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Corella are a 4 piece band from the ever productive Manchester indie music scene. Then band formed...

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Jason (7 KP) rated Wonder Woman (2017) in Movies

Jul 9, 2017

Wonder Woman (2017)

2017 | Action, Fantasy, War

8.2

(517 Ratings)

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Formulaic and predictable

Maybe it's just me but every superhero film seems to follow a very similar plot - the discovery of the power, the learning how to use it, the token love interest, the token bad guy, the token big fight scene and the predictable ending.

This film did not disappoint in the predictability sense. It was a bit overblown and looked as though it wanted to yell 'girls can fight too you know'.

Unless I missed it, the was no explanation about how the love interest came into the picture in the first place but from there on in, it stuck to the rigid predictability well! Fight scenes were as you'd expect given the budget but nothing to really write home about and I was left feeling like I hadn't seen anything new.

It's a a bit of fun and it'll please those into the DC and Marvel universes but not really for me thanks.

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Jason (7 KP) rated The Light Between Oceans in Books

Jul 9, 2017

The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry

8.1

(18 Ratings)

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Better Than The Film

Yes, yes, I know this has been made into a film. I'm always a little disappointed when a good book becomes a film. With the book, the characters look how you think they should and the locations look how you think they should and so on . . .

With the film, you have the directors vision not yours and I always seem to think the director has it wrong. I even felt this with the Harry Potters. In my head, everything was how I imagined it and the films were not.

Anyways, nothing exists to serve my point as much as this book. I read it a long time before the film came out and it made me feel things more than the subsequent film did.

If you didn't know, this is the story of a man who comes back from the First World War and seeks solitude manning a lighthouse on a lonely island.

He meets the love of his life and they marry and co-exist on the island very happily. They try to have a family but sadly it is not to be as his wife suffers miscarriages.

One day, a boat washes up with a dead man and a live baby inside. What follows is nothing short of heart rending. I won't go into too much detail as you need to read this yourself and please, I implore you to avoid the film until you have read the book.

It's an emotional read, but worth it.