The Tea Table

There are times when you feel like you didn’t see something eye to eye with someone else. It all happens to us. But this time it was me against the vast majority of the audiences who saw Thor: Ragnarok. Now before the torches and pitchforks go flying, I did not hate this movie. Marvel has done a pretty good job so far (at least in the Cinematic Universe) of not having one bad movie that has been either a) a commercial flop or b) narratively a piece of garbage or c) both. Ragnarok to me was a thrill ride while watching it, but once I got off the ride, waited for my stomach to settle, and thought about it, it just wasn’t quite there for me. Some aspects are great but the rest of it is just meh. In the rankings I would put it slightly above Iron Man 2, and I liked Iron Man 2 better than most people. I’m not going to do my usually PROS, CONS, etc., because in order to really do that would be to go heavily into spoiler territory for not just this movie but for several Marvel movies bef...

A long time ago, when cloning was a huge ethic issue, I remember reading an article while doing research on a project for genetic engineering. A scientist was asked if he would ever consider cloning humans. He laughed, and replied, “Humans are boring. I’d rather work on dogs. With the different types of dog breeds out there, it would be a bit more complicated to clone a dog.” But in the world of Blade Runner 2049, set thirty years after the original, Replicants, or genetically engineer humans are still the norm, and ethics has been more or less thrown out the window.             It’s hard to explain let alone review a movie such as Blade Runner 2049 without giving away too many spoilers (and I know this review is late; I had to watch the first one). The original movie was somewhat of a mess with numerous editions, director’s cuts, rereleases etc. And this movie in itself has a bit of a niche audience. If you want to see it with...