The Magic of Oz
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In this witty and imaginative tale, the “Royal Historian of Oz,” L. Frank Baum, takes young...
Desolation Point
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“He’s going to find me,” Sarah whispered. “He’s going to find me before you do.” One...
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I Am Still Alive
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(via goodreads.com) After Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she...
Starry Eyes
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Ever since last year’s homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have...
The Raft
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Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group...
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Seven at Sea
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A New York City family's remarkable story of how they gave up their urban life, packed up their...
Otway93 (580 KP) rated The Blue Lagoon (1980) in Movies
Sep 25, 2022
I'm going to start with the negatives, as somehow this film has very few redeeming features.
Brook Shields (to be fair, only 14 at the time), and Christopher Atkins are absolutely awful actors at this early stage in their careers.
The story is highly predictable for the most part, it's very much the typical "stranded on a desert island" film, with somehow every single cliché included, apart from the ending (which remains somewhat ambiguous), and the scenes featuring the two learning about their bodies as they hit puberty.
Despite all this, the film is really enjoyable! It's not a good film by any stretch of the imagination, but somehow it has a certain charm and innocence that will keep you watching, and want to watch it again.
Overall, definitely worth a watch :)
Enjoy everyone!
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature
S.J. Chambers and Jeff VanderMeer
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Over the past fifteen years, Steampunk - a mash-up of Victorian and sci-fi aesthetics with a splash...
JT (287 KP) rated Rogue (2008) in Movies
Mar 10, 2020
Pete (Vartan) is a travel writer, sent around the world to exotic locations he finds himself in a place that he has no idea about. Taking a boat trip up the river with a bunch of people that we really won’t care much about, he goes in search of what the territory has to offer.
Leading the tour is Kate (Mitchell) someone who is the polar opposite to Pete and has never traveled out of her comfort zone once. As the boat glides up the river McLean makes sure he includes sweeping shots of the quiet picturesque landscape, of which is beautiful.
The focus of course is on the salt water crocodile’s that populate the river itself, a quick lesson from Kate about these prehistoric looking creatures sets up for the carnage that is only minutes away. Once the boat is capsized the unfortunate crew end up stranded on an island surrounded by a fast rising tidal river, with no direct route off it.
Like any monster movie we only ever catch glimpses of the predator (at least until the very end), a tail there, a moving ripple in the water there. The stranded patrons of course go through the motions, there’s infighting, emotion, selfishness and a coming together that in the end they are going to be able to escape the island.
It does carry a fairly decent degree of suspense even though it is predictable in places, and has an ending which quite frankly is a little preposterous.
The story line is as basic as it can get and the script is not brilliantly written, the acting has its moments with characters that don’t really have time to reveal their back stories to great effect, before a few all but disappear between the teeth of the seven foot beast.
It’s not overly gory but does have some scenes for those that are blood thirsty. On a whole it’s a decent flick, not as terrifying as Wolf Creek but holds itself well for the 100 minute run time.