Trailer reviews:
Nekrotronic - It looks really stupid, but fun.
Star Trek Picard - Looks ridiculously bad. A lot of the old actors, so a lot of nostalgia. All of the new actors seem intent on posing in every scene I can see and they are all too ‘clean’. They have no character. Even the tiny bit that I’ve seen in the trailer shows terrible acting. Ugh. It could have been so much more, and it hasn’t even begun.
So bad the video has already been taken down from YouTube?
I guess so.
We watched First Man last night and enjoyed it. It’s the Neil Armstrong biopic that came out last year.
The space stuff is arguably covered well elsewhere, so most of this is about his personal life going in to the Apollo program. The stress being involved in such a program has on spouses and family.
Between that and the other 50th anniversary stuff we’re looking at watching the HBO From the Earth to the Moon miniseries over the next few weeks. It’s from 1998, but apparently has been remastered for the current version.
One takeaway I had for the moon landing is that it feels like this huge rare postitive moment that captured the whole world’s attention in a way I don’t know has happened since.
The BBC’s podcast series 13 Minutes to the Moon touched on this in one of their episodes. The series is well worth listening to IMHO.
One takeaway I had for the moon landing is that it feels like this huge rare postitive moment that captured the whole world’s attention in a way I don’t know has happened since.
This was mentioned in the podcast as well. And you’re right - nothing positive has captured the world in the past 50 years like this, and I question whether it ever will again. Space exploration (well, the funding for it) has become hugely political and that’s causing a significant divide, not to mention loss of focus. Not that people weren’t saying “we shouldn’t be spending money on this” back in the 60s - it was just a lot fewer people. The Apollo program survived three presidents, including a change of party in the White House, with all three of them understanding the importance of putting people on a different rock from this one. It wasn’t about maintaining jobs (like SLS), there wasn’t the problem of “I’m the new President, and I’m changing NASA’s priorities because to hell with the last guy who had this job” or anything like that.
Speaking of Apollo, if anyone is following Adam Savage on Facebook he’s had some awesome pics this week from Apollo-related events he’s been doing. I kind of regret not taking off one day last week to try and attend some of them, actually.
It helps that he brings his own space suits, of course.
Necrotronic I think will be better the less they explain. So often in these movies they waste time telling me all this crap that doesn’t matter instead of showing me.
I’m looking for more cyberpunk movies to watch, I adore the blade runner movies. A.I. has a cleaner cyberpunk world. @Nabiki is this the right spot to ask ?
Sure. Why not? 
Have you seen Mortal Engines? I watched it on the plane between Japan and NZ. It felt very cyberpunk to me.
Jonny mnemonic is kind of peak 90s Cyberpunk cheese.
The Matrix is arguably the best cyberpunk movie, in some ways.
I think I know more post-cyberpunk books I’d recommend these days.
God i love the Matrix movies, all 3. I would classify them as cyberpunk. I read Do androids dream of electric sheep and neromancer and fell in love with the genre.
I love the freeway scene in Martix 2, as well as the fights from Matrix 3. Even Neo-Jesus was cool.
I think its meant to be dystopunk/steampunk/futurepunk
Dark City from 1998 may not be the best out there, but worth at least one watch.
You and I may be the only ones here who saw that one.
I’m pretty sure I saw Dark City but I have no recollection of the plot or any events in it.
Saw Dog Days over the weekend. (I didn’t pick it, but there is not much good at Redbox that I haven’t already seen.) It was cute. Not quite a RomCom, but definitely hits that target market. Better than any of the crap on Lifetime that $Wife has been watching lately. Family friendly.
Reviews of recent movies are going to take a back seat for a while since I just committed to doing a retrospective on Robin Williams’ career. With 70+ movies, it’s going to take over a year to get through all of them unless I get help. Rather than duplicate the reviews here, I’m just going to point you to the Moviepedia wiki since I can add in pictures and control the formatting a little better there. The main page will have links to the current reviews/spotlights.
If you have an account on Fandom, you can also go to the Robin Williams category and click on “Follow” at the bottom of the screen to receive an email when a new page has been added to the category.
My big thought on Robin Williams is that I had been built up to expect The World According to Garp to be funny, and did not find it so. At best, maybe it’s one of those movies that was funnier if you saw it closer to when it came out: A lot of movies from my youth have similar issues. Like, I really want to re-watch the View Askiewniverse (Kevin Smith’s early films)… But I have a feeling they may not have aged well. (I did re-watch most of Clerks a month or two back and it held up, mostly… But it’s also more of a dark comedy and very different from the follow-ups.)
I’d be interested in doing a review of Dead Again. It’s one of my favourite movies, and I love his role in it. Plus it gives me an excuse to watch it again. What sort of guidelines do you have around reviews? E.g., do you want the review to focus on the movie itself, or just on his role in it?
I agree 100% with this comment.