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Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
Season 4 is the series Phoenix
Started watching FWD with high expectations and enthusiasm. The premise of seeing the 'early times' of the outbreak was intriguing. Sadly, I was never able to adjust and get comfortable with the change in cultural perspective of the Clark/Manawa group.
For years I had been conditioned by the 'helping, hospitality ethos of the south' as portrayed by Rick and the group. They were the good guys; spreading hope and humanity as they moved between settlements. FWD point of view was coming from the 'LA extreme Narcissism'. Watching the Clark/Manawa group enter settlements like a parasitic virus became unnerving after a while. My empathy wasn't for the main characters, but for the others they stumbled upon. Actually, mid season 3 was it, I stopped watching.
Recently, I started watching Season 4. The season started with new characters (except Morgan), new geography, new timeline (fast forwarded to Rick's time) and the original characters all got re-writes. The team of season 4 writers put together an excellent, well thought out, well orchestrated series of episodes which don't compare with the previous three seasons.
I'm back on board!
Mutant War (1988)
Good plot, good affects, likable characters
I really wasn't expecting to like the movie, so throughout the time watching, i was pleasantly surprised. Loved the use of models and clay animation, gave the movie a quaint, second movie at the drive-in feel. An all around good vibe happening from this flick.
Independents' Day (2016)
A Homage Movie
Funny how times/perceptions change over time. Last night while watching the movie I commented to my kids how it's really not a bad movie. IMDb gave it 1.9 stars, which I thought was disingenuous. The movie had a definite campy feel of a late 70's made-for-TV movie/miniseries. The writer pulled together familiar and loved Sci-Fi plots like The Day the Earth Stood Still, Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man, V, Independence Day and the aliens sounded like Dalek's! There was even a touch of Mars Attacks. For all intents and purposes it should have appealed to much wider band of Sci-Fi aficionados. My kids were mainly watching for awful CGI and they felt a little let down. Overall, the movie was either made 40 years too late or the writer was paying homage to the TV movies he grew up with.