Thoughts about TV Shows and Movies

The long awaited sequel to Now You See Me 2.   The third movie  reuses gimmicks / tropes from the first two movies Henley’s watery escape from a tank (1st and 3rd movie) chase scene involving cards  characters faking their deaths (all 3 movies) stealing from rich and giving to poor / deserving people pokes fun at  Chat GPT / AI  Inception (basically using rotating hallway fight scene from the Chris Nolan movie) Third movie introduces 3 new magicians joining the Horsemen as they attempt to steal a very expensive diamond and expose the money laundering scheme of Veronika Vanderberg and her dad.

According to Kokatu and various other sources, Ninetendo is going to tackle scalpers in its billion dollar brand,   Pokemon .  I wished Ninetendo handled the plushies too because for example, Feraligatr cost ranged from $16.99 to $121.50 on third party sites like eBay and possibly Amazon. Sources: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-president-promises-to-tackle-pokemon-card-scalpers-after-billions-printed-fail-to-satisfy-market-2000712688 https://www.ebay.com/itm/198372382571?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&google_free_listing_action=view_item&srsltid=AfmBOorpFT4ws_WbGwQPCD2MX8akye8_EYM_6dlTTLUWzZEe30dhV0DR62c

I decided to do something different and went to Alamo Draft House.  I ordered a beer and chips and paid for a movie, Final Destination Bloodlines .  I give it 6 out of 10 on scary factor.   Some of the scary things weren't scary to me including the jump scares.   I probably seen too many explosions in Mythbusters so the explosion at the end didn't faze me.  Blood is more gross than horrifying.

 Moral of movie: You can't destroy family.  It was battle between Hoopa and itself to understand family. I seen the trailer and said I got to watch the battle among the legendaries from different generations like Lugia (generation 2); Rayquazza and the Eon Twins (generations 3) plus Groudon and Kyorge.  When you got legendaries fighting legendaries, next logical conclusion was to pit multiple legendaries against each other and mega evolve them and etc. Team Rocket didn't do their mottos in the movie.  If they did, I would fast-forward since I'm watching online since I know who they are.

 Police procedurals tended to have newbies joining the team Numb3rs:  David Sinclair (season 1 - black guy); Colby Granger (season 2); Megan Reeves (season 2 - woman) CSI: NY: Lindsey Monroe (season 2 - woman) after Aiden left FBI: International: Cameron Vo (season 1 - woman) Numb3rs ' female cast tended to not stick around behavior analyst (Terry Lake) left at end of season 1 left she was replaced by Megan Reeves (who left in season 4) Liz Warner joined in season 3 but I felt like her actress was guest cast early on Amita was only one to stick around but why do I feel like she was guest cast early on as well I always liked foreign humor and slapstick humor and sex jokes.   FBI: International had foreign detective from season 1, episode 7 saying "Asylum?  What is that - an energy drink?"  Creative joke.

How much it's important Chloe working watchtower meant to Oliver ,,, it must be tough walking away from it especially if he has a big target on his back.  Correct me if I'm wrong?  I thought Oliver had money so of course paparazzi would be all over him.  He and Clark both had tracking tattoos as well, so shouldn't Clark stay away unless he got tracked to the Watchtower.

 Numb3rs had interesting dialogue in the police procedural "common sense to not wave stick in front of crocodile" (Ash's Totodile biting Ash on the head - it's on my social media accounts - should help you remember) calculating stopping distance from mass and velocity (Charlie described as math problem while I thought it was physics problem too) from the train crash episode ("36 hours") was talking about script writing software which one of the leads, Rob Morrow, has been working on ("Where's Credit Due") For "36 Hours", I pointed out a train crash did happen in real life in California - Metrolink crash in 2008 in September.  Airing an episode about a train crash when a train crash happened in real life is probably not good idea, so the episode was pushed several episodes later.  One of the actors did film a disclaimer at the beginning of the episode.  I wished my mom who passed away understood trains - like Amtrak - have long stoppin...

Wartime Farm  showed people were used to government control of life during WW2 - rationing and over agricultural and propaganda - so of course government control after the war like health insurance made sense didn't ration vegetables and bread during the war  is that why vegetarians and vegans took off after the war?

Emergence was about police chief Jo Evans finding a girl, Piper, after a plane crash.  It turned out Piper and another main character, Benny, were robots / synthetic organism.  I rewatched the season and didn't find it shocking that Benny was synthetic because know what NTSB report in the pilot episode going to say (mapping pollution, etc) wanted to talk to Piper (in 2 MG CU BID ) know Piper robot (he said "I do" when Jo said "piper robot?  I don't believe you" in 2 MG CU BID ) wanted Piper to join him and Helen won't kill Piper (in  American Chestnut )   It's not outright stated, but I think Piper's "parents" were in the SUV in the pilot episode looking to kidnap Piper and later died.  Kindred, Emily (she created Piper to be an image of her when young), and Helen (she wanted Piper's abilities) were after Piper.

 Merritt served as the distraction while Jack stole the chip.  Allen said he seen the Horsemen before and verified it by going to the Eye's headquarters, where he seen them again.  I felt like Atlas didn't need Dylan, but he changed his mind when Dylan rescued him from Walter.   I felt like the Horseman stole from the Eye.  Were Walter and Arthur Tressler part of the Eye?

Arthur Tressler uses Thaddeus Bradley to enact his revenge against the Horseman in both of the films, Now You See Me and its sequel.  Arthur is Thaddeus's source. in the first movie, Arthur Tressler paid Thaddeus Bradley double if Bradley agreed to expose the Horsemen in the sequel, Arthur Tressler was seen giving money to Thaddeus Bradley for Dylan Rhodes' whereabouts after Dylan was dropped into the ocean like his dad

Since it's almost Halloween, I spent gift card on Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island which sounds spooky for the season.  The ghosts and zombies were scaring Scooby and the gang off the island which was inhabitated by Lena and her cat zombies.  Reanimating the dead spooky. The zombies were actually real which scared me when younger.

 This is probably the only theory that makes sense about Inception.  The whole movie is a flashback - Cobb's flashblack of the Saito extraction and the Fischer inception - which lead to Cobb entering limbo.  The kicks waking up the dreamers destroyed Cobb's limbo - the city skyscrapers falling apart - and replaced it with Saito's limbo.  It is assumed Cobb and Saito shot themselves to wake up from limbo.

I wanted to talk about CSI: NY 's season 4 storyline, the 333 stalker.  I wondered how Mac's stalker, Drew Bedford, knew Mac's hotel rooms he was staying in's phone number cell phone's # office's phone # office location I guess he used Stella's office card to guess Mac's office number and office location to call him and leave the luggage with the bloody t-shirt.  He could have called the area hotels and asked if Mac Taylor was staying in one of the rooms. The bloody t-shirt belonged to Will, Andy's brother who died.  The chalk outline was of Will, and the newspaper satchel belonged to Will.  The dead body was Bobby Toole - the man who killed Will.

I am reviewing  Cold Case , the CBS show about cold cases the Philadelphia homicide detectives worked on.  Spoilers alert.  I first saw the show on HBO Max but found roku had the full episodes for free, so rewatched the show. Season 1, Episode 3 - "Our Boy is Back" The perp had to be brave bragging to the police that he's back in Philadelphia raping women.  I think he wanted to get caught because of his demons. Season 2 Scotty was humping his coworker's sister, Christina.  I'm not sure I would be brave enough to hump family members of my coworkers. Season 3, Episode 23 - "Joseph" The chemistry / scene between Lily Rush and her partner, Scotty Valens, when Scotty is at Lily's home after she called in sick was awkward at the end.

"Boy in the Box" on Cold Case was Arnold Culliver was found in Liho Punch box came from Fernwood home for Orphans came with "sister", Gretchen was part of science club boys that tested radiation (radiation made men infertile) was believed to have been adopted by parents who died in 1887 was a problem child loved it at Fernwood was subjected to ECT was the son of sister Grace was 6 years old I like to rewatch this episode for some reason

 I first watched The Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon  special in 2006 and hated the voices. Yesterday, I rewatched the special, and these are my impressions I can tolerate most of the changes in voice cast except May's because I been watching the newer episodes with the newer cast for some reason, May's voice change bugged me the plot was interesting the special was dark the death of a Pokemon, Mew the assumed death of Dr. Yung I kind of wish Corphish had some dialogue

Spoiler Warning!!! Now You See Me was a movie about four magicians robbing a bank.  The recurring dialogue was "the closer you look, the less you actually see."  Apartment 6A was a recurring location.  This whole movie was about revenge Credit Republicain de Paris carried the note Tressler Insurance Company was the company that denied the claim for Lionel's death  Elkhorn started as a safe manufacturer and used cheap steel which warped when it went to the bottom of the river The magicians robbed 3.2 million euros from the bank. Jack Wilder got the "death" tarot card, and he died in the movie.  Daniel Atlas got the "lover" card, and he was seen making out with a lady at the beginning of the movie.  Henley also mentioned "three minutes".

Here are some retcons in Totally Spies . Season 4 Clover's, Alex's, and Sam's moms are spies ( Totally Busted I, II, and III )  Season 5 we meet Mandy's cousin, Mindy Season 6 Mandy had a deep desire to be famous  someone created Mandy Book - a social media site dedicated to Mandy ( The Anti-Social Network) she hired a bodyguard ( Grabbing the Bully by the Horns ) she auditions for a talent scout ( Celebrity Swipe ) a toy designer designed Mandy Doll ( Mandy Doll Mania ) Mandy has an intern named Trent where was Mindy from season 5? Clover's mom is a successful earlobe contour surgeon ( Nine Lives)

Digimon Adventure (2020)  is set in the modern age where everyone is connected with laptops, tablets, and smartphones.   I felt like Digimon Adventure (2020) put more stakes down for the characters Tai's mom and sister are on a runaway subway.  Tai was transported to the Digital World to combat the Digimon causing the runway subway ( Tokyo Digital Crisis ) a submarine launches a nuclear missile heading straight for Tokyo, so Matt and Tai travel to the Digital World and must stop the missile from reaching Tokyo ( War Game) Tokyo is faced with a power outage ( Birdramon Soars ) a ship / tanker lost communication with port authority and was heading straight for the shore ( The Seventh Child Awakens ) satellites are on track to crash into the International Space Station which is hurtling towards Tokyo  ( A New Darkness, Millenniumon) Funny dialogue "why does everything want to eat us today?" ( Birdramon Soars) " Try not to become an appetizer." ( To the New Contine...