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David McK (3773 KP) rated Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003) in Movies

Sep 27, 2020

"She'll be back..."

Third entry in The Terminator series, which is no no longer considered to be in canon (nor are Terminator: Salvation or Terminator: Genisys), with Jonathan Mostow taking over the reins from James Cameron and with ol' Arnie - pre becoming The Governator (of California), I believe - reprising his most famous role of a Terminator, a killing machine from the future sent back to fulfill a mission.

And, here, that mission involves Nick Stahles (taking over from Edward Furlong's) now 25 year old John Connor, who is living off the grid and on the road.

There also yet another sleek Terminator sent back, here taking the form of Kristinna Loken's T-X, with her own mission: I must admit, as well, to being rather surprised at that downer of an ending the first time I saw this!

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Immoral: Tales of a Vampire Hunter (#1) in Books

Jan 12, 2021

DNF at 39%

When I saw this advertised on one of the many e-book discount emails I get, I thought it sounded really good and I downloaded it straight away. When I started it, I still thought it was pretty good. It just kinda went a bit downhill from there.

There was no build up to any of the sex. It was like meet, say a few words, go back to the hotel and have sex. I didn't get it.

Then came the second vampire. There was just an instant connection and instead of fighting it because you're mortal enemies, you run off together...? I gave up after that.

I didn't feel a connection to the characters or for their "relationship". Not for me at all. I like to read the romance and I couldn't find it in this.

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Noel Gallagher recommended A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol. 1 by The Amorphous Androgynous in Music (curated)

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol. 1 by The Amorphous Androgynous

2008 | Dance, Electronic, Experimental, Rock

6.0

(1 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"I saw an advert for this album when it came out and I had to buy it. I just thought, 'With a title like that, it’s either going to be the greatest thing ever or the worst thing ever.' And from the second I put it on and heard 'Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)' by Donovan that blew me away. The second the album finished I got on the phone, and I was like, 'Find me these guys. I need to go and work with them.' Then I found out more about them and I went onto their website and they’ve got podcasts and everything. You should see them DJing. They are unbelievable. They will blow your mind. They’re modern day geniuses… even though one of them never says a word and the other one never stops talking."

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Ducklady (1174 KP) rated The Pyramid (2014) in Movies

Oct 9, 2019

The Pyramid (2014)

2014 | Drama, Horror

5.6

(5 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Meh

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I put this movie on purely because I saw that the awesome Denis O'Hare was in it. I had no expectations and I wasnt even sure what the movie was about.
Started off with a team of archaeologists making some risky and silly decisions to go into a dangerous place that they were told not to, of course.
Some of the scenes were fairly entertaining but once the big bads face was revealed, he ceased being the least bit threatening.
There is no triumph in this movie and everyone dies in weird ways. At first it seems that it is about creatures that live in the pyramids, but quickly descends into weird god rituals.
Maybe im just pissed that Denis didnt make it, maybe I'm just pissed that I wasted time on this movie XD

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Bell-Bottom George (1943) in Movies

May 17, 2020

Bell-Bottom George (1943)

1943 | Comedy, Musical

5.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

George Formby vehicle in need of a tune-up. George, who as ever is playing a good-hearted Lancastrian simpleton ukulele master, joins the navy by accident, stumbles across a nest of Nazi spies, and saves a new submarine from being sunk, while getting the girl and doing a few comic songs along the way.

These days I suspect most people only watch George Formby films for the one-liners and the musical numbers - but the script here is thin, and Formby doesn't play the uke in half the songs (which mostly aren't that good either). All the usual elements turn up - chases, slapstick, unlikely romance, etc - but the movie feels padded even at only 97 minutes long and it's just not consistently funny enough. Still, the second world war saw some terrible disasters, and this is far from the worst of them.