@el-hombre-malo gathers us round the the virtual fire monthly to compare notes on our cultural consumptiion, and naturally we tend to the positive. So here’s a space to tend to the negative: what have you given up on, Did Not Finish, removed from your Netflix watchlist, baled out of, and so on. To get you started I have decided life is too short this month for:

Midnight Sky DOA scifi clunker from Clooney. After 30 minutes the entire rest of the film is crushingly obvious. A combination of lazy plotting that appears to rip off Wall-E, Clooney’s Old Man and the Ice act, and a perky mute girl who appears to rassle grandpa out of his grumpiness while they face a series of barriers to save… oh it’s just lazy, dull and obvious. Do the producers expect us to believe that a mother who is part of the final exodus of all humanity from earth would leave her 8-year old behind because she believed the ‘I think she went ahead on the ship in front of us’ line. Baled after 30 minutes.

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