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Bring the weather to life right on your iPhone or iPad screen! Living Weather HD gives you current,...

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Bring the weather to life right on your iPhone or iPad screen! Living Weather HD gives you current,...

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New! Go to the living room to paint your own Miffy masterpiece! Discover what Miffy dreams about...

Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) in Movies

Aug 5, 2020

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

2014 | Classics, Drama

5.3

(6 Ratings)

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So. Much. Potential. Squandered.

The primary actors in this movie could make baking bread interesting. Yet somehow, the great Ridley Scott found a way to admonish them to caricatures of their potential.

I don't recall a time where I was more disappointed in a movie. From a visualization standpoint, it was actually very good. From every other standpoint, it was rubbish.

I understand very clearly that any time a film gets made from source material that there will be exception. There is no way to convey everything that can be stated in words onto film. I get that. I actually advocate for not comparing movies to their source material too heavily for this reason. However, the source material should somewhat be represented on some level. In this case, it was not. Not remotely.

In addition to that glaring gaff, the way that the story is actually told is done so in such a muddled way that there isn't a way to actually follow it with any sense of logic whatsoever. Nothing is tied together and things happen completely arbitrarily as if only to extend the length of an already sleep movie.

Maybe I'm missing something, but from what I can see this movie should have stayed on the cutting room floor. To call this an abomination would be a disservice to the word itself.

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Music & Dreams (The Road to Rocktoberfest 2023)

JP Sayle

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Can one man’s dreams help him reach another man’s heart? Lorcan Swain has the world at his...

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Amy Curtis (49 KP) rated Gnome Alone (2018) in Movies

Dec 14, 2018 (Updated Dec 14, 2018)

Gnome Alone (2018)

2018 | Action, Animation, Comedy

5.4

(5 Ratings)

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Funny (1 more)

Easy to watch

Good light-hearted film

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I stumbled across this film on Netflix and after seeing Gnomeo and Juliet and being impressed with that I decided to give it a go. I was expecting it to be a remake of the Christmas film Home Alone. I believe that was the original intention. Instead, the protagonist Chloe has recently moved into a new home with her mum and after travelling around and moving schools finds it difficult to make friends and keep them. She discovers a necklace in a secret room in the house and removed it. Later she discovers that the gnomes left in her house are alive and they need the necklace back. With the help of her nerd friend Liam, they combat both high school popular girls and aliens and save the world. Whilst the film does have some comedy in parts, it wasn't as humourous as I was expecting. It is a children's film however and there is an underlying message of 'dont judge a book by it's chsracter', 'be friends with who you want to be friends with' and the ultimate one 'be kind'. I also liked the fact that Chloe was glued to her iPhone and then when push come to shove she had to part with it. I think it gave a good message to modern society today of how absorbed we become with technology (she says writing this review on her smart phone). Anyway, it was a very good film and I thoroughly enjoyed it but it wasn't what I expected in the slightest.