Feeling... very sleepy all of a sudden so I'm going to bed in a min. It's late so not really a surprise.

Star Trek Strange New worlds came out recently.
So far 5 episodes.
First one was good, really made you think about time. Second one was kind creepy but also good.
Third ep is one of these odd ones they sometimes do but still okayish.

In any case, happy it's back on!

Really not that difficult to work out: the way women get treated and are regarded in Muslim culture/countries/religions does not gel with Western ways.

No offense, but that implies you're looking for a partner of another ethnicity than your own.
That begs the question, why?
Are people of your own ethnicity not good enough or are you actually looking for something else and not love?
If you're looking for love you'd not exclude people from your own ethnicity.

What a coincidence!
Like Slim, I recently watched the movies and yesterday I started watching Reacher season 4.
I had stopped watching it during season 2 as he had physically changed so much. Bit too much steroids, and it all seemed so different from the first season which had been great.
So far I do like this season.

Wow it wasn't personal and in no way a judgement of you! We all have our own taste and what we like.
I was just happy that your suggestion made me think of something else with a similar theme so I ended up watching a movie I did appreciate in the end :) And I'm always open to suggestions as other people find different movie than I do.
That's why I'm happy with threads like this :)

That definitely is a movie to watch more than once!
The acting alone is so powerful, the dynamic between Sean Connery & Nicolas Cage is truly great.
I happen to have watched it again myself not that long ago. No matter how often you've seen it (me = a lot) it still has you on the edge of your seat.

The End of Oak Street - 2026
With Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway

It currently has a surprising 6,7 IMdB rating.
I feel it's more of a 4, tops.
I suspect with a bit of time the IMdB rating will go down (movie is still in theatres).

I had high hopes for this movie considering the storyline but it is quite disappointing. The acting isn't really up to par, the dinosaurs aren't well done, and a number of things they do just is idiotic.
For instance something very upsetting happening (I won't tell what) that should deeply affect the entire family, yet no one talks about it, cries over it. It's as if they forget about it right away. Really weird.

I watched the whole thing regardless, I'm a sucker for dino movies. But really it's like a 60s or 70s attempt to make an impressive dino movie.

It didn't help that it was set in 1982, -nor did I understand why they chose to do so. It made the whole vibe of the movie 'old'.
It would've helped the movie if they'd chosen to have it occur in 2026.

A mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports a neighborhood to someplace unknown. The Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

Thinking... I spent a couple of hours sketching a building but in the end having to admit that I do not remember the theory well enough to continue.
I'll have to re-educate myself, dangit! I so want to get on with it but I want to get the perspective right so I'll simply have to look into it.

This is what's happening now that the tariffs have been judged illegal:


The U.S. Customs Service opened a special department where companies can file claims. As of July 31, more than 252,000 applications had been received from all over the world.
These account for 129 billion dollars in refunds, which are currently being processed or have already been paid out.

..................

Philips was the first Dutch company to publicly report receiving 186 million euros. Those millions are the beginning of a larger flow.
It is estimated that the ten largest Dutch exporters to the United States could collectively receive more than 1 billion euros back.

And that's just the Dutch. Go figure how much the US will have to cough up in total!

As someone said, Trump is an imbecile.
And now he has come up with a new thing since July 24 to continue charging EU countries 10%-12%.

And clearly some Americans still don't get that they are the ones who pay for this as things will be more expensive for them.

Plus all the billions that have to be refunded... AND the costs of getting that sorted alone will have to be paid by the American people, the taxpayers.
How the hell you people voted him into office, twice, is beyond me.

The Impossible - 2013
With Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts.
IMdB rating 7,5
My rating 10

Movie on the 2004 Asian tsunami. Based on a true story. A family, hubby & wife & 3 sons, are on holiday in Thailand when they get taken by surprise when the tsunami hits.

It's an accurate representation of what happened to them as the movie was monitored closely by the woman of said family.

I must admit I had no idea what it was like. The footage I saw at the time made it look like rather low waves that came far inland.
But here you see a huge wave hit out of the blue and instantly wreak tremendous havoc.
The family was right near the beach and thus got the full whack of the wave, and another one after that.

The woman required 16 surgeries afterwards?!?! Unfreaking-believable!

Definitely worth the watch!

Feeling... happy I have no serious damage to my knee! Went to the GP yesterday to have it checked out as I wasn't certain and felt something took too long to heal. It's almost 3 weeks since I badly injured my knee.
But I can expect it to fully heal :D

Hihi, thank goodness nothing that bad!

Feeling... Quite content :) Been a good day, done a lot!
Got everything ready for my new painting so tomorrow I can begin if I want.
Done my arm exercises as well, took care of some other stuff.
All things considered a really good day!

Dead of Winter - 2025
With Emma Thompson
Action thriller
IMdB rating 6,1
I'm rating it a 7.

It wasn't half bad but had a reasonable number of predictable moments where you find yourself yelling "Nooo!! Don't be so daft! Look around you!"

A grief-stricken widow stops by a remote cabin after getting lost on the back roads of Minnesota in the middle of winter. She soon finds herself in a desperate fight for survival as she encounters a murderous couple holding a young woman hostage.

Feeling... barely warm enough. It really takes getting used to this cooler weather again. Feels like autumn. Can't even imagine it being so hot not that long ago. It's back to jeans and long sleeves.

But the rain we had over the last 2 days was good. Everything was dry as a bone!
The risk for wildfires has probably gone now.

I thought I'd give Desert Dawn a shot because of what TxGal said, but I didn't like it. Switched it off after 5 minutes or sooner. Really bad acting. It has a IMdB rating of 3,7 and I totally get why.
But it made me think of The Last Stand with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Forest Whittaker and I watched that :)
So something good came out of it for me.

Bacon & eggs and coffee is good.
Although for me more a brunch thing. A great meal nonetheless!

Noah - 2014
With Russell Crow

I had forgotten there was this unpleasant part in the movie where Noah becomes totally obsessed with wanting to kill all of humanity. To the point of killing his newborn granddaughters.
I really really really did not want to see that again, so I skipped quite the chunk of the movie.
The pain & stress he puts the entire family through, especially the expecting mother. Must've been a wonderful pregnancy.
In utero stress causes all kinds of problems for the child later on so I don't get why they couldn't come up with a different way of going about it.

Because of that I rate it a 4 or 5 while it started out as a 9 for me. But that part ruined the entire movie (for me).

IMdB ratings aren't high either, 5,8.

God chooses Noah to undertake a mission of rescuing various animal species from a disastrous flood. With the help of the Watchers, Noah along with his family builds an ark to protect life on Earth.

Thinking... that I'm still PO with that biotch in the shop, grrrrrr.