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The Musical Thought and Spiritual Lives of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg

Matthew Arndt

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This book examines the origin, content, and development of the musical thought of Heinrich Schenker...

Prison Break - Season 2

8.3 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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This season begins eight hours after the escape from prison; focusing mainly on the escapees. The...

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

Albert Sweigart

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If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how...

Programming iOS 10: Dive Deep into Views, View Controllers, and Frameworks

Matt Neuberg

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If you're grounded in the basics of Swift, Xcode, and the Cocoa framework, this book provides a...

Before They are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two

Joe Abercrombie

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Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union...

Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated Venom (2018) in Movies

Feb 25, 2021

Venom (2018)

2018 | Action, Sci-Fi

7.4

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This is the worst kind of relatively big budget popcorn tease – the kind of film that knows its demographic will flood to it regardless of quality, so let’s not even bother trying to make it good. The first sign of this type is a script that is such gibberish you almost start to wonder if you are having a stroke, and Venom has that in spades! Just when you think you have a handle on it, off it goes on a tangent that has nothing to do with anything other than setting up the next CGI shot. Which is the second sign – CGI good enough to pass, but quite obviously not the cutting edge stuff we have already seen years ago in better films. Cheap and nasty. The third sign is a director that can bung a few thrills in the mix but has no care whatsoever for characterisation, pace, plot or sensible motivation. Well done Ruben Fleischer for being the first director to have two films included in my BMTBs, following Zombieland Double Tap – I really can’t split them. The only fun to be had here is watching Tom Hardy amuse himself with a comic book characature so far over the top it hurts. Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed are horribly wasted and should be ashamed. Just awful stuff!