what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “Whatever happens tomorrow you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.” Captain America: The First Avenger, released in 2011 Steve Rogers wants to fight in World War II because he doesn’t like bullies. He’s short, skinny, and has a few other […]
{4.5/5} “This is sales. You make estimates and you make plans. But then you get there and everything changes. But you make the sale.” A Hologram for the King, released in 2016 Alan is in Saudi Arabia to sell an IT solution to the king for his new city. But he has no idea when […]
{4.5/5} “I felt that sensation unique to Hadens, the vertigo that comes from perceptually being in two places at once. It’s much more noticeable when your body and your threep are in the same room at the same time. The technical term for it is ‘polyproprioception.’ Humans, who generally only have one body to deal […]
{5/5} “All right. Lying is one thing. Attacking the integrity of the great sport of wrestling, that is quite another.” Murdoch Mysteries season 8, aired in 2014-15 Thomas Brackenreid has retired after being beaten and left for dead — he’s taken up painting. Julia and Emily have joined the movement to get women the vote. […]
{4.5/5} “Intellectually he knew that the thing would not fall — he kept telling himself that it could not; but having grown to maturity in an environment where a fall of six inches was usually fatally destructive even to the incredibly tough Mesklinite organism, his emotions were not easy to control… After all, it was […]
{4.5/5} “I feel… as if I were a child, plummeting a hub-mountain glacier, out of control… We have both already walked away from our worlds, the very reality we knew, the history, the culture. Now here we are speaking of walking off into the dark. To our deaths — or unknowable glory.” Ultima by Stephen […]
{2/5} “Mr. Bond. You defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you.” Moonraker, released in 1979 The space shuttle Moonraker has been highjacked in midair while en route to the UK — James Bond must find out what happened to it. He starts by visiting Drax Industries in California, where the shuttle […]
I’ve seen the first bunch of Star Trek movies more times than any other movies. The last time I watched them I found that some of the best ones didn’t wow me quite as much as they once did. I would have rated Star Trek II, III, IV, and First Contact 5/5 on previous occasions. […]
{4.5/5} “We will find hope in the impossible.” Star Trek Beyond, released in 2016 Kirk is a bit tired of being in space and thinking of taking a vice admiral position. Spock, having found out that Ambassador Spock has died, thinks he should help out on New Vulcan. Before they get a chance to tell […]
I recently talked about the problem with Microsoft in that it installs Windows 10 without asking you. But Microsoft is even worse than I thought. There are some truly shocking and disgusting privacy settings that are automatically turned on. Some of them are easy to find if you don’t do the default installation, but others […]