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Guitar Chords Compass - learn the chord charts & play them

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Find the perfect chord voicing for your songs! Thanks to a specially developed algorithm, the app...

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated X2: X-Men United (2003) in Movies

Jun 20, 2019 (Updated Jun 20, 2019)

X2: X-Men United (2003)

2003 | Action, Sci-Fi

7.7

(38 Ratings)

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A strong follow up

X-Men 2 builds upon the first in pretty much every way possible - were introduced to new characters (Brian Cox as William Stryker being a stand out here) and some really thrilling set pieces.

Notable amongst them - the opening scene of Nightcrawler attacking The White House (set to Mozart's Requiem in D Minor) is honestly one of my top scenes in a comic book film ever.
The scene where the mansion is attacked at night - we see Wolverine a lot more feral here than in the first film, and we're introduced to Colossus.
And the almost everything on Alkali Lake - the glimpses into the Weapon X project, the hints at Dark Phoenix - are all comic book ticks (until they were a bit shat on in future sequels)

There are still faults - the biggest one here for me is Lady Deathstroke - second X-Men movie in a row that backbenches a classic Wolverine villain in favour of a fairly useless mute version.

I remember and appreciate X-Men 2 for what it was at the time - a movie for a young franchise brimming with future possibilities. It still stands strong as far as Marvel adaptions go.

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midiFILTr-VS for Volca Sample

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midiFILTr-VS is an AudioBus 3 MIDI effect and CoreMIDI capable app that improves the MIDI...

The Piano Keyboard

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Piano Keyboard is designed to enable you to play piano anytime and anywhere. Play your favorites...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Silence (Hush, Hush, #3) in Books

Jan 6, 2021

Silence (Hush, Hush, #3)

Becca Fitzpatrick | 2011 | Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult (YA)

9.3

(8 Ratings)

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Well first off let me say that it must have been a good 5/6 months since I read Crescendo, book 2 in the Hush, Hush series and with the number of books I get through in a month, I'll admit I'd forgotten a lot of what went on in the first two.
 
However, this book was kinda perfect in that respect since I felt like Nora with her amnesia and got to relive a lot of the first two books as she did.
 
I still love Patch and think he's one of the best things about the series. There's just this bad boy/kick arse vibe going on with him that I find a little...hot?
 
And let me tell you, some of the scenes in this between him and Nora are scorching and getting hotter, especially now she's aged a year.
 
I'm going straight onto Finale so I don't have the same problem I had between books 2 and 3 as I don't think the last book will be as co-operative plot wise.