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A Guide to Supervising Non-Native English Writers of Theses and Dissertations: Focusing on the Writing Process
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Focused on the writing process, A Guide to Supervising Non-Native English Writers of Theses and...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Skyfire (2019) in Movies
Mar 28, 2021
On a whim I put this one on, a disaster movie at just an hour and a half long felt like a good way to start my day.
Years after the volcano on Tianhuo Island erupts, businessman Jack Harris builds a paradise resort and theme park in the shadow of the volcano. Because no story that started that way ever ended badly...
Skyfire struck me in a very peculiar way that I want to address later, but for now let me just say that this is a classic sort of disaster movie. A classic with a lot of borrowing.
A state of the art resort is built on an out of the way island. But when disaster strikes, everybody is in danger... If I read that to you and asked you which film I was talking about, what would your answer be? Jurassic Park or Jurassic World? It won't be the only time you find something to reminisce on. I didn't write down all the connections I thought I saw, but if you took Jurassic World, Dante's Peak and Shape Of Water (a little odd I know, but I'm sure you'll see it too) you'll be most of the way there.
I feel like I'm about to do this film a disservice, but I don't really want to talk much about the acting in it. This is nothing against the actors, try all do a good job, chemistry is there, there's the balance of serious and light-hearted... it all works, but it's not the thing that makes this movie for me.
The effects throughout are pretty good on the scale of disaster movies. To look at it all in the heat of the moment it very rarely comes across as unbelievable (which given this scenario is quite impressive), and those scenes that could have crossed over into looking bad are blended in with some great action sequences... so they might be bad, but I really didn't notice.
What sold me on Skyfire is just how well it works visually. In my opinion (I'm going to exercise this phrase more often I think), you don't need to listen to this film to understand what's going on. If you cut out the dialogue and just had the reactions and the ambient sounds you'd still perfectly understand what was going on.
That may say to you it isn't a very complex film, but it makes for a very enjoyable watch, and whole the familiarities did occasionally verge on frustrating I did begin the enjoy the game of spotting them. Mix those things together and it might not become my go to disaster film over Geostorm, but I will absolutely watch it again if the mood takes me.
Originally posted on: https://emmaatthemovies.blogspot.com/2021/03/skyfire-movie-review.html
Years after the volcano on Tianhuo Island erupts, businessman Jack Harris builds a paradise resort and theme park in the shadow of the volcano. Because no story that started that way ever ended badly...
Skyfire struck me in a very peculiar way that I want to address later, but for now let me just say that this is a classic sort of disaster movie. A classic with a lot of borrowing.
A state of the art resort is built on an out of the way island. But when disaster strikes, everybody is in danger... If I read that to you and asked you which film I was talking about, what would your answer be? Jurassic Park or Jurassic World? It won't be the only time you find something to reminisce on. I didn't write down all the connections I thought I saw, but if you took Jurassic World, Dante's Peak and Shape Of Water (a little odd I know, but I'm sure you'll see it too) you'll be most of the way there.
I feel like I'm about to do this film a disservice, but I don't really want to talk much about the acting in it. This is nothing against the actors, try all do a good job, chemistry is there, there's the balance of serious and light-hearted... it all works, but it's not the thing that makes this movie for me.
The effects throughout are pretty good on the scale of disaster movies. To look at it all in the heat of the moment it very rarely comes across as unbelievable (which given this scenario is quite impressive), and those scenes that could have crossed over into looking bad are blended in with some great action sequences... so they might be bad, but I really didn't notice.
What sold me on Skyfire is just how well it works visually. In my opinion (I'm going to exercise this phrase more often I think), you don't need to listen to this film to understand what's going on. If you cut out the dialogue and just had the reactions and the ambient sounds you'd still perfectly understand what was going on.
That may say to you it isn't a very complex film, but it makes for a very enjoyable watch, and whole the familiarities did occasionally verge on frustrating I did begin the enjoy the game of spotting them. Mix those things together and it might not become my go to disaster film over Geostorm, but I will absolutely watch it again if the mood takes me.
Originally posted on: https://emmaatthemovies.blogspot.com/2021/03/skyfire-movie-review.html
Luke (278 KP) rated Project Almanac (2015) in Movies
Jun 16, 2017
Story (1 more)
Brilliant Ending
I Would Use The Project To Go Back So I Could Enjoy Watching This For The First Time Again
With this film i said to the wife, i want to watch that it looks good. She said No way looks really rubbish.
I enjoyed being right for once,
We loved this film, it is very underrated for how good this film is.
It grips you and then lets you ride there rollercoaster to disaster. Well worth the watch
I enjoyed being right for once,
We loved this film, it is very underrated for how good this film is.
It grips you and then lets you ride there rollercoaster to disaster. Well worth the watch
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Dean (6927 KP) rated Flood (2007) in Movies
Sep 23, 2019 (Updated Sep 23, 2019)
This is a fairly decent disaster film. It's a nice change to see a film of this type set outside New York for a change! Some of the acting is pretty dour....the old guy playing a marine expert is especially bad, talking at the same pace and tone no matter what the scene. However the SFX in places are impressive and shots of a flooded London are believable. Overall it would have benefitted from a bigger budget, but it is still watchable.
David McK (3623 KP) rated Logan (2017) in Movies
Jan 24, 2019 (Updated Jan 21, 2022)
Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart's last(?) (or so they say) outing as Wolverine and Professor Xavier respectively, this is a violent and bloody R-rated stand-alone that owes more to classic Westerns (in particular Shane) than to any of the other X-men movies to date.
Very loosely based in the Old Man Logan graphic novels, in that it follows an aging Wolverine in a future society following an undisclosed disaster, with that about all it takes from those stories.
Very loosely based in the Old Man Logan graphic novels, in that it follows an aging Wolverine in a future society following an undisclosed disaster, with that about all it takes from those stories.
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Don't Look Up (2021) in Movies
Dec 29, 2021
What may, could possibly and will definitely maybe happen...
A Netflix produced catastrophic disaster movie following two average astronomers who discover a comet the size of everest hurling its way towards earth.
Making their way around parts of the US and making appearances on multiple news outlets, they divide the nation (and possibly the world) in an hilariously and eye opening obvious kind of way.
Save the world or don't save it, surely the choice can't be that difficult right America???
Making their way around parts of the US and making appearances on multiple news outlets, they divide the nation (and possibly the world) in an hilariously and eye opening obvious kind of way.
Save the world or don't save it, surely the choice can't be that difficult right America???