Reel Nsight Episode 116 The Librarians s01ep01 & ep02

Introduction

• U.S. Air Date - 12/7/2014
• Tagline(s) - Filing evil under history
• Series Summary - A group of librarians set off on adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts
• Summary
  • Episode 01 And The Crown of King Arthur - Someone is killing off potential Librarians and it's up to Flynn Carsen and his new Guardian, Colonel Eve Baird, to save the three that are left
  • Episode 02 And The Sword in the Stone - The Serpent Brotherhood is trying to return magic to our world. Flynn, Colonel Baird, and the potential Librarians must stop them before it's too late
• IMDb Profile
• Wikipedia
• TNT Website

Insight

• How soon until iOS gets an app for elevator security clearance?
• Stone Hedge does sound quite discreet
• Before the cloud there was the Inception Library
• The Librarian, otherwise known as the Key Master

Summary

• Any sufficiently predicated technology is indistinguishable from history
• Reel Score - 90%
• Positive(s)
  • Noah Wyle
  • Good transition from movies (assuming movies were watched)
• Negative(s)
  • Excalibur’s special effects looked a bit too fake
  • Colonel Baird and new librarians too cheesy too early in show

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Reel Nsight Episode 112 Interstellar

Introduction

• U.S. Release Date - November 7, 2014
• Tagline(s)
  • Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here
  • The end of Earth will not be the end of us
  • Go further
  • Mankind's next step will be our greatest
• Summary - A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to find a potentially habitable planet that will sustain humanity.
• IMDb Profile
• Wikipedia
• Rotten Tomatoes -  74%
• “Do not go gentle into that good night” - Dylan Thomas

Insight

• Let's use these big rockets for our secret space program.
• Data didn’t need an emotion chip. He needed a humor chip.
• Custom parameters because Hal 9000 had a security clearance conflict of interest.
• Elysium was actually prison time for Dr. Mann
• Because Incept Station doesn't quite roll off the tongue.

Summary

• Gravity is the key to ESP
• Reel Score - 100%
• Positive(s)
  • Reasonable space terminology/jargon
  • Combines Gravity and 2001 A Space Odyssey
  • Cinematic explanation of “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
• Negative(s)
  • Little explanation for the robot droids

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Reel Nsight Episode 88 X-Men Days of Future Past

Introduction

• U.S. Release Date - May 23, 2014
• Tagline(s)
  • His past. Our future.
  • Every hero, every power will unite.
  • The future begins.
• Synopsis - The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
• IMDb Profile
• Wikipedia
• Rotten Tomatoes - 92%

Insight

• When traveling through the time of the mind, you carry only as many cigars as you have on you.
• The Sentinels programming didn't account for the ED-209 glitch.
• Level 2 Inception in mutants allows for reverse time travel.
• Future Sentinels didn't need to do a DNA check, just a heat signature check to find insurgents.

Summary

• Changing the past results in the polar opposite of the future being changed.
• Reel Score - A
• Positive(s)
  • Charles talking to Charles
  • Time travel paradox avoided
• Negative(s)

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Reel Nsight Episode 75 The Wolverine

Introduction

• U.S. Release Date - July 26, 2013
• Tagline(s)
• When he's most vulnerable, he's most dangerous.
• The hero. The fugitive. The warrior. The survivor. The legend.
• The fight of his life will be for his own.
• When enemies rise... when immortality ends... the ultimate battle begins.
• Synopsis - When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
• IMDb
• Wikipedia
• Rotten Tomatoes - 69%

Insight

• Wolverine is the only person who can sanely live on Shutter Island.
• I think Yashida was competing for medical pod in Prometheus and used himself as the template.
• Lakes provide Wolverine the information he needs, not what he wants.
• I'm gonna ride this Harley to the gates so they know I'm coming and walk in so they take me to the right floor.
• Inception was in fact a scheme by Yashida to become the Silver Samurai.

Summary

• The Wolverine: Rebirth would have been a more appropriate title.
• Reel Score - D
• Positive(s)
  • Fight sequence with Silver Samurai
  • Magneto airport scene in end credits
• Negative(s)
  • Ninja flick with the Wolverine
  • No obvious relationship with X-Men movies (original cast or first class)*

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