what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “You’re no actor, you’re a celebrity. Let’s be clear on that. I’m gonna kill your play.” Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), released in 2014 Riggan played a superhero named Birdman in the old days. Now he’s trying to direct and star in a Broadway production of a play he wrote. When he […]
This isn’t about TV main themes — that’s a post for another day. This is about music throughout TV episodes. Most TV shows have incidental music that’s not very distinctive — below are the ones that are. Best of the best 1) Michael Giacchino — Lost Now scoring movies such as Star Trek, Up, and […]
{5/5} “What if I could put him in front of you? The man that ruined your life. If I could guarantee that you’d get away with it, would you kill him?” Predestination, released in 2014 A temporal agent poses as a bartender. After hearing an amazing story from a woman who became a man, he […]
{5/5} “You don’t realize how quickly everything can fall apart until it does — it makes you never want to give up anything good ever again.” What If aka The F Word, released in 2013 Wallace and Chantry meet at a party and connect with each other. When Chantry reveals she has a boyfriend Wallace decides […]
{4.5/5} “Never forget where you came from.” Colombiana, released in 2011 Cataleya is only nine years old when her parents are killed. She moves from Colombia to the US to stay with her uncle and she immediately tells him she wants to be a killer. Fifteen years later, she’s got a plan to kill the […]
{4.5/5} “I’ve done some bad things in my life, Nicolai… Things I’m not proud of. I promised someone I love very much that I would never go back to being that person… But for you, I’ll make an exception.” The Equalizer, released in 2014 Robert works at a big box store but he used to […]
{4.5/5} “Did I mention I also studied fencing?” The Book of Life, released in 2014 Manolo wants to be a musician but his father wants him to be a bullfighter in the family tradition. Joaquin is a soldier, like his father who died fighting a fearsome bandit. Manola and Joaquin both like Maria, who’s been away […]
{4.5/5} “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.” Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert, published in 1984 Fifteen hundred years after Leto II, the Tyrant, there are two […]
{5/5} “When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?” Gone […]
{4.5/5} “When the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years. So my atoms have known your atoms […]