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Strange deaths tied to the Upside Down cause paranoia among Hawkins' residents.
It’s not had a lot of great moments but I’ve enjoyed it. Story seems to be coming together well ?
★★★
Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.
This is just not enough fun. It takes itself far too seriously. Admittedly, I’m not the target audience but my children were obviously very bored at times. You see, Buzz has to learn about “teamwork”. Sadly, that takes three quarters of the movie and there is pretty much nothing else going on. There is a single plot line that is endlessly, and needlessly, stymied to the point of teeth gnashing frustration. The story is almost bereft of any good ideas.
It all looks pretty neat, though. I love the design and the sound is great. The soundtrack is not particularly note-worthy but the voice work is very solid.
I just wish they hadn’t confused tension and excitement…
★★½
Decades since their successful television series was canceled, Chip has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance salesman. Dale, meanwhile, has had CGI surgery and works the nostalgia convention circuit, desperate to relive his glory days. When a former cast mate mysteriously disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken friendship and take on their Rescue Rangers detective personas once again to save their friend’s life.
I went into this with quiet optimism. It was not rewarded. The set-up, the story and effects all work well enough. It’s just really badly put together. It has loads of what should be great little touches that just don’t land. It’s like a five year old telling a joke, where all the timing and intonation is off.
Very poor.
★★
In a suburban community, moms and dads, one after the other, mysteriously feel the irresistible impulse to attack and kill their own offspring.
The premise and set-up are great but, once the carnage starts… well, that’s the problem. There is no carnage. There is nowhere near enough splatter for this to be a horror and it is way too short on laughs to be a comedy.
Missed opportunity. Passed the time, though.
★★½
The suspension of a Google engineer who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being has put new scrutiny on the capacity of, and secrecy surrounding, the world of artificial intelligence (AI).
A multiline header can be quite annoying. Let´s say you want to process this table in Power Query in Excel or Power BI. The header…
I thought this would at least need some code but this is such a neat and quick work-around!
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
It’s just too long. It’s a big part of the “joke”, that the crawl goes on too long. But it’s boring and self-indulgent.
★★½
@The_Weed: A message I want to share with adults who work with #ADHD kids is: pushing them the way that you push neurotypical kids harms them for life. Here’s what I mean. When I start working clinically...…
This is a really nice thread (for the most part). I have an ASD/Asperger’s diagnosis but no official ADHD diagnosis (as yet). My son has both. In coming to understand his ADHD I have been able to understand my own. I just really hope this has not come too late.
I have absolutely thrown a lot of the mentioned negative commentary his way, having had the same done to me, stating that it “never did me any harm.” But, of course, it did.
I’m not sur eit’s going to get any easier as academic expectations at school rise. They seem to know what they are doing, though ?
When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.
Far surpassed my admittedly low expectations. Like the Mandalorian, “new” characters seem the way to go.
What I liked most about this was the chunk in the middle, where you could almost forget it was the MCU. But the VERY MCU conclusion wasn’t unwelcome, either.
★★★★