The Enforcer (1976)
7.2
Rate It
Movie Watch
Released in 1976, The Enforcer marks the third installment in the Dirty Harry franchise. The...
Darren Fisher (2465 KP) rated Songs the Lord Taught Us by The Cramps in Music
Jan 15, 2021 (Updated Jan 15, 2021)
Also... Produced by none other than the legendary Alex Chilton (of The Box Tops and Big Star). Rock n Roll doesn't get any better than this. Long live The Cramps...! 😎✌
Album Highlights:
Garbageman
Sunglasses After Dark
Strychnine
Battle for Wesnoth HD
Games
App
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Build up a...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Mummy's Shroud (1967) in Movies
May 28, 2020
Some decent direction, an unusually good role for perennial Hammer supporting actor Michael Ripper, and some inventive set pieces, but the general lack of imagination and new ideas means the whole thing drags. None of Hammer's A-team are involved (with the possible exception of Ripper) and you do feel the film is desperately lacking a big star or a genuinely new idea. Sort of passes the time agreeably but probably one for Hammer completists only.
The Green Mile
9.1
Rate It
Book
The original story was published as a series of 6 short books, beginning in 1996. Later in 2000, the...
A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy (The Salvagers #2)
Book
The greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction...
The Last Families
8.0
Rate It
Book
Escaping their land’s destruction, the Kaptarish, Drontas, Verbaren, and Ninfires have reached the...
Fantasy
The Trial of Lotta Rae
10.0
Rate It
Book
On Halloween night, 1906, young working class Lotta Rae is attacked by a wealthy gentleman. She...
Historical fiction Suffragettes Trigger warning: rape World War 1
Pipedata-Plus
Productivity and Business
App
If Zeataline is regarded, rightly, as one of the finest producers of piping database utilities, then...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Predators (2010) in Movies
May 14, 2019 (Updated Dec 4, 2019)
Predators is just a bit of a mess from the get go. We're very swiftly introduced to a cast of bland, cliched, "badass" characters, none of whom are particularly likable, and I can only find myself blaming the script for the most part. This cast includes true talents, including Adrian Brody, Laurence Fishburne, and Mahershala Ali, and none them succeed in making positive impact.
It also stars Topher Grace, who's character goes through some absolute-nonsense-sudden-shift-to-evil-douche plot twist near the end, by which point, you just struggle to care.
As for the actual Predator side of things - it's pretty underwhelming. The trailer promised a big number of the alien hunters, where in reality we get 4, who hardly get any screen time (which wouldn't be a problem if the human characters were actually interesting).
The opportunity to explore an alien world, rather than the usual setting of Earth is a nice idea, but mostly wasted bar a couple of nice looking landscape shots.
The whole thing comes down to a showdown between a lone Predator, and a shirtless Adrian Brody covered in mud, in what I Imagine was supposed to be an ode and call back to the original, but in reality, it just reminds you that you could be spending your time watching that instead.
Final thought - after the lengths that Arnie went through in the original to take down the Predator, I absolutely refuse to accept that one dude with a katana can cut one down with relative ease.