Posts with the tag 'sci-fi'

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES- 2018.

5/25/18- Terrible reviews. TRDB.

Add comment May 25th, 2018

THE ENDLESS

THE ENDLESS- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “Acclaimed filmmakers Moorhead and Benson return with this mind-bending thriller that follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier.”

5/8/18- Not my kind of movie but it did get excellent reviews. TRDB.

Add comment May 8th, 2018

READY PLAYER ONE

READY PLAYER ONE- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “In a future dominated by a virtual-reality program, young Wade Watts joins a cyber scavenger hunt for the fortune left by the system’s late creator. But with the prize valued in the billions, Wade has lots of competition — including corporate foes.”

3/28/18- Very good reviews. TRDB.

Add comment March 28th, 2018

REALIVE

REALIVE- 2017. Synopsis by Netflix. “Marc is diagnosed with a disease and is given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first cryogenically frozen man to be revived in history. Marc discovers a startling future, but the biggest surprise is that his past has accompanied him in unexpected ways.”

9/29/17- Very good reviews by the critics and weak ones by audiences. TRDB.

10/5/17- I’ll go with the audiences this time. Boring while trying to be interesting. TRDB. Netflix Disc.

Add comment September 29th, 2017

FALLEN

FALLEN- 2017. Synopsis by Netflix. “When young Lucinda Price lands at a reform school after being wrongly blamed for a boy’s death, she realizes that something is amiss — and soon finds herself being courted by not one but two fallen angels.

9/8/17- Terrible reviews by the critics and weak ones by audiences. TRDB.

Add comment September 9th, 2017

THE UNTAMED

THE UNTAMED- 2017. Synopsis by Netflix. “In this genre-bending parable, unhappily married Alejandra and Angel find their parochial lives upended by an otherworldly creature that provides rapturous erotic pleasure — but is also a source of great danger.”

7/21/17- Good reviews from the critics and awful ones by audiences for this sci-fi, horror movie. I’ll skip it!!

Add comment July 24th, 2017

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES- 2017. Synopsis by Netflix. “Completing the “Planet of the Apes” trilogy, this epic of interspecies war pits the apes led by Caesar against a deadly human army. After catastrophic losses, Caesar reluctantly adapts ruthless tactics to assure his clan’s survival.”

7/14/17- Very good reviews from critics and audiences. TRDB.

Add comment July 14th, 2017

THE DISCOVERY

THE DISCOVERY- 2017. Synopsis by Netflix. “After a physicist invents a device that seems to prove the existence of an afterlife, he retreats into isolation from the media when a rash of suicides ensues. But rather than denounce his work to prevent more suicides, he takes his research further.”

3/31/17- Poor reviews from most of the critics. TRDB.

Add comment April 3rd, 2017

PREVENGE

PREVENGE- 2017. Synopsis by Netflix. “In the seventh month of her pregnancy, recently widowed Ruth begins to converse with her unborn baby — who’s angry about being deprived of a father and prods Ruth to engage in a vengeful killing spree.”

3/24/17- Excellent reviews by the critics for what sounds ridiculous. TRDB.

Add comment March 24th, 2017

LIFE

LIFE- 2017. Synopsis by Netflix. “Humans have long considered the possibility of life on Mars. So, when an International Space Station crew discovers a one-celled organism in a sample from the red planet, they’re ecstatic — until the tiny life-form displays a freakish intelligence.”

3/24/17- Fair reviews at best. TRDB.

Add comment March 24th, 2017

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