Ironhold

Smurfs: The Lost Village. I... think I lost a few more brain cells on this one. I definitely lost some will to keep going. Can't wait for "Guardians 2" to roll around.

I work as a professional movie reviewer; my reviews are published in two different local newspapers. As a part of my job, I occasionally have to see R-rated movies. This is on top of the usual mix of G (increasingly rare), PG, and PG-13 movies. In far too many instances, the films I've seen with the "R" rating are films that used gore, language, sexual content, and others to ramp the film up in order to make it "dark", "edgy", "mature" (as if), or otherwise make it seem like something it isn't. For every "Logan" or "The Equalizer", where the content is justified in context and the story is strong enough to last without it, I get a dozen "Don't Breathe" or "Shut In". I do, BTW, own copies of "Deadpool", "Jersey Boys", and a few other films of R-rating. That being said, I'm also seeing PG and PG-13 films that don't exactly do much to inspire or uplift, either. Most of these films were low quality nonsense, such as the live-action "Jem" movie (which completely paved over everything that made the original series so progressive and cutting edge) or last year's "Ghostbusters" debacle (in which an inexperienced director got so caught up in playing politics he forgot he was helming a science fiction movie). In fact, save for "Logan", this year's been one long string of disappointments and drivel. It's all I can do right now to hang on until "Guardians 2" rolls around.

Make it clear to your loved ones that you'll need a bit of space at the end of each work day in order to wind down before you can be the person you should be. Even if all you do is take a half hour nap.

Temples are built to last, and building things to last is expensive. That is, in a nutshell, the answer.

If you ask me, anyone who legitimately believes in "privilege" or "intersectionality" needs to spend some time volunteering at a hospital, homeless shelter, soup kitchen, or the like so that they can see how the world really operates. These little blankety-blanks would probably go fetal at the mere description of what I have to do some days, let alone the prospect of having to do it for themselves.

Yeah; basically, if you just want to sit and attend, you're fine. It's only when people want to make spectacles out of themselves that it becomes an issue.

The "Power Rangers" remake. Let's just say that it's not exactly kid-friendly.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/sarrah-le-marquand-it-should-be-illegal-to-be-a-stayathome-mum/news-story/fbd6fe7b79e8b4136d49d991b6a1f41c The author is literally trying to argue that it should be illegal for a woman to stay at home once the children are old enough to attend school, as they're depriving the economy of their labor. It gets worse the more you read, culminating in: *Only when the tiresome and completely unfounded claim that “feminism is about choice” is dead and buried (it’s not about choice, it’s about equality) will we consign restrictive gender stereotypes to history.* Yeah. What's even more shocking IMHO is the fact that people are defending her...

Just show up, and when people ask questions be honest.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/02/23/retail-chain-family-christian-plans-after-85-years/98326140/ The decision was made a month ago, but I only just now found out about it. Retail Christian bookstore chain Family Christian has announced it's going bust. They filed for bankruptcy back in 2015, and never really recovered. If you have one near you, it might be worth checking out. They *were* once a cesspool, such that their "comparative religion" section was "why anyone who disagrees with us is going to burn eternally" and their toy section had "Victory in Jesus" monster trucks, but they've really cleaned up over the last few years and so looked like they were really trying to turn things around.

Yeah. The Batman / Joker subtext from "Lego Batman" was more blatant and more obvious than this.

I waited until Friday morning to get tickets for the morning matinee, and so the only seats that were left were in the very first row. One of my editors waited until noon to get tickets, and the theater was booked solid until 9:45 PM, far too late to be out with his young son.

Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. Rather underwhelmed, actually.

One of my brothers went there. I'll see if I can catch him on Facebook for details. The gist of it, though, will be "expect the unexpected". While he was there, he faced everything from personal illness to the fallout from the assassination of the then-sitting (vice?) president. He also had issues with a mission official who believed that since all Americans were "rich", they didn't need their stipends. It can be a rewarding experience given how ready and eager the locals are to learn, but it can also be very trying and so will require a lot of faith, patience, and perseverence. Also, he took a leave of absence from a military academy to serve. When he tried to get back in, the dental x-rays taken by a dentist in Paraguay were rejected... because the notes were in Spanish and the doctor at the academy didn't want to have to bother translating them. I kid you not.

Having seen the film? The "scenes" are such that you wouldn't know what you were looking at if you weren't already looking out for it. I'm wondering now if someone didn't whip up the hype on purpose in order to get more publicity for the film.

...But the consequences of not serving are another matter entirely. Prepare to have people question your moral character for not serving, and also prepare for a lifetime of loneliness, snide remarks, and second-guessing yourself.

So - Mom spent much of the day dealing with the aftermath of a can bursting. Most of the cabinets where we have our food storage are alongside exterior walls, and those walls appear to be poorly insulated. As a result, just about every time the seasons change, we have a can burst. While she was doing that, I spent the morning mowing the lawn. We both stopped for a while to brush my cat, and then spent a bit admiring a rather large butterfly I saw outside. Then we went back to what we were doing.

Kong: Skull Island Entirely mediocre.

Takes more than just sit-ups to get someone's core going.

I've already been seeing people referring to the event as "A Day Without A Sandwich", much the same way that the Women's March was referred to as the "National Sandwich Shortage". That should say how seriously people are taking this.

Logan. It's violent and gory, but the writing is supreme.

Just giving my opinion on the matter.

The problem with trigger warnings and safe spaces, however, is that they're all too often being invoked by individuals who are only triggered because it hurts their feelings or it's not something they want to deal with, not because they have a legit anxiety issue over the matter. For example, a number of law schools are having to deal with the fact that students are demanding trigger warnings (et al) before their professors start into discussions of rape law and related topics. Even though these students are going to need to know this material in order to actually practice law, they're wanting to sit it out because of their feelings. And yes, I have my own issues as well. Among other things, I was witness to someone's horrific death a few years ago; we're coming up on the fourth anniversary.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/soccer/hero-lifesaver-kone-saves-goalkeeper-from-choking-to-death/ar-AAnsc7Y?li=BBnbfcL A soccer player is credited with saving the life of another player. The other player was left choking his tongue after a collision with a third player, and the first guy was able to administer emergency treatment.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/rachel-dolezal-not-going-stoop-apologise-grovel Rachal Dolezal, the woman who lied about her race to obtain several positions and financial assistance, has been unable to find a job since the revelation was made and is facing the constant threat of eviction, yet isn't sorry in the least for what she did. Does she not realize how much she undermined the causes she was supporting by all of this?