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Erika (17788 KP) rated Suicide Squad (2016) in Movies

Aug 24, 2017

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What can I say about Suicide Squad? To be nice, the soundtrack was great and Margot Robbie did a good job with Harley. I cannot understand why the relationship between Joker and Harley is always romanticized, because it's definitely not romantic. The plot was rushed and discombobulated, and they underutilized characters. Why did they killed off Slipknot five minutes after introducing him? Why even waste the time introducing him? I personally can't stand Jared Leto as an actor, but I understood where they were going with the new Joker. But, in comparison to Heath Ledger, he was trash.

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Jessica Erdas (463 KP) rated The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Books

May 16, 2018

This book is one you can read time and time, again. Simultaneously beautiful and tragic. It details growing up, suicide, puberty, depression, anxiety, relationships, sex, drugs, and secrets. Told by way of secret letters in a diary style, each one showing more and more clearly the daily life of Charlie, a strange outcast who wants to belong but also just wants to observe. I highly recommend putting yourself through this wonderfully written adventure. Get ready to be heart broken by almost every page and uplifted by the moments of elation as though they were your own.

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Sarah (7798 KP) rated The Forest (2016) in Movies

Apr 15, 2018

The Forest (2016)

2016 | Drama, Horror

5.3

(9 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Promising premise but poor execution

A horror film based on a real life suicide forest in Japan sounds like it's made to succeed, but sadly The Forest doesn't deliver.

Natalie Dormer is alright as the lead and she does fairly well, the problem is she doesn't have much to work with. The film isn't particular scary and I feel they could have done so much more to raise the fear factor instead of throwing in some obligatory and obvious jump scares. The ending was quite good and actually fairly unexpected, but parts of it were a little silly.

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Elizabeth (21 KP) rated Thirteen Reasons Why: (TV Tie-in) in Books

Jul 7, 2018

The story (1 more)

How clay felt about Hannah

That they didn’t get happy ending. (0 more)

I really enjoyed this, I have been wanting to read it for a while now ad glad to have finally read it. It was sad and horrible, and it showed that people can be bullied and commit suicide from bully alone - it doesn't just have to be because something horrible happened to them. I felt sorry for Hannah and Clay because they were both damaged and hurt.

This book is worth reading, it will pull at your feelings, but it is worth it

Happy reading :)

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ClareR (5726 KP) rated Dubliners in Books

Oct 28, 2019 (Updated Sep 8, 2020)

Dubliners

James Joyce, Terence Brown | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry

7.5

(4 Ratings)

Book Rating

I was sure I’d read Dubliners before - possibly during my English Literature A Level, but I couldn’t remember what the stories were about. They really give the reader a feel of what life must have been like at the turn of the last century in Ireland. They’re not all ‘pretty’ stories either. We see alcoholism (or at least heavy drinking that impacts life and family), poverty, suicide, missed opportunities and hard decisions. So, normal life for a lot of people.
I now wonder if I should go back and reread one of his novels?
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this book.