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A lot of recent sci fi seems to focus on cute female robots / AIs ...

Mori Chu wrote:A lot of recent sci fi seems to focus on cute female robots / AIs ...

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Laugh now, but my future hot female AI bot wife is going to be the envy of the rest of you.

Speaking of wives, my girlfriend Mariana and I tied the knot on July 12. Loving married life so far! Still getting used to having a piece of metal around my finger, but I sure did pick the right lady.

Mori Chu wrote:Speaking of wives, my girlfriend Mariana and I tied the knot on July 12. Loving married life so far! Still getting used to having a piece of metal around my finger, but I sure did pick the right lady.

Congrats and great to hear. Picking the right match is the tricky part, it seems, for most people. Yeah, it takes about 6 months to get used to the ring.

Congratulations, Mori! Very happy for you. Picking the right lady is the most important part, so you aced that part.

Grants Mori! Dated for a decade before marrying my wife. Been married for about 12 years now. My advice. Whatever you want from her, give it to her first and she will give it back. Love, respect, honesty.

Nodack wrote:Grants Mori! Dated for a decade before marrying my wife. Been married for about 12 years now. My advice. Whatever you want from her, give it to her first and she will give it back. Love, respect, honesty.

Smart man 'Dack

Nodack wrote:Grants Mori! Dated for a decade before marrying my wife. Been married for about 12 years now. My advice. Whatever you want from her, give it to her first and she will give it back. Love, respect, honesty.

Motorboat, new car, bowling ball, StarCraft II expansion, ... :-p

Kids these days!

Never had a boat.
Haven't had a new car in 14 years.
Suck at bowling
Starcraft, now you are talking.

Just saw Star Trek Beyond. Probably the most action in a Star Trek film ever. Included a nice tribute to Nimoy.

Probably the most action in a Star Trek film ever.

Ugh. Wife and I are rewatching Star Trek TNG; she had previously only seen the JJ Abrams movies. She finally understands why I said those movies "are not Trek." The tone and intellect/action ratio are just completely wrong.

I'm always late to these parties because I rarely see movies in the theater but...

Mad Max was phenomenal. I watch it at least twice a week now. One of the most original movies of the last decade.

Saw Spectre this weekend and can see why it underwhelmed. The action scenes were some of the best I've seen in a while. The helicopter fight in the beginning, the supercar chase, the train fight with Hynx...that said, like Skyfall, didn't feel like a true Bond film. Too much of the psychological stuff going into Bond's history/childhood (which I get is big now with flawed heroes), but it's enough. I thought Bautista was wasted, Fiennes should've had more action, and Blofeld and his power was poorly portrayed. He also just came off like a jealous, whiny nerd and not some disturbed evil genius. I feel like, in general, they didn't plan out this iteration of Bond from the beginning the way Marvel did and now DC is doing. Seems like they were going one way with the Quantum organization in Casino and Quantum and then scrapped it to get into Spectre. Just disjointed. And now, finally in probably his last Bond movie, they add in the humor and cheekiness that was missing in the first 3 Craig movies. Disappointing.

I want to see "Eat That Question," a compilation of rare European TV appearances, interviews, network news reports, bootleg snippets and philosophical soundbites from Frank Zappa. Filmmaker supposedly got 90 minutes of prime all-Frank, all-the-time freak outs. Love him or hate him, Zappa was never dull. And some of the best musicians of the day toured with him or played on his studio work.

ShelC wrote: Mad Max was phenomenal. I watch it at least twice a week now. One of the most original movies of the last decade.

I can't think of anything I would want to watch twice a week and I'm kind of a movie nut. I log everything I watch and average about 170 movies a year. I'm just saying that's rare and a bit weird! I did enjoy it quite a bit though I think it's starting to get a tad overrated. The plot is paper thin, I think Max actually grunts more than he speaks in the entire film, and the praise seems to be because of the unrelenting pace of action once things get moving. Like I said, I enjoyed the hell out of it but I don't think it is a new masterpiece or anything.

I thought the story was original, i thought the acting was superb across the board and the soundtrack is really the dialogue. Miller said he wanted to make a film that you could watch without sound and still know what's going on. He also shot it so that's actually made to be watched in black and white. And I did think it was cool that Theron was the hero and really the main character, with Max kind of thrown in to help the cause.

How can you watch the same thing over again twice a week?!? Dude, you gotta find some new stuff to watch!

I enjoyed Mad Max the one time I saw it in the theater. It was action packed and unusual (which I like). Speaking of sound, the sound design was incredible and added a ton to the movie. But one time was enough. Yep, Shel is weird!

Mad Max is absolute masterpiece. I don't watch it twice a week but I have seen the film 7 or 8 times already. Everything about that movie was spectacular. I don't really see why having a simple plot or Tom Hardy not speaking a lot is a mark against it. That is sort of how all the Mad Max movies have been so far anyways.