Posted on 03/11/2026 5:38:05 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The Drinker doesn't like much but he likes this highly anticipated sci-fi flick.
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Yeah it looks good. May see my first film in a theater in a long time.
Don’t forget this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I have read the book and enjoyed it. We don’t go to theaters very often, maybe once every year or so, but I think we’ll try to catch it on the big screen.
Thanks for posting - ‘The Critical Drinker’ is one of the few movie critics I can actually rely on.
Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for today . . .
The book is quite good.
Not a plot point but when he was trying to remember and he remembered that he liked kids, spent a bunch of time with kids but also remembered that he didn't have any kids and started panicking before remembering "oh, right I am a school teacher!" was both a bit funny and a bit sad.
Ah! The Critical Drinker! If he likes it, I am sure I will. My tastes seem to generally head in the same direction his do.
And his style just kills me: “Go Away Now.”
Me too.
My wife convinced me to watch the animated feature “Puss In Boots” a few years back, and since she doesn’t ask much, I thought it might be fun. I has zero expectations for the movie.
By the end, I loved it. It was great.
But sometimes, my positive or negative impressions of movies differs from the mainstream, and I pause to wonder: “Is it just my quirkiness in taste, or was that really a well done movie?”
“Puss In Boots” was one of them.
When I read The Critical Drinker’s review on it, he loved it too, and for many of the same thematic reasons that I did.
And that has happened more than a few times, so I trust his judgement, at least for me, if not for anyone else.
I am going to order the book now. This is not a work I am familiar with.
Don’t watch too many internet vids, but do enjoy the Critical Drinker. He’s convinced me this is a must see for the Fam. Rated PG-13, fyi.
Thanks for posting this!
it’s an awesome sci-fi book, and so happy a great movie was made from it instead of some woke piece of hollywood krap ...
It was a terrific novel. I hope they didn’t screw it up.
Bkmk
This one is more polished but the talent, love of humanity and love of science shines even more brightly.
It is a nice change from a bunch of the current books which are mostly "humans are awful".
Bkmk
The book was fantastic. I hope the movie lives up to it. Andy Weir knows how to write sci-fi that translates well to the big screen.
I read the book. I didn’t think it was as good as The Martian, his first offering.
Drinker, Nerdrotic, Disparu, WDW Pro are all great for movie reviews.
And WDW Pro is great for outing the shills giving the great reviews to anything and everything.
Weirs 2nd book, Artemis was not as well received (Muslim girl on the moon), that was his sophomore slump but HM should be every bit as good as the Martian which, IMHO is a modern classic of both the book and film.
LOL, that was one thing I did enjoy out of the Critical Drinker’s review when he referenced Avatar the way he did!
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