Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February, 2022

Uncharted

What I liked: I want whatever phone plan they have. This ranks in my wish list just below the centrifuge that CSI has. Their phones are awesome. They work internationally without problem. They work several stories under the city. They work without interruption on isolated desert islands. They work after being submerged for minutes at a time. And with the number of intense falls the characters take, they seem to be impervious to all kinds of impact damage. This is the phone I need. I also learned that I am a huge fan of 1500's shipbuilding and engineering. The structural integrity of those ships was spectacular and that all of the mechanics of the treasure hunt stood up surprisingly well to modernization (plumbing, electricity, subways, regrouting) throughout the city. I liked the chase scenes running across roof tops or weaving a helicopter carrying a 16th century ship through rock formations are cool, but what is the best way to top the stereotypical chase on top of a train? Why h

Death on the Nile

  What I liked: Much like Murder on the Orient Express, this movie was beautiful there were pristine sets with bright colors and long single shots with lots of movement. I liked that they laid some clues to help you if you are trying to solve the murder and that there was some cool blues music. The cruise looked quite luxurious, apart from the death, and I'm impressed that the company could make a profit with so few passengers in such a large ship.  What I didn't: Despite being a cruise on the Nile, there was not a single crocodile. Historically this takes place around the same time as The Jungle, but even without that expose of food processing, I hope that someone would have recognized that or is terribly unhygienic to store bodies near the ham and asparagus. Maybe the doctor or nurse could have thought of that. Poirot didn't seem to solve the mystery as much as narrate it. As with all detective stories who's the detectives. If you hear there will be one on the boat wi