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Days future past

I watched this week. I have had it knocking about on various Hard disk drives and such for a while I read the comic. Like the Borg, would do later. The sentinels actually frightened me. I preferred the Asgardian wars, longer and with pretty girls fighting in swimsuits. Its an interesting cast. There are the the rising stars. Jennifer Lawrence, and Michael Fassbergers, the Stage lions, Patrick Stewart and Sir Iain Mckellan, Some Has beens, Famke Janssen and Halle Berry, Scott Brolin. Two might have beens Ellen Page and Booby Darin. Oh and cameos from TV stars Frasier and Sookie. I could even count Nicolas Hoult and James Mcavoy as Brit TV stars made big Then there is Peter Dinklage stealing every scene as Bolivar Trask and this is my problem with the film. I found Trask a bit too sympathetic. I thought the Sentinels were cool. I found the X-men less sympathetic as I get older. There  is supposed to be a Mengale analogy. Trask has been experimenting on Mutants. Well yes. That is ...

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Interstellar

A good , perhaps the Good science fiction movie. A strong cast. Sir Michael Caine. Mathew Mcounaghy. Last seen in True Detective. Even Casey Affleck. One complaint I have about the film, is that it seems to imply that Affleck will do harm to his sister at one point Why? Argue yeah. Curse yeah... but actual harm Nolan has a thing for snowscapes- The film looks beautiful. The alien worlds, the robots. A wonder Nice to see William Devane, an under appreciated actor in my opinion. As one of the NASA talking heads. As a father I never want to be younger than my daughter. Its a story about family and love. It does what SF should. Tells a simple story in a wonderful and unbelievable world I liked it.

Cosmos

Thank you Seth Macfarlane, and Brannon Braga. I have criticized you both in the past. Thank you for your work here.  Thank you Dr Degasse Tyson. Thank you. Thank you for introducing me, to Ms Annie Jump Canon, for closing the chasm in my knowledge between Faraday and Einstein. Thank you for sharing the story of the Pleades and Orion.