And the daughter's shown it to a few people, who doubt it's provenance, "how do you know it's old?" to which I suggest responding: "well, next time I'll carry bear spray...in case I run into one...no, wait, they've been extinct for 75,000,000 years..." and other bullshit from people who are completely unqualified to have any sort of opinion but nonetheless feel free to have opinions anyways. I mean, she found a dinosaur bone in an area renowned for dinosaur bones, in a place where they are so abundant that the museum leaves them "in situ" for people to see, but, really, it's impossible you could have found one. Must have been a cows' or gophers' tooth...don't feed the cows...

Smart daughter in a world of idiots, get used to it, in this world, the here and now, intelligence is a disability. I try to reassure her that after graduation, in University, she'll meet more intelligent people, more like minded people, but I know, I've been there, it's a lie...

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Which we had been looking forward to for so long - and tonight was the night, the reviews, all fine or better - the daughter and I in the theatre, popcorn, sodas in hand...

It was disappointing. On this we agreed.

The character development - poor. Poor or worse. Not good. There could be integrity in the world of assassins, but there very apparently isn't. 

The world building - more and more intricate and convoluted, ornate, embellished onto the nonsensical, less would have been more...that said - 

...the action scenes are good. Great. That's why we're here. The early scene with the Chinatown assassins - great. As were some of the other scenes. Not all of them. And I know, I know, I'm not watching this for the acting, the plot, the themes, the character development - but it's the glue that holds it all together. Less world building, leave the audience with questions - that's OK. Keep the characters - that survive - intact, or change and evolve them in plausible ways, not always for the worse. 

For all the anticipation and hype I would say just miss it. It will always be better in your head. And since it wasn't the worst movie ever but it was so much less than it promised and what the other two offered, I would give it 0 Stars, not that it deserves that, but - life is short, there are other films, and like sex with a beautiful woman it's too often better imagined than realized...

Miss.

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....And articles like this:

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-australia-48331769

You know that it's a slow news day in Australia when they report this stuff because, basically the entire continent is made out of Gold Nuggets and Koala Bears. 

The Australian Firefighter is back, beard ever longer, and as he sits in the restaurant I tease him mercilessly, the lazy Australian who has to come to Canada for work because he's too lazy to pick up all of the gold nuggets outside his front door...

AU - The abbreviation for both Gold and Australia. We live in a world of metaphor and that can hardly be a coincidence...

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Work, Sleep, Calgary, and when I return and catch up one news it has to be articles like this:

Link: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/australia/aussie-girl-stumbles-across-35k-gold-nugget

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