Sunday, March 8, 2026
Who are you? | Stargate Atlantis: 5x11 'The Lost Tribe'
This is a cool moment in one of the Stargate series. There were many cool moments and three different series.
For years there have been rumors of a franchise reboot, but it hasn't happened yet.
The original movie had mixed to negative reviews, although I personally liked it and saw it around 7 times, but the spinoff TV shows developed a large fan base.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Star Wars Fans Missed This for 50 Years! An Ashtray in the Falcon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nReBCDadz8c
I'm not convinced it is an astray. However, if Game of Thrones can have a Starbucks cup in it, then Star Wars can have an ashtray. In Lord of the Rings, Gandolf was spotted wearing a modern watch.
I looked it up, and Harrison Ford reportedly loves to smoke, both tobacco and cannabis.
In Star Wars, we do see aliens inhaling smoke from some kind of device.
Friday, March 6, 2026
The Real Monsters Aren’t the Infected
I was always a fan of Graham Greene who passed away recently. He was in Dance With Wolves along with a few other movies.
This is from the Zombie streaming series, "The Last of Us", which is adapted from a video game. I assumed that this was one of Graham Greene's final roles, but according to IMDB, he had dozens of recent roles.
Friday, February 27, 2026
Zack Snyder Breaks Silence On James Gunn's Superman
https://screenrant.com/superman-movie-dcu-zack-snyder-review/
This is the kind of movie I never want to watch a second time. It is barely passable entertainment, but it feels a bit goofy and fails to be special in the way I think Superman movies should be special. It comes across more like a comic book brought directly to the big screen, but the film feels like it has ADHD.
The previous Superman movie, Man of Steel, took a different approach and leaned more toward hard sci-fi. For that reason, I loved it, though not everyone did. Some of the dialogue and side characters seem simplistic, but Henry Cavill makes a great Superman.
The 2006 film Superman Returns is far from perfect because it looks a bit dark and dreary, but it effectively served as a sequel to the Superman starring Christopher Reeve, and I found it entertaining. I think the movie is underrated.
This Minute Speech is Better Than Entire Sci-Fi Shows
One of the highlights of Babylon 5.
Ambassador G'Kar and Ambassador Mollari were bitter enemies, as were their peoples, but years later aligned with each other for a common purpose and to achieve peace.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
All 157 Star Wars Expanded Universe Books Ranked!
The Star Wars "Expanded Universe" books were official before Disney bought Lucasfilm. Disney made these books "unofficial", rebranding them as "Legends", because they wanted to do their own lore without regard for what came before. The pre-Disney Star Wars universe was very diverse and had all sorts of novels and comics that weren't necessarily consistent. Reportedly, George Lucas himself regarded them as not real Star Wars, but offshoots from Star Wars.
The video's #58 is the third book of the Darth Bane trilogy. I just finished it on Audible. He regards it as the weakest of the trilogy, but I thought that it was the best of a truly great trilogy. The video lists the first two books at #18 and #29.
His #2 book, Outbound Flight is what I am currently listening to. I'm not far enough into it to know why it is so great, so I am questioning the ranking, but maybe I'll be surprised.
The Darth Plagueis novel is deservedly regarded as one of the best Star Wars books if not the best. The video lists it at #15.
Besides the excellent Darth Bane trilogy, there is the Thrawn Heir to the Empire Trilogy , which is highly praised, but in my mind just good and not excellent. It drags out a bit. The video lists the books at #3, #5, and #7.
Splinter in the Mind's Eye is the first Star Wars novel I read all the way back in 1978. He lists it as #109. The story was originally intended to be a sequel to the first Star Wars that wouldn't be too expensive to make. Development on the novel started before the first film came out. However, the success of Star Wars led to The Empire Strikes Back, so Splinter in the Mind's Eye is not consistent with that movie.
The Disney canon novels Master and Apprentice and Ahsoka are definitely good, but also not my favorites.
Friday, February 20, 2026
Rose Marie: Al Capone's Lunch: A Kid's Unforgettable Mob Encounter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMHDvTRomUs
Rose Marie is most famous for her role on the Dick Van Dyke show. She started as a child performer in Vaudeville, and reportedly in places that had some associations with gangsters.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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Saturday, February 14, 2026
BSG
I've tried a couple of times over the last few months to restart watching Battlestar Galactica. I didn't get very far, partly because I felt obligated to watch the streaming services I'm currently paying for. I also hesitated to watch it again because, over the last 22 years, I've watched the entire series three times. I've seen the pilot miniseries and season 1, episode 1 several times, and they are both fantastic. Because of that, I figured I must have the show memorized by now.
Another concern was that the series is more of a soap opera than I remember it being.
However, I watched the first half of the miniseries last night and fell in love with the show all over again. The acting and the drama are outstanding. Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell have screen presences that are truly remarkable. The entire supporting cast is excellent as well, especially Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, Aaron Douglas, Michael Hogan, and James Callis.
The special effects are starting to look dated, but they were movie quality at the time of the release.
I'd like to watch one episode per night until I make it all the way through the series.
Katee Sackhoff Watches Battlestar Galactica for the FIRST Time
@SerilaBuck
9 days ago
"i' played starbuck 25 years ago" don't do this to me. it was 10 years ago, right?
@Confederation1867
9 days ago
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again
@GinSnakken
7 days ago
@Confederation1867 So say we all!
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
@john2001plus
0 seconds ago
As a parody of a Budweiser Clydesdale commercial, I thought it was cute. It seems like enough to make casual fans curious.
Unfortunately, it sends the message that the next Star Wars movie is more of a comedy and less of a science-fiction fantasy adventure. Still, die-hard fans like me are going to watch it.
I hold out hope that the movie is good, and if it is, then word will get out, and people will want to see it.
0 seconds ago
As a parody of a Budweiser Clydesdale commercial, I thought it was cute. It seems like enough to make casual fans curious.
Unfortunately, it sends the message that the next Star Wars movie is more of a comedy and less of a science-fiction fantasy adventure. Still, die-hard fans like me are going to watch it.
I hold out hope that the movie is good, and if it is, then word will get out, and people will want to see it.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
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Friday, January 30, 2026
The Imitation Game Got Alan Turing Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOXaGBmx2OY
I have a beef with historical movies that distort history, and most of them do. For example, the movie Sully distorted the way the NTSB treated Captain Sullenberger to add drama to the film. As good of a movie Titanic was, I think that the real story is more interesting than a bunch of fictional characters.
I knew enough about the code breaking at Bletchley Park to find the movie suspect. Decisions about whether to use the intel were made at the highest level, like Winston Churchill, and not by the code breakers.
The movie has a spy subplot that strikes me as fictional. If it is true, then we have heard nothing about it from other sources.
Alan Turing had a distinguished career outside of code breaking. I was hoping the movie would acknowledge his other accomplishments, but instead it gave us a soap opera.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Variations on the Kanon by Pachelbel - George Winston
I saw this piece of music on Facebook with no title. I am no expert on music, but I really enjoyed this piece. I wanted to know what it is called. I found it on YouTube with the title "Variations on the Kanon by Pachelbel".
So, being the curious person I am, I wanted to know what the "Kanon by Pachelbel" meant. So I found it...
The first version on this page, "Arranged for violins, harps, and bass", is a piece of music that I have heard many times, as it has been used in TV shows and movies. Mentally, I hadn't made the connection between the piano solo and this version, but I had previously been curious about where this music came from. Some of the other versions of this page are interesting.
Friday, January 23, 2026
SELF SERVE POPCORN AT MOVIE THEATRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjWAs93T04
Not sure this is a good idea.
Movie theaters are becoming obsolete.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Last Days in the Desert
I wrote this 8 years ago:
If you want to see a low budget gem of a movie, watch "Last Days in the Desert" where Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and Satan.
There is something compelling about watching a man on a journey, especially on a journey to find himself.
Actually this is not a very religious movie. There are no miracles. The question of Jesus' divinity is left up to the viewer to decide. He could just be a crazy man wandering the desert.
The final scene feels out of place, because the movie goes straight from the Crucifixion to modern day tourists taking snapshots of the same desert Jesus supposedly wandered in. Had they given us a hint of resurrection, even a slight stirring under the burial cloth, it would have given the movie a religious meaning. Such an ending, regardless of if you believe or not, would be a satisfying conclusion to the story, because it would have shown that everything that went before it served a purpose. Instead, the story is ambiguous.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
"The Blackout" movie
The joke here is that the biological weapon launched 200,000 years ago to subdue the planet was the human race.
This movie has borderline ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. It is a Russian made film that is dubbed. The last part of the dialog doesn't sound great to me.
The premise seems interesting. It is streaming on multiple services. I will have to watch it and see if I like it.
The look and sound of the alien reminds me of characters on the TV series Stargate Atlantis.
Monday, January 12, 2026
Finch
After a major solar event destroys the ozone layer, most life on Earth dies. Finch is one of the last surviving humans, and he distrusts other people with good reason. He has witnessed humans killing one another over small amounts of food.
I looked this up, and after such a catastrophe it would take decades, possibly up to a century, for the ozone layer to regenerate. Such an event is plausible. The cosmos is filled with dangers, such as coronal mass ejections, gamma-ray bursts, and asteroid impacts.
Finch lives in a shelter but must venture out to find food for himself and his dog. He wears a radiation suit, but conditions outside are extremely harsh. He knows that he is dying from radiation exposure.
He loves the dog; it is the only thing he has left. Because of this, he builds an intelligent robot whose purpose is to take care of the dog after Finch dies. The robot is very smart but also a bit goofy, lacking common sense and still trying to learn. This is where the movie takes an unexpected turn, as it is really the relationship between Finch, the robot, and the dog that the story explores.
That said, the robot’s goofiness feels very familiar, as if this story has been done before. I was reminded of Short Circuit, Wall-E, and several robots from Star Wars.
Circumstances force the trio out of the shelter, and they head west in a makeshift armored vehicle, hoping to reach San Francisco. Along the way, they face danger from both the environment and other humans. The desolation of the terrain makes The Road look like paradise by comparison.
I was very moved by Tom Hanks’s performance as Finch. He conveys deep compassion under the worst possible circumstances. Some critics, however, felt that the robot storyline was recycled and unoriginal. The ending also feels truncated, as though the filmmakers could have explored this world much more. So while it is not a perfect movie, I did like it quite a bit.
Rating: B+.
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Finch - movie
I've never heard of this movie, which is surprising since it stars Tom Hanks. Watching it now on Apple TV.
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