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Paige (428 KP) rated The Lord of the Rings in Books

Jul 29, 2017  
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.5 (64 Ratings)
Book Rating
A good core story (2 more)
Some of the characters
World-building
The songs (2 more)
The overfocus and over wordiness of the battle scenes
Writing style left me cold
A classic, but not my favorite fantasy by a long shot.
I have reread these and enjoyed them more the second time around, mostly because I felt justified in skipping bits about battle details and the songs (and most of anything to do with the humans, really)

I know that Tolkien was a linguist, and even made up a usable language for the elves, so it rather baffles me that the writing seems so flat. I can only conjecture that it is matter of perfecting language rather than using it as a tool for evoking something in the reader. I am guessing it is just a difference of preferences.
  
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Jeannie (40 KP) rated You in TV

Jan 29, 2019  
You
You
2018 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
6
8.2 (69 Ratings)
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Started off well
Contains spoilers, click to show
I had high hopes for this as it started of very strong dispite my inability to over look gossip girl himself however i muddled through. Like i said first few episodes were very promising kept you in suspense however the futher in you get the more you stop guessing and start predicting. The end left me numb and the stpryline seemed flawed in the later episodes. I mean he left a jar of urine in the house of a woman he killed but somehow easily pinned the murders on his shrink who his girlfriend was cheating on him with. Also ypu hear alot a about Candance but never really know much then she shows up at the end ALIVE after the indication she was killed by Joe. Just so much wrong that the good parts cant be justified.
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Midnight Sun (2018) in Movies

Nov 20, 2020  
Midnight Sun (2018)
Midnight Sun (2018)
2018 | Drama, Romance
7
7.4 (5 Ratings)
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Brutally effective cry-porn, succeeds at that and nothing else but it doesn't really need to - and considering how clunky the rest of it feels it's probably for the best that it didn't try to be anything more. Enough has been said about the very justified anger this caused in romanticizing this incredibly serious disorder but imo it isn't all too much different from how π˜›π˜©π˜¦ 𝘍𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘡 π˜ͺ𝘯 π˜–π˜Άπ˜³ 𝘚𝘡𝘒𝘳𝘴 also cheesily used cancer. Thorne and Riggle are terrific, Patrick Schwarzenegger gives one of the worst performance of 2018 and it's straight-up riotous to watch this guy try and emote. Has the 2014 artsy Tumblr hipster white-Christmas-lights aesthetic and everything. Mostly all I could have hoped for out of it as this stupid, overly-quirky genre of John Green clones continues to ironically swoon me.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Battle: Los Angeles (2011) in Movies

Feb 22, 2018  
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
2011 | Action, Sci-Fi
5
5.8 (15 Ratings)
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Ho-hum attempt to disguise a load of war movie clichΓ©s by hiding them in an alien invasion SF movie, or possibly vice versa. Belligerent alien gits come storming up the beaches of California and it's up to Aaron Eckhart and his guys to hold the line.


Very much just a collection of other bits you've seen done better elsewhere, inasmuch they can be done better at all considering they're really not very impressive per se. Watching as a non-American, one is inevitably slightly put off by the uncritical wooh-yeah-hurray attitude towards members of the US armed forces, who are almost universally presented as flawless paragons of virtue, not to mention the post-9/11 subtext that sometimes it is morally justified to do Bad Stuff (torturing prisoners to death, that sort of thing) in the defence of America. Also quite boring.