a conventional war?
Why would a concsciornis, capable of living across multiple platforms in a waterless vacuum with megawatts of energy blasted off the surface of the sun, want to drop back into a watery, moldy swamp where clouds and a radiation belt deflect the power you need to live.
We’re supposed to believe that they want to leave a limitless environment with few, or no, corrosives, and unlimited power, for a cloudy swamp that tries to rust them while blocking the most plentiful power source in the solar system?
If they really hate humanity that bad, all they need to do is redirect a couple of asteroids to end life on earth as we know it. They still won”t come back to Earth to inhabit the planet, but they won’t have to worry about humans invading their space.
Agent Elvis on Netflix. It's as ridiculous as it sounds and I love it. Lots of big name stars play various roles. Matthew McConaughey plays Elvis.
Chris
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