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Waking Hell

Al Robertson

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Return to the world of Station in the sequel to the acclaimed Crashing Heaven. Leila Fenech is dead....

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) in Movies

Jul 4, 2021

The first one - quite frankly - is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, this one is infinitely better by most conceivable metrics... but that isn't exactly high praise when the improvements here include such low bars as "stuff actually happens in this one" or "it's slightly less punishingly unwatchable". How (sub)standard most of Emmerich's movies are continues to bewilder me, as with this series for instance he essentially has carte blanche to do anything but chooses to frame them within the confines of the most nothing, clichéd disaster movie template - I swear I've seen this film like 50 times already at the very least. I mean I didn't care about the original's story or characters at all to begin with but good Lord he adds absolutely nothing to them with this. Tbh this one's monochrome sci-fi palette looks somewhat neat and there's actual shot composition going on here... but for alleged visual showcases these films really don't insist on their visuals near enough for some confounding reason, do they? And every performance in the pilot crew or whatever straight-up sucks. Maika Monroe deserves so much better. The stuff at the end with the queen running through the desert was lowkey kind of awesome though.

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Beekeeping For Dummies

Consumer Dummies and Howland Blackiston

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Everything you need to 'bee' a successful backyard beekeeper If you've ever thought about becoming a...

Environmental Communication and Critical Coastal Policy: Communities, Culture and Nature

Kerrie Foxwell-Norton

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The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an...

The Terminal 2 Airport Builder

Games and Travel

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'The Terminal' game is an airport management game. Land, park, unload, load, fuel and take off your...

David McK (3623 KP) rated Jurassic Park (1993) in Movies

May 26, 2020

Jurassic Park (1993)

1993 | Adventure, Sci-Fi

8.8

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I've just realised (at the time of writing) that this movie is nearly 30 years old.

Man, I feel old.

Taking some liberties with Michael Crichtons's source material (Hammond dies and was not a very nice man; Grant likes kids), this is a disaster movie with stunning effects (that still hold up pretty well today) for the time, even if our understanding of the 'headline' dinosaurs has changed somewhat in the intervening years since its release (Raptors were the size of chickens, had feathers, and were NOT pack hunters. or so we now think).

Set on a tropical island hit by a storm just as the owner is given a pre-release tour to special invited guests to show off his scientific breakthrough - cloned Dinosaurs, because that's ALWAYS a good idea … - a series of events leads to the power going down, and the 'exhibits' breaking free to wreak havoc amongst those guests. And, lets not kid around the bush here, despite having the likes of Samuel L Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Sam Neil, Laura Dern and - uh- Jeff Goldblum ("life, uh, finds a way") amongst the cast - the real stars are those dinosaurs.

All the sequels (4 so far, with a 5th ion the way in Jurassic World: Dominion) pale in comparison.