what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “Every single star was an invitation, a personal invitation to him, James T. Kirk. And it would be the height of rudeness to refuse such an unselfish, unqualified invitation. And so he had spent his life accepting those invitations, one after the other.” Star Trek: The Rift by Peter David, published in 1991 Captain […]
{4.5/5} “The reason Hilketa is so popular is that the players score points through simulated decapitation, and go after each other with melee weapons. It’s team gladiatorial combat, on a football field, with a nerdy scoring system. It’s all the violence every other team sport wishes it could have, but can’t, because people would actually […]
{4.5/5} “And sometimes I cannot wait for the sun to rise, because the world is full of people, of human beings singing their songs and telling their stories, of life and passion, glory and wonder, and Death is not a thing to fear, but is life’s mirror, reminding us to live, live, live, and I […]
{4/5} “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” Star Trek season 2, aired in 1967-68 When Spock returns to Vulcan to marry his fiancée things don’t go according to plan — he ends up fighting […]
Here’s an article from Vox that details how smoking has gone down dramatically in Canada and the US but has gone up elsewhere in the world. One way of improving things is by enforcing the terms of a treaty which 180 countries have signed — the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco companies have engaged […]
It’s obvious that Trump doesn’t like doing the job of president. He’s using any excuse he can to get out of doing work. Here are a couple of thoughts about what he could do. These videos are from CNN. The first is from SE Cupp, who I haven’t seen before but I love the way […]
Here are a few fixes to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, making it fit in better with Rogue One and making Darth Vader slightly more logical. It’s done brilliantly, from a channel called Auralnauts: Star Wars SC 3, 5, 16, 29, 38 Reimagined The guy doing Vader’s voice does an amazing job. They […]
These movies might not be worth watching from start to finish, but they have some terrific scenes within them. Austin Powers in Goldmember The opening scene is about a movie based on Austin Powers — starring a very famous actor as Powers. D.E.B.S. In a scene at 0:09 the main characters are spying on someone […]
{4.5/5} “Look on our custom vehicles and despair!” The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, released in 2019 Everything was awesome. And then the aliens came, smashing everything. Now Emmett and Lucy live in Apocalypseburg. Emmett built a traditional house for him and Lucy to live in, but Lucy knows the house will attract attention […]
{5/5} “‘It’s a highly sophisticated interlocking brick system.’” The Lego Movie, released in 2014 Emmett is a regular guy. He likes to be a part of a team, he likes following instructions, and he likes to watch the show “Where Are My Pants?” When he accidentally stumbles into a deep hole at a construction site […]