How Television Saved My Life

"Scully, hold up your flashlight?" "No." Everyone knows what the X-Files are. I grew up with that show on television, which also meant I was terrified of that show at the same time (the theme song, oh man). But I by some miracle never watched it, probably due to a very interfering mother. Agent Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) is told to work alongside with Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) who is dealing with something called 'the X-Files' and to write reports back about her observations in a scientific and clinical way. That's how the pilot plays on it at least. Can you believe that I never knew whether or not the show dealt with aliens ? I was half-way expecting that Scully would find a logical and much more reasonable explanation, which she tries, but in the end it's rather futile. Mulder of course is the firm believer, though still tries to pursue it logically first, even if he's determined that there's more to it than meets the eye...

'This would look great in my car' What brand were those shoes? That's a question that ran through my mind during several sequences that were already impossible enough as it was. I could harp on about the shoes, which I am honestly rather impressed by. Those shoes that could withstand that kind of territory and dinosaur action without breaking a heel. Wow . I like how one can suspend ones disbelief about dinosaurs, but those shoes just makes one sigh into the heavens. Or at least that's what I've gathered from the general consternation that's surrounded the film where Bryce Dallas Howard has had to go out and say she chose to wear them. I'm not surprised she did. If the shoe fits. It's twenty-two years later. The park is thriving, though apparently the general public are unimpressed by dinosaurs these days. They want bigger and better, or at least that's what the people who are funding it seem to think. So they've genetically engineered ...

I can smell the sweat Yes. Yes. I had rules. No repeats, but I don't have any hay fever medicine left so I'm silently suffering through what will potentially be ' a very bad day '. Also I dreamt that I sat in a bus that drove past Samuel L Jackson. IT WAS A SIGN that my subconscious really needs to watch John McClane ( Bruce Willis ) turn all bloody in his wife-beater besides Zeus Carver ( Samuel L. Jackson ) being indignant.  I don't know why this is one of my favourites. Not that Die Hard isn't wonderful, but that's a given. This is my other fave, but I suspect the team up is one of the main reasons. The real action as well. That's what I love about nineties action films. CGI hadn't taken over quite yet - - also swearing was still a thing. John McClane : [ hands Zeus a gun ] Here take this. Zeus : How's it work? John McClane : You don't know how to shoot a gun? Zeus : Look, all brothers don't know how to shoot guns, you r...