A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • My unwanted opinion. 😄 Terminator 3 isn’t too bad and I give most of it’s credit for the clever switch and bleak ending.

    I watched Terminator: Salvation a few weeks ago and it’s not bad at all. The grubby Mad Max look works quite well for that universe and I also enjoyed the new designs of Terminators.

    Sigh. Genisys is just a mess. The faithful recreation of the opening of the original film is the only thing going for it. Either I missed it or a major plot point is never explained (possibly left for the unmade sequels), all the hype about Matt Smith appearing in it was rather pointless and the marketing department decided to use the biggest surprise plot point in all the trailers. Oh, and Jai Courtney is a terrible Kyle.

    If I had to be kind, I’d say Genisys is a solid action movie but a bad terminator film.

    I’m going to watch Dark Fate again this week, I haven’t watched that since it’s opening, see how I feel about the last entry to the franchise.





  • Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.

    When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren’t favourable as I remember.


  • That’s a lovely build. I like the way you built the engine with opposing stud work. That kind of build technique always amazes me. When I started playing with Lego back in the late 70s, it was always bricks right way up. I build sets now, like the Delorean and ECTO1, and pieces are facing in all kinds of directions! 😄












  • The 8 bit guy. I loved his retro computing channel and then one day, he acquired a rare IBM computer and promptly destroyed the power supply by sticking a screwdriver into it (if I remember correctly).

    For some reason, I googled about this and discovered he’s a gun nut. They’re videos of him going grocery shopping with his rifle on his back which apparently he does this knowing it will annoy people.

    Unsubscribed from the channel and never looked back.