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Great Irish Heroes: Fifty Irishmen and Women Who Shaped the World
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How did the Irish independence movement lead directly to the invention of the modern submarine? Who...
Veronica Pena (690 KP) rated The Avengers (2012) in Movies
Jan 16, 2021
Best of the Best
I could literally watch this film over and over again. That goes for literally anything in the MCU. I am thoroughly obsessed with the world that Marvel has created and nurtured and brought to the screen - big and small. The detail and the intricacy of each of the stories and the way they are woven together is one of my very favorite things and a huge reason why, I think, they have done and continue to do well.
I can't help but think about Endgame when watching this one and seeing how far we've come since then, but also seeing how many easter eggs are in this film, whether we knew about them or not.
I also love this film because it's the backdrop that created the incredible show that is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - easily one of my favorites. Phil Coulson is an iconic character and I hope they bring him back in Phase 4. Just because AoS is over, doesn't mean Coulson or literally any of the team has to be. After finishing the show and rewatching this film, there are even more details that they exploited and utilized that just takes it to the next level. It's truly hard to describe.
I really love this film and this universe. The characters, the dynamics, the plots, all of it. I am super biased and I don't even care. I will love this film until the end of time.
I can't help but think about Endgame when watching this one and seeing how far we've come since then, but also seeing how many easter eggs are in this film, whether we knew about them or not.
I also love this film because it's the backdrop that created the incredible show that is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - easily one of my favorites. Phil Coulson is an iconic character and I hope they bring him back in Phase 4. Just because AoS is over, doesn't mean Coulson or literally any of the team has to be. After finishing the show and rewatching this film, there are even more details that they exploited and utilized that just takes it to the next level. It's truly hard to describe.
I really love this film and this universe. The characters, the dynamics, the plots, all of it. I am super biased and I don't even care. I will love this film until the end of time.
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BE WARNED: Insanely addictive! "possibly the best iPhone game ever created" - Touch Arcade From...
Fantasy Cakes: Magical Recipes for Fanciful Bakes
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Bake your dreams come true with this stunning collection of over 60 recipes for modern occasion...
Twisted Roots (After the Storm#2) (The Eye of the Storm)
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An Eye of the Storm Novelette Five months after the storm, Taylor is the most comfortable he's...
David McK (3547 KP) rated Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) in Movies
Jan 3, 2022 (Updated Dec 24, 2023)
There's a famous (and controversial) Marvel comic run called 'One Last Day', where - following his self-unmasking during the previous 'Civil War' run - Peter Parker ends up making a deal with Mephisto (Marvel's version of the devil) that everybody would forget his true identity, following Aunt May being shot by an assassin.
Sound at all familiar?
Yes, it's used as the building blocks for this movie, where Peter's identity ahs been revealed to the world by Mysterio during the end-credits of the previous movie ('Far from Home'), with a knock-on effect on friends and family.
Instead of Mephisto, however, Peter seeks help from Doctor Strange, who agrees (for reasons) to cast a spell in order that everyone would forget who Peter was - a spell that goes awry, and that leads to characters from the previous non-MCU iterations of the Spider-Man films finally joining the MCU. Some of those characters are more effectively scary here than they were previously ...
This is maybe a little bit slow getting started, with plenty of nods and Easter Eggs throughout (including FEAST, where Aunt May works) to both the comics, games, and previous Spider-Man movies, and ends with, effectively, the character of Spider-Man being reset: no longer part of The Avengers; no longer with MJ, Aunt May, Ned or even 'Happy' Hogan knowing his identity, back to being your 'friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man'.
Sound at all familiar?
Yes, it's used as the building blocks for this movie, where Peter's identity ahs been revealed to the world by Mysterio during the end-credits of the previous movie ('Far from Home'), with a knock-on effect on friends and family.
Instead of Mephisto, however, Peter seeks help from Doctor Strange, who agrees (for reasons) to cast a spell in order that everyone would forget who Peter was - a spell that goes awry, and that leads to characters from the previous non-MCU iterations of the Spider-Man films finally joining the MCU. Some of those characters are more effectively scary here than they were previously ...
This is maybe a little bit slow getting started, with plenty of nods and Easter Eggs throughout (including FEAST, where Aunt May works) to both the comics, games, and previous Spider-Man movies, and ends with, effectively, the character of Spider-Man being reset: no longer part of The Avengers; no longer with MJ, Aunt May, Ned or even 'Happy' Hogan knowing his identity, back to being your 'friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man'.
Silent as the Grave
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Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan goes undercover in the next book in the New York Times...
Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Woman of God in Books
May 10, 2018
Brigid Fitzgerald is a doctor in South Sudan. She sees devastation every day, but her faith in God keeps her going. When tragedy falls on Brigid over and over again, her faith will be tested. Will she be able to find the purpose God has for her, or will she lose faith before that?
The story starts 20 years in the future on an Easter Sunday. I was reading the book around the same time, so it all seemed to fit in well together. Brigid is getting reading for Sunday morning mass at church. While in Rome, her good friend and reporter Zach is sitting outside of the Vatican waiting to hear who the new pope will be. Then the whole story rewinds and takes us back to where Brigid got her start as a young doctor working in the Sudan. Time after time, something tragic happens to Brigid and every time it does, she "hears" God. Throughout the course of the story she looses a boyfriend, 2 husbands and a child. To anyone that would tear them away from God, but it only draws Brigid closer. So close in fact that she becomes and ordained priest herself. Getting to meet the current pope and have his blessing upon her and her family.
With her unwavering faith, will it be enough to make her the first female pope?
This book was quite different from other things I have read by Patterson. It was an add to my quest to read James Patterson stand alones this year.
The story starts 20 years in the future on an Easter Sunday. I was reading the book around the same time, so it all seemed to fit in well together. Brigid is getting reading for Sunday morning mass at church. While in Rome, her good friend and reporter Zach is sitting outside of the Vatican waiting to hear who the new pope will be. Then the whole story rewinds and takes us back to where Brigid got her start as a young doctor working in the Sudan. Time after time, something tragic happens to Brigid and every time it does, she "hears" God. Throughout the course of the story she looses a boyfriend, 2 husbands and a child. To anyone that would tear them away from God, but it only draws Brigid closer. So close in fact that she becomes and ordained priest herself. Getting to meet the current pope and have his blessing upon her and her family.
With her unwavering faith, will it be enough to make her the first female pope?
This book was quite different from other things I have read by Patterson. It was an add to my quest to read James Patterson stand alones this year.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated the Xbox 360 version of Dead Space in Video Games
Oct 21, 2019
Rachel is Dead
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This game, is so great. The plot, the setting, the psychological, the horror, the twist, the ending. Lets talk about it...
The Plot: it puts the player in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke who fights Necromorphs, monstrous reanimated human corpses, aboard an interstellar mining ship, the USG Ishimura.
The player controls Isaac Clarke, a ship systems engineer who must fight his way through a mining starship infested with an alien scourge. The crew has been slaughtered, and their corpses reanimated into creatures known as "Necromorphs". Various types of Necromorphs appear throughout the game, each with different abilities and requiring different tactics to defeat.
The game has a strong science fiction atmosphere and is set in a spacecraft. It is also set way in the future.
Lets talk about the twist:
This was nothing more than another hallucination from Isaac. He’s gone mad, and in his mind, has somehow turned Nicole into one of them. The real Nicole is still dead.
Finally take the first letter from each mission to reveal a secret message… and it spells out Rachel is Dead, which is a intreating easter egg, that comes true. No one really thought about that, until years laters. To take the first letter from each mission and spell it out.
It is a great twist and when you find out, later on in the game, like close to the end, you are surpised.
I highly reccordmend this game, it is great and horrorfying.
The Plot: it puts the player in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke who fights Necromorphs, monstrous reanimated human corpses, aboard an interstellar mining ship, the USG Ishimura.
The player controls Isaac Clarke, a ship systems engineer who must fight his way through a mining starship infested with an alien scourge. The crew has been slaughtered, and their corpses reanimated into creatures known as "Necromorphs". Various types of Necromorphs appear throughout the game, each with different abilities and requiring different tactics to defeat.
The game has a strong science fiction atmosphere and is set in a spacecraft. It is also set way in the future.
Lets talk about the twist:
This was nothing more than another hallucination from Isaac. He’s gone mad, and in his mind, has somehow turned Nicole into one of them. The real Nicole is still dead.
Finally take the first letter from each mission to reveal a secret message… and it spells out Rachel is Dead, which is a intreating easter egg, that comes true. No one really thought about that, until years laters. To take the first letter from each mission and spell it out.
It is a great twist and when you find out, later on in the game, like close to the end, you are surpised.
I highly reccordmend this game, it is great and horrorfying.