Introducing my son and wife to the cinematic masterpiece that is…
This movie is closer to anything that might happen during a zombie apocalypse than anything else you’ve ever watched.
If you haven’t seen it, put it in your queue.
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The wife and I are watching Infinite tonight on Paramount+.
First off, Mark Wahlberg, I’m a fan. I have enjoyed him in everything I’ve ever seen him in except for Pain and Gain (just a bad movie all around) and the M. Night Shyamalan movie The Happening, which I couldn’t finish. Not a comment on Wahlberg; it’s just probably Shyamalanβs worst movie.
A sci-fi, action adaption that examines the concept of reincarnation through remarkable visuals and well-established characters who need to use their memories and past learnt skills to ensure the future is protected from Infinites that seek to end all life on the planet.
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I’m about thirty minutes in, and I’m getting a heavy Matrix/Wanted feel with a dash of Highlander.
Wahlberg plays Evan McCauley (IMDB has the last name as Michaels), and he’s immortal-ish. This is more immortal by way of reincarnation, retaining all former knowledge and skills. But it seems he needs a jumpstart.
He’s in a war, caught between two factions of immortals, and heβs apparently on the losing side.
One side The Believers want to protect humanity. The other side wants to end the world.
A tale as old as, well, a lot of sci-fi movie plots.
This all takes me back to Highlander. Not just the movie (or movies, I’ll suffer through the bad ones), but the series.
I loved the first movie, but the series with Adrian Paul was an absolute favorite of mine.
The first season was slow for me, but then came Joe Dawson.
The addition of Dawson and The Watchers added so much to the mythos of Highlander. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and I believe they ended Highlander: The Series on a good note.
I would love to see it rebooted, but I’m going to need Jim Byrnes back; to keep an eye on things.
Infinite was good. I’ll probably watch it again. I would rather see the storyline fleshed out in a series rather than one film. All in all, 7 out of 10 stars.
It was a bit rushed but still a good time for action fans, I think.
No spoilers.
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Tonight we continued the childrenβs cinematic education with Ferris Buellerβs Day Off.
The movies of my day (yea, this is very much within the timeline) rated as PG-13 prove one thing, we were not sheltered from language and innuendo like kids are today.
PG-13 from 1986 would probably be a hard R today if you threw in a bare breast.
Personally, I think that the John Hughes movies of the 80s are masterpieces. Gen X can quote them line for line. It might even be a better proof of age for most anything in place of ID.
Cashier: Can I see your ID?
Customer: Oh, he’s very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads – they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.
They donβt and wonβt make movies like this anymore. Their day has come and gone. Often replicated, never duplicated comes to mind.
At least we have the historical archives.
Which reminds me, grab those hard copies while you can.
The sheriff is near.
Wink wink, nudge nudge.
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I watched They Live again this morning.
If you donβt know what that is…
They Live (titled onscreen as John Carpenter’s They Live) is a 1988 American science-fictionactionhorror film written and directed by John Carpenter. Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster, the film follows an unnamed drifter[nb 1] who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the status quo via subliminal messages in mass media. Wikipedia
I didnβt know there was a short story that it was based on until this morning. The short story is Eight OβClock in the Morning by Ray Nelson.
I liked the short story [spend] nearly as much as I like the movie.
Both the movie and the story have [consume] certain parallels to what is going on right now. How much of your thought is controlled by the talking heads on TV and what the media pushes through your phone?
Things to think about.
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Before I start, this isnβt a religious post or a post about freedom and liberty.
No. This is about a journey and the things that happened along the way. A journey to get to a place we were at the whole time.
Several decades ago, a writing team came up with an idea for a comedy/SciFi show for British television. I donβt know all the particulars but the first thing I saw was this.
Then…
This is an SOS distress call from the mining ship Red Dwarf. The crew are dead, killed by a radiation leak. The only survivors are Dave Lister, who was in suspended animation during the disaster, and his pregnant cat, who was safely sealed in the hold. Revived three million years later, Lister’s only companions are a life form who evolved from his cat, and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram simulation of one of the dead crew. I am Holly, the ship’s computer, with an IQ of 6000, the same IQ as 6000 PE teachers.”
The wife and I had moved to a new apartment on a Saturday. No cable until the following Monday. So I rigged up a make shift antenna on the TV (tube TV, thatβs how far back the story goes) and all we could get was PBS.
And that was okay. Back then, PBS had some fairly entertaining stuff on Saturday nights.
The first thing that came up was Red Dwarf.
Every Saturday night we got to catch an episode or two. Right from the first episode.
And we were hooked.
The next three times we moved the series would start over again. It was like a good luck charm. And we would watch it all over, again.
Then we moved to our house here and it wasnβt on PBS anymore. So that Saturday morning we went out looking for the DVDs and found them.
And that first Saturday night we watched the first series.
Itβs a tradition for our home. A weird one, maybe. But itβs ours.
Now weβve passed that on to our daughter and son.
Weβve been to The End and The Beginning. Weβve been Tongue Tied and Backwards. Weβve encountered everything from Despair Squids to Pleasure Gelfs.
Donβt even get us started on Polymorphs.
Weβve seen the Boys from the Dwarf get into and out of all kinds of scrapes. Weβve seen them become heroβs and be the villains.
Itβs a great ride.
And then we come to The Promised Land.
I wasnβt going in with high hopes for a feature length episode. I was thinking that might be pushing it for this show.
I was surprised. It was something I would have paid for at a theater. And I wish I could have seen it all on the big screen.
So here we are, at journeys end and we find out:
The Promised Land is not a planet.
Itβs a place in your heart.
Itβs a way of thinking.
It sounds a bit like home. But the building doesnβt make a home, the people do.
And now weβve gone through it all. The family has seen the whole thing. Taken the entire journey.
And it was smegging fantastic.
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I’ve never read the graphic novels but I loved the original movie and have watched the sequel several times.
It’s not often that a sequel is as good or better than the original.
Very enjoyable. Both in the acting and the story.
Some movies are too long, some are too heavy handed in the story.
This is just right.
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Watching CBSs EVIL on Netflix. Itβs very good. Interesting.
We finished watching Elementary last night. The show had some great heart string pulling moments between Miller and Liu. We became tied to the show because of the back and forth between them and to us the payoff from that relationship made it well worth watching.
But then, Iβve been a Johnny Lee Miller fan since Hackers.
That scene got an βawwwwwβ from me and the wife. And the show is full of them.
Both characters change each other over the course of the series.
He makes her a detective and a more critical thinker.
She makes him human.
And now we have to find something else to watch.
The end of a favorite series is like the death of someone close.
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Understanding why I allowed this
Understanding ourselves and the world we live in.
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