what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4/5} “I’m not wandering aimlessly, I’m exploring. There’s a big difference.” In “The Queen” Todd (the Wraith)’s Queen has been killed. Teyla poses as the Queen in order to convince the alliance to a plan to rid the Wraith of the need to feed on humans. In “First Contact” Daniel Jackson arrives on the station […]
{4.5/5} “An egg’s an egg, right ladies?… Until it explodes.” The Vikings and dragons are getting along fine, but even though dragons just eat fish the farm animals are spooked by the scary-looking fire-breathing dragons. The yaks aren’t giving any milk and the chickens aren’t laying any eggs. Stoick asks Hiccup to do something about […]
{4/5} “People don’t sit on cold steps in the dark unless they’re weak in the head.” It’s 1900 in Australia — on Valentine’s Day students from an all-girls school go for a day trip to a place called Hanging Rock. Four of them don’t come back — three students and one teacher. No one knows […]
There are 2 movies I really don’t want you to see for the same reason — because they are unfunny adaptations of funny source material. Of course, there are people who disagree with me — who like these movies — but if you trust my judgement please avoid them. {2/5} The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the […]
I saw a double bill performance as part of the Guelph Jazz Festival. I didn’t choose this concert myself, and I will pay more attention to what I’m going to in the future — it turns out there are concerts I’d rather I didn’t attend. The first act was a group called Brew, consisting of […]
There have been three short films (16 to 22 minutes) that are sequels to How to Train Your Dragon, a movie I loved. The first appeared on the DVD with the original movie in 2010, and the other two appeared on their own DVD in 2011. A TV show, Dragons: Riders of Berk, has just […]
{4/5} “My whole life… all of this. It’s all because I never want to see death first-hand again.” A villain who kills superheroes (those who are normal humans) is after Batman. This mysterious person only speaks the sounds of fighting like “pow” and “blam” — one might call him Onomatopoeia. He breaks the Joker out […]
{4.5/5} “One heard of Flying Box People. They were ignorant, of course, of People’s ways, and did some awful things, not knowing any better. But they seemed to intend friendship. ‘No knowing what harm we may do them in ignorance,’ Levery said to Eblio. Eblio agreed. One could make awful mistakes through ignorance, even among […]
I’m talking about more than two soundtracks for a film series by the same composer(s). Here are the 12 I think are the best. Best of the best James Bond — John Barry Barry wrote the music for 11 of the first 15 James Bond movies: From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live […]
{5/5} “I pretend that I’m busy, that I’m working, that I’m writing… But really, I’m not doing anything.” Walter is a college professor whose wife has died — now he’s not connecting to much in his life. He’s been trying to learn to play the piano but finds it difficult. When he has to travel […]