In the Lost Lands

broderic on April 13, 2025

I completely forgot that I saw In the Lost Lands until I saw a YouTube video of several movies from March. It must’ve been a terrible movie.

It was.

And yet I think it was worth watching. Not for a good a move, but for just enjoying bad movies in theaters. It’s a good thing once in while. Not all the time, but once in a while you got to go and experience terribleness on a large screen.

Anyhow, it was a Paul W.S. Anderson film with Mila Jovovich in the lead from a story by the writer of Game of Thrones. David Bautista was in it, and I didn’t know he was Filipino, but he had tattoos that hinted to it.

1 of 5 stars.

Love Hurts

broderic on March 7, 2025

God damn Love Hurts isn’t good. It’s serviceable, but you’ll immediately see the flaws. It’s a bite on John Wick except people are in love and there is no dog. It opens in a world that the story has already been going for the last few years, and we’re expected to pick up the finale. If it was better, I am sure it would be a franchise just like John Wick.

I’m sad that this is Ke Huy Quan’s first leading man role. He’s deserving of an action film so much better. I want him to do the action In the Mood for Love. Let this man cook.

Anyhow, it wasn’t very good.

2 of 5

Paddington in Peru

broderic on February 28, 2025

I should’ve enjoyed Paddington in Peru more considering the previous entries in the series were solid fare. Unfortunately, Paddington in Peru missed it’s mark with me. Maybe it was the replacement of Sally Hawkins’s mother with Emily Mortimer that felt off. Perhaps it was the weird final act reveal of the true villain that felt out of place. Anyway, I didn’t fall for it as I had for the previous two. I guess I went in with high hopes for another movie to charm my pants off, but came away disappointed.

3 of 5 stars.

Economic Blackout

broderic on February 27, 2025

No shop Friday!

To protest against this wack administration, the plan is to not shop large box retailers and fast food conglomerates. Instead look to small, local mom and pop shops. Or even don’t buy anything at all.

Personally, I believe in the Mangione Method. Take dead aim. Take them down.

Link of the Day [2.15.25]

broderic on February 15, 2025

Wait. Here’s something that I’ve wanted for a long time. You see. I’ve got several Apple IDs. I wish for them to be consolidated into one. Yet that wasn’t ever available until today. Or this is kind of close to consolidation. We’ll have to see.

For now, I’ll just book mark this page.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/117294

Superb Owl Lix

broderic on February 9, 2025

For Super Bowl Sunday, today, I have one thing to have you think about. It’s better to watch from further west than it is in the east. Let me explain.

Lately, the games have started at 6:30 on the East Coast, and they usually run until 9:30/10 PM. That starts being a bit late to keep a Super Bowl party running. By half-time, you want to just go to bed, like the old man, you are. Yet the further west with the time difference the earlier it is at night. I guess Hawaiian time is the perfect time as you have the evening to look forward to.

Anyhow, that’s something to think about…

Thus Falls a Democracy

broderic on February 3, 2025

An important read on what’s happening with Trump, Musk, and their cronies. I would’ve made this a link of the day, but it’s too important to overlook.

We have ceded our country to people who never believed in democracy. We have started the fall of the United States of America. I don’t know where we will be in the future, but what’s certain is a government by the people, for the people is no longer.

Best Films of 2024

broderic on January 22, 2025

Nada.

To be fair, I didn’t watch too many films in the theatre, and none of those were any good.

I should go to the movies more often like I used to. But movies haven’t been engaging in the least. They don’t make them like they used to.

Anyhow, this list is empty. There may have a few I had enjoyed but even now I don’t remember.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

broderic on December 31, 2024

The least I can say of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is that it does follow some story from the appendices to The Lord of the Rings. It’s rough structure is there in the text. Does it necessary follow what Tolkien has written? Well… maybe?

The story comes from the before the events of the War of the Ring in the kingdom of Rohan. When they were fighting off the Dunlendings and establishing the Hornburg AKA Helm’s Deep. It tells of the succession of the throne of the kings of Rohan for the end of the first line and the star of the second line which ends with Theoden at the end of the War of the Ring. A bit of history which wasn’t not known, but was fleshed out a bit well.

Since this isn’t really written by Tolkien, I was suprised at how well it adhered to the structure of Tolkiens story. There was the king. His fallen sons. The daughter. The nephew/successor. It was animated which is great for one of Tolkien’s tales. It was made to look as if from the movies, which made it all too familiar. As a Tolkien fan, I liked it.

3 of 5 stars.