what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} The Story of Luke, released in 2012 Luke is somewhere on the autistic spectrum. His grandmother homeschooled him but now that she’s dead he’s living with his aunt and uncle. He decides he needs to get a job so that he can be independent — and find himself a girlfriend. It’s a nice movie […]
{5/5} “An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.” Inception, released in 2010 There are people who go into other people’s dreams and steal things from them. They can even create dreams within dreams. But what […]
{4.5/5} “I think if human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn’t life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don’t they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of […]
{5/5} “I feel… okay. I feel clear about something. Our work… what we do… it’s not just a job now. It’s who I am. I’m a detective. I’m ready to embrace that. I live in this world. Your world. And I probably will for the rest of my life.” Elementary season 3, aired in 2014-15 […]
{5/5} “When I first got here I couldn’t figure out what Beckett saw in you but you know what she said? ‘He sees the story. I see the evidence, where it leads but he sees the story.’” Castle season 7, aired in 2014-15 Castle disappeared on his wedding day — he was gone for 2 […]
{5/5} “Would you like to play a physics car game I invented called ‘I Can’t Spy’? It’s all the nail biting tension of ‘I Spy,’ but the added fun of sub-atomic particles and waves outside the visible spectrum.” The Big Bang Theory season 8, aired in 2014-15 Sheldon goes on a trip by train, but […]
{4.5/5} “The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have […]
{4/5} “‘Where are you going?’ ‘Uh, this little place called shut up and stay here.’” Revolution season 1, aired in 2012-13 All the electricity in the world fails, all at once. Fifteen years later people are living approximately the way they did in the 19th century. When militia members kill her father, Charlie sets out […]
{4/5} “The city is flying and we’re fighting an army of robots. And I have a bow and arrow. Nothing makes sense.” Avengers: Age of Ultron, released in 2015 Tony Stark and Bruce Banner create an artificial intelligence named Ultron to protect the planet. But things go wrong and Ultron decides he wants to destroy […]
{4.5/5} “There’s one thing my sister taught me, you don’t give up on people. If someone’s important to you, don’t give up on them even if they say hurtful things or send a giant snow monster to chase you away.” Once Upon a Time season 4, aired in 2014-15 Queen Elsa of Arendelle stumbles into […]