what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “The advances of science — which is supposed to expand our knowledge of the universe — will, if not carefully controlled, destroy the world as we know it… Our technological ambitions have not only driven us to the brink of catastrophe, the catastrophe has already begun.” FBI Agent Olivia Dunham joins the Fringe Division, […]
{5/5} “What I am about to tell you sounds crazy. But you have to listen to me. Your very lives depend on it. You see, this isn’t the first time.” An alien race called the Mimics has invaded Earth. Major Cage, whose specialty is communications and not fighting, is forced to participate in an attack […]
{4.5/5} “This corn is like an angel.” Dan is an advice columnist, and he has three daughters — Jane, Cara, and Lilly. He doesn’t want his oldest daughter to drive, he doesn’t want his middle daughter to date boys, and he’s happy his youngest daughter is still young. Dan takes his daughters to a family […]
{4.5/5} “Agrippina had seen Gaul; she knew what the future would hold. From this beginning the roads would spread across the country like ivy over a wall, bifurcating and firing off their straight-line segments, until every corner of the land was reached. Messages would flash along the roads fast as thought, and the next time […]
{4/5} “The more I pulled on threads, the more the lines were blurred between what I viewed as the insanity I was… experiencing and the insanity of the real world.” A few years ago in San Francisco something unusual happened. Posters started appearing that led people to a particular building where they would be “inducted.” […]
{5/5} “Most of life is hell. It’s filled with failure and loss. People disappoint you, dreams don’t work out, hearts get broken, innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going.” Elaine Barrish […]
I’m not going to bother with a list of movie series that went downhill — there are lots of them. But here’s a much shorter list — movie series where the quality of each movie remained consistent. Back to the Future These 3 movies are best watched all in a row to get the full […]
Alien All of the Alien movies are worth watching, but the second one (Aliens, the one with the space marines) is one of the ultimate science fiction action movies. Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark is certainly great the first time you watch it, but the third one (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, […]
{4/5} “Granted, she’s not my first love. Granted, she’s not my great love. But she is… my last love. Doesn’t that count for something?” Coleman has quit his job as a professor and his wife has died. He befriends Nathan, a writer, initially hoping that he would write a book about him. He also begins […]
{4.5/5} “I like the plan. I just wonder if we’re not in a treason-adjacent place where the government will retaliate and execute us.” Michael and George Michael are both in college — in fact, they’re roommates. Michael later gets involved with making a movie based on his family — of course, he has to get […]