what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “All or none.” Shazam! Fury of the Gods, released in 2023 Billy is trying to keep his super team together but they all seem to be going in different directions. They manage to save a bunch of people from a collapsing bridge, but the bridge did collapse. Meanwhile, Hespera and Kalypso, daughters of Atlas, […]
{4.5/5} “The Panamerican treasure is a political powderkeg. Cras Est Nostrum keeps the status quo.” National Treasure: Edge of History season 1, aired in 2022-23 Montezuma’s gold was hidden and the three boxes holding clues have disappeared. Billie Pearce knows they exist, and is searching for them — she buys a house just because she […]
CNN is a big news network and therefore important. It’s under new-ish management and has possibly slid downhill a bit in terms of being reasonable. For one thing, they are giving airwaves to 45 — who technically is a presidential candidate but more importantly tried to overthrow democracy. Here’s The Damage Report on this topic: […]
{4.5/5} “He tried to help the Link see that their refusal to consider themselves connected to other, non-changeling lifeforms, and their rejection of the possibilities afforded by amity rather than distrust, should be regarded as antithetical to a species that exulted in self-change. The Founders seemed capable of any transformation, he maintained, but not in […]
{4.5/5} “Just because you know what my answer’s going to be doesn’t mean you don’t have to ask me.” National Treasure: Book of Secrets, released in 2007 Ben is presented with evidence that Thomas Gates, his great-great-grandfather, participated in the assassination of President Lincoln. He doesn’t believe it, and he’s going to find his own […]
{4.5/5} “If you wanted to leave me behind, you shouldn’t have told me where you were going.” National Treasure, released in 2004 Ben’s family has been in the possession of a secret for a long time — there’s a huge treasure hidden somewhere in America. His pursuit of the clues led him to a ship […]
{4.5/5} “‘Sorry, but I think we went to high school together.’ ‘At the same time?’” Young Adult, released in 2011 Mavis is a young adult author who lives in the big city. She’s trying to write a new novel but keeps getting distracted. She gets a baby announcement from her old friend Buddy and decides […]
{4/5} “There’s something I should have told you.” Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, released in 2023 While Scott Lang was gone for 5 years during the blip, his daughter Cassie was investigating the quantum realm. When the Langs and the Van Dynes get together to talk about it, Janet is about to warn them about […]
Here are the movies I’ve seen from the studio known as Sony Pictures Animation. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2009 -> 4.5/5 (+) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 2013 -> 3/5 Spider-Verse movies Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 -> 4.5/5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 […]
There are a few authors for whom I’ve read all of their books, and a few that I’m very close on or intend to be. Here they are: Douglas Adams I’ve read 5 of his 7 novels plus 1 nonfiction book. I’ve reread 2 of them. David Brin I’ve read 11 of his 15 novels. […]