Just watched the movie The Purge last night.. Was it very good?? No, it was borderline suckville but it was... watchable.. Certain aspects weren't very good and some were ok.. It was a movie that was predictable shortly after the opening credits.. Let me put it this way, all the cast members you saw before the purge event started made it out alive except for one.. And all the cast members died after the purge event started except for one.. And I knew he was going to be the reason the family made it out entact.. MOSTLY.. Why was it so bad?? Very predictable and almost I was able to predict the script.. Nothing great about the movie, it was all done in the same neighborhood and for that part the same house, it wasn't a national hunting day on the screen, it was only right there.. it was a little like Death Race 2000 (the new version, not the cult classic, no one gets those two mixed up.. NO ONE!!) It had it's moments but in the end the thing that bothered me the most about the Purge was the dark scenes.. There is just way too much confusion going on in those dark scenes like that.. You can't tell who is who, bad guy good guy, and in a movie where the objective is to just kill.. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten ...
I wound up watching the final two episodes of Hemlock Grove last night.. When I first started watching the show it was season one and that was all and so I thought fine, I'll watch it for a while.. Thirteen episodes and I figured a two week run in the nine o'clock slot.. Two shows in and season two gets added.. Great, 23 episodes and I'm having troubles staying awake through the first few episodes of season one.. But season one was better by FAR than season two.. I think there was more effort in season one.. You gotta see episode two, and twelve of season one.. It will hook you for season two which has few highlights but.. if season one would get four and a half stars, season two gets four... I'm not a big fan of these type of series shows but movies where they have to clip along, it's easier to get into that way.. But Hemlock Grove is really not a bad series, but as with all series of this kind there is a good amount of lull followed by the final two episodes where shit happens.. ARE YOU AWAKE NOW???...
The big news this week.. The router shit the bed.. Truth is the router we had before this one was good but not very reliable.. In the early days before the Roku was added it was fine.. The laptop was being used and was getting the signal fine.. then the roku was added and that is a few rooms away and the signal was weak but good enough.. Then the old router stopped working.. Then it started working again.. And it did this for several weeks or maybe even a month or two and then I finally said enough was enough and got the new Netgear dual channel router.. What was good about it was the ease to get both channels working.. Using one for my roku and the other for guest uses.. But now we are back to one for everyone and that hopefully will be changed before the end of the summer.. But because of the fact that these two routers have been netgear I feel it's time to try some other company router.. So the hunt is on..
Badge Henry
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