Fast paced. Funny. Emotional. You are hooked in the first 10 seconds.
Much like the time Drake gave away a million dollars.
In this one, illegal Slovakian immigrant David Dobrik gives away money, cars, and EA gaming devices. It’s fun.
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Video editing guru Hillier Smith feels it’s the best so far in 2020.
Here’s why.
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I’d seen No Country for Old Men, the 2007 thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
Very scary. Especially Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh.
Very violent.
The film won 76 awards on 109 nominations across multiple organizations; it won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director(s), Best Supporting Actor (Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay …
… many regard it as the Coen brothers’ best film. …
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The Coens’ script was mostly faithful to the source material.
The 2005 novel has the same dark feel.
A drug deal gone wrong near the Mexican border in 1980. A psychopath killer.
Though some argue that Cormac McCarthy is “our greatest living writer” — early critical reception of the novel was mixed.
I loved The Road (2006), the post-apocalyptic novel awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Road was an excellent film, as well.
I’ve always been anti-war.
Citizens should do everything they can to avoid war.
That said, the allies response to Hitler’s invasions and the attack on Pearl Harbor were justified.
Even Gandhi supported the allies in WW II.
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian (2008) is the story of a journey in the waning months of World War II.
A Prussian family flees west ahead of the advancing Russian army. They bring a Scottish POW that had been working on their farm. En route, they are joined by Uri Singer, an escaped Jew posing as a Nazi officer.
At the same time, Nazi work camp prisoners are being marched west.
It’s all horrible.
War is Hell.
An old dog, I much prefer landscape videos.
But the whole generation who started with TikTok feel portrait is normal.
As an experiment, I shot and edited one VERT video.
YouTube is soon to launch a TikTok competitor called “Shorts”, but it hasn’t happened yet.
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I liked the previous book by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen — The Wife Between Us (2018) — and looked forward to their 2019 novel.
It’s even better.
Jessica, a Manhattan makeup artist, signs up for a research study into morality and ethics. She needs the money. It pays $500.
But what does Dr. Shields’ actually want of her?
A TV series based on the book is planned.
To Calgary.
… Or was it Chernobyl? 😀
I was prepared. With a POINT 1 NANO mask. Supposedly N97.
Shield. And Shadyrays.
But Alberta is suffering badly from COVID. 1,828 new cases Friday and 15 additional deaths.
So I decided to stay on Vancouver Island at least through New Years.
A surprisingly good film. … And I hate motor racing of all kinds.
Matt Damon is good as Matt Damon. As always.
But Christian Bale is by far the highlight of this movie. I’m going to watch more of his films.
Ford v Ferrari stars Matt Damon and Christian Bale …
The plot follows a determined team of American engineers and designers, led by automotive designer Carroll Shelby and his British driver, Ken Miles, who are dispatched by Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca with the mission of building the Ford GT40, a new racing car with the potential to finally defeat the perennially dominant Ferrari racing team at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. …
… at the 92nd Academy Awards received four nominations, including Best Picture …
For his performance, Bale was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. …
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As usual, the real story has been altered to make the movie more dramatic.
Fact is, neither of the Ferrari cars made it past the half way point of the race.
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When Lee Child announced his retirement after the 25th novel in the Jack Reacher series, fans like me were disappointed.
The 26th book is The Sentinel (2020) co-authored by James Grant and his younger brother Andrew Grant but published using their respective pen names of Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Sounds like the much younger brother did most of the writing.
He’s taking over the franchise.
Happily, Sentinel is excellent.
In this one, Reacher battles those behind a ransomware cyber attack in a small town a couple of hours out of Nashville.
related – A bad review of the book.
20 Minute Workout is a Canadian-produced aerobics-based television program that ran from 1983 to 1984, in which “a bevy of beautiful girls” … on a rotating platform. …
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Abaddon’s Gate is 3rd in The Expanse series — preceded by Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War.
James Holden and his crew have been successful in their ship-for-hire business, cashing in on their celebrity …
But things go wrong when our crew goes first through the Stargate called “The Ring”.
They have a camera crew onboard.
Abaddon’s Gate was adapted into episodes 7 to 13 of the third season of the television series The Expanse in 2018, with its title taken for the final episode of that season.
This is one of those rare series where the TV show is better than the books.
I find the books too slow.
Rick McCharles 