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David McK (3801 KP) rated Twisted Metal - season 1 in TV

May 4, 2024 (Updated May 4, 2024)  
Twisted Metal - season 1
Twisted Metal - season 1
2024 |
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Twisted Metal, the console game, is a post apocalyptic racer of sorts from all accounts.

I've never played it.

It does seem to be a strange choice for an action-adventure comedy series, but I actually found this to work quite well, largely based in the chemistry of the co-leads (Mackie as the 'milkman' John Doe, hired to deliver a package cross country and encountering Beatriz's Quiet along the way) and the antagonist played by Thomas Haden-Church.

Oh, and never forgetting the murderous clown Sweet Tooth who steals pretty much every scene he is in ...
  
Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
1999 | Thriller
The first rule of Fight Club is ...
... you didn't talk about Fight Club.

That's virtually all my beforehand knowledge of this movie, which it's only taken me (roughly) 25 years to get around to watching.

And I wish I hadn't bothered: that's slightly over 2 hours of my life (that felt like 25+ years) that I'll never get back again ...

Bleak, depressing, and with an incredibly obvious 'twist' telegraphed virtually from the get-go, I found little to recommend in this, and even less to enjoy.

One to avoid.
(And at least I can now say I've seen it ...)
  
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David McK (3801 KP) rated Tomb Raider: the Legend of Lara Croft Season 2 in TV

Feb 15, 2026 (Updated Feb 15, 2026)  
Tomb Raider: the Legend of Lara Croft Season 2
Tomb Raider: the Legend of Lara Croft Season 2
2025 |
Season 2 of Netflix's adaptation of the Tomb Raider games or, more specifically, that takes inspiration from the more recent early noughties/2010s incarnation of the character rather than from the 'classic' 90s era.

This time around, Lara and her crew find themselves caught up and facing down what amounts to an eco-terrorist; a villain who wants to remake the world to restore what they see as the out-of-whack balance between mankind and nature (think Poison Ivy from Batman).

Animation may be nice, but I've always found it's more enjoyable actually playing these games than watching ...