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Living Life the Essex Way

Sam Faiers

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Welcome to the glam and fab world of Sam Faiers - star of the hit TV programme The Only Way is...

Housing Market Dynamics in Africa: 2017

Issa Faye, El-Hadj M. Bah and Zekebweliwai F. Geh

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book utilizes new data to thoroughly...

A Different Way to Win: Dan Rooney's Story from the Super Bowl to the Rooney Rule

Jim Rooney

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Dan Rooney was one of the most influential sports executives of his generation, the man who...

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead

Jerry Weintraub

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A fast-talking wise-ass from the Bronx, Jerry Weintraub became a millionaire at 26 by handling some...

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

Kurt Eichenwald

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It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2163 KP) rated Final Cut in Books

Nov 16, 2023

Final Cut

Marjorie McCown | 2023 | Mystery

5.0

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Deadly First Day on Set

Costumer Joey Jessop is happy to be working on the latest big budget superhero movie. However, the first day gets off to a rocky start with the director showing how horrible he can be, an electrical accident, and then a murder. Joey is the person to find the victim, the second assistant director, who just happens to be dating Joey’s ex. With Joey a person of interest, can she figure out what really happened?

Since I love the entertainment industry, this book immediately caught my attention. We get behind the scenes information, sometimes a bit too much, but I did love the Southern California and entertainment settings overall. The plot needed more focus, with the story being driven more by events than Joey’s investigation, which lead us to a climax that was weak on one hand and suspenseful on the other. Several aspects of the plot don’t really get resolved. There is a strong Me Too storyline, and I appreciated that it focused on Joey and her response to it all. Joey and several of main characters came to life for me, and I did like spending time with them. In the end, this one was a mixed bag for me.

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Sarah (7798 KP) rated The Descent Part 2 (2009) in Movies

Feb 2, 2019

The Descent Part 2 (2009)

2009 | Action, Horror, Mystery

6.7

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Should never have been made

I’ve put off watching this film for years as I resented the fact that it had ever been made, and it turns out I probably should have kept on putting it off. The original Descent was brilliant, but this sequel is just plain awful.

For starters, it looks cheap. The entire thing from the cinematography, the visual effects (the blood looks like fruit juice), and the look of the monsters just looks so horrendous and as bad, if not worse, than a SyFy original film. Then there’s the plot itself, which is so ridiculously stupid it’s laughable. It completely ignores the ambiguous and very good ending from the original and uses a cliched overused trope (memory loss) to get Sarah back into the caves. The new characters are underdeveloped and cliched stereotypes (the brass moronic cop who can’t leave his gun behind). And then there’s the fact that it seems an identical copy of the original, using the same scenes, ideas (seeing through the video camera) that were used in the first film. This loses any of the suspense and atmosphere generated in the first film, and it doesn’t use the music to any good effect whatsoever. It’s not scary, it’s not interesting and it looks horrendous. Avoid at all costs.