what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “All these facts and opinions look the same. I can’t tell them apart.” Inside Out, released in 2015 Riley is an 11-year-old girl. Inside her head, her emotions try to keep things under control. Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger all have their role to play. When Riley moves to a new city she […]
I have enjoyed watching America’s Got Talent in the past but I’m not sure I will watch it in the future. Although I realized that other reality shows aren’t very close to reality, I assumed that on this show what they were showing us resembled reality fairly closely. But it seems large parts of the […]
{3.5/5} “There’s a guy like me on every mining operation all over this system.” Outland, released in 1981 O’Neil is a marshall who’s just been assigned to the mining colony on Io. Soon after he arrives his wife leaves him, telling him that she thinks their son should grow up on Earth. After a couple […]
You don’t see photos from the top of the Giza pyramids every day. Because of how many people were killed climbing up, they made it illegal. But occasionally people do it anyway. Here are some amazing photos from 3 Russian photographers: Secret Photos from Atop the Pyramids
{5/5} “Not everyone is fortunate enough to understand their own talent. But you know yours. Well, use it — for your family, and for your country.” Shackleton, aired in 2002 It’s 1914 and war seems imminent. Ernest Shackleton has made one journey to the Antarctic but he had to abandon his goal of the South […]
{4.5/5} “‘I think I see a scenario where we both get out of here with acceptable losses.’ ‘What exactly is your version of acceptable?’ ‘Breaks and punctures, possible loss of a limb, no major organ damage.’” Chuck season 1, aired in 2007-08 Chuck works at a big box store fixing computers, and tries to escape […]
{5/5} “A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run.” How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by […]
{4.5/5} “How could humans create so many right angles, when their behaviour was so convoluted and illogical?” The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, released in 2013 T.S. Spivet is only a young boy but his design for a perpetual motion machine has won a contest at the Smithsonian. His father is a cowboy, his mother […]
{4.5/5} “Were those claw marks always there?” Jurassic World, released in 2015 Jurassic World is a successful theme park, but they keep having to come up with new things to keep the customers happy. The newest is Indominus rex, a genetically engineered dinosaur whose genes are top secret. Indominus is very smart and when it […]
{4.5/5} “Being a tax lawyer’s got nothing to do with the law. It’s a game. We teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich. The IRS keeps, uh, changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.” The Firm, released in 1993 Mitch is graduating at the top of […]