Top movie at the box office was Guardians of the Galaxy, Meh. Great for kids and lots of action with a few Easter eggs to tie in with the Avengers, which I really liked.
Hunger Games, Meh
Captain America the winter soldier, good
The Lego Movie, didn't see it.
Transformers; Age of Extinction, Meh, ok.
Maleficent, nope
Interstellar, great movie. Kids will not like it, but if you have ever thought about black holes and time travel you will find it interesting.
Hobbit comes out today, I am sure it will be good but I am still mad that they made that story three movies.
Surprise movies that were nowhere on any good list.
The Signal about some MIT students and amature hackers that get blamed for a hack that they did not do. They try to track mystery hacker down and when they do it goes crazy. Great trick ending. Definitely for the sci fi fan. Good for people that like good low budget thinking movies.
There is another "The Signal" movie out there that got great reviews for a low budget film that I have not seen. Neat idea though. HERE.
Older but still great low budget sci fi films.
Cube
A Sound Of Thunder Time travel based on the butterfly effect.
The move Primer and MOON make all these list but I have only seen MOON, good movie but not at the top of my list. Great trick ending though.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Year end TV Review
Homeland fell flat for the season finale. Very little resolution and seems like it should have been one more episode. Most disappointed I have been with that show. Still great.
NCIS, why do I even watch that show. Highest rated show on tv and it isn't that great.
The 100, on the WB, I know, I know, but a friend told me about it and it is good with a decent sci fi premise. Should be on SYFY but they only show ghost reality shows now. Worth a watch if you like sci fi.
The Blacklist was is the best show on network tv by far. Good characters plus the great James Spader.
A close second was Hannibal. Gory to a fault but it really needs to be to tell that story.
Elementary is worth a watch, neat take on modernizing Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock is great on the BBC. Starring the weird Benedict Cumberbatch, who oddly enough is a great actor. Watson is played by young Bilbo Baggins fame Martin Freeman. Both have gained a lot of notoriety since Sherlock started and both want to continue to do this show, great for me.
Watched Luther on BBC a long time ago, good British cop show.
I stayed with Sons of Anarchy, why I do not know, but I did and it is over. Good.
Speaking of FX tv, The Strain was great. A new look at the whole vampire story. I will watch next season.
The Americans, looking forward to it. 80's Russian spy show, watch it.
Justified, looking forward to it. Also the last season but it will be missed.
Started watching Vikings, I am hooked. I wonder how historically accurate that is.
Speaking of the SYFY channel, they seem to want to fail. The greatest show they ever did was Battlestar Galactica. Which I loved, call me a nerd but watch it and then call me a nerd. It seems after they had legitimate success with BSG they decided to go a different direction with all the reality shows about ghost and costume design. Shortly after BSG they did Stargate Universe which was a loose spin off to the 10 year tv series SG1 whch was a spin off of the move Stargate staring Kurt Russel. SGU was great but they put it in a terrible time slot and it failed. Partly because of the severe nerds that wanted to stay true to the SGU series starring MacGyver. Oh well I think they have learned their lesson that they need at least one space opera to satisfy the masses.
Speaking of, they just did a mini series called Ascension, which oddly enough is how BSG started. The show was good, but they did not seem to give it 100%, just fell flat in certain places. Watch it and let me know. Could lead to a series with some potential. Ascension also starred the hopelessly unattractive Tricia Helfer, which should not hurt its chances.
Also SYFY is trying to make a series of the movie Twelve Monkeys, it will be called 12 Monkeys, see what they did there?
Longmire may be cancelled but it was a good modern day western.
True Detective was great, really graphic, but good.
Rectify is slow and uneventful but I could not stop watching.
And of course The Walking Dead, greatness.
NCIS, why do I even watch that show. Highest rated show on tv and it isn't that great.
The 100, on the WB, I know, I know, but a friend told me about it and it is good with a decent sci fi premise. Should be on SYFY but they only show ghost reality shows now. Worth a watch if you like sci fi.
The Blacklist was is the best show on network tv by far. Good characters plus the great James Spader.
A close second was Hannibal. Gory to a fault but it really needs to be to tell that story.
Elementary is worth a watch, neat take on modernizing Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock is great on the BBC. Starring the weird Benedict Cumberbatch, who oddly enough is a great actor. Watson is played by young Bilbo Baggins fame Martin Freeman. Both have gained a lot of notoriety since Sherlock started and both want to continue to do this show, great for me.
Watched Luther on BBC a long time ago, good British cop show.
I stayed with Sons of Anarchy, why I do not know, but I did and it is over. Good.
Speaking of FX tv, The Strain was great. A new look at the whole vampire story. I will watch next season.
The Americans, looking forward to it. 80's Russian spy show, watch it.
Justified, looking forward to it. Also the last season but it will be missed.
Started watching Vikings, I am hooked. I wonder how historically accurate that is.
Speaking of the SYFY channel, they seem to want to fail. The greatest show they ever did was Battlestar Galactica. Which I loved, call me a nerd but watch it and then call me a nerd. It seems after they had legitimate success with BSG they decided to go a different direction with all the reality shows about ghost and costume design. Shortly after BSG they did Stargate Universe which was a loose spin off to the 10 year tv series SG1 whch was a spin off of the move Stargate staring Kurt Russel. SGU was great but they put it in a terrible time slot and it failed. Partly because of the severe nerds that wanted to stay true to the SGU series starring MacGyver. Oh well I think they have learned their lesson that they need at least one space opera to satisfy the masses.
Speaking of, they just did a mini series called Ascension, which oddly enough is how BSG started. The show was good, but they did not seem to give it 100%, just fell flat in certain places. Watch it and let me know. Could lead to a series with some potential. Ascension also starred the hopelessly unattractive Tricia Helfer, which should not hurt its chances.
Also SYFY is trying to make a series of the movie Twelve Monkeys, it will be called 12 Monkeys, see what they did there?
Longmire may be cancelled but it was a good modern day western.
True Detective was great, really graphic, but good.
Rectify is slow and uneventful but I could not stop watching.
And of course The Walking Dead, greatness.
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