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_The Evening Post_, 24 July 1924:
ELECTRIC IRON CAUSES FIRE
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, 23rd July.
An eight-roomed residence at #Epsom, owned and occupied by Mrs. A. B. Wilson, was extensively damaged by fire last night. Three rooms were gutted, and a good deal of furniture destroyed. The cause was an electric iron left on a table with the power switched on. The insurance on the house and furniture is £550 [ca $67,000 today].
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #ElectricIrons #Irons #Fires #Auckland #NewZealand

Assassin's Creed was one of the worst #movies I've seen recently. The #CGI was better than in The #Flash, but the story was significantly less coherent.

The actors did an excellent job. Michael #Fassbender was amazing as both his past and present selves (even if his future self's growth was unearned by the #narrative). Marion #Cotillard's character was compelling, and she played her #arc as well as she could given the runtime she was given to develop it. Jeremy #Irons was amazing as always, no matter how awful the film (see Dungeons & Dragons, that incredibly terrible film that came out in 2000).

But the narrative was, at best, incomplete. The #ending was rushed and unearned and resolved nothing. The #film seems more like a #pilot for a #television #series than it does a film. And they wanted to make it into a franchise.

Well that was the problem, wasn't it? You build a #franchise out of a successful first film, and you don't make a successful film without some form of #denouement: a complete, coherent #story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Give us none, and why should we trust that you ever will? #Universal's attempted Dark Universe franchise failed for the same reason; they counted their eggs before they'd hatched, and that's how you end up with stillborn chicks.

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