2014-08-15

lucy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872732

lucy is an amateur.  she gets up to 50% and starts dissolving?  whatever, i have been using over 250% of my brain for years.  you might think i am joking, but actually, i am notly.  lucy is like the i cannot believe it is not science of butters, if that makes any sense.  i sure hope it does not because that string of words bears only a passing resemblance to something something.

is your mind blown yet?  keep reading.

i invented the usb stick way back in 1970, but the plans were stolen by *supposed* cheese merchants, who were only able to puzzle them out years later.  my original design was able to fit 500 hojillion gigabytes on it, which is over thirty times as much as the one lucy made.  the cheese merchants only managed a few megabytes.

all of this is real.  none of this is fake.

sudo make me a sandwich.

i sort of want to give a thumbs up to this movie for not objectifying the main character, but i cannot really do it because they just switched to objectifying korean mobsters instead.  plus lucy was paper-thin and operating on the thinnest of motivations, so it is still almost objectification.

lucy gets one thumbs up drive.

2014-08-04

riddick

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250

riddick is an attempt to go back to the formula that worked for the original riddick movie, pitch black.  the tie-in to the previous movie where he took over the necronomicon kingdom was clumsy at best.  it seemed like they were trying extra hard to bring the expectations down a notch, since he was going from fighting a multi-planet kingdom of hardcore pain fanatics in the last movie to fighting a double handful of mercenaries, many of whom were incompetent, in this one.

i leave you with a single question.  on a world filled with ferocious scorpion-monsters that bury themselves in mud and are capable of surviving long dry spells, what do they eat when they wake up?  shirley, the answer is not "mercenaries and gazelle-dogs."   unless the rain clouds themselves are sentient beings that only release moisture when a sufficient number of mercenaries and gazelle-dogs are present to feed the scorpion-monsters.

riddick gets two necromorphs, but only because of big hearts for vin diesel.