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David McK (3557 KP) rated Spider-Man 3 (2007) in Movies
Oct 17, 2021
Or, in comic-book film terms, too many villains.
Which is the biggest problem with this, the last of the three Tobey Maguire starring Spider-man films: here, we have Sandman, Venom (apparently by studio mandate) and a younger Green Goblin (Hobgoblin?) all competing for screen-time, with the result that none of the character arcs really feel all that complete.
As the movie starts, things are going well for Peter Parker/Spider-man. Not so much for his love interest MJ Watson.
He fails to notice; too caught up in his own success.
Of course, his obliviousness soon drives a wedge between them, a wedge that coincides with the appearance of both the Sandman (pretty well realised) and of the symbiote from outer space that bonds with his suit and eventually with Parker's photographic rival Eddie Brock, becoming Venom (a character that, by the by, is eventually better realised by the movie of the same name than in here)
David McK (3557 KP) rated Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31) in Books
Mar 31, 2023
I wonder how this was affected by Pratchett's 'embuggerance'?
Original 2011 review
Not one of the strongest of Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, this is only loosely - even more so than normal - connected to any of his other books in the series. Loosely connected, but not to the level of ""Small Gods"" (which is set centuries before the rest of the series), or "Pyramids".
In "Monstrous Regiment", Pratchett introduces a whole host of new characters - none of who have yet, been heard of again - as well as some new nations, with Commander Sam Vimes (from the City Watch books) and William De Worde (from "the Truth") only really having cameos in the story. He also exaggerates, to comic effect, the famous stories of women secretly joining the army, with this providing the basis for his plot.
As I said at the top, this is not one of the best of Pratchetts works, but even a below-par Pratchett is miles above any other author in the same genre