The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
I watched this a few weeks ago and didn’t write anything about it, so that should tell you how much it stuck with me. Not a bad movie, but it is very forgetable. It amounts to little more than a fantasy action film with great visuals (it looks amazing on BluRay). It feels like a waste of time to say prattle on about this movie other than, less really is more.
Horrible Bosses 2
Another not good, but not bad movie (there are a lot of those these days). The first movie is pretty good and made enough money to get the studio to order another one. Should they have? Not really. It’s got a few funny moments, but nothing even approaching a knee slapper or a rib tickler (the upper echelon of laughs, obviously). You aren’t missing anything if you don’t see this (Jennifer Aniston remains gorgeous though).
Mr. Robot
Ok, now something worth watching. This show just started on USA Network (!?) and it is fantastic. Loved the pilot. It’s about Elliot (Rami Malek), a brilliant but anti-social hacker who struggles to find happiness in a world full of brain dead and cruel people. He wants to change the world for the better and when Mr. Robot comes to recruit him for just such a purpose…
Rami Malek is fantastic as Elliot and a lot of his dialog sounds like how I write (big part of why I like this so much). Love Elliot as a character. A lot of cool ideas and execution, this show had me right from the opening scene. Â I’m not an IT profesional, but the tech talk and hacking they show looks head and shoulders above what many hacker movies and shows have put out. It seems like they have writers/consultants who have actually done their research on how computer networks work. A lot of respect went into this show and it seems like a great season is in store for us. It already got greenlit for a second season too. I’m all in.
Falling Skies
The final season just started! Somehow Tom made it back from his suicide mission and the Espheni invasion has been sent reeling for the first time. The last push to take the planet back has begun! Good premiere to get back in, I”m looking forward to the rest.
Ink Master
It’s apprentice vs master this year. Really dig this show, but giving the human canvas more say in the deliberation is pretty stupid. Way too much bias at work.