It’s a bath a walk these days….

Work Team Calls are always an experience, bit like bathing an 80 plus month old puppy.

Today’s work call was no different. An Ex-Police Officer was illuminating everyone on his new found movie philosophy. Apparently you can tell lots from the movies someone goes to see at the cinema. He highlighted that his cinema experience this year had been Barbie, Disney, Taylor Swift. To him that clearly showed that he had a teenage daughter. Another Ex-Police Officer then said that his cinema experience had been entirely Jason Statham related. To that our Philosopher pointed out that it shows an ex copper who missed his true vocation, in the FIREARMS team. Someone else was said to be a closet romantic.

Then it came to me. Pick the bones out of this list…

Napoleon

Marvels

Great Escapers

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Mission Impossible

Indiana

Guardians of the Galaxy

Ant Man

Flash

The Philosopher smiled and stated. “Given how tight you are, to see that number of movies indicates you are on that tv contract which gives you free movie tickets each month…”

The absolute cheek… but annoyingly I am on that free movie ticket deal.

He might have stumbled onto something.

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      2. I’m glad you can do that. For a Hollywood blockbuster it was okay, but as Science Fiction I thought it left a lot to be desired. I was brought up on great Science Fiction.

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  9. Haven’t seen any of those. Sadly we lost interest in movies a long time ago and still enjoy those in our own collection (Safehouse, Black Hawk Down, Van Helsing, Hunger Games, The Jason Bourne franchise to name a few).

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  12. I have not been in a movie theatre since the sci-fi flick with the blue water people, it disappointed me so much. I so seldom watch movies anymore. The last two movies I watched, the titles already forgotten, were about two First Nations boys travelling by bus to visit the place where the father of one of the boys died, and an Australian movie about Aborigine kids escaping from a government-run school to teach them to be white (the equivalent of Residential Schools in Canada) who walked 900 miles to get back home to the only world they wanted to live in.
    I am sure your philisopher would have something profound to ssy about me, but I doubt it would be correct. He wouldn’t even know the movies I last saw, given they are both many moons old. And he would probably be confused as to why I was disappointed by that waterworld movie (not called Waterworld, I don’t think) which was so popular. The thing is, I am a big fan of Science Fiction — not go be confused with sci-fi — which was a poor second cousin to the books the idea was stolen from. Sort of like The Matrix, another piece of Hollywood garbage, or Blade Runner, which totally missed the point of what Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was all about.
    Sorry for the rant, Gary, but 50s, 60s, and 70s Science Fiction gets no respect in Hollywood. They water it down, and make it spectacular, which means they make literature into cartoons. — except, good cartoons have more meaning than these movies will ever have.

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      1. Was that the book it was taken from? I thought it was from a little-known novel by Philip K. Dick, my favourite author (and writer of Do Andtoids Dream of Electiric Sheep, which Hollywoid turned into the violence-fest Blade Runner, also condemed above). I don’t remember Ender’s Game as being connected to The Matrix, but then 80s Science Fiction didn’t impress me the way earlier decades did. All the good ideas were slready taken…

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  13. I have seen more Jason Statham movies this year, than the the other…I still haven’t Barbie yet! People are all “YOU, haven’t seen Barbie yet?!” I am little surprised about it myself, hehe. Then again, I do find Jason a lot more attractive. That might have something to do with it, a sexy bald man kicking bad guys butts! =D

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