Military memorial visit by Tammy Duckworth
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The Cloverfield Paradox review
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This is an unfortunate misstep by JJ Abrams, who I already have a low opinion of as a story teller, his movies will typically throw established cannon and do whatever fits his fancy at the time of filming with no care for what he’s trampled on. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek 2009 and Star Trek Into Darkness for prime examples of this. It should have been no surprise to me that he would continue down this path, after all it’s made him plenty of money and acclaim, but this time he’s doing it to his own properties with is both fitting and infuriating.
No more is the Cloverfield story about an alien monster that awoke from the depths of the ocean, this is now an Event Horizon story, just near Earth. They’re doing science and monsters come through from the other side and nothing in our reality can be trusted! The ultimate JJ Abrams story, in which he doesn’t even have to pay attention to what he’s established as normal in his own movie universe! I caught myself yelling at the screen several times in frustration: there are many times we’re shown a window out to space, which is rotating to give the space station gravity. It’s a cool concept and that’s how gravity and centripetal force work. You put a giant hollow wheel in zero G, spin it fast enough and boom, you have artificial gravity where you can walk around the inside walls. Unless I’m misunderstanding how everything is shown in TCP, the way they show the stars moving and the position of the window as seen from inside the station doesn’t work with how I understand gravity and centripetal forces work when shown from the outside of the stations.
Additionally, there’s a 3d printed gun. I can get past the idea that in the future they’ll have polymers that can withstand the pressures that firing a bullet cause, but why in the world would their 3d printer have gun powder in it?
I also have complaints about the final scene, but that skips a little too closely into spoiler territory, but suffice to say, I feel like they blew their cgi budget earlier in the film and didn’t have enough for the final 30 seconds of the film.
Like nearly every other JJ film, this is a visually gorgeous film with a story that just barely entertains. Skippable unless you’re a Clovy fan, but even then this isn’t going to impress very much.
Want to know why I think it was first announced during the Super Bowl, then was immediately available to watch on Netflix? That’s the only way this one would have made any money, because word of mouth for this as a theatrical release would have put it in an early grave. The turn around from first trailer to launch date (hours?) means no one was able to comment on it before interested parties watched it and being on Netflix means never having to say you’re sorry.
Star Trek Discovery Drastic Measures is out today
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The second book in the Star Trek: Discovery series has finally landed, penned by Dayton Ward, this is another prequel, this time featuring a team up between Captains Georgiou and Lorca. Amazon has it up for purchase, either a large format paperback or kindle compatible electronic version.
From the Amazon description:
It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home. Distress signals have been sent, but any meaningful assistance is weeks away. Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Lorca and a small team assigned to a Starfleet monitoring outpost are caught up in the escalating crisis, and bear witness as the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation.
While awaiting transfer to her next assignment, Commander Philippa Georgiou is tasked with leading to Tarsus IV a small, hastily assembled group of first responders. It’s hoped this advance party can help stabilize the situation until more aid arrives, but Georgiou and her team discover that they‘re too late—Governor Kodos has already implemented his heinous strategy for extending the colony’s besieged food stores and safeguarding the community’s long-term survival.
In the midst of their rescue mission, Georgiou and Lorca must now hunt for the architect of this horrific tragedy and the man whom history will one day brand “Kodos the Executioner”….
from www.startrekbookclub.com/4641/star-trek-discovery-drastic-measures-is-out-today/
Star Wars The Last Star Wars
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Milly Bobby Brown with a silver thing in her hair
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Tammy Duckworth flew a helicoptor
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Evan Rachel Wood as a red head
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Bidding Farewell to the MCS Background Images
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This image has served as a background to the site for several years, many more than I would like to admit. It’s time for a change, so the site’s going to be going without a background from here on out.
Don’t worry though, we’re still all space cadets.
a critter eating
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nightwing in the rain
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Milly in a 80’s jacket
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4th CAG at USMC War Memorial August 2004
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Ron Glass had a sweet Stach
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Making Marbles
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Batman Beyond will spread
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The Seed of Chucky looks anemic
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Juanita Stein has a nice guitar
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Rachel bloom on top of a piano
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George Sanders in color
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All The Way review
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Bryan Cranston does a great LBJ and I Anthony Mackie had a great performance as Martin Luther King Jr. It was entertaining to see some behind the scenes of how the Executive and Legislative branches of the government were behaving at the time.
Grapes of Wrath Wallpaper
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Trump’s Improving Economy Headline
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Critters from space
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heidi maetrix as a cloaked venom
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USMC Memorial, Washington DC
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Jumanji Welcome To The Jungle review
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Fantastic third entry in the franchise (yes I count Zathura), I’m happy with what happened here, even Karen Gillian’s ridiculous cut off shorts and leather bikini top. Great to see Bobby Cannavale can play a convincing baddie with all sorts of evil creature enhancements.
The Void Wallpaper
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A Special Message From This Is Us Promo
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Mia Malkova in pink
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Vader vs Kylo Ren
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The Founder review
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An interesting and ultimately tragic story of how the Golden Arches went from a single city to being in nearly every city in the US. Keaton does a great job portraying a B2B salesman in the time before telemarketing and online advertising took off, when you had to move throughout your sales territory and physically put yourself in front of the purchasers. It looks like it’s even less fun than I’m describing it, so it was clear why he decided to take the leap to franchising when he saw the opportunity.
hackerman
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Mission Impossible – Fallout 2018 – Official Trailer – Paramount Pictures
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Tammy Duckworth’s Official Portrait 113th Congress
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Justin Timberlake – Pepsi Super Bowl LII Halftime Show
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What Martin Luther King Actually Thought About Car Commercials
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A Quiet Place
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A family lives an isolated existence in utter silence, for fear of an unknown threat that follows and attacks at any sound.
from Movies – 2Queue
Sherlyn Chopra with an off the shoulder shirt
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Deadpool review
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I bought it so I watched it again, yay deadpool!
Shielded
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The Maze Runner The Death Cure review
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I enjoyed the book this was based off of for the most part, but this movie really didn’t do the mediocre book justice. There were several points in the movie in which I had legitimate sympathy for an organization literally named “wicked”, they seemed to be the only people in the entire story that were sincerely trying to save the majority of humanity from the scourge of a horrifying plague. This was a pretty film with some well done set pieces, the final battles on the streets were particularly impressive, but the plot execution just didn’t impress me in the least.
There’s only one more book in the series that they could adapt and that’s a prequel with none of the current characters, though I’m sure if they do that story they’ll be able to shoehorn them in somehow, ala The Hobbit.
As a side note, this was the third film that I’ve seen with my MoviePass subscription, which is going well enough.
When kids are eating so many tide pods
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Did you see that ludicrous display last night
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DNA Inspection
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If Alexa was Southern
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Jeri Ryan in a black top
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