what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
I would like to read more nonfiction books. Sometimes when I start one I don’t finish it, though. Here are the ones I’ve finished, mostly in the last 15 years or so (I’ll update the list when I have a chance). Best of the best How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big […]
Starting in 2008 Marvel’s movies have been part of a shared universe, and with a lot of planning they astonishingly brought together characters from 4 different movies (Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America) into 1. DC is working on its own cinematic universe but so far Marvel has left it in the dust. DC has […]
{4.5/5} “Sorry I’m late — I was saving the world. You know how it is.” Ant-Man, released in 2015 When Scott gets out of jail he tries to go straight but finds it tough. He agrees to a job that sounds perfect — crack the safe of an old rich guy who’s on vacation. Inside […]
{3.5/5} “King Bob has officially changed the law, clearing the way for Scarlett Overkill to be crowned Queen of England… If I wasn’t so polite, I’d say this spells certain doom for the country, if not the world. But I’m so very polite that I shall keep my mouth shut. But seriously, we’re all in […]
{4.5/5} “Chuck, are you about to disarm a nuclear bomb using fruit juice?” Chuck season 4, aired in 2010-11 Chuck and Sarah are finally together. Chuck is out of the CIA but is secretly searching for his mom, who he discovered is a spy. Meanwhile, the CIA rebuilt the Buy More with even more secrets […]
{4/5} “You are a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.” Spectre, released in 2015 When Bond is in the middle of an international incident in Mexico, M grounds him. Meanwhile, M is in the midst of a shake-up of his own — MI5 and MI6 are merging and the double-oh program may be eliminated. […]
I’m not going to tell you who the story is about, because that would ruin the surprise. This is from The Oatmeal: It’s going to be okay
{5/5} “All right, Jack, listen to me. Ron’s in the bathroom diapering his kid. When he gets out, it’s playtime. And son, lately your colouring’s been sloppy and your Elmo song — well, unfortunately, it’s lacked heart. Now you and I, we both know that your super-secret go-to toy are your building blocks. Well, it’s […]
{4.5/5} “How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we use to knit together this place we call the world? Without stories, our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It’s a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.” Generation A by […]
{5/5} “However dark and scary the world might be right now, there will be light.” Gotham season 1, aired in 2014-15 When Bruce Wayne’s parents are killed, Detective Jim Gordon promises to find their killer. But he only later realizes that the man he thought was the killer was really framed by the mob and […]