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David McK (3692 KP) rated Congo in Books

Jan 28, 2019

Congo

Michael Crichton | 1980 | Fiction & Poetry

7.1

(12 Ratings)

Book Rating

Yet another of [author:Michael Crichton|5194]'s science-thriller turned-into-a-movie novel, in which the movie bears only the slightest resemblance to the source material.

While the basic outline of the plot is the same in both - discovery of the lost city of Zinj in the Congo, expedition to said city that includes a Gorilla taught American Sign Langauge - the particulars of both are different, with the movie (form what I remember - it's been a decade or so since I last saw it) making far more of the exploration of Zinj and the fact that it is guarded by a new breed of vicious gorillas specially bred for the purpose by the original inhabitants than the novel does.

The characters in the novel are also less sympathetic than those in the movie - it's hard to take Tim Curry seriously as a hardened mercenary - while it has, also, aged somewhat due to the reliance on (then) state of the art electronics explained therein - a computer has a whole 256k of memory! Wow!!

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David McK (3692 KP) rated Wolverine: Origin in Books

Jan 30, 2019

As the mutant with no memory of who he was but with the adamantium skeleton and claws, there's a reason that Wolverine was the character chosen to draw the audience into the world of the X-Men in the 2000 movie of the same name, as well as being a key player in virtually all the X-Men movies to date (skipping, say, 'First Class').

He's also the first - and, to date, only X-Men mutant (I'm not counting Deadpool as belonging to the X-Men) to get his own solo movie in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. A movie that I'm not sure whether was released before or after (or at the same time, even?) as this collection of stories.

But there sure is a lot of similarities in the early portion of that film, and with when this is set and the events that take place within it ...

[i]edit[/i]: I've just discovered that this was released first (2001-02), with the movie in 2009. Guess I know now where the early part of the plot came from!

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Roma Simone (44 KP) rated Love (2015) in Movies

Jan 10, 2020

Love (2015)

2015 | Drama, Romance

2.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Basically a porno (3 more)

Terrible story

Badly put together

Bad acting

Contains spoilers, click to show

The main guy claimed to be all about love but I didn't see it. He was an abusive pill/coke head who slept with anyone with a pulse. Basically was porn which would be fine if that's what was advertised. Extremely graphical real sex scenes. It was clear more attention went in to the sex scenes than the actual story which gave even more of a porn vibe. It had a terrible story line that jumped all over the place so you could barely keep up with what was a memory and what was supposed to be the present. Terrible acting especially from the girls.

If I had put it on expecting porn I would have rated it a bit higher but because it wasn't described as a porno I expected a love story with sex scenes but not actual sex from the opening scene. Even the trailer on here portrays it as a love story with the usual movie sex scenes.