Showing posts with label DTC-186. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DTC-186. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.41

Duel! The Queen vs. Harlock

The Mazone pursue the Arcadia. They attack Captain Harlock's ship recklessly. They launch themselves at it and crash into the Arcadia. The pirate ship sustains damage but survives the fight and destroys all the Mazone ships that were thrown at it.

Queen Lafresia's flag ship arrives on the scene. It is vastly bigger than the Arcadia. Daiba tries firing the main guns at the massive Mazone ship but the blasts don't do any damage to it. The flagship returns fire and causes more damage to the Arcadia.

Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Tick (2016) 1.02

Where's My Mind

Arthur gets shot by Miss Lint's henchmen but the suit protects him. The Tick returns and fights with Miss Lint. He throws Arthur out the window. Arthur drops three stories, lands on his back, and survives. Miss Lint gets summoned by her boss and abandons her mission.

The Tick catches up to Arthur, who wants to return the suit. Arthur steals a poncho and puts it on over the suit. Some thugs stop him. He offers to return the suit but the Tick refuses to let Arthur do it and sends the thugs packing.

Miss Lint meets with Ramses, her boss. She has a flashback to a meeting she had with the Terror, years before. He gave her the bracelets she now wears, which help her to control her powers.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Batman (1989)

Batman (1989)

starring Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger
directed by Tim Burton

126 minutes

Boss Grissom sends Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson), his number one guy, to Axis Chemicals to retrieve some incriminating information before the police get their hands on the documents. Jack gets there only to discover that he's been setup. Grissom wants Jack dead because he's been having an affair with Grissom's girlfriend.

The police surround the chemical plant. Batman (Michael Keaton) crashes the party at Axis Chemicals. He gets into a fight with Napier and Napier falls into a vat of chemicals. Napier survives but he is horribly scarred. His skin is now bone white, his hair is green, and his mouth is twisted into a permanent smile.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Doctor Who (1963) 1.02.03

The Escape
(aka The Daleks - Part Three)

Susan meets Alydon, one of the Thals, when she leaves the TARDIS. She is surprised to see that he is not mutated as the Daleks indicated. He gives her extra medicine to take back with her to the city.

Susan makes it back to the city. The Daleks find both boxes of medicine. They allow Susan to take one box to her friends. The Daleks keep the other box.

The Doctor, Ian, and Barbara recover once they have taken the medicine. The Daleks dictate a letter for Susan to take to the Thals. She signs it with her own name which puzzles the Daleks. She explains that the Thals expect it to be signed with her name.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.40

Then, the Angels Sang

The Arcadia finally encounters the main Mazone battle fleet. The Mazone first try to destroy the Arcadia by landing troops on the outer hull who attach bombs to the Arcadia. The troops cause some damage but they are for the most unsuccessful. 

The Arcadia is recovering from that attack when they are approached by a medical ship that is in need of supplies. Captain Harlock agrees to help them but when the ship gets very close to the Arcadia it opens fire. Captain Harlock moves the Arcadia away and opens fire on the "medical" ship, destroying it.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Spirited Away (2001)

Spirited Away (2001)

starring Rumi Hiragi, Miyu Irino
written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki

125 minutes

Chihiro moves from the city to the countryside with her parents. They get lost on the day that they move and wind up at what looks (to her father) like an abandoned amusement park. Chihiro soon discovers that there is more to what they have found. Her parents are turned into pigs after they eagerly stuff their faces with food from an unattended shop.

Chihiro is helped by a boy named Haku. He encourages her to get a job at a magical bath house that caters to other worldly spirits. She signs a contract with Yubaba, the owner of the bath house. Chihiro's name is changed to Sen and she is apprenticed to Lin, one of the human looking workers in the bath house.

Sen accepts her new role but continues to try and rescue her parents. She lets a spirit called No-Name into the bath house who causes all sorts of disruption within the establishment. She helps Haku to overcome his own issues which stem in part from the fact that he cannot remember who he was before he came to the bath house.

Thursday, September 21, 2023

The Tick (2016) 1.01

Pilot

Arthur Everest spends his spare time looking for The Terror, a supervillain whose actions led to the death of Arthur's father. Arthur is staking out a warehouse where some evil looking characters are transacting some business when he meets the Tick, a man dressed all in blue.

Arthur gets arrested for trespassing as he tries to escape the area. The Tick goes into the warehouse and wrecks havoc. Arthur is forced to call Dot, his sister, for help. He is waiting for her when the Tick shows up He is convinced that Arthur wants to be his sidekick. Arthur tries to convince him otherwise.

Arthur gets a ride home from Dot. The Tick visits Arthur at home. He has brought him a uniform, it is the only thing that survived the fire at the warehouse. He encourages Arthur to put it on and become his sidekick. Arthur refuses but after the Tick has left he puts on the suit and plays with some of the gadgets that come with it.

Arthur is still fiddling with the suit when the survivors of the warehouse fire show up at his apartment. They are convinced that he is responsible for the attack on the warehouse.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Doctor Who (1963) 1.02.02

The Survivors
(aka The Daleks - Part Two)

The Doctor, Ian, and Susan look for Barbara. They find a radiation meter which indicates high levels of radiation are present and which also explains why they are all feeling sick. The Doctor wants to return to the TARDIS but Ian insists that they find Barbara first. 

They start to look for their missing friend and are captured by robots that glide across the floor. Ian tries to escape. One of the robots shoots him, Ian survives but his legs are numb. The Doctor and Susan have to help him walk. They are taken to a room and locked in. Barbara is there.

The robots or Daleks, as the Doctor soon discover they are called, interrogate the Doctor. He learns that they are at war with the Thals, a race of mutated beings. The Doctor theorizes that the item left near the TARDIS (in the previous episode) must have been medicine to help them deal with the radiation levels.