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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Spyro Trilogy Reignited in Video Games
Apr 18, 2020
Return of the Dragon
Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a beautifully and graphically overhauled remastering of the childhood classic.
Each level remained the same as the original games, including locations of enemies and items.
receiving favorable reviews, The game reached top place in the UK on all consoles in its first week.
Spyro Reignited Trilogy is an mesmerizing blast from the past, offering up a taste of late 90s/eary 2000's nostalgia to a whole new generation and a trip down memory lane for the rest of us.
Each level remained the same as the original games, including locations of enemies and items.
receiving favorable reviews, The game reached top place in the UK on all consoles in its first week.
Spyro Reignited Trilogy is an mesmerizing blast from the past, offering up a taste of late 90s/eary 2000's nostalgia to a whole new generation and a trip down memory lane for the rest of us.
David McK (3248 KP) rated Cast Away (2000) in Movies
Jul 29, 2020
Modern day Robinson Crusoe tale (from the year 2000, and without a Man Friday) in which Tom Hanks time obsessed FedEx courier Chuck Nolan is the sole survivor of a plane crash somewhere in the Pacific, and finds himself washed ashore on the island of Lian Yu...
(sorry, sorry, that's the name of the island that Oliver Queen spent 5 years on in TVs 'Arrow')
Slightly slow getting started, maybe, and also perhaps a bit on the overlong side. I have to say, however, that Wilson steals all the scenes he's in!
(sorry, sorry, that's the name of the island that Oliver Queen spent 5 years on in TVs 'Arrow')
Slightly slow getting started, maybe, and also perhaps a bit on the overlong side. I have to say, however, that Wilson steals all the scenes he's in!
Movie Metropolis (309 KP) rated Final Destination (2000) in Movies
Jun 10, 2019
Released 17 years ago in March 2000, Final Destination revolutionised the teen-slasher genre for 00s after Scream did so well for the 90s generation of horror buffs.
The premise was perfectly realised as high-school students tried their best to cheat death after a horrific disaster. The plane sequence in this film still holds up today and remains one of the best horror moments in the last couple of decades.
The acting on the other hand, left a lot to be desired. Though a young Devon Sawa was a magnetic leading presence.
https://moviemetropolis.net/2017/10/15/final-destination-franchise-reviews/
The premise was perfectly realised as high-school students tried their best to cheat death after a horrific disaster. The plane sequence in this film still holds up today and remains one of the best horror moments in the last couple of decades.
The acting on the other hand, left a lot to be desired. Though a young Devon Sawa was a magnetic leading presence.
https://moviemetropolis.net/2017/10/15/final-destination-franchise-reviews/
David McK (3248 KP) rated Pitch Black (2000) in Movies
Oct 27, 2020
Creature feature from the year 2000, starring a then up-and-coming Vin Diesel as the anti-hero Riddick, one of the survivors (that includes Farscape's Claudia Black!) of a crashed spaceship on a planet that has a unique day/night cycle: no nights, except for an eclipse once every 22 years. Which is when the rather nasty nocturnal creatures come out...
Much better than the direct sequel (there's a reason the third film in the mid 2010s went back to this version of the character), with an interesting colour palette and even a nice character arc for Riddick!
Much better than the direct sequel (there's a reason the third film in the mid 2010s went back to this version of the character), with an interesting colour palette and even a nice character arc for Riddick!
David McK (3248 KP) rated The Last Roman: Absolution (Last Roman #3) in Books
May 27, 2023
The finale to B.K. Greenwood's 'The Last Roman' trilogy, bringing to a close (?) the story of the immortals Marcus, Isabella and Thomas first started in Exile, and continued in Abyss.
AS before, this is a mix of Highlander meets Jason Bourne (as I read a advert put it), jumping between the 'then' (pieces of the last 2000 years of history) and 'now', as Doyle and Thomas get nearer and nearer to triggering their end-game of the Apocalypse.
Yes, that Apocalypse.
So we've moved even further away from the initial set-up, more and more into the territory that came into prominence towards the end of Exile and more into the realms of the Supernatural (is that even the right word for it?).
Not, I want to make it clear, that that is any way a detriment to the work - I just want to be clear, from the outset, that that is the type of work you will be reading.
I did find this to be better than Abyss, but maybe not quite as good as Exile. I've also hear (read) that there are prequels stories - and, with a range of 2000 years, quite a scope of history for those to be set in - so, while I may read those I'm currently unsure whether I would purchase them or utilise Kindle Unlimited (if they are on that).
AS before, this is a mix of Highlander meets Jason Bourne (as I read a advert put it), jumping between the 'then' (pieces of the last 2000 years of history) and 'now', as Doyle and Thomas get nearer and nearer to triggering their end-game of the Apocalypse.
Yes, that Apocalypse.
So we've moved even further away from the initial set-up, more and more into the territory that came into prominence towards the end of Exile and more into the realms of the Supernatural (is that even the right word for it?).
Not, I want to make it clear, that that is any way a detriment to the work - I just want to be clear, from the outset, that that is the type of work you will be reading.
I did find this to be better than Abyss, but maybe not quite as good as Exile. I've also hear (read) that there are prequels stories - and, with a range of 2000 years, quite a scope of history for those to be set in - so, while I may read those I'm currently unsure whether I would purchase them or utilise Kindle Unlimited (if they are on that).
Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Scary Movie (2000) in Movies
Aug 7, 2017
Doesn't Hold Up
I watched this movie for the first time in over a decade last night and was saddened by just how bad it was. I knew that I was looking at the movie through rose tinted glasses and yet I was still shocked at just how embarrassingly bad this film is. If you remember watching this with a bunch of mates back in the early 2000's and laughing your head off, then that is probably the best way to remember it, don't re-watch it now with the context of better comedies that you have seen since or you will be sorely disappointed.
David Betteridge (327 KP) rated Dolittle (2020) in Movies
Feb 28, 2020
CGI (1 more)
RDJ's accent
So much potential!
I have to say I was really looking forward to this film, a great cast and some good look trailers, and social media snippets. However I have to say I was very underwhelmed with the film as a whole, the voice acting was top notch, however the CGI animals at time looked like they did in the late 2000's. My biggest gripe about the whole film was the very bad supposedly Welsh accent from Robert Downey Jr, as he was the main character and in most scenes this really spoilt my enjoyment of what potentially could have been a great film.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Cabin Fever (2002) in Movies
Jan 14, 2020
Sick Water
Cabin Fever- introduces Eli Roth in his directorial debut and 80% of this movie is sickening, disturbing and gross.
The Plot: Bert (James DeBello), a college student vacationing with friends in the mountains, mistakenly shoots a local man (Arie Verveen) with a skin infection while hunting in the woods. Panicking, he abandons the scene and leaves the man for dead. When the man stumbles into a reservoir, he infects the water supply, and soon one of Bert's friends becomes infected. The friends struggle to stop the contagious, flesh-eating disease while on the run from a group of ornery backwoods locals out for revenge.
Its a okay underrated horror movie from the early 2000's.
The Plot: Bert (James DeBello), a college student vacationing with friends in the mountains, mistakenly shoots a local man (Arie Verveen) with a skin infection while hunting in the woods. Panicking, he abandons the scene and leaves the man for dead. When the man stumbles into a reservoir, he infects the water supply, and soon one of Bert's friends becomes infected. The friends struggle to stop the contagious, flesh-eating disease while on the run from a group of ornery backwoods locals out for revenge.
Its a okay underrated horror movie from the early 2000's.
David McK (3248 KP) rated Early Man (2018) in Movies
Dec 27, 2020
Aardman animations.
Football. (or, as our American cousins call it, soccer).
Two quintessentially British things.
This is the first non-Wallace and Gromit Aardman claymation film since 'Chicken Run' (from the year 2000, I think), introducing a whole host of new characters and setting: prehistory, with a Stone Age tribe merrily doing their own thing hunting that most dangerous and elusive of all creatures (rabbits) in their valley, until they are forced out of the valley by their most sophisticated bronze age neighbours.
To get their own land back, they challenge said neighbours to a game of footie, despite not knowing how to play the game ...
Like I said at the top, quintessentially British.
Football. (or, as our American cousins call it, soccer).
Two quintessentially British things.
This is the first non-Wallace and Gromit Aardman claymation film since 'Chicken Run' (from the year 2000, I think), introducing a whole host of new characters and setting: prehistory, with a Stone Age tribe merrily doing their own thing hunting that most dangerous and elusive of all creatures (rabbits) in their valley, until they are forced out of the valley by their most sophisticated bronze age neighbours.
To get their own land back, they challenge said neighbours to a game of footie, despite not knowing how to play the game ...
Like I said at the top, quintessentially British.
