X-Men First Class (2011)

The storey of the beginning of the X-Men series.  Where many of the main characters are children to teenagers. It’s not a bad movie, production values are high, as expected.  But the biggest problem with this flick is the lack of character in the characters.  The only person that receives proper character building is the… Read More »

Blitz (2011)

Definiely not one of Jason Stathams better action movies, in my opinion.  As movie styles go, I’d consider it to be very British.  I found it hard to follow and often it could not hold my attention.  It has the production values of a TV movie.  It’s overly graphic at times, almost to the point… Read More »

Thor (2011)

A modernized version of the myth or the ancient Viking god Thor. This movie turned out to be far better than I expected.  After watching trailors for the movie, I expected a period piece, and I expected this movie to be a complete loser.  However, this flick has considerable substance, and in my opinion, was… Read More »

Spread (2009)

The storey about a young hustler who seems to destroy every relationship he has, by always making bad decisions. Not a bad movie.  Rather dark and sad.  And without a happy ending. 6/10

Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

Light hearted satirical British comedy about two young misfits on vacation that unexpectedly are thrown into the position of being lesbian vampire killers.  I enjoy a good vampire movie, but lesbian movies not so much.  But it’s a fun, well made, though possibly low budget flick.  I enjoyed it for what it was. 6/10

Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides (2011)

I loved the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, like most people did.  The following ones, not so much.  On Stranger Tides is long, boring and tedious.  Well acted, production quality is there, and of course excellent special effects.  It simply isn’t interesting, and I had difficulty staying awake.  Like all of the Pirates of… Read More »

Fast Five (2011)

The latest in the Fast and Furious series of car movies. Vin Desiel is back in this one, though don’t expect to see him much below the chest.  He doesn’t appear to be in as good a shape as in many previous movies.  As in he appears to have gained some weight.  Still has big… Read More »

Pandorum (2009)

Pandorum is a Sci-Fi thriller/horror movie.  Not a great movie, nor does it have a large cast, unless you count extras with monster makeup. The premise is the sending of the last of society into space in cryo-sleep in hopes of repopulating a newly discovered planet after nearly destroying this one.  Why the universe would… Read More »

Self Balancing Platform Safety

So I received my limit switches yesterday to redesign my Self Balancing Platform dead man’s switch. I spent considerable thought on either installing the switch into the handle behind the bike brake handle lever, or building the limit switch into a small box and using a bike brake cable to activate the switch remotely.  I… Read More »

Segway Faceplant

My home made Segway like platform threw me the other day.  I think it was a bad dead man switch.  It stalled momentarily while I was going down the basement hallway and it nose dived, throwing me over the handlebars and on to the ceramic tile floor, scraped/cut my legs a bit, hit my head… Read More »

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