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Stephen Morris recommended Marquee Moon by Television in Music (curated)

 
Marquee Moon by Television
Marquee Moon by Television
1977 | Rock
9.0 (4 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This was the great danger of me picking these records - that they'd all come from 1974, but that was when I was most enthusiastic about buying records. And Marquee Moon… I just played it over and over and over again. I just love it. US punk was very different [to UK punk]; over here, the concept of it was absolutely fantastic, and that was the whole thing that got me into it, but it was a bit one dimensional. The Ramones were great, but they were kind of a caricature - a cartoon band. And a lot of punk over here seemed to go for that, as a backlash against over sophistication. I just felt that Marquee Moon and the stuff from New York was odd, and it was different, and it was weird - and I always liked weird thing. It still had a lot of energy; I liked Marquee Moon in preference to, say, Patti Smith's Horses… it was just contrived enough. Any further and it would be too pretentious. It's still great today; as soon as I put it on and hear those first few bars of 'See No Evil', it reminds me of when it first came out and I played it non-stop. Although imagine my disappointment when I bought Adventure on the red vinyl and tried desperately to like 'Foxhole', and it didn't happen."

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Spongebob Squarepants:  Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
2020 | 3D, Action/Adventure
Gameplay (1 more)
Every characters original voice
Some parts may be too tricky for a child (0 more)
I won this game from one of smash bombs competitions in exchange for a review. I wanted to wait until I'd finished it but I think I've played enough of it to give a review on it.
I didn't actually know that this game is a remake of an old game until I researched it, obviously as I didn't know this I also had never played the original. I did however, love spongebob as a teen (I'd probably still watch it now, if I had the chance) so he is a known cartoon for me.
The game itself is pretty good, you have to go around collecting golden spatulas, lost socks and as many shiny objects as you can carry (golden spatulas and shiny objects are needed to get into some zones) whilst at the same time killing many different robots and solving puzzles. The game is rated pegi 7 which is about right for this type of game, some parts of the game can be incredibly frustrating though especially if you're going for all the trophies, one part for example took me about 45 minutes just to get to a collectable. It's all good fun though and not to be taken too seriously, I look forward to completing the game.
  
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LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) in Movies

Jun 15, 2019 (Updated Jun 15, 2019)  
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu  (2019)
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
2019 | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Magical (I'm 30 years old dammit)
I was the exact target audience at the time of the original Pokémon cartoon series, and invested a fair portion of my childhood playing through Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, so seeing this all unfold on screen was quite something.

The action kicks off immediately, with Mewtwo (all of my friends bloody loved a bit of Mewtwo back in the day), ticking all the right nostalgia boxes from the start.
It's not long before were pushed into the wider world of Pokémon, both original and later generations, and it just filled me with childish joy to be honest.
The CGI is odd - in a way that I was aware that I was watching CGI creatures, but at the same time, they didn't feel out of place alongside the human characters, it all blends pretty well.

Looking past the blinding nostalgia, the story was engaging enough (even if it does get to absurd levels of silly towards the end), the action pieces were all pretty fun, and the cast were likable enough for the most part.

I spend more time than I probably should playing video games, so it's exited me to no end that we finally have a pretty decent video game movie, and I can only hope that Detective Pikachu is the start of something good, both for future Pokémon installments, and just video game adaptions in general.