Daveinva

6/29/21

Unless you are getting out of a lease or you were in a car crash and absolutely have to get a new car I would avoid it completely. Its just a bad idea right now. How do you not end up underwater adding 10k to a KIA. And if you have enough cash to avoid that why would you make such a poor financial decision.

6/29/21

Mitsubishi:
* Energy
* Aircraft
* Space
* Ship & Ocean
* Transportation
* Material handling
* Environment
* Automotive
* Industrial machinery
* Infrastructure
* Living & leisure
* Defense
* Engineering

6/29/21

You already hit it with Mitsubishi. Nobody else can touch the super cargo ships for sheer size, while also being a full line heavy equipment maker, tanks, airplanes and still make things all the way down to bicycles.

6/29/21

Yamaha. Besides motorcycles, they made engines for the Taurus SHO and every obnoxious synthesizer keyboard in the 1980s. And your TV.

6/29/21

Compact French Simca, some random Hillman in the UK, the entire North American Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth and Fargo line of cars and trucks, boat engines, air-conditioner units, airport vehicles, military vehicles, a frigging rocket, a building in the middle of NYC, aircraft engines... What Chrysler didn’t do?

6/29/21

Honda

6/29/21

Yamaha

6/29/21

Once upon a time…

6/28/21

Underrated show if you like those insider-y Hollywood stories. The subplot where Mohr’s character secretly tapes himself having sex with Sandra Bullock and markets the video without her consent ... better left forgotten.

6/28/21

We can’t be bothered with things like themes and subtext when we’ve got an recognizable IP to profit off of.

6/28/21

I find it bizarre to hear people talking as if a Logan’s Run remake would ride The Hunger Games’s coattails, because the two are philosophical opposites. LR is not about heroic young rebels rising up against oppressive elders. The original novel is set in a dystopia that came about because young people successfully…

6/28/21

REMAKE! REMAKE! REMAKE!!!

6/28/21

There is a great line in the prescient and excellent late 90s series “Action” where a snooty maitre dee is explaining to the main character, a vile action movie producer played by Jay Mohr, that Mr Joel Silver got his table because The Matrix is very successful. Mohr leans in and angrily growls “He also produced…

6/28/21

You’re right. The trilogy was many, many pages of talking, without even the politics of Dune or Game of Thrones.

6/28/21

My guess is so they didn’t have to recast the roles over and over.

6/28/21

I was interested until this text popped up on screen:

6/28/21

I dunno. The same is true of Herbert and Villenueve’s Dune looks like it’s full of Matrix-y action sequences.

6/28/21

I assume that’s why they showed the space battles. I have no doubt that space lasers were used when the Empire fell, but Asimov didn’t really mention them.

6/28/21

Right? When it’s clear that it was actually Asimov who ripped off Star Wars.

6/28/21

The “adaptation” looks pretty loose here (Hardin and Seldon weren’t contemporaries) so I don’t see why they couldn’t cover the more exciting bits of the later novels.