Movies

Hustlers is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. Watch the first five minutes with J-Lo and then turn it off lol.

How much of that is stereotypes and how much is real is pretty much an unknown. I've met several Russians here, mostly tourists not "party", but they seem nice to me. Generalizing, which is never a good thing, they seem far less "strack" than the Germans I've met. Small sample sizes noted.

I don't disagree with that at all. I just don't buy into the media's portrayal of virtually every country into only black hats and white hats. As they say, power corrupts and the governments officials of any country come from the population. There are good bureaucrats and bad bureaucrats everywhere. The percentages are different but it's not close to 100% for either side.

I'm watching season 1 of The Witcher. Thru the first 5 episodes it's been excellent.

How they jump around in time is a bit strange. In the next to last episode he said he hadn't been back in 12 years which would make the girl less than 12 years old. If that's the case, they should have used 2 actresses, a young one and an older one. The actress that plays Celi is 18 years old,

I watched Rambo Last Blood, likely Sly and the Family Stilone's last movie (he's getting past it). Not a great movie but better than I was expecting. There was a lot of Spanish dialog but you can pretty much figure out what that's about if you don't speak Spanish.

The Witcher is now #1:

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There might be nobody on earth who goes to "Frozen 2" based on a recommendation - you knew three years ago whether or not it is a movie you will see. But I took the kids this weekend and it is good enough to recommend. So if you've got kids or whatever and you've been putting it off or dreading that it would just be a formulaic re-do of the first movie, it isn't - they'll enjoy it and you'll be entertained. And I thought the animation was legitimately outstanding, so if you're into that sort of thing it's enough to recommend on that alone.

That same logic would have you stuck in the My Favorite Martian period over Star Wars.

Disney's Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent Mistress of Evil (2019) were pretty good. Both are in the mixed animation/acting recipe that seems to be getting more popular, plus I learned a new word.

A bit more applicable to slightly older kids (and adults) than Frozen 2. Sadly though, Angelina Jolie looks anorexic. The movie I am looking forward to in that arena is Avatar 2. The original Avatar was pretty ground breaking and will be tough to top.

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Disney's animated blockbuster "Frozen 2" is now the highest grossing animated film of all time, garnering 1.325 billion dollars globally since its release. The top three highest grossing animated films -- "Frozen 2," "Frozen" and "Incredibles 2" -- are now all under the Disney banner.

1917 I haven't seen it yet, but it's supposedly realistic. If so, it should be a great movie. I've just finishing reading 3 books on WWI, all written by soldiers who were there and their experiences. One from France, one from Britain, and one from Germany. The thing that struck me is that every one of them experienced the exact same thing. One side didn't differ from the other, whether is be from combat or leadership. The Generals on both sides were incredibly stupid, wasting countless lives for nothing. It was the first mechanized war, but the leaders didn't know how to use it. If the US hadn't jumped in late in the war and put an end to it, it might be still going on today. In my opinion, it was the craziest, stupidest war, fought for no good reason, wasting countless lives, all for nothing. What was the end result? WWII. Nice.

Another result was the Spanish Flu. All that bombing and artillery and huge mines being set off released the Spanish Flu that was buried in the ground for millions of years. It wasn't just a common flu, it was deadly. It didn't spread by touching. It spread in the air. So, even Eskimos got it. Somewhere between 50 and 100 million people died around the world from it. The curious thing is that the young people were dying, not the older ones. Young people have strong immune systems. Old people have weaker ones. When the immune system kicked in on young people, it was so strong it ended up killing the people it was supposed to protect. Older people got the flu as well, but their immune system was so weak, it only made them sick, not die.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing the film to see how accurate it is.