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    The Silent Age

    The Silent Age

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    Episode Two now available, the final chapter in this award winning adventure. The Silent Age takes...

    Gemini Rue

    Gemini Rue

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    Pocket Gamer: Game of the Week "You'll rue the day you missed this one." Kotaku "There's something...

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Sassy Brit (97 KP) rated Godeena in Books

Jun 5, 2019  
Godeena
Godeena
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In this military, science fiction adventure, Godeena, Croatian author Stjepan Vareševac-Cobet delves into a world of modified soldiers, and alien monsters in this imaginative sci-fi fantasy adventure.

Brigadier Henry Broncon is sent to gather prisoners from a high security prison to complete a military mission that guarantees certain death to any of those who attempt it. But what’s it matter? Henry is a Cyber and modified with cybernetics. He won’t die. And what of his team? They’re dangerous prisoners who don’t even deserve to live. They’ll not be missed. Without this mission, they were never going to escape their prison sentences anyway.

I did find some sentences and point of view changes a little jarring, which took me out of the story at times, but I appreciate the author is from another country and can write in two languages, which I can’t, so kudos for that. However, it is most likely because of this I also found the sentence structures of the dialogue stilted, and at times felt that some of these dangerous, violent prisoners were talking a little bit too well-to-do sounding for my liking.

That said, the author has a fantastic imagination and managed to write a fully formed adventure surrounding a group of hand-picked, hardened criminals, with no choice than to go on a fatal mission of which there may be no way back. It’s even got a touch of romance, too.
  
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    Wanderlust Rediscover the golden age of adventure Global travel can be a wearying business: Mass...

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
1985 | Comedy, Family

"My personal favorite comedy growing up, and something that really influenced me, was Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, directed by Tim Burton. I love this movie because Paul Reubens is just brilliant; [he] plays this character Pee-wee Herman, and the creativity that’s put into this movie, it was like, what else can you add to make this movie [funnier]? Just the opening shot of him waking up, and there’s like a Rube Goldberg contraption of how he makes toast and breakfast in the morning; he drops a ping-pong ball, it hits a candle that turns on and burns a rope that breaks and swings a hammer… It was so creative. I remember being a kid, I watched that movie probably 300 times. I memorized it. I used to do the voice; I had to stop doing it. It’s a movie, to me, about how far can you dream. Someone steals his bike, and he tries to get his bike back, and through this adventure he ends up pitching his story to a movie studio, which makes his adventure into a feature film at the end. It’s just great that he thought this movie up and wrote it, with Phil Hartman, who was one of my favorites from Saturday Night Live. It’s for kids, but it’s for adults. He’s just such a good actor in this movie – Paul Reubens should have gotten an Oscar for this."

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    Sanitarium

    Sanitarium

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    In Sanitarium you play an amnesiac thrust into a morbid, really creepy universe. After a car...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
2017 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
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So many times the movie trailers show all the funny lines and then you end up disappointed once you finally see the movie. Not with this one. This movie had the entire theater laughing, young and old, from start to finish. It's amazing to me that they can actually continue to develop the characters in this fast past and at times ridiculous adventure but they somehow do.

The only part that seemed a bit out of place was Kurt Russell's character. Throwing him in there suddenly as dad, and a shallow and self-absorbed at that, just seemed a bit out of place. Of course it did create the dramatic opportunity for our Guardians to save the Galaxy so it did serve a purpose. Had this character been just a bit more developed I would have given the movie a "perfect" rating.